iPad Best of the Best – 25 Essential Children’s Book Apps
Now that the iPad has been around for over a year, the selection of quality book apps is large enough to justify creating a real library of titles, especially for children’s picture book apps. And any library needs a good foundation.
In place of what would have been Digital-Storytime’s 10th ‘Top 10′ list, this week I have whittled down my favorites to just 25 apps I would recommend for a well-rounded collection. This list represents just 10% of the 250 books reviewed on our site (and includes insights from previewing over 1000 book apps overall).
The list is in no particular ranked order, although it is broken up into categories to make it a little more user-friendly. [Click images for full reviews & iTunes links.]
Our Top 25 Children’s Book Apps:
Essential Fairy Tales & Nursery Rhymes:
The Three Little Pigs - Nosy Crow Interactive Storybook
Nursery Rhymes with StoryTime
Cinderella - A PicPocket Book
Extra Special ‘Wow’ Factor:
Teddy's Day
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
The Penelope Rose
Great Enhanced Storytelling:
- Fierce Grey Mouse
Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Really BIG Adventure
A Fine Musician
Digital Classics:
- The Cat and The Hat – Dr. Seuss
PopOut! The Tale of Peter Rabbit
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The Monster at the end of this Book
For the Very Young:
Scruffy Kitty
The Going to Bed Book
Pat the Bunny
A Present for Milo
For Older Kids:
Treasure Kai and the lost gold of shark island
Be Confident in who you are: a middle school confidential graphic novel
Trans-Media Chart Toppers:
Toy Story Read-Along
Angelina Ballerina's New Ballet Teacher
Bedtime Favorites:
- The Wrong Side of the Bed
Nighty Night!
Too Unique to Miss:
Bartleby's Book of Buttons Vol. 1: The Far Away Island
The Strange & Wonderful World of Ants
Lazy Larry Lizard
If you’re just getting interested in book apps, hopefully this list will give you a place to start. And if you already have a library of book apps, maybe there is a title or two on this list you wouldn’t want to miss.
Don’t see your favorite on the list? Please let me know in the comments, so I can consider it for our next top 10 list …
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Great list! Especially love Pat the Bunny and Nighty Night.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is over-rated because has good graphics but nothing else (I didn’t use a second time..).
I would argue that. Yes it is pretty, But 6 months down the track it is still one of my 3yo’s favourite books.
for her the ability to interact on just about every page has been a huge drawcard. The Alphabet cerial page also has us practicing the alphabet already.
From me it isHighly recommended
Julian
Flight of the Pamplemousse definitely belongs on that list, me thinks.
There’s a new one called Hiding Hannah that my two year-old absolutely loves. You should definitely check it out.
What a fantastic list! I might add wild about books and miss spider’s tea party to this already amazing list. Off to go download 1-2 that I don’t have… Thanks for compiling these for us!
Starlinos for ipad is very best story
Great list, going to download some now, my kids love Grimm’s Rapunzel, free at the moment in the app store, its a great 3D interactive book my two year old spends ages on it and can use all the functions. http://www.facebook.com/IdealBinary to see Rapunzel and the other titles! Anyone know of any good apps that use jollyphonics for my 4 year old who has just started school?
My daughter loves Toy Store Delivery Truck, Singing City, FlySmacker, Guess Who Silly Shadows and Baby Tap and Learn.
You might like to check out the app reviews on my blog at http://www.ebooksinschools.com
Great to share review as it is a mine field out there in app land.
Thank you so much for this list. My boys are already enjoying many of these & we’re looking forward to checking out those we don’t have yet.
In regards to new apps for the next “Top 10″ … have you seen our children’s book apps created at http://storiesandchildren.com/childrens-books/?
There are now 8 books in the series full of rhythm, repetition, rhyme and humour.
We’d be more than happy to send promo codes if you’d like to have a closer look.
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Thanks again for the list. Have a great day!