Common Sense Media Review
By Christopher Healy
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Cute storybook app may make kids beg for a plush dog toy.
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Jingle All the Way
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Is It Any Good?
As an app unto itself, JINGLE ALL THE WAY is a cute and likable storybook with some fun bonus features (a nice selection of jigsaw puzzles and a playable xylophone that lets out dog barks instead of the regular tinny bong-bong tones of such an instrument). The story is a simple but child-pleasing one, about a stray dog that befriends a class of children outside a school (and is eventually adopted by one student). It's illustrated with lovely posed-toy photographs reminiscent of the old holiday specials of the sixties. But the app does contain a bona fide commercial for a toy that's meant to interact with that very app -- something that definitely needs to be kept in mind before downloading.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Pricing structure : Free
- Release date : November 2, 2010
- Genre : Books
- Publisher : Hallmark
- Version : 1.0
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.1.3 or later
- Last updated : August 25, 2016
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