Ruff's Bone
© 2013 Wanderful, Inc.
A good book meets solid interactive design, in this updated iPad edition of the classic Living Book. If you're in your early 20s, you might recall the CD-ROM edition of the story. Ruff loves his “Sunday bone” but he can't find it. Each of the 12 screens contains an exotic location. This includes a trip into a dark sky and a hunt on the moon to find it. His determined search leads us down a deep, dark hole, into a cave, high up into the clouds, to the bottom of the ocean and even up a ladder to another planet. The app is available in English and Spanish. The graphics, adapted from the CD-ROM, appear a bit fuzzy but our testers didn't mind. The interactive gags still hold their charm. The story is by Eli Noyes.
$4.99, iPad, iPhone
Teaches: reading, language, Spanish, English
CTR Rating: 92%