App Review Blog: A Matter of App

Here's another blog that reviews children's apps. This one is run by Dr. Cynthia Chiong, who is a educational media researcher with Digital Kids.  This blog reviews apps for kids aged 3-8 and uses a rating system which takes into account the following factors: Developmental Appropriateness, Balance, Sustainability and Parental Involvement.  An explanation for her rating system can be found here.

Touch and Go eBook Reviews

School Library Journal provides all sorts of reviews for all sorts of good stuff, but what's really exciting is their Touch and Go blog, which reviews apps and eBooks for kids and teens.   I usually look at the Preschool-Grade 4 posts, and there are quite a few holiday titles reviewed on there at the moment.  Often the products reviewed are not available for free, but they're not prohibitively expensive.  I'm even tempted to buy A Charlie Brown Christmas for the Galaxy Tab, even for $6.99.  One pet peeve about this blog is that they don't have links to the marketplace for the items, so you have to do all that pesky copying, pasting and searching to take a gander at what they're talking about.