Magic Town
© 2012 Mindshapes Limited
Magic Town (www.magictown.com) is a story delivery system for iPad and Internet. The download is free; additional stories are sold as in-app sales. The stories live inside the exotic houses shown in a town on the first menu, where hosts Izzy and Max introduce you to Louis the Storyteller, a wise old lion who has collected all the books in Magic Town. The books we previewed are limited; we did not try any of the purchased content so it is not possible to rate this title. It's up to kids to read the stories and build the town. Each child's version of Magic Town is customized to his or her personal profile. Magic Town first launched as a website and has recently (August 2012) migrated to the iPad. Produced by Mindshapes, a London based studio started by some of the founders of Playfish, a service that was sold to Electronic Arts.
$4.99, Internet Site, iPad
Teaches: reading, language