We just got notice from Apple that The 12 Days of Christmas — Picture Story Book with Sing-Along Music has been released. Yay! It’s only $0.99. A modern instrumental version of the song accompanies Honey the Hippo and Raphael the Robin as they walk through all twelve days from the classic Christmas carol. Tell your [...]

I wish I could say that careful planning led us to having all these kid-focused offerings. The truth is more ‘organic’. We’ve shipped a suite of fun educational apps for toddlers — Hippo Hooray, and we’ve shipped A Story Before Bed, a service that lets parents and grandparents who can’t be near their kids at [...]

We have sparkly new versions of all our Hippo Hooray apps up on the iTunes store as of this morning. Hippo Hooray Shapes — Flashcards for Toddlers has new 3D shapes and a new mode where the child has to pick out which shape is different. Hippo Hooray Letters — Flashcards for Toddlers also has [...]

We’re not quite done shipping new software this week. We’re excited to announce that Apple has approved our latest iPhone creation for toddlers – Hippo Hooray Numbers! We listened closely to the feedback from our first three applications — Shapes, Colors, and Letters, and made Numbers even better. Not only are children asked to identify [...]

Among other things, the iPhone has turned out to be a lovely device for small children to engage with technology. We have lots of parents of small children in our Jackson Fish Market extended family. Creating high quality, focused, educational, and entertaining software for toddlers on the iPhone seemed like a noble task (and with [...]