Parents' Guide to Cozmo's Day Off - Children's Interactive Storybook

COZMO'S DAY OFF has an astonishing number of interactive elements (over a hundred, according to the app's iTunes info). Each page offers a playground of tapping, with so much to find and do within each gorgeous semi-retro illustration. In addition to triggering animations and audio cues, you can move objects around in the illustrations. You'll also find bona fide mini-games to play. Not all of the interactive bits are well marked, but that only serves to encourage exploration. And many of the items in the pictures will produce a different response when tapped for a second or third time. One super-fun element is the voice-changer that allows kids to manipulate the sound of the narration -- the voice-over can sound like a low-and-slow ogre, a regular reader, or a speedy, high-pitched alien. The story here is cute, but slight. Most kids won't care about the thin plot, though -- they'll be too busy searching out all the amazing things they can make happen on every page. As a very neat bonus, the app even has a cool music soundtrack.