Otter on his Own
© 2012 Oceanhouse Media
Dry but true, this app follows a familiar Oceanhouse Media script. Start with an original book, and let children touch the illustrations or words to hear them read out loud, and labeled. In the story, a mother Sea Otter teaches her child to dive, hunt and survive on his own. The pup follows his mother into the open sea, where a great white shark lurks nearby. This omBook has three modes: Read to Me lets you listen to the narrated story with words highlighted as they are read; Read it Myself lets you read the book in its traditional form; and Auto Play which plays like a movie, automatically reading and turning pages. Other features include: individual words that are highlighted as the story is read and words that zoom up when pictures are touched; professional audio narration, background music, and sound effects; and pages pan & zoom to accentuate the original artwork. Based on the original Smithsonian book.
$1.99, iPad
Teaches: science, biology, reading, oceans, oceanography
CTR Rating: 82.5%