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CBeebies Playtime Island contains a vast variety of fun, educational games featuring familiar and popular CBeebies characters, helping children understand the w... Read More >
The Human Body by Tinybop is a wonderful app to explore the human body with your child. Through simulators of the different systems of the body, children can in... Read More >
Coral Reef, produced by Tinybop, introduces children to the wonders of a coral reef. Children can choose an underwater creature from a menu and then can drag th... Read More >
This is a fun version of the Flip Flap book, enabling the reader to read poems about dogs that exist like Bulldog or Dalmatian, or creatively combine them, maki... Read More >
This app is written and illustrated by the award-winning Axel Scheffler. It belongs to the series of Nosy Crow's flip flap apps which also have printed counterp... Read More >
This is a fun version of the Flip Flap book, enabling the reader to read poems about pets that exist, like cats or rabbits, or creatively combine them, making u... Read More >
In this wordless book app, children can release animals from captivity, moving them back to their original habitat. The app is simple and very similar to the bo... Read More >
A great app to help children learn about the life of penguins through interactive story telling and games. Children are given the option to be read to or to re... Read More >
Children are given mix and match characters to flick through heads, torsos and legs to match a profession. When children get all three in order they are given a... Read More >
A great app that helps children understand when different items of clothing are worn, for example, what is worn to the beach, to school etc. Children are also g... Read More >
An app which allows children to explore different houses from around the world. There are excellent opportunities for children to discuss different homes around... Read More >
A wonderful open ended map app where children can grow and create landscapes. Children can plant trees and bring the animals that live in them to life, they can... Read More >
In this app children get to explore all different aspects of farm life, from collecting eggs, to milking cows and cleaning and feeding pigs. There is a great op... Read More >
A fun interactive storybook app, which highlights words as they are read, or allows you to read by yourself/with a parent. Narration by Jason Donovan (Australia... Read More >
This app has watch/play/read options available. The app allows funny mix ups as the animals get things wrong through Chinese whispers. This is a great opportuni... Read More >
This is a great non-fiction storytelling app for children, with Read and play or read by myself options. Words are highlighted as they are read, which is great ... Read More >
This is an enormously fun app with lots and lots of possibilities for play (and within that early literacy skills!). Children can follow an alpaca around a map ... Read More >
