Review: Fun Touch & Tilt Books for Kids

The animation and the colors really come alive on the iPad.  The interactive experience is very positive and my son was
very engaged in the story.  The excitement in the animator’s voice is contagious.  It is impossible not to smile while interacting with this book.

 The book includes a Touch & Tilt game based on the various topics in the book. For example, an animated truck drives forward while you move the iPad side to side to collect dog bones. When you collect 10 dog bones the game prompts you to play again. Each game offers the same scenario but with a different vehicle.  The game was fun for the first couple of minutes but the the kids quickly got bored with it.

I Love You Through and Through

The original book is one that I’ve read to my kids many times as they were growing up so I was excited to see how Scholastic would interpret the characters in the animated story book.  As I downloaded the app from the iTunes store, I gathered my wife and kids together to read the story with me.   What happened next was a reaction I didn’t expect from an animated story.  We were laughing, awwww’ing, giggling, and pointing at every item on each page to see what new animation we could find.  We were literally having fun.  I’ve read the book 10-15 times with my son since I started the review and we still laugh and giggle at the story.

I applaud Scholastic for being inventive and using technology to make reading even more enjoyable for children.  For approximately half the price of regular board books, I highly recommend purchasing Scholastic Touch & Tilt books for parents of young children.

Both Go, Clifford Go! and I Love You Through and Through are available through iTunes for $4.99.

Which children’s’ book would you like to see turned into an eBook on the iPad?

* The Scholastic Touch & Tilt books were provided for our review.  All opinions are my own.