Randy Kazandy - Where Are Your Glasses?

By Auryn, Inc.
Price $2.99
Age 4-11 Yrs.

Based on Rhonda Fischer's book and illustrated by Kim Sponaugle, this app has a number of features to help sharpen vocabulary skills. The clever and endearing story is about Randy Kazandy's challenges with self-image on his first day wearing eyeglasses. Despite his efforts to lose, hide, or destroy them, his mother is always there with another pair. On the verge of teary-eyed defeat, he learns to love his glasses when he discovers his father wears them as well, and begins enjoying the new freedom his improved eyesight yields. Readers can choose to have the story automatically narrated, with each word on the page highlighted as it's spoken, or can simply read to themselves, in which case they can hear any word spoken just by touching the text. Touch any image, and the associated word will be spoken and displayed. Kids laughed and related to Randy's predicament, while the beautifully rendered illustrations and features captivated their attention such that they wanted the story again and again.