Oh, the Pets You Can Get! (Dr. Seuss/Cat in the Hat)

What it is: an interactive book from the Cat in The Hat's Learning Library teaching how to care for and feed pets (dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, birds etc).

What you do with it: two modes of using the book: listen to the narration and follow the text or read the story yourself (or have the story read to you by a parent). Touch the objects on pages and their name will be displayed and read out. Touch highlighted ('difficult') words and their meaning will be explained.

What we liked: the story, good educational value, excellent reading options (words are highlighted, you can touch a word to have it read out, you can touch and hold the words to repeat a paragraph), picture-word associations, professional narration, sounds and sound backgrounds.

What we didn't like: use of 'system' menus for some navigation actions.

Note about ads: the app has an option to display news and ads from the publisher but this option can be turned off in the settings menu.

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