Robin des bois By Chocolapps 4+

The moving pictures within the book is nice, but it plays more like a movie with subtitles. My daughter will watch the movie and not read at all. You can turn the movie feature off, but then you are missing what you paid for. If reading is truly the goal, I would suggest having the reading first, then the video, not both simultaneously. The reading seems rushed, and is hard to follow with the narration, which I still can't figure out how to turn off so she is forced to read it herself. The definitions of select words are sometimes harder to understand than the original word. For example "tract of land" as the definition of "territory". She won't understand the word "tract". Many definitions are like this.

Both my children enjoyed this app, but particularly my 9 year old who has disabilities. She was SO engaged by the combination of text, pictures, and video. I think this style of story-telling could be a game-changer for her by making reading so fun. Well-done. My 6 year old already loves reading and enjoyed this, but I rarely see my 9 year old excited by a story like this. It was worth the price of the app just to find a story she watches over and over!

What We Liked:

The Adventures of Robin Hood is nearly magical in the way it integrates animation, interactivity and early literacy learning features while still giving a children a true book-like experience to enjoy. Each new release just improves upon their core concept of multi-lingual storybook apps that provide rich helps for early readers.

The inclusion of the touch-based activities and mini-games – many of which are directly related to moving the plot forward – are deeply engaging to children and certainly add to the appeal of reading a book when they are sprinkled throughout the pages.

My children have all given The Adventures of Robin Hood their highest ratings and have enthusiastically shared their love of this app with me. I have yet to find another storybook app with such a rich read-along experience or so many helps for emerging readers.

That it can also be used as a teaching tool for several foreign languages through immersion in the story and the use of the picture-based definitions provided for younger readers is a bonus for families seeking to develop a familiarity with multiple languages.

What We Didn’t Like:

The page navigator is a bit tricky to access (sometimes it just flips between cursive and print because it shares a tab with that feature), and at times it is tricky to get the individual words to read – it takes repeated taps at times.

Overall:

The Adventures of Robin Hood has only strengthened my opinion that the multilingual storybook apps produced by Chocolapps (previously So Ouat!) provide the most feature-filled read along experience available in children’s storybook apps today. Whether read silently by early readers who can tap individual words for help, read aloud by mom, or enjoyed as a narrated read-along by pre-readers, this app is both deeply enjoyable and educationally valuable.

I received a promo code.