My Very First App Review

My Very First App is an interactive application based on the popular book, My First Book Of Colors, best known for the colorful artwork done by artist Eric Carle. This app is a very accurate transformation from the original book which will please fans of My First Book Of Colors, as well as families new to Carle’s work. Like the book, the screen has been divided into two pieces, top and bottom, which can scroll independently. The top half is a series of color sections. The bottom half is illustrations of objects which incorporate the same colors from the section above. The object is to scroll both sections - left and right - making color pairs with all the colors and objects. There are two other difficulty levels included, "medium" and "difficult" for older children. Although not based directly on the book, they are interesting modes based on the classic “memory” style game where a series of cards are laid out for the player to flip over and make pairs from. The ”medium” level game had the player match either the colors or objects to themselves, while the “hard” level players much match the colors to the various objects which are of the same color, making this game a bit more challenging.

As one would expect, the illustrations are colorful, beautiful, and of a style for which Eric Carle is known. My son was disappointed, however, that the color orange was not included here, nor is it in the original book. I find this an odd omission to say the least. Other than that, we have a lot of fun with this app.

Other sets are available as in purchase add-ons which will be based on the other Carle books from this series (such as numbers and shapes), but I would prefer these to be sold as individual apps because screen-shots and reviews are hard to come by for add-ons, so doing research before buying is now difficult. As a single app however, it is very nicely done.