Just Grandma and Me 4+

I bought this because I liked the original pc version with loads of animations you could play for hours. the description of this one says that the app does not contain animations on every page. well, it does not contain animations AT ALL, only the names of the objects come up when you touch something. there are lots of other interactive/touchy books with more animations available on ipad, some of them free.

In the 1990s, I had a computer program version of this book that had animated interactions. Over 20 years ago. It’s pretty sad that this version for iPad is about as minimally interactive as it gets. I was expecting more, I wouldn’t have bought it so quickly if I’d known it wasn’t at least as good as that old version.

Don’t buy it.

I found an article which mentioned that the original Brøderbund titles had been re-imagined for various mobile devices including the iPad and had to try this one out. Spent ages with my granddaughters playing with those books on what was then sate of the art Apple kit (remember OS 9?). Sadly this is not the same product at all. Not the same voice, similar art, and nowhere near the rich interactive experience of the originals.

It's rumoured that these books will also be coming to the Mac OS proper, I hope these implementations recapture the depth of the originals, each page was loaded with "secret" surprises if you touched them. For instance, the beach scene, touching the radio rewarded you with tuning sounds, crackle and a reporter giving you the weather report for little critters beach. Those versions of the Mercer Mayer books were a triumph, I'de never seen anything like them before or after.

For the price I guess this offering is fair value, and all of the current target audience will never have seen, or enjoyed the riches in the original Brøderbund versions.