This week in children's apps features the classic picture book Goodnight Moon. This week also includes Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Circus, as well as another popular children's author: Mercer Mayer's Just Go to Bed, the newest Little Critter app. Finally, Byron Barton's Trucks releases this week.
Title: Goodnight Moon
Publisher: Loud Crow
Release date: November 8, 2012
Price: $2.99
Background: The beloved children's book features a crackling fire, soothing piano music, and sing-song narration.
Features: Send cow jumping over the moon with a swipe of the finger, find and follow the tiny mouse playing hide and seek and discover hidden surprises on every page, personalize each copy, hear individual words spoken with a finger tap.
Title: If I Ran the Circus
Publisher: Oceanhouse
Release date: November 7, 2012
Price: $3.99
Background: Dr. Seuss's story of what happens when young Morris McGurk imagines what could be in the old vacant lot behind Mr. Sneelock's store.
Features: Professional narration, individual words are highlighted during read-aloud, three modes of play: read to me, read it myself, and auto play.
Title: Trucks - Byron Barton
Publisher: Oceanhouse
Release date: November 1, 2012
Price: $0.99
Background: Play with tow trucks, cement trucks, newspaper delivery trucks and many other types of trucks in this animated picture book about transportation. Move trucks, workers, tools, and other objects around the page and tap pictures to learn their names.
Features: Professional narration, individual words highlight and are read aloud when tapped, read to me, read it myself and auto play modes.
Title: Just Go to Bed - Little Critter
Publisher: Oceanhouse
Release date: November 1, 2012
Price: $0.99
Background: Playful and energetic Little Critter resists his father's efforts to get him ready for bed. Little Critter plays a space cadet when his father wants him in the bathtub, and a race car driver when it's time to put on pajamas. Will Little Critter's parents ever get him to bed?
Features: Professional narration, individual words highlight and are read aloud when tapped, read to me, read it myself and auto play modes.
