Arthur’s Story Maker: Pirates
© 2017 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
This is a fun mad libs style story creator featuring Arthur and friends. You get to choose the characters and story elements which are mixed with some bugs and quirks. The app is free, and serves as a teaser activity to get you to download Curious World, the subscription-based service that costs $8/month. Gets repetitive, fast, despite the ability to add your own drawings into the story. This app is low in child control -- high in entertainment value; it's best described as an interactive cartoon. Sadly you can't interrupt the cartoon which is a major flaw. But it's free, and it's Arthur.
iPad, iPhone
Teaches: language, reading, stories, narrative structures, art, creativity
CTR Rating: 76%