Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Amazon Appstore free app of the day for March 20, 2013: Counting with the Very Hungry Caterpillar has promised to make a paid app free every day in the Amazon Appstore, and today's app is Counting with the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Counting with the Very Hungry Caterpillar is priced at $1.99 in Google Play; it is normally priced at $2.99 at the Amazon Appstore. As we've noted before, there are sometimes differences in pricing and availability between the two marketplaces.

Counting with the Very Hungry Caterpillar is described as follows:
The most-loved Caterpillar in the world is hungry…Very Hungry! Find and eat all of the Caterpillar's favorite foods while you learn the fundamentals of numbers and counting, in this beautiful, interactive math game for kids aged two years and up. (Even adults will like playing level five!)

This game has five levels of increasing difficulty. There's a variety of things to try and different skills to practice, all building a basic math foundation. The Caterpillar will ask you to eat familiar foods from The Very Hungry Caterpillar book. Tap on them to punch out a hole, and find out if you did it right. The music is by Mozart, the art is by Eric Carle, and the game is by the creators of the renowned Peekaboo Barn. We designed it to entertain your child for hours while gradually developing their number skills.


--LEVEL 3: Quantity. Identify a specific amount of fruit and food within a larger set. For example, see twelve plums but only eat five. Unlike Level 1, kids can't just tap everything they see!


--LEVEL 5: The Game. Now put all your skills together--with a time limit! Fruits and foods keep sliding into view while kids try to eat what the Caterpillar asks them to find. There is only one minute, so think (and eat) fast! *Points are awarded for each correct food that is found, reinforcing basic addition skills.

We were surprised that even toddlers were loving the first levels, while we've been playing Level 5 ourselves. What's more, the game is localized in UK English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, and Japanese! Practice your numbers and food words in other languages too. Enjoy!
Counting with the Very Hungry Caterpillar has a 2.8-star rating in Google Play; it has a 3.2-star rating in the Amazon Appstore.

A review by krodgers might give insight into why there is such a huge difference between the stores:
no tutorial no simple guide. when i finially figured out how to fire 3/4 of the time it still wouldnt. wish i listened to other reviews and didnt bother. if i could i would give this one a 0 star rating.
There is also a version in the iOS App Store. There, it is free, but has insufficient ratings to display.




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