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I received an email from Kim asking whether I would like to review this app. Although the app is targeted for age 5 - 13, I don’t think that should be a restriction as my readers and followers may be interested in the app. Anyway, my review as below...

* Title: We are the children :Your christmas, My christmas
* Price: $3.99
* Category: Education
* Updated: Jan 09, 2012
* Version: 1.3
* Size: 213 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Three Wishes Interactive
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

Description from the product page:

"7 kids from America, China, Finland, France, Japan, South Africa and South Korea tell you what their Christmas days are like. Kids will easily learn about different cultures while listening to the stories. Finding and touching the interactive elements page by page gives more fun. With beautiful and vivid graphics and cultural scenes from 7 countries, WATC also provides wonderful traveling experience.

The contents are well-qualified by artists and educators, and local consultants. The team has backgrounds in child development and children’s literature, and has got the know-how on emotional interactive function on apps. If you’d like to try something more than a good storybook for your little loved one, here is the educational, artful solution.

It also is a good Christmas treat for kids- celebrate the holiday with fun Christmas tree-making game, carols to sing along and record your own. Contents can be read either in English or Korean. "

What's good?

* You get to learn how children from other countries celebrate Christmas.

* I like the illustrations too!

* Ben likes the game that comes with this app where he gets to decorate the Christmas tree.

* I also enjoyed the song but am not able to use the recording function (I have iPad first generation)

Room for Improvement?

* Sometimes the items we try to drag to decorate on the Christmas tree are not sensitive enough and requires few attempts to hold the items.

You can purchase the "We are the Children" app from the iTunes App Store.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code by the sponsor to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"

After conducting a review and then hosting a giveaway for "Interactive Alphabet" app, I have been given the opportunities to review 2 more apps from this awesome company. Anyway, my review as below...

* Title: Memory Train
* Price: $1.99
* Category: Education
* Updated: Dec 12, 2011
* Current Version: 1.12
* Size: 36.0 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Pi'ikea St. LLC
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

Description from the product page:

"An outstanding memory game of concentration and focus from Pi’ikea Street (the award winning developers of ‘Interactive Alphabet’). Hop on the train with Spacey the elephant and help him focus his memory while on the way to the circus. Memorize the characteristics of objects passing by and recall them to earn stars, badges, and peanuts. Along the way, kids may find a few surprises!

Kids will be challenged to remember things like:
“What color was the shape?”, “Which one was green?”, “What number just passed by?”, “What 3 things just passed by?”

Features:
* Choose from 9 player avatars
* 4 player slots so brother,sister,mom and dad can play independently.
* 10 different types of levels
* Adaptive Difficulty
* Earn stars, badges and peanut trophies.

This app is language neutral with no spoken language so that children from anywhere can play! "

What's good?

* It is engaging and interactive!

* This game is quite tough even to me! Just when I thought Ben had aced the challenges in the particular level, it speeds up and the challenges change! Whoaaa! Fun, fun, fun!

* This app challenges your memory and at the same time, teaches my child about shapes, colours, numbers and I think it is good for my child!

What's not so good?

* Is it possible to have a 'Hint' option or message prompted before the new challenges start so that I could be prepared on what to expect?

You can purchase the "Memory Train" app from the iTunes App Store.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code by the sponsor to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"

After conducting a review and then hosting a giveaway for "Interactive Alphabet" app, I have been given the opportunities to review 2 more apps from this awesome company. Anyway, my review as below...

* Title: Counting Bees
* Price: $0.99
* Category: Education
* Released: Dec 09, 2011
* Current Version: 1.0
* Size: 19.3 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Pi'ikea St. LLC
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1 or later.

Description from the product page:

"Kids will learn counting to 20 by guiding bees to the flowers! As they learn to count, they will fill four big honey bears. Learn to count in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, and Japanese! This game is relaxing and non-violent and provides a safe and fun environment for kids to learn to count. Features:
- Kids choose the path the bees fly to the flower by drawing it with their finger
- Counting ranges included: 1-5, 1-10, 1-15, 1-20
- Encouraging, non-violent environment
- Relaxing Ukulele music plays as your child is encouraged to help and learn.
- Completely optimized for kids: No way to 'lose' this game
- Special configuration option for parents to enable the languages they are most interested in their kids learning. Parents: Just touch the settings bubble in the top of the screen and then touch the flags of the languages you want to be available. Kids: Switch languages just by touching the flag that the bee is holding."

What's good?

* It is engaging and interactive!

* This game is very cute as you get to direct the bees to the flowers and try to reach the number of bees required at the same time! You will then get to see how much honey gets poured out into a bear bottle.

* This is a relaxing game where you get to have fun and learn at the same time!

What's not so good?

*  There are a few occassions when I feel that the bees are not receptive to our touch. I had to keep pointing and dragging the bees to the flower when I realised Ben starts getting annoyed that the bee is not following the touch of his finger.

You can purchase the "Counting Bees" app from the iTunes App Store.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code by the sponsor to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"