A Whale of a Tale! Porpoises, Dolphins, and Whales

By Oceanhouse Media, Inc.
Price $5.99
Age 5-10 Yrs.

This phenomenal educational app about porpoises, dolphins and whales has the all the appeal and entertainment value of a classic Dr. Seuss story. Written in rhyme and vividly illustrated with original artwork that features characters from The Cat in the Hat, it provides a window into the lives and characteristics of our favorite aquatic mammals. Absorb fascinating facts while immersed in the fun, playful sights and sounds this app offers up in abundance. Learn about various types of dolphins, the differing ways they move and leap, how they use echolocation to form pictures by bouncing sound off objects. Learn to distinguish between dolphins and porpoises at a glance. Kids can read for themselves or let the app narrate, with words highlighted as they're narrated. Touching any object causes the word for it to zoom onscreen and be spoken. Children can soak up a surprising amount of nomenclature (words like cetaceans, baleen, blowholes, krill), aided by a feature that speaks key words and their definitions aloud each time they're tapped onscreen. Every scene has its own mesmerizing background audio, from the sounds of dolphins and whales to the call of the sea. The whales are saved for last, with the blue whale - the biggest of the big - appearing at the story's end. A whale of a tale, indeed.