Magical Fairy Friends: Dorothy the Rainbow Fairy
© 2013 The Integrated Agency
Dorothy the Rainbow Fairy is a 16 screen ebook that is loosely based on the science of light, with graphic elements that you can control. While the narrative is loose (about a Rainbow Fairy who makes all the rainbows), each screen contains items that you can control; and each illustrates where rainbows take place. Each page has a rainbow colored pull tab that lets you activate a rainbow-related graphic. This app has excellent interactive design, which makes up for the limited story and lower quality illustrations. This is the first in a series of fully interactive pop-up style eBooks for children, created by a father-daughter team to help encourage reading. Each word can be narrated with a touch, providing a nice scaffold toward meaning for a non-reader.
$0.99, iPad
Teaches: reading, logic, science, light
CTR Rating: 88%