iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad App Review: Eartha the Sea Turtle (& Giveaway – 3 Winners Ends 8/3)

iStoryTime Kids Book- Eartha the Sea Turtle – FrogDogMedia LLC

Updated: April 24, 2010

ABOUT THE APP:

Featured in LA Times, CBS Early Show, theiPhoneMom.com, Houston Chronicle and winner of the PTPA Media (Parent Tested Parent Approved) Seal of Approval

Welcome to iStoryTime, a library of narrated children’s books for the iPhone™

iStoryTime brings the joy of a kids’s book to the convenience of your iPhone or iPod® touch. iStoryTime books are illustrated and narrated, so your child can enjoy the book even when you’re busy. Best of all, the app is drop-dead simple to use because it’s actually designed for kids 2-years and up.

Pages can be turned automatically or manually depending on the age and preference of the user.

Waiting for dinner to come at a restaurant? Long airplane or train trip? Need ten more minutes to finish the grocery shopping? Hand your kid iStoryTime and let us read to them. With iStoryTime you’ll always have a great book on hand to entertain and educate the kids, rather than resorting to movies or video games.

FEATURES:
– Automatic navigation and narration make it incredibly simple to use
– Narration options: character or standard narration. Or, silent for self reading
– Automatic or manual page turn
– Onscreen text helps beginning readers make associations between the words they hear and see

Written by Dan Bodenstein and Illustrated by Brian C. Krumm.  Narrated by Bobbie Hill.

MY THOUGHTS:

This is an adorable story about Earth the Sea Turtle and how she gets tangled in garbage thrown in the ocean.  Eartha tries to get help from her sea friends, but finally some “land people” help her.  She discovers that not all people are bad and this app teaches kids to not throw garbage in the water.  It also shows how good some people are and how great it is to be home.  I love the storyline, as it is unique since it is about a Sea Turtle.  My son loves the bright colors and that the default is that it automatically reads it to him and that he doesn’t have to flip the pages – this is a bonus for my 2 year old who hasn’t quite grasped the concept of flipping pages at the right times.  Both boys can hold the iPod and watch the story, thinking it is a cartoon when it is really a book being read to them!  There is even a bonus story on this app featuring a real live Eartha Sea Turtle and how she is rescued and nursed to heath, it is real life pictures and very neat to see what a Sea Turtle looks like in real life.  Overall, this is a very cute story and nothing less than a high quality iStorytime App!

BUY IT: You can buy iStoryTime Kids Book- Eartha the Sea Turtle – FrogDogMedia LLC for your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad for $0.99 at

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