This week we take a look at an app based on a children’s book about dinosaurs and one that let kids dress princesses up.
Title: Tyrannosaurus Rex!
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release date: April 19, 2011
Price: $2.99; for iOS and Android devices
Background: Oceanhouse has recently set up a licensing agreement with Soundprints, publishers of the Smithsonian Institution children's book series for young readers. This app is the first release, based on the Soundprints book written by Dawn Bentley and illustrated by Karen Carr.
Features: The app has three options: Auto Play (geared toward younger readers), which plays like a movie by automatically reading and turning pages; Read to Me, which allows users to listen to the narrated story with words highlighted as they are read; and Read It Myself, which lets users read the book in its traditional format. There is original artwork, picture/word association, word highlighting, professional audio narration, and scene-by-scene custom background audio.
Title: Princess Dress-Up: My Sticker Book App
Publisher: Disney Publishing
Release date: April 20, 2011
Price: $3.99; for iPad, iPhone,and iPod Touch
Background: A dress-up sticker book app that lets children change outfits and accessories, add tiaras, and then send the royal portrait to friends and family, and fellow princesses
Features: New updates include a new princess, Tiana; seven new stories; and 25 new outfits and accessories.
To be included in this listing, please send us the app title, the book or other source for the app (if there is one -- original apps are fine, too), when it was released, price, background of the book (including such info as copies in print, when it was released, awards, and brief plot summary), and the interactive elements of the app. Send all apps and promo codes to Jim Milliot, and send news of children’s apps to Diane Roback as well.
