This week in children's apps features Where Do Balloons Go?, Jamie Lee Curtis's picture book that now comes to tablets. Also this week is Ladybug at the Orchard Avenue, a story that explores the ladybug's world, where it sleeps, and what it eats. Finally, the children's book from Jeanne Willis and Adrian Reynolds Who's in the Loo? turns interactive, letting players record their own voices to go along with the animations.
Title: Where Do Balloons Go?
Publisher: Auryn, Inc.
Release date: July 11, 2012
Price: $5.99
Background: Jamie Lee Curtis's picture book reimagined as an interactive experience that lets players follow a balloon on its journey after it's accidentally released from a boy's grasp.
Features: Create your own animated movies in the Balloon Theater, create your own balloon animals, listen to a helium version of your voice, send hand-written e-postcards to your friends.
Title: Ladybug at the Orchard Avenue
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release date: July 11, 2012
Price: $1.99
Background: This app gives a bug's eye view of the exciting world just outside a child's window. Follow the ladybug's journey through its world and learn about its predators, the aphids it hunts, and what secret place it calls home for winter.
Features: Read to me, read it myself, and auto play modes, words zoom up and are spoken when pictures are touched, professional audio narration.
Title: Who's in the Loo?
Publisher: Robot Media SL
Release date: July 11, 2012
Price: $4.99
Background: The children's book from Jeanne Willis and Adrian Reynolds comes to tablets with this story that lets players discover how zoo animals use the bathroom.
Features: Read along or record your own voice to accompany the animations, professional narration, missing words activity, coloring pages.
