There are more than 20 free apps to download and use with Sphero the robotic ball (see current Tillywig review in the Toys category), including Sphero Golf (control Spero with a flick or a swing and aim for a hole in one), Draw & Drive, Zombie Rollers, and Sphero Tag. The Sharky the Beaver app lets you take a virtual 3-dimensional beaver for a walk around your house and feed Sharky by launching virtual cupcakes into his m...Read more

One of the many delightful and effective things about this interactive app is the way it delves into the topic of art from a variety of angles, in entirely relatable ways. The visuals, dialogue, and narration are top-notch, and the lessons and activities a joy to experience. Humor and animation play a big part in the app's accessibility. Three animated characters, Furnace, Tickles, and Ruby (a polar bear and penguin sibli...Read more

The design and content of the SuperDuper StoryMaker app gives kids tremendous freedom to exercise their creativity while developing a number of essential skills. Object recognition, vocabulary, reading, spelling, grammar, sentence making, and story building all occur naturally and fluidly with the use of this app. Kids quickly and easily create picture and photo stories, utilizing over 800 places, people, and items contai...Read more

Imagine having unlimited access to thousands of name-brand audiobooks from top publishers at your fingertips wherever you go. That's the striking and invaluable service Tales2Go provides to families and educators. This exceptional asset in developing vocabulary, critical listening, fluency, and comprehension skills is available to families for $10.00/month or $100.00/year. And for educators, bulk purchase options make it ...Read more

The most successful teaching tools are those that deeply engage the student. Engaging younger students, in particular, is rooted in creating a sense of fun in the learning process, something this app does very, very well. The app introduces and teaches 100 core curriculum words across four subject areas (Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Math), employing four exceptionally entertaining games to do so. Students can p...Read more

Auryn, Inc. is an absolute master at creating breathtaking apps that are magical worlds unto themselves. There are so many wonderful things going on in this interactive storybook app. Page after page is loaded with stunning visuals, sounds, activities, and games. The charming introduction by actress Jamie Lee Curtis (who is also the author, with illustrations by Laura Cornell) explains how she conceived of this story of a...Read more