Kids Iphone App Review
Our kids test them, we review them!

We have review apps from Oceanhouse Media before. We love their reading apps. They do a great job and Horton Hears a Who and Berenstain Bears are two great additions.

First the books are classics, second they are written in a way that is different from book to book that might be paying homage to the original or just a nice change up from book to book. Horton Hears a Who is narrated in a very engaging manner and my four year old is just in love with it. She has a great imagination and the book really comes to life on the iPhone or iPad.

I think I remember the Berenstain Bears as a comic on Saturday mornings or something–whenever I watched it–it is familiar again now just as if I had the original book in front of me. It is nice to share some real classics.

The books will read to you or you can read them, and it remembers where you left off. A necessary piece of any book/app. It also highlights each word as it is read to your child, which again is a necessary item in any app/book. Your library should contain just about every Oceanhouse Media app as it comes out!

We give their books great reviews and these two are no different:

Attention – 5
Learning – 4
Fun – 5

Total – 14

Rain Go Away ABCs is another great alphabet learning app. It makes learning the ABCs easy and fun. My 3 year old has known her ABCs for sometime now and still enjoys the application. The tips are a neat feature that give you ideas of something to do if it is actually raining. We live in Phoenix, so we actually go out in the rain when it rains!

Learning – 5
Fun – 4
Attention – 3
Total = 12

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Wow. What a neat story and app. Mr. Hat’s Magic Cube provides both a story and a good learning experience for kids of a young age. My 3 year old liked the app and was interested in the story enough to keep playing for quite a while. Learning is a bit light since the “lessons” are pretty short. It is more practicing what you have learned than picking up new skills.

I give it a 3 for learning, 4 for fun and a 5 for attention for a total of 12.

Check out the video of my daughter playing the game:

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If you liked our review of First Words Animals by Learning Touch, then you will really like First Words Deluxe! It includes the same game play, but with Animals, Shapes, Colors, items in the home, vehicles and all words. I like the last one all words. This keeps my 3 year old going for a long time!

The existing review stands. Great gameplay with the scrabble like interface and the repetition of the letters and words is outstanding! You cannot beat an audible and visual game with an actual tactile movement. This means your kid learns while playing.

In this case I give it an updated 5/5 for attention. The additional categories make this an app that lasts a while! And she keeps coming back to it.

So Attention 5/5, Fun 4/5, Learning 5/5 for a total of 14!