What's New

Added new features:
1. Display page numbers
2. Play/Pause button

App Description

Practice reading with The Pancake!

A pancake jumps out of a pan before it can be eaten, outruns many animals, and is outfoxed by a pig. The Pancake helps your kids learn to read with karaoke-style narration and callouts to discover new words!

Touch objects to find out what they are!
Touch words to hear how they are pronounced!
Read along with word-for-word narration to practice reading!

About the book:
A mother prepares a lovely, golden pancake, but before she can feed it to her children, the pancake jumps from the pan out into the world. The pancake meets many animals, hungry to eat him and he outruns them all. Finally he meets a pig who outsmarts the pancake by giving him a ride across a river-and into the pig's mouth! The story is adapted from a Norwegian folktale, made popular in the 1850s.

Education doesn’t have to be boring. It should be fun! Pickatale was made to improve children’s reading skills, to help them learn about animals, cultures, historical figures and more, and to have fun learning through reading books.

How do we help children read and learn?

Little ones can follow the book’s narration with highlighted words, and practice their reading!
Curious ones can click on different objects and words to find out what they are!
Big kids can show you how well they can read!
Grown ups can join the fun during story time and read along with the kids!

Our books are also available in a whole bunch of other languages, with even more coming soon!

English
Chinese
Norwegain
Swedish

Features:

Gorgeous and playful illustrations
Read-a-long narration with captivating voices and highlighted words
Engage young minds with e-book features that really get the most out of your iPad, while still keeping the "real book feel”
Touch objects and words to see and hear them

Autoplay:

Let the littlest children hear their favorite stories whenever they like

Read to Me:

Children will have time to discover the different objects in The Pancake and then turn the page when they’re ready

Read Myself:

Challenge your children by letting them read The Pancake all by themselves

Pickatale: 100 Interactive Children's Books (mobile app) is certified by the kidSAFE® Seal Program. The kidSAFE® Seal Program is an independent certification service and seal program that reviews and certifies the safety practices of children-friendly websites and applications, including kid-targeted game sites, virtual worlds, social networks, PC and mobile apps, web-connected devices, and other similar online and interactive products. Go to www.kidsafeseal.com for more information

iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 18, 2014 Initial release
  • October 23, 2014 New version 1.5