This week in children's apps features the app based on Brave, the new Disney animated film. Also this week is Bizzy Bear Builds a House, based on the board book series. Ling Ling Looked in the Mirror follows a girl dreaming about all the possibilities of what she can be when she grows up. Fanny McFancy A Passion for Fashion puts a fashion-minded whooping crane at the center of the story. Finally, in Chuggy and the Blue Caboose, a lonely little blue caboose makes friends with an old fashioned engine.
Title: Brave: Storybook Deluxe
Publisher: Disney Publishing Worldwide Applications
Release date: June 14, 2012
Price: $6.99
Background: Merida, the princess of DunBroch, adds her tale of courage and determination to the ancient lore of the Scottish Highlands as she sets out to defy an age-old tradition and forge her own destiny.
Features: Tap-and-play surprises, full retelling of the film with text highlighting, archery games, scavenger hunts, multiple reading modes.
Title: Bizzy Bear Builds a House
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Release date: June 9, 2012
Price: $3.99
Background: Designed for children ages two to four, this app is based on the board book series and features illustrations by Benji Davis
Features: Pile up earth using the digger, lift and lower the crane, operate the bulldozer, haul over a stack of bricks and mix cement.
Title: Ling Ling Looked in the Mirror
Publisher: Auryn
Release date: May 29, 2012
Price: $2.99
Background: Ling Ling and her panda friend Bao Bao dream of the fantastic things she'll be when she grows up. Designed for ages four to 11.
Features: Personalization of picture, voice and text, kids can become their own narrator or listen to their parents narrate the book, karaoke effect, image and word association vocabulary builder.
Title: Fanny McFancy: A Passion for Fashion
Publisher: Auryn
Release date: May 15, 2012
Price: $2.99
Background: Fanny McFancy, a whooping crane with a reputation for dressing fashionably, is invited to an important tea, and unable to decide what to wear decides on the most daring outfit imaginable.
Features: Personalization of picture, voice and text, kids can become their own narrator or listen to their parents narrate the book, karaoke effect, image and word association vocabulary builder.
Title: Chuggy and the Blue Caboose
Publisher: Auryn
Release date: May 15, 2012
Price: $3.99
Background: Forgotten on a side-track at a busy railroad yard, a lonely little blue caboose made friends with a little old fashioned engine. When the big Streamliner got stuck in the snow, she reminded the switchman that the old snowplow engine could clear the track in time.
Features: Personalization of picture, voice and text, kids can become their own narrator or listen to their parents narrate the book, karaoke effect, image and word association vocabulary builder.
