Cute as Can Bee! A children’s interactive app for iPad and iPod Touch

By Jamie Wiersma

Our family just downloaded Oceanhouse Media’s new omBook app Picture Me Cute As Can Bee* to our iPad. Basically, it allows you to take new pictures or add photos from your camera roll and place them into the story that your child is reading. Faces get inserted into cute spring costumes like a bumble bee, a bunny,  and flower.  My 5 year enjoyed taking pictures and manipulating them to prepare them for the story.  My 2 year old loved seeing pictures of mommy, daddy, Bubba and himself while having the story read to him. In addition to cute pictures, there are also interactive objects on every page that they are able to play with. The story is fairly simple but overall a cute, interactive app for young children.

Features that make this a great app:

1. Beautiful, colorful pictures and great narration.
2. Word highlighting for children just beginning to read.
3. Interactive objects on every page for little fingers that want to play.
4. Super easy to load pictures into the app and choose which ones you would like to use each time you read the story.

From a mom’s perspective, this is a great little eBook that allows very young children (1 1/2 to 3 years old) to play on the iPad as well as practice names of loved ones and springtime objects. For children a little bit older (4 to 5 years old), this is a wonderful tool to encourage early reading and simple enough for them to manipulate on their own.

Love this app? Oceanhouse Media also has a Christmas app called Picture Me Christmas Cutie. Both apps are available at the App Store – $.99 for Picture Me Cute as Can Bee and $1.99 for Picture Me Christmas Cutie.

*I was given a code to download this app in exchange for my honest review.  All opinions are my own.