Endless Alphabet app gives kids monstery letter-lessons

Endless Alphabet app gives kids monstery letter-lessons

Monsters? Good. Teaching your children the alphabet? Equally good. Both together? Marvelous. And that’s the idea behind Endless Alphabet. It’s the work of publisher Callaway Digital Arts, which previously made the Monster at the End of This Book and Another Monster at the End of This Book apps for Sesame Street. They clearly have a…

Now iPad gets Kids Discover Cells and Extreme Weather apps

Now iPad gets Kids Discover Cells and Extreme Weather apps

Earlier this week, we wrote about some interesting iPad apps from a company called Kids Discover, teaching children about Antarctica, Galaxies and Washington D.C. Now they’ve launched another couple. Kids Discover Cells and Kids Discover Extreme Weather are both now available on the App Store, with a similar design to the existing apps. That means…

ITV’s Signed Stories app has sign-language stories for kids

ITV’s Signed Stories app has sign-language stories for kids

Pretty much all the children’s book-apps we write about have voice narration nowadays, but what about children who are deaf? A new app called Signed Stories aims to include them in the storytelling fun. Its publisher is a well-known name: British broadcaster ITV. The app is the latest offshoot from the Signed Stories website, which…

20 BEST IPHONE AND IPAD APPS FOR KIDS FROM JUNE 2012

20 BEST IPHONE AND IPAD APPS FOR KIDS FROM JUNE 2012

A little bit late… Here’s our monthly roundup of our best new iPhone and iPad apps for children, as covered on Apps Playground in June 2012. We’ve got a mix of familiar brands, favorite developers and out-of-the-blue indie apps, all of which piqued our interest It’s time for the latest monthly roundup of our favorite…