Plum's Creaturizer
Design your own imaginative creature, then photograph them outside in their natural habitat. This free app from PBS Kids encourages users to get outside and do some creative problem solving.
Android
The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk
Kidd
2014
Sarah Grimke, a well-to-do daughter of antebellum Charleston receives a ten-year old slave girl, Hetty ‘Handful’ Grimke, on her eleventh birthday. Both women know they are meant to do more in the wider world, and yearn to escape the respective paths of life they were born to. Over the course of their thirty-five year relationship, their destinies overlap and intertwine through slavery, freedom and the complexities of love, against the backdrop of the abolition and early women’s movements.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan
Stevenson
2014
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need. One of his first clients was Walter McMillian, a man on death row for a murder he didn’t commit. Here Stevenson details the legal journey to McMillian’s release as well as those of others he’s helped in his now thirty year career.
Kapu Fishing
Take a virtual fishing trip and enjoy the thrill of the catch with none of the long waiting! Captain Fox is on his motorboat and wants to catch some fish.
Homemade Orchestra
Music is all around us! This app encourages kids to look at some everyday objects around their home (from pots and pans to a sheet of paper) and even their own body parts as musical instruments. Try out the different “instruments” within the app, one at a time or mixing them together as you build your orchestra.
The Hobbit
J. R. R.
Tolkien
1937
In this acclaimed prequel to The Lord of the Rings, hobbit Bilbo Baggins has his peaceful existence interrupted when he is persuaded to join a band of dwarfs in retrieving a famous hoard of gold far beyond the Misty Mountains. Along the way, he encounters trolls, elves and the ferocious dragon Smaug.
Odd Bot Out
Help a small robot work his way through 100 levels of increasingly challenging obstacle courses. Each level presents logic challenges where the players must think through the order of their actions and sometimes employ trial and error as they learn new techniques to maneuver through the bot’s world.
Dreii
Colorful, geometric animal-esque figures build with virtual building blocks to reach the goal and move to the next level of the game.
Fireworks Lab
Design your own fireworks by feeding each blank firework a combination of shapes and patterns. Then, light the fuse with a tap of your finger and watch your creation spout endless fountains of beautiful explosions!
Crepes by Suzette
How do you breathe new life into a picture book that’s over a decade old? Turn it into an app!