Bizzy Bear Builds a House app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Nosy Crow
First release : 20 Jun 2012
App size: 109.17 Mb
Bizzy Bear is back! This is the second brilliant Bizzy Bear story app, based on the popular board book series. The Bizzy Bear Builds a House app features beautiful illustrations by Benji Davies, exciting animation and original music, lively child narration and lots of interactive surprises.
Read the story and get involved:
* Pile up earth using the digger.
* Lift and lower the crane.
* Operate the bulldozer.
* Haul over a stack of bricks and mix cement.
* Children can play inside each scene, follow directions and complete all the jobs.
Designed for children ages 2 to 4 to read together with their parents.
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From Nosy Crow, the creators of award-winning apps:
Cinderella
* Best Story App - Junior Design Awards
* KAPi Award for Best Childrens Ebook, 2012
* Best iPad Kids App of the Year - iLounge
* Publishing Innovation Award - Best Juvenile App
* FutureBook Innovation Award - Best Childrens App
* 2011 Editors Choice Award - Childrens Technology Review
* Winner of the Digital Storytime Star
* Winner of the Parents Choice Gold Award
The Three Little Pigs
* Editors Choice Award 2011, Childrens Technology Review
* 5 Stars, Common Sense Media
* Kirkus starred review
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Especially for toddlers:
* NEW FEATURE: Word-tracking for read-along highlighted text
* Two reading modes: Read and Play or Read by Myself (no narration)
* Characters offer hints about what to do on each page.
* Hundreds of construction site sounds included.
* Tap the characters to trigger additional dialogue.
* Easy to use. Designed with toddlers’ fine motor skills in mind.
* Parents can choose how long text appears so beginning readers have enough time to read by themselves.
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Recommended Ages: 1-3
Categories: Book, Classics, Reading, Sight Words
Latest reviews of Bizzy Bear Builds a House app for iPhone and iPad
My little boy loves Bizzy Bear and is so excited hes back. He has the book that is this apps inspiration and now it comes to life on the iPad. This app lives up to the quality of the other Nosy Crow apps though its a bit shorter than the other books. I hope Bizzy Bear continues his adventures on iPad with more books like these.
Since their Cinderella book app is one of our favs, we had great expectations for this one and Im happy to say that Nosy Crow exceeded those expectations with this wonderfully interactive story. Both young and old wanted a turn handling the construction tools!! Very glad to add this one to our app library.
So cute and fun to have the kids help use the machinery while building a house! This is our first Bizzy Bear book but certainly not our last!! :)
I waited and waited for this app to hit free and I snatched it up, when it did! I have to say, I thought it was going to be more of a story, BUT it is still a great app! The interactivity of this app will allow me to use it many different ways with young children in speech therapy. One thing I did not like was how the blue dots would just jump back and forth between people over and over and over and over. I know this was used as a cue as to who you need to touch so that person will talk, but as I said… since this isnt really a story, there is no SET dialogue that is followed and you can stay on the same page for 10 minutes bouncing back and forth between the same two people. It began to feel like a tennis match to me…. I would love to see this as more of a story so that the child has to interact based on what is read. Other than that, I think its a great start to a great app! Thank you!
My child loves Bizzy Bear. The story is great, she loves being able to move the characters and the objects. Such a great way for children to learn about building. Overall a great story and app to get for your child.