Shrek Forever After-Kids’ Book iPhone App Review
One of the many great features of the iPhone and of course the iPad is the facility to share books with your kids – Shrek Forever After-Kids’ Book is a perfect example of this. If you’ve got young kids then this app is an absolute must, read our review here…
Shrek Forever After costs $2.99 in the App Store and is produced by Frog Dog Media LLC. Once you have downloaded the app onto your device, you will see this screen. It is very simple to navigate. There are three options to choose from, read it myself, read to me or auto play. There is also the mention of Sir Squeakels to find on every page – once you have located him, just click on him and he sqeeks – the kids love it.
Read it myself
In the read it to myself mode the text is white as above and you literally just read the text. When you have finished a page just select the right arrow and it will scroll to the next sequential page.
Read To Me
In the Read to Me mode the text is white with green over the top as the text is read out to you. It is not possible to change the narrators voice but it is very clear. It is male and American, so as long as you are ok with that, it’s not a problem.
Auto Play
In the Auto Play mode the story is read by the narrator and continues on to each page automatically, when each page has been read.
Features
Additional features include:
– Automatic navigation and narration making it incredibly simple to use
– Character audio from Shrek Forever After motion picture
– Automatic or manual page turn
– Highlighted text helps beginning readers make associations between the words they hear and see
Conclusion
Whether you are waiting for dinner to arrive at a restaurant, are on a long airplane or train trip or you need ten more minutes to finish the grocery shopping. Then this is the app to have to hand for your young child. Obviously this is a great story in the first place and incredibly visual, combined with the navigation which is extremly simple to use then this app is a win win.
This app has to be given a score of 5/5 – believe me, it’s worth it.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
