Letter Buddies

Kate from Modern Home Modern Baby kindly reviewed the Letter Buddies AlphaBooks for iPad with her 3-year old daughter, in preparation for the family road trip this summer.

Luckily, both Kate and her daughter give our app two thumbs up, and Kate says her 3-year old, "now pesters me to see the letters every time we get in the car."

Thanks for the review. Good luck with your road trip Kate and have fun!

Smart Apps for Kids is run by a father of three who reviews apps for kids from preschool age to +12 years old. Letter Buddies AlphaBooks received four stars from this reviewer who was pleased with the amount of high-quality content that you receive in a single app, "I don't know of any other preschool app offering anything close to 338 pages."

Letter Buddies AlphaBooks offers 24 alphabet books (one for each letter of the alphabet, XYZ combined) in one single app! Great value for the money. Smart Kids for Apps thinks so!

Please click here to read the full review...

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The Budget Mommy is a blog run by Amy Murphy, a mother of two who is devoted to finding good deals of all sorts, from groceries and coupons to toys and clothes. The blog also includes product reviews because, as Amy says, "knowing what to buy is invaluable."

The Budget Mommy kindly reviewed our Letter Buddies AlphaBooks app and, after seeing her two-year old really enjoy the characters and stories, deemed the AlphaBooks app a hit!

Click here to read the full Letter Buddies AlphaBooks review by the Budget Mommy.

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A Singaporean blogger who goes by the name "Corsage" blogs about life with her child "Bubbles" on the site, A Dollop of Me.  Corsage recently reviewed the Letter Buddies AlphaBooks app with great insight and thoughtful commentary. Thanks to A Dollop of Me for your support!

Please check out her in-depth review here...

Fun Educational Apps is a UK-based blog established to help parents, educators and teachers discover great apps that allow kids to have fun and learn at the same time.

And what did they think about the Letter Buddies AlphaBooks? — "It is a great app that will support, stimulate and engage toddlers, Kindergarten and pre-schoolers. It is cute and entertaining, ideal to learn letters as well as how to read."

Thank you Fun Educational Apps for reviewing our app and ranking it a top abc learning app for the iPad!

Please click here to the read the full review from Fun Educational Apps.

Our first review from the UK comes to us by way of Red Ted Art's Blog. Maggy Woodley is mum to two children she calls Red Ted and Pipsqueak on her blog. Maggy rates apps by giving her iPhone to Red Ted (3 yrs). If he likes an app and plays with it continually that app will get a thumbs up.

Maggy admits that she was dubious about the AlphaBooks app at first, not feeling particularly drawn to the overall design and was surprised that "he loves it!...and plays it alot!" We are excited (and relieved) to receive a thumbs up from Red Ted, as he is the audience that we are most hoping to please!

Click here to read the full Red Ted review.

Our latest review comes from parents of a 4-year old boy who run the beautifully designed site Apps4Kids.com. The site reviews apps created for Apple platforms and has currently reviewed over 215 apps, now including the Letter Buddies AlphaBooks!

Apps4Kids summed up our app in one simple statement that we certainly appreciate: "Sure there might be other apps with more elaborated interfaces, but few are built from such experience and with such depth."

Thanks Apps4Kids for taking the time to review our app. We hope your son continues to enjoy working with it!

Click here to read the full review from Apps4Kids.com

We received a review yesterday from the popular blog TheiPhoneMom.com. The reviewer felt that the Letter Buddies are really the stars of the app, which of course, we are happy to hear!

There is one point in the review, however, that we would like to clarify. In the review the iPhone Mom states, "...it’s worth noting that the books don’t deal with the sounds the letters make, only the fact that this is the letter and here it is at the beginning of this word." While it is true that we don't explicitly point out what the sound of the individual letter is before each book (something that we should think about doing in the next version of this app), we felt it important to note that each AlphaBook features six carefully chosen vocabulary words that begin with the same initial sound. The books were developed with the intention that children will become familiar with the sounds that each letter makes through the acquisition of new vocabulary beginning with the same letter and in particular, the same initial sound. (To learn more about the educational principles behind the AlphaBooks, please see information about the two series this app is based on — Letter Buddies Letter Books and Starters — currently being sold to schools throughout the US and Canada.)

Thanks to The iPhone Mom for your time in reviewing the app and for your support of the Letter Buddies AlphaBooks!

You can read the full review from The iPhone Mom here.

Alison the mother of two young boys, Hunter and Landon, runs the popular blog Being Alison that reviews products appropriate for moms and tells about her personal experiences as a mother. 

While younger than the target market, Alison's son Landon, aged 19 months really enjoyed using the app. As for her 3.5 yr old son Hunter, "...after the page was read to him, he was repeating exactly what was said to him. Also this is an app where he just didn't use it once. He used it again the next day on his own, and a few more times after that."

Alison's husband, who is a teacher, also gave the app two thumbs up! Thank you for reviewing our app Alison and hope that Hunter and Landon continue to enjoy working with it!

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Jennie Yuen (no relation to Cavallo Media president, Kevin Yuen!), an artist and photographer, as well as a mother runs the blog, Baby Brandon's Adventures, where she catalogs life with her young son Brandon. 

Jennie recently tested out the Letter Buddies AlphaBooks with Brandon and he seemed to really enjoy repeating and saying the vocabulary and sentences aloud. 

Read the full review here. Thanks for trying our app Jennie and Brandon!