This week in children's apps features Red in Bed, an app that lets players saturate the world with color. Also this week, A Troop Is a Group of Monkeys teaches players about collective nouns. Spatter & Spark is an interactive story that lets players create their own art. Finally, the latest apps in three bestselling series release: Dr. Seuss's Hunches in Bunches, The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Chores, and Little Critter's Me and My Puppy.
Title: Red in Bed
Publisher: daniel logeman
Release date: February 16, 2013
Price: $1.99
Background: The colors wake up in the morning and go out to add their own hues to the world. When Red feels sick, the other colors help out.
Features: In this musical interactive children's book a child can saturate the world with color.
Title: A Troop Is a Group of Monkeys
Publisher: Little Bahalia Publishing
Release date: February 17, 2013
Price: $1.99
Background: A Troop Is a Group of Monkeys is an interactive book for kids that introduces some of the fun collective nouns for animal groups (like "a pride of lions") in a musical, rhyming story. Written by Julie Hedlund and illustrated by Pamela Baron, the app features original music by Tim McCanna.
Features: Each of the animal groups—a troop of monkeys, a colony of bats—comes to life on the screen and invites young readers to enjoy interactive play while reinforcing the vocabulary words on each page.
Title: Spatter & Spark
Publisher: Polk Street Press
Release date: February 21, 2013
Price: Free
Background: Starring Spark an inventor fox and her friend Spatter an artistic porcupine, Spatter & Spark invites children to invent, learn, and create.
Features: 10 fully interactive scenes, 4 additional learning activites.
Title: Hunches in Bunches
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release date: February 13, 2013
Price: $3.99
Background: In the latest Dr. Seuss app, after much arguing and "barg-uing" and shoving and yelling, a decision is made and our hero follows a Munch Hunch to lunch.
Features: Record your own voice, page selector, share voice tracks with others that own the app, 3 modes of play, professional narration.
Title: The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Chores
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release date: February 20, 2013
Price: $2.99
Background: Papa Bear and the cubs always seem to find a reason not to do their chores, coming up with creative excuses and bickering with each other. When Mama Bear decides to avoid doing her chores as well, the mess builds up.
Features: Record your own voice, page selector, share voice tracks with others that own the app, 3 modes of play, professional narration.
Title: Just Me and My Puppy
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release date: February 20, 2013
Price: $0.99
Background: Little Critter has brought home an adorable puppy. His parents agree to let him keep it as long as he takes care of it himself. Little Critter is proud of the job he's doing, happily feeding, walking, training and loving his new friend.
Features: Record your own voice, page selector, share voice tracks with others that own the app, 3 modes of play, professional narration.
