The stunning pictures of animals are a joy to watch and finding interesting facts (like our favourite about the Blue-eyed Black Lemurs who are the only primates other than humans to consistently have blue eyes) makes Cute Baby Animals a must have app for animal lovers. One glitch that we noticed is that when you place parts of the puzzle pieces at the end of the screen you’re on and then decide to move to another picture of a baby animal, parts of the puzzle from the previous will be visible - we are sure this could easily be rectified with an update. The images can be moved all around the screen and are not being taken back to the pile. All this is very subtly done at the moment by making the images lock in place if correct and with the use of a short audio sound. We believe that the correction, whether a puzzle piece is placed in the correct or wrong place, should be more emphasized in order to help children understand they’ve got it wrong or right. The puzzle game mode adds hexagonal shapes that tessellate on top of the animal images and children can drag the shapes into the right place. Pressing on the second hexagon gives children the possibility of browsing the animals as puzzles. You can scroll left to right through all the animals and if you want to see them all on the screen press on the first hexagon on the right. You cannot zoom in, but if you click on the animal the voice over will say the name of the animal – reading out the interesting facts would have been a good add-on for pre-readers. On the screen you will see a set of information in the top left corner: the name of the animal, the age and an interesting fact about it. Pressing ‘Play’ will open with the navigation screen where you will see one animal – in our case the first one was a Maltese puppy but every time you open it a new animal will appear first. The background music is really comforting and the female voice over is smooth and clear. The app has a full retina support for all devices and we have to say that it looks stunning on the iPad. We were impressed with the high-definition graphics and the quality of the photos. This will allow parents to visit the Polygon Play website where they can find information on other apps. The main screen opens with an adorable blue-eyed black lemur as a background and you will see the big ‘Play’ button, a control function for the music/sound on the top right corner and on the bottom left corner the ‘More Games’ button which is protected by a multiplication operation. The free version of the App includes only 8 animals and you will have to make a single $2 in-app purchase to get access to all the animals. So children can be left unattended but they will need a little guidance with certain features. What parents need to know is that the app has a Parental Gate so that children cannot make any in-app purchases or follow any link. The app is contains 40 pages of the cutest puppies, kittens, bunnies and cubs ranging from a Jack Russell Terrier to a Sumatran Tiger. Cute Baby Animals by Polygon Play is an educational app that helps toddlers and small kids to learn about animals.
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