Our must-have apps for families to load up on that new iPad (or even that hand-me-down).

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

With the iPad Air as one of our top tech gifts of the year, if you’ve got one coming your way–or hey, even an iPad 2, iPhone 5S or iPod–we wanted to help you out with some of our very favorite must-have apps to get you started. Here are 8 of the...

Enter the magical world of Pandora ebooks, where kids become storytellers too

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

When I started working in children’s publishing over a decade ago, I would never have imagined that children’s authors would be able to create an interactive book experience for kids like what Hullabalu, creators of the über-successful ebook series Pandora...

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, now on your smartphone and tablet

by Julie | Best Apps, Educational Apps

I’m a sucker for Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang, especially at holiday time. Not only do I love the nostalgia, watching the same shows I watched as a child, but the humor and messages never get old. I think I might love the new e-book A Charlie Brown...

A story app for kids that will totally make you think Flight of the Conchords

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Remember playing the telephone game when we were kids? That one where you’d sit in a circle and whisper a phrase all the way around, and by the end it was nothing like the original secret? Well, now that game has had a makeover, hit the iPad, got an extra shot...

Tiggly: Preschool learning that blends apps with creative play

by Julie | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Pretty much every time we find an awesome new pick for toddlers, I sigh about how much I wish I’d had something similar when my own kids were toddlers. I’m especially impressed by the way tech has been integrated into learning and development, even for...

iStoryTime: The new ebook library features your kids’ favorite characters

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

If you love giving your kids access to ebooks but hate having to buy them a la carte, check out the new ebook library recently launched by Zuuka, one of the oldest and best resources in the ebook world. Over the last few years, iStoryTime has been building up an...

Ogre Academy Math app: Educational, free, and worth the iPad space

by Julie | Best Apps, Educational Apps

They say variety is the spice of life, and I’ve definitely found that to be true where it comes to educational kids’ apps. The more awesome kids’ apps I load on the iPad, the more likely it is my own kids will keep exploring and learning, and now...

5 of the best storytelling apps for kids. Only the kids do the storytelling.

by Shari | Best Apps, Educational Apps

This mom is a writer, so obviously it makes my heart soar when I see my children reading a good, old-fashioned book (you know, one with pages) or writing their own.  But since we live in a time when there are more often tablets in their hands than a pencil,...

One Globe Kids takes your children around the world in a most creative way

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

My husband and I really want our kids to learn to appreciate other cultures, which means we have to actively seek out ways to expose them to other cultures, and here’s a wonderful new one. One Globe Kids was created by a multi-cultural, globe-trotting mom with a...

Piquing our Geek: Draw your own video game with Pixel Press.

by Pilar | Games + Gaming

My second grader is crazy into made up games he creates and customizes himself. Everything from blueprints for Star Warsian buildings to trains crafted from Toca Builders blocks are on his roster of perpetual projects, and creating his own video game is definitely at...