{"id":16269,"date":"2017-04-12T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16269"},"modified":"2017-03-03T00:08:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:08:59","slug":"care-for-our-world-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/12\/care-for-our-world-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Care For Our World (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last year I reviewed a game called Buddy & Me<\/strong><\/a>, a downloadable 2-D continuous runner for Wii U and mobile devices.\u00a0 The charming hand-drawn visuals in the game made it look like a children\u2019s picture book come to life.\u00a0 Ironically, the next game the makers of Buddy & Me have made really is a children\u2019s book!\u00a0 Care For Our World was originally an award-winning children\u2019s book, and just in time for Earth Day, now it\u2019s an app you can download and read on the iPad!<\/p>\n

There are four modes in the Care For Our World app.\u00a0 Read Mode is where you actually read the story.\u00a0 Or you can have a narrator read it for you.\u00a0 One thing that I always like in these kinds of virtual books is when you can tap on a word and they\u2019ll read it to you again.\u00a0 Glad to see they did that here.\u00a0 Another nice surprise that I discovered is that you can tap on the animals and people in the illustrations, and they\u2019ll show the word for what you tapped on, read it, and that animal or whatever will do a little animation and sound.\u00a0 I could see kids enjoying tapping on everything to see what it did.\u00a0 I remember when I was a kid, I would just pour over the illustrations in my children\u2019s books.\u00a0 As adults, I think we just try and read books just to get through them, and we don\u2019t take the time to enjoy the illustrations anymore.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s important to keep a little bit of that childlike wonder we used to have, so I try and work hard at pouring over illustrations in books like I used to.<\/p>\n

Whoops, sorry to go off topic there.\u00a0 Anyway, the next mode in the app is Play Mode.\u00a0 Here you can create your own scenes using backdrops and animals from the book with drag and drop mechanics.\u00a0 Want to have penguins dancing on top of a giraffe\u2019s head?\u00a0 You can do that here.\u00a0 It kind of reminded me of those old Colorforms toys, if anyone remembers those.\u00a0 Next is Create Mode.\u00a0 Here you can color select pages from the book using an easy to use touch screen paint tool.\u00a0 Finally in Learn Mode, you can read about the different kinds of animals featured in the book, learn some facts, see some actual photos, and even hear the sounds some of them make.\u00a0 Parents can also toggle various options, too.<\/p>\n

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I guess if I had to find a problem with this app, it\u2019s that it would\u2019ve been nice to learn about actual ways that kids and adults can help take care of our world, as most of the book is just listing different animals that rhyme with each other.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not really the app\u2019s fault, that\u2019s just how the book was written.\u00a0 Plus, I may be old fashioned, but I don\u2019t think anything will replace sitting down with your child and read an actual book and physically turn the pages.\u00a0 There\u2019s even a version of the real book that comes with a playset, which looks neat.\u00a0 However, the app is only about 3 bucks, and it has a lot of content on its own, so I\u2019m a little torn on this one.\u00a0 If you have young kids who like to use the iPad and read about animals, you may want to download this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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