This week in children's apps, we feature apps that take players on journeys with familiar faces – the Berenstain Bears hit the road, the Cat in the Hat explores the rainforest, and Curious George makes his way through the alphabet.
Title: The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Car Trip
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release Date: Dec 10, 2013
Price: $2.99
Background: Join the Berenstain Bears in this interactive book app as they embark on a family road trip.
Features: Learn new vocabulary, personalize the story with your own narration, select-a-scene navigation.
Title: If I Ran the Rainforest (Dr. Seuss/Cat in the Hat)
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release Date: Jan 9, 2014
Price: $3.99
Background: Come along with the Cat in the Hat in this interactive book app as he takes Dick and Sally for an “umbrella-vator” ride through the understory, canopy, and emergent layers of a tropical rain forest, encountering a host of plants, animals, and native peoples along the way.
Features: Interact with diagrams and glossary words, record your own narration, tappable words and pictures.
Title: Curious About Letters
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date: Jan 16, 2014
Price: $1.99
Background: Children enter into Curious George’s colorful world, where letters have been broken apart from their partners and are hiding behind bushes, fire trucks, toy chests, and more
Features: Pop-up menu and guidance, easy navigation, narration by the Man with the Yellow Hat.
