There are few children’s books as legendary or as loved as The Cat in The Hat and it magically transforms to life on this iPad app. Featuring the original illustrations, your child can read along themselves or have the story read to them. Interactive features allow the reader to flip the pages and learn about the illustrations, this app will be returned to many times as your child enjoys the wonderful world of Dr. Seuss.
The Cat in the Hat remains one of the most loved children’s books of all time and this iPad app captures the mood and feel of the story tremendously well. Using the original illustrations of the book ensures that this new version will capture the heart of parents too.
The three main options of ‘Read It To Me’, ‘Read It Myself’ and ‘Autoplay’ provides plenty of ways to read the story and allows you to read along with your child. The interaction is limited to flipping the pages and learning about the items in the illustration. However, the real interaction will come when your child selects the ‘Read It To Me option and they set off on their own adventure!
The sound effects further help in bringing the story to life but these can be turned off in the main menu section if required. If using the ‘Read It To Me’ option, sound will be required to obtain the full effect but it is never too noisy.
The biggest compliment you can pay to this app is that it truly captures the books of Dr. Seuss as you remember them and will allow your child to enjoy them too. The interactive features compliment the original story and will ensure your child returns to this app time and time again to read all about The Cat in the Hat. At $3.99, the value for money from purchasing this app will pay for itself in no time at all and comes highly recommended.
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