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  1. Alice for the iPad-Lite Alice for the iPad-Lite
    Tilt your iPad to make Alice grow big as a house, or shrink to just six inches tall. This is Alice in Wonderland digitally remastered for the iPad. Play with the White Rabbit's pocket watch - it realistically swings and bounces. Help Alice swim through a Pool of Tears. Or hand out sweets that bounce and collide with the magical talking Dodo. This wonderful lite edition is the first instalment of Alice's journey and includes an amazing selection of animated scenes. Watch as full screen physics modelling bring the classic illustrations to life.
  2. Clifford's BE BIG with Words  ($$) Clifford's BE BIG with Words ($$)
    Clifford the Big Red Dog™ and friends share their BIG adventures for kids on the iPad®! Help Clifford, Cleo and T-Bone give Jetta ideas of things to paint by spelling words. As they play, kids will experiment with letters and letter sounds as they learn to spell three-letter words. Kids are guided toward spelling the words by choosing from a selection of letters from Jetta’s painter’s palette. Once a word is spelled, watch as a picture is painted of the word to show its meaning! Clifford’s BE BIG with Words is a great word game for kids who love Clifford and love to learn!. Building an understanding of words through alphabetic awareness is critical in cultivating reading skills in young children.
  3. Dictionary! Dictionary!
    Dictionary! is an easy to use, no fluff dictionary app for your iPhone. Helps you find words when you need to without getting in your way.
  4. Dr. Seuss's  ($$) Dr. Seuss's ($$)
    From Aunt Annie riding an Alligator to the Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, Dr. Seuss teaches young readers the ABC's through hilarious words and pictures, guaranteed to entertain any young child. New features only available in this omBook include professional narration, background audio and enlarged artwork for each scene. To promote reading in young children, individual words are highlighted as the story is read and words zoom up when pictures are touched. By combining the original text and artwork of Dr. Seuss with features that entertain and promote reading, this omBook appeals to readers of all ages.
  5. Kaplan TOEFL Kaplan TOEFL
    The TOEFL Vocabulary Flashcards contain more than 350 words necessary for TOEFL test success. With this application you can quickly assess the words you know, and learn the words that are unfamiliar to you. Synonyms and sample sentences in context help you understand the meaning and remember usage.
  6. Shakespeare Shakespeare
    Shakespeare™ is a free app with the complete works of Shakespeare (41 plays, 154 sonnets and 6 poems, including doubtful works) and a searchable concordance to find the exact word or phrase you’re looking for (with “relaxed” searching to find words close to your search term).
  7. Ulysses Seen Ulysses Seen
    Robert Berry's comic adaptation of the 1922 edition of James Joyce's epic novel, ULYSSES accompanied by a page-by-page reader's guide, dramatis personae, and pop-up translations of non-english passages. This installment features Berry's adaptation of the Telemachus and Calypso chapters. The reader's guide is enhanced with discussion groups and links to online information sources, photos, videos, and other assorted bric a brac allowing you to dive as deep as you like into the world of Ulysses. If you've always wanted to read ULYSSES, but have been intimidated by its size and density, this is a great way in and is a great new way in its own right to experience literature.
Author: Erika McCulloch
Last modified: 8/23/2012 6:14 PM (EST)