Ansel and Clair Cretaceous Dinosaurs

By Cognitive Kid, Inc.
Price $1.99
Age 4-9 Yrs.

This installment in Cognitive Kid's wonderful series of Ansel and Clair apps, with its seamless blend of entertainment and educational content, is the epitome of a Brain Child award-winner. You'll be having such great fun, you won't realize how much you're learning. But learn you will, for the app is loaded with information, gleaned interactively. You'll meet Dr. Lindy Bones before going underground to uncover fossils, breaking up rocks and clearing away rubble using your fingers as tools, then assembling the skeletons. The fossils are the key that enable Ansel and Clair's spaceship, Marley Peterson, to take you back in time to the Cretaceous period. There you'll see, experience, and learn all manner of amazing things. You'll also use the app's camera to take pictures of the things you've learned about before storing the photos in a travel log. Dynamic sound and visual effects, along with the endearing characters, make these experiences visceral, exciting, and fun. But where the app truly shines is in its ability to effectively convey a wealth of information about this long ago time, its creatures, and the planet on which we live.