The “Mother Goose” app offers nine well-known and beloved nursery rhymes. Each narrative has interactive animated features allowing the user to participate in the action as the rhyme is being told. Each rhyme is nicely animated and cleverly interpreted, and the interactive features are engaging. The app relies heavily on user participation and you must touch the text and characters to hear the story; in this sense, it’s less like a storybook, and more like an exploratory game or interactive cartoon. If young children wish to hear the melodic, sing-song quality of the classic rhymes, they will likely need the assistance of an older child or adult to touch the text in succession or to read it aloud to them. I hope future updates will include a narration option rather than relying so heavily on the touch screen to tell the tale; something essential is lost when you can’t hear the rhythm of the rhyme.

By Age Range, By App Feature, Preschool, Reading, Reviews, Stories, Toddlers