Apps

A fun and interactive ‘edu-tainment’ app that, if it follows up with the learning tools promised, will make an already excellent addition to your preschooler’s education essential.

A larvae-ly bug-collecting app that subtly teaches your kids basic math skills – grub it now to check out the buzz!

A mostly well thought-out, scholarly app that gives Shakespeare’s plays the kind of tablet treatment they deserve.

Only four characters, but an infinite amount of variations make Toca Tailor an app kids will keep coming back to.

Book Creator is limiting for professionals, but for playing around with creating books, it’s well-made, easy to use and packed with potential.

Fun, challenging and educational – but if only there was a way to turn off those sound effects…

Not quite as shiny as Tutankhamun’s golden death mask, but it’s still one of the App Store’s finest history apps.

Half TV episode, half interactive storybook, this initial outing of the Pajanimals, although with some blocky-looking animation, is a winner.