Stella and the Space Bears ebook for kids. Because we can never resist a wonderfully geeky heroine.
As much as I love fun, educational apps for kids, I might get even more excited about finding great books to add to our family iPad. Especially original stories without any licensed characters trying to sell me on a cartoon to match a doll to match a fast food...
5 romantic book download ideas for Nook, Kindle, or your iPad
It’s Valentine’s Day, and for a bibliophile like me there’s no better gift to celebrate romance than a great love story. Since these days, love stories are more likely read from a Kindle, Nook or the Kindle app on iPad than a hardcover, it can be a...
Duh! Books: Educational eBooks for kids who want to know more than their parents can tell them. (We can relate.)
I feel lucky that my daughter is a voracious reader, but her curiosity has a downside: She always wants to know more. So I also feel fortunate to have discovered Duh! books. These fiction e-books, geared toward kids from second to fifth grade, are an awesome...
Introducing young kids to the civil rights movement with a Rosa Parks app
My six-year-old came home this week asking about Rosa Parks, impressed with what she knew of her story and, very shocked by it. I feel so fortunate thats she’s growing up in such a diverse community, that she couldn’t even comprehend a world where her best...
Wordplay Shakespeare: ebooks that make ye olde Shakespearean text clearer than ever.
Shakespeare’s plays are some of the most difficult pieces of literature your kids will study in school. English has changed significantly over the last 400 years, so try being 10 and having to know what the Bard meant by phrases like “Fie, my lord, fie, a...
The 10 best apps for kids: Editors’ Best Tech of 2013
We see a lot of apps for kids here at Cool Mom Tech. A lot. Which means when we feature an app on our site, we really love it. Great for you, but tough when we’re trying to narrow down our favorite kids’ apps for 2013. Here, the cream of the crop when it...
Kindle FreeTime gets even smarter for parents with new features.
If you’ve been eyeing a tablet as a gift for a very special someone, especially someone who has kids, new changes to Kindle FreeTime may just seal the deal for making that Kindle Fire purchase. When the service first launched, we thought it was a genius way to...
Which is the best ereader subscription service for you? We compare the top 3
As a book lover, I’m excited about the different ways technology has made it convenient for avid book readers, especially with ebook subscription services. We can read on our phones while we’re on the subway, we can immediately download the next in an...
The Little Scholar Tablet: a smart educational option for young kids
Tablets are at the top of so many kids’ wish lists this Christmas, even for the littlest ones in our homes. For the preschool set who is just starting to learn about technology, the intuitive design of touch-directed devices are amazing. They’re able to...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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