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By Christopher Healy
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Hilarious, irreverent, interactive spin on fave tales.
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Goosed Up Rhymes HD
Is It Any Good?
The developers behind GOOSED UP RHYMES have a wickedly subversive sense of humor, and it makes reading (or rather, watching) these classic nursery rhymes fresh and fun again. Many of the hidden interactive animations are either hilariously clever or just flat-out absurd enough to elicit a laugh. There's an acorn hunt that stretches across all the stories, as you help a comical squirrel relocate the nuts he hid and forgot about, and a handful of other story-related mini-games that make for nice embellishments upon the rhymes. The old-lady-bopping game in the "Three Blind Mice" story stands out as being particularly harsh, though, in an app that would otherwise appeal very nicely to preschoolers.
App Details
- Device : iPad
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- Release date : April 4, 2011
- Genre : Books
- Publisher : Brain Freeze Entertainment
- Version : 1.02
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.2 or later
- Last updated : August 25, 2016
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