Zip the Zebra DigiPuppet

By DigiPuppets, LLC
Price $14.99
Age 3-7 yrs.

Zip the Zebra is a classic finger puppet designed to be used in conjunction with a suite of free educational apps. Kids use Zip to navigate the apps, swiping and tapping the screen with their new finger puppet friend and adding a dimension of imaginative physical play to the digital fun and learning. Zip's Big Race, an animated storybook app, tells the tale of the ultra-fast Zip being challenged to a race by the fastest horse in history and how Zip's friends rally together to help him train. The visual and sound effects triggered by tapping various images have a magical quality, a distinctive charm, originality, and unexpected sense of humor that sets them apart from other apps. None of this detracts from the pleasure of the story. In fact, kids, enthralled, feel pulled to read the storybook again and again. Zip the Zebra DigiPuppet works equally well with the Honey Bunny educational apps (see review above), making for a well-rounded, pleasurable learning and play experience.