iLearn SolarSystem

Posted in Educational iPad apps, Educational iPhone apps, iPad, iPhone / iPod touch | on 12-08-2010

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iLearn SolarSystem teaches the Solar System. Stunning animations of the Solar System and the planets will capture your attention while Astronaut Ashley talks about each of them.

i Learn Solar System

i Learn Solar System

i Learn Solar System

What is unique about this application is the style of teaching, a child will learn a lot in the one to one lessons that Astronaut Ashely gives, specially since the ability to read is not required to learn about our Solar System. With iLearn SolarSystem your children only need to watch and listen.

Features

Astronaut Ashley educates about

  • Solar System
  • Satellite
  • Galaxy
  • Sun
  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Earth
  • Mars
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Uranus
  • Neptune
  • Moon

Astronaut Ashley and ZooBy the alien also play a guessing game with you to quiz you on your knowledge.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later.

Dr. Seuss’s ABC

Posted in iPad, iPad eBooks, iPhone / iPod touch, iPhone eBooks | on 29-07-2010

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In case you didn’t know there are in this world some really weird creatures: Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, the duck-dog, a Fiffer feffer feff and on top of that Aunt Annie has an alligator!!

Dr. Seuss is doing crazy things to teach kids the alphabet – from weird names to funny pictures and a beautiful voice pronouncing everything. You can touch them to hear their name, zoom them up, highlight them and hear all the noise they do.

I guarantee you won’t get bored with Dr. Seuss’s books, this iPhone / iPad application will even make adults laugh.

Ebook presentation on iPhone

Additional Features:

  • Picture / Word association — words zoom up and are spoken when pictures are touched
  • Professional audio narration
  • Custom background audio for each scene
  • Features the beautiful, original art of Dr. Seuss

Smaller kids can choose to have the book read to them – and the narrator will transform this experience into a really funny journey – children can also touch the characters and words will zoom up or highlight while being pronounced (sometimes additional sounds are heard too, like the camel’s and duck-dog’s “shoes”).

You can install this app on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. If you would like to test it before buying it, you can download the lite version of Dr. Seuss ABC.

ABC Wildlife for iPhone

Posted in Educational iPhone apps, iPhone / iPod touch | on 29-07-2010

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This time Little Explorers explore a world of letters, words, and animals! Your child can learn about different words, letters, and animals on their own but you are invited to come along too!

About ABC Wildlife

  • Over 80 animal words
  • Includes hundreds of photos and videos
  • Teaches letter and word recognition
  • Tested on toddlers and preschoolers
  • Made for little fingers
  • Designed by parents and loved by kids!

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

All “Little Explorers” educational applications

  • ABC Go – Little Explorers explore a world of letters, words, and vehicles! Where each new word leads to a new vehicle discovery with beautiful photos and vibrant videos. For iPhone and iPad.
  • ABC Wildlife for iPad – Little Explorers explore a world of letters, words, and animals! Where each new word leads to a new animal discovery with beautiful photos and vibrant videos.
  • ABC Wildlife for iPhone – Little Explorers explore a world of letters, words, and animals! Where each new word leads to a new animal discovery with beautiful photos and vibrant videos.
  • Bugsy The Blue Hamster – While caring for Bugsy, your preschooler (age 2 to 5) will learn about colors, shapes, and numbers through playing fun and exciting games. For iPhone and iPad.
  • ABC Music – Join them this time as they explore a world of letters, words and music! For iPhone and iPad.

ABC Wildlife for iPad

Posted in Educational iPad apps, iPad | on 27-07-2010

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Join Little Explorers as they explore a world of letters, words, and animals! Your child can learn about different words, letters, and animals on their own but you might want to join him and have fun too!

About ABC Wildlife

  • Over 80 animal words
  • Includes hundreds of photos and videos
  • Teaches letter and word recognition
  • Tested on toddlers and preschoolers
  • Made for little fingers
  • Designed by parents and loved by kids!

Compatible with iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later.

All “Little Explorers” educational applications

  • ABC Go – Little Explorers explore a world of letters, words, and vehicles! Where each new word leads to a new vehicle discovery with beautiful photos and vibrant videos. For iPhone and iPad.
  • ABC Wildlife for iPad – Little Explorers explore a world of letters, words, and animals! Where each new word leads to a new animal discovery with beautiful photos and vibrant videos.
  • ABC Wildlife for iPhone – Little Explorers explore a world of letters, words, and animals! Where each new word leads to a new animal discovery with beautiful photos and vibrant videos.
  • Bugsy The Blue Hamster – While caring for Bugsy, your preschooler (age 2 to 5) will learn about colors, shapes, and numbers through playing fun and exciting games. For iPhone and iPad.
  • ABC Music – Join them this time as they explore a world of letters, words and music! For iPhone and iPad.

Enchanted Forest

Posted in iPad, iPad Games | on 10-06-2010

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Rescue the good fairy from the evil spirits and return her to the forest in this magical game! Bounce the ball against those bricks and don’t let it hit the ground!

Enchanted Forest

The purpose of the game is to keep the ball in the air as long as possible and gather as much points as you can. The more coins and bonuses you collect, the more points you get and the more extra powers you can buy from the Magic Shop.

Begin this quest and enjoy hours of charming, delightful play and colorful attractive graphics. You can either choose to relax, or to keep you alert and improve your dexterity on high speed mode.

You want maximum adrenaline? Try to beat Enchanted Forest on hard difficulty mode!

Games features:

  • 100 challenging levels
  • 5 different worlds
  • Buy extra powers from the Magic Shop
  • Get magic tokens to control ball movement
  • Save your game progress
  • OpenFeint enabled
  • Choose between accelerometer or touch control
  • Faeries, dragons & ladybugs in a magical combination
  • Discover hidden achievements

iPad application available for download on Appstore.

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Fairy Tales for iPad – brothers Grimm

Posted in iPad, iPad eBooks, KidsApps of the week | on 04-06-2010

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The ebook “Fairy Tales” by Brothers Grimm contains a set of 62 beautiful bedtime stories divided into 4 volumes.

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Enjoy the best Brothers Grimm classical bedtime stories, including “Raspunzel”, “Little red riding hood”, “Cinderella, “Tom thumb” or “The frog-prince”.

62 stories for 62 wonderful evenings with your children.

It is built as an iPad application available for download on Appstore.

The application has a beautiful and usable interface allowing the user to choose the font, the size of the text and to switch to night-mode for a better reading experience during the night. It saves your current reading position in real time so you can close the ebook at anytime and return to reading it later.

Volume 1 contains the following stories:

  • Ashputtel – known as Cinderella
  • Briar Rose
  • Cat and mouse in partnership
  • Cat-skin
  • Clever Elsie
  • Clever Gretel
  • Clever Hans
  • Doctor Knowall
  • Frederick and Catherine
  • Fundevogel
  • Hans in luck
  • Hansel and Gretel
  • Iron Hans
  • Jorinda and Jorindel
  • King Grisly-beard

Volume 2 contains the following stories:

  • Lily and the lion
  • Little red riding hood
  • Mother Holle
  • Old sultan
  • Rapunzel
  • Rumpelstiltskin
  • Snow-white and Rose-red
  • Snowdrop – known as Snow White and the 7 dwarfs
  • Sweetheart Roland
  • The 4 clever brothers
  • The 7 ravens
  • The 12 dancing princesses
  • The 12 huntsmen
  • The adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet
  • The blue heart

Volume 3 contains the following stories:

  • The dog and the sparrow
  • The elves and the shoemaker
  • The fisherman and his wife
  • The fox and the cat
  • The fox and the horse
  • The frog-prince – known as The princess and the frog
  • The golden bird
  • The golden goose
  • The goose-girl
  • The juniper-tree
  • The king of the golden mountain
  • The little peasant
  • The miser in the bush
  • The mouse, the bird and the sausage
  • The old man and his grandson
  • The pink

Volume 4 contains the following stories:

  • The queen bee
  • The raven
  • The robber bridegroom
  • The salad
  • The story of the youth who went forth to learn what fear was
  • The straw the coal and the bean
  • The three languages
  • The travelling musicians
  • The turnip
  • The valiant little tailor
  • The water of life
  • The wedding of mister Fox
  • The white snake
  • The willow-wren and his bear
  • The wolf and the seven little kids
  • Tom thumb

More classic stories

If you want to read more classic stories to your child, you might wanna take a look at Bedtime Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, also developed by Rborn Development. The application’s website is Edu-apps.mobi.