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By Christopher Healy
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Powerful story told with brilliant animation and narration.
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Unwanted Guest
Is It Any Good?
The folk tale retold in UNWANTED GUEST is at times eerie, inspirational, and genuinely moving. It may have a rather simplified moral about hard work being the way to fend off poverty, but that point is certainly made well within these virtual pages. The look and style of the app is a perfect companion to the just-as-gorgeous Pedlar Lady of Gushing Cross storybook app (also by Moving Tales). As with that previous app, each reading of the story can present you with altered "camera angles," so you see the same illustrations from a different viewpoint. It makes successive readings all the more appealing, which is a good thing in a storybook app that doesn't pack in games or coloring pages as bonus content. This is just a powerful story, well told through a combination of excellent narration and beautiful artwork.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Pricing structure :
- Release date : February 12, 2011
- Genre : Books
- Publisher : Moving Tales, Inc.
- Version : 1.0
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 4.2 or later
- Last updated : June 19, 2019
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