Price: $0.99

Little Red Riding Hood

Our Review

“Little Red Riding Hood” is an ebook app based on the classic folk tale. It’s the story of a little girl who finds herself in peril when she encounters a big, bad wolf on her way to visit her grandmother. This application made a strong impression on me for a few different reasons. First, I was shocked to experience this tale again as an adult. I found this “children’s story” as fitting a bedtime story as an R-rated movie: the girl and grandmother are tricked and eaten by a wolf, the huntsman saves them by cutting open then shooting the wolf; later, another wolf tries to eat them, so they set a trap and drown him. Sheesh… maybe I’m in denial, or perhaps I’m still suffering from PTSD after hearing this story as a kid, but I don’t remember it being so graphic and violent. Okay, so enough of my rant… on to my review. There are few positives and a few negatives. The introduction and directions for the app are clearly stated and make navigation easy. The illustrations are beautifully done with a soft and fluid quality, and each page is well-proportioned to the iPhone screen. Unfortunately, the English translation and narration of this story are poorly done. The text and narration are fraught with poor grammar and phrasing – undesirable qualities when teaching kids to read. I did notice that some iTunes user reviews gave high marks to the Chinese translation, so I wonder if the Chinese version is superior.

By App Feature, Preschool, Primary School, Reading, Reviews, Toddlers

March 7th, 2010 by Kristen Young Share

Application Detail

iReading - Little Red Riding Hood

Developer: CLT Studio
Released: 2009-10-22
Price: $0.99

Description from the Developer

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Brand-new Reading Experience
Animated Audio Story Book
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BRIEF INTRODUCTION:
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AppleTreeBooks has been inviting excellent illustrators across the world to create illustrated stories for us. Exquisite pictures, vivid dubbing as well as animation and interactive procedures will present wonderful stories and enable you and your children to experience brand-new reading. We have elaborately selected various stories, including the well-known classic fairy tales and brand-new originated stories, so that you will have many options and will absolutely find the ones you love. Additionally, we will continuously update the books on our online bookshelf, so that you can read our illustrated stories at any time. AppleTreeBooks will enable you to experience brand-new reading and funs in it.

FEATURES:
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Dubbing in both English and Chinese;
The mode of CoverFlow enables you to start with any page in the books;
Function of online bookshelf enables you to read new books that have been or will be published at any time;
Function of automatic and manual page turning;
Function of automatic bookmark allows for automatic entry of bookmark into the current page when the procedure is interrupted by accident; you may choose Restart or Continue at the time of next entry.

INTRODUCTION TO THE STORY :
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Little Red Riding Hood is a classic fairy tale that has won universal praise. You must have read this story as a child. Now you may enjoy it again with your children. Illustrator BIN has depicted this story with abundant connotations through adopting a nostalgic style. It is further embellished by the wonderful dubbing of the actors who voice the characters. We believe that this multimedia electronic book will enable you to experience brand-new reading. You and your children will absolutely like it!

JOIN US:
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If you are an illustrator or a writer, welcome to cooperate with AppleTreeBooks, so that your work will be published and shared by the whole world! If you are a reader, you are welcomed to advice your precious opinions on our books and tell us what you like to read. We will continue to make effort in creating more stories you like.

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