This company is setting a standard that others will find hard to achieve!

First, the art looks sensational, and the audio (music, narrator, character voices) is excellent, and there are all kinds of lil surprises here and there, e.g. one page has to be colored in by tracing your finger around on it, other pages contain brief sung ditties by characters.

A cool thing is that the text, which can be read by the parent to the child or can be played back, *highlights the entire chunk of language* as its being read. So as kids grow, they read the chunks as tonal units (where inflection breaks). An added extra is that the narrator keeps his distinct voice. He tells the story and reports the characters speech; if you want to hear the character say it directly, you can simply press on the character to hear it in his/her own voice.

A very sophisticated and well-thought-out app. I will by more if theyre like this, but I wont pay more than this price.

teacherinjapan about Jack and the Beanstalk Interactive Storybook, v1.1.1