This week in children's apps features four Byron Barton apps in one: Planes, Trains, Boats, and Trucks. Also this week, the latest Dr. Seuss app, Bartholomew and the Oobleck, is about a king who orders magicians to create new weather.
Title: Byron Barton Collection #1
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release date: June 18, 2013
Price: $4.99
Background: Includes four apps: Planes, Trains, Boats, and Trucks.
Features: Record your own voice, page selector, share voice tracks, animations and movable objects on every page, professional narration.
Title: Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release date: July 10, 2013
Price: $3.99
Background: King Derwin of Didd is tired of just snow, fog, sunshine and rain coming down from the sky. When he orders his royal magicians to create something new, they concoct greenish blobs called "oobleck" that fall from the sky to the delight of the king. The gooey oobleck, however, soon gets bigger and bigger until it overtakes the entire kingdom, including the king himself. Will the king listen to his page boy, Bartholomew, and save the kingdom?
Features: Professional narration, background audio and enlarged artwork, three modes of play.