Dr. Panda School

$2.99, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, Android, Kindle

Teaches: cause and effect, creativity, problem solving

CTR Rating: 92%

CTR Review

Freely explore in five areas of a school (hallway, classroom, art room, school yard, and cafeteria) with 19 child and adult characters that can be dressed up, fed or moved from room to room. There's a lot to discover. You can paint or sculpt in the art room, combine shapes to make toy blueprints, sweep the floor or grow plants on the playground. It is fun to customize the animal characters with clothes, hats or glasses. The app supports multi-touch, so more than one child can share the experience and is very similar in design to Toca Life: School, with a slightly younger age range (a better title might be Dr. Panda Preschool). There are a few minor issues to note. The graphics are less refined, which makes some screens seem a bit cluttered, and some of the items don't respond as they would in the real world, especially if you "break the rules" (say, by putting some fruit in the dishwasher). See also Toca Life: School.