Letter Buddies

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...

Carisa Kluver, who reviewed our app on her website Digital Storytime, also runs a blog The Digital Media Diet. She recently posted about her Top 10 Educational iPad Apps, including a list that featured her Top 5 Alphabet Books — of which the Letter Buddies AlphaBooks was one!

Check out more of our Letter Buddies AlphaBooks reviews 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!

Read the full review by clicking here...

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!

Kevin Yuen + Yun-Yi Goh, husband and wife co-creators of the Letter Buddies and co-founders of Cavallo Media Group and Cavallo Publishing, have launched a new blog, KandY Shoppe, to share their business stories and the things they learn about each day as they work together to grow their company and figure out their lives.

Check it out at www.KandYshoppe.com and follow them on twitter (@kevinandyun)

Carisa Kluver, a mom and educator who runs the app review site Digital Storytime, has given the Letter Buddies AlphaBooks 4.5 stars out of 5! The review states, "The illustrations, combined with high quality photographs make for an alphabet app that stands out in an otherwise crowded market."

Carisa's son, who often tests apps with her, enjoyed reading the Letter Buddies AlphaBooks, working with the app for nearly an hour!

You can read the full review here, along with all of the other reviews of kid's book apps on the site. We appreciate the positive feedback from Carisa and Digital Storytime!

(For other reviews of the Letter Buddies AlphaBooks, please click here)