This week, there’s an app spun off of the Five Little Monkeys tale, a new Dr. Seuss app, and an app for one of Aesop’s fables.
Title: Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree by Eileen Christelow
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release date: May 3, 2011
Price: $2.99 for iPhone and iPad
Background: Five Little Monkeys climb a tree and proceed to taunt and tease Mr. Crocodile.
Features: Individual words are highlighted as the story is read and words zoom up when pictures are touched. Original text and artwork, professional narration and background audio are combined with features that entertain and promote reading comprehension.
Title: Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? by Dr. Seuss
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release date: May 3, 2011
Price: $3.99 for iPhone, iPad, and Android
Background: Mr. Brown displays his talent, imitating everything from cows and trains to a hippopotamus chewing gum.
Features: Individual words are highlighted as the story is read and words zoom up when pictures are touched. Original text and artwork, professional narration and background audio are combined with features that entertain and promote reading comprehension.
Title: Aesop in Rhyme: Hare and Tortoise
Publisher: Auryn
Release date: April 28, 2011
Price: Free for iPad
Background: For this Aesop fable, Auryn is experimenting with an ad-supported free app model, with an option to perform an in-app purchase that can turn off the ads.
Features: Told in Marmaduke Park’s rhythmic rendition, the story features a Scanimation approach. Users can interact with the story as it unfolds, cutting the rope that holds the text to make it drop and bounce, and switching between different narrator voices.
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.
