Android

Follow PBS character, Molly of Denali, an Alaskan Native, as she explores her fictional community, Qyah, introducing users to her culture through harvesting natural resources ("we only take what we need!"), beading activities, dog sledding and more! Navigate through the town using arrows and your map-reading skills. Throughout the app, the characters sprinkle in words in the Gwich'in language (an actual language spoken by about 400 people in Canada and the Yukon area). Fun to explore!

A short and enigmatic little app with beautiful artwork.  In this (basically) wordless app, users first encounter a ball dangling from a thread in the middle of the string.  Tapping and swiping on the ball bring results that seem realistic, but what's the point?  Keep playing with this app, trying different motions and exploring every option you can think of.  Tiny hints may be given along the way. Delightful surprises pop up throughout keeping players engaged.  My only complaint is that it's way too short.

Sema, a character created by Kukua (a company from Nairobi) now has a whole collection of apps teaching basic skills. In Sema Trace, users trace letters with their finger and are rewarded with Sema telling them about an object that begins with that letter that she has "taken a photo of". 

Short animated/illustrated informational movies for kids about a wide variety of topics.

Basically a Netflix for children's books, this subscription service gives subscribers access to tons of the same kids books that you'll find in our libraries plus some high quality original content.  Free for the first 30 days.  If you're stuck at home without access to a bunch of books, this is a truly worthwhile app to download.  There are graphic novels, comic books (including Garfield in Spanish!), chapter books (both long and short ones with illustrations), picture books, beginning reader titles, audiobooks, videos, read-to-me titles that highlight each word as it's read.  At the end o

If you enjoyed any of the previous Toca Hair Salon apps, you'll love this one too.  It's got a new (but familiar), larger mix of quirky, androgynous customers to choose from, all of the hair dressing options you've loved in the previous apps (wash, cut, shave, blowdry, color, regrow hair... the sky's the limit!) and this app adds a few optional in-app purchases including a new make-up and facepaint station which adds in tons of fun options for customizing your characters. What creative styling will you come up with?

An app with mini-biographies of more than 10 influential women throughout history.  This app features women from a variety of races, nationalities, specialties and eras.  Read the text yourself or choose to have the app narrated aloud.  There are mini-actions and quick quizzes sprinkled throughout the stories --  most of which contribute to the storyline, but not all of which are intuitive to figure out how to do.  At the end of the illustrated biographies, there are photos of each of the featured women and a little more in-depth information if users want to learn more.  Some of the stories

Want to go on a virtual vacation to a warm island spot?  Try Sago Mini Vacation!  Players can explore a vacation home, water slides, a bubbling volcano, ride on a whale and more! There's no wrong way to play with this app, so kids can enjoy the thrill of discovering the little hidden surprises throughout the app.  And it's always silly fun to stack characters on top of each other!  Perfect for when you're traveling to a tropical paradise or just staying home for a snow day.  This app can also be played as part of the Sago World subscription.

Hey Clay now has a single app that includes their entire collection of clay making tutorials.  It's free to download and you get one sample tutorial from each category (birds, dinosaurs, monsters, aliens, etc.) and if you'd like to see all of the instructions you can pay to unlock each category.  This app is reminiscent of step-by-step drawing books, but in addition to showing an image of what you should end up with ("a body shape!"), this app also includes a little animation of hands to show how to create each of those shapes.  When you're done with each tutorial, you have the opt

A tiny little app, based on the classic Mexican children's song, "Un Elefante" and the children's board book "Elefantitos" that was written about it.  Users can choose "read it myself" "read to me" or (my favorite!) "sing to me." Incredibly, the app has the option to switch between 8 different languages including the singing and all of the visual text in the book app!  Language options include Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese and Hindi.  Whether you choose your language based on your home language, one you're trying to learn or just to enjoy hearing the rhyth