Common Sense Media Review
By Christopher Healy
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Unexciting Sesame Street story in a glitchy app.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 3+?
Any Positive Content?
Where to Download
Videos and Photos
Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures: What's Cooking?
Is It Any Good?
The clay-character illustrations in BERT AND ERNIE'S GREAT ADVENTURES: WHAT'S COOKING? are certainly appealing, and the narration by Roscoe Orman (Sesame Street's Gordon) is great. But this is still a lackluster storybook app. The app's strange tendency to flash white in the middle of a bit of narration is annoying to say the least, and makes kids think the app is about to crash (even if it doesn't). The story itself is not very exciting (and some authority-flouting preschoolers might not understand the nuance of the message). And while it's nice to have coloring pages as a bonus, these pages don't highlight the color that is in use, so that kids don't know which color they are using until they start to draw.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Pricing structure :
- Release date : January 25, 2011
- Genre : Books
- Publisher : Sesame Street
- Version : 1.1
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.2 or later
- Last updated : June 19, 2019
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