Today’s Amazon Free App Of The Day is the interactive storybook of It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (4.5/5 stars)! This app includes not only the book, but some fun, built-in games too. From Amazon:
Oh, Great Pumpkin! Where are you? This Halloween, hang out with Charlie Brown and the entire Peanuts gang to find out for yourself!
While Linus and Sally wait for the Great Pumpkin, you can join Charlie Brown at his first-ever Halloween party! Trick-or-treat with Lucy, Pigpen and the rest of the gang. Play a little ditty on Schroeder’s piano and bob for apples with Snoopy — just watch out for dog germs, blech!
Narrated by Peter Robbins, the original voice of Charlie Brown, everyone’s favorite Halloween special is beautifully re-imagined in this interactive storybook designed for smartphones and tablets.
Digitally remastered illustrations are brought to life with the voices, dialog and music from the original 1966 animated TV special. Whether your family sings pumpkin carols and waits in pumpkin patches or you’re introducing It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown to your kids for the first time, everyone will love this magical interactive Halloween classic!
– Bob for apples and play Schroeder’s piano
– Touch and drag objects to make them “spring” to life or tilt to watch them slide and move
– Jump to any page in the book with the handy table of contents bookmark
– Educational features such as word and note highlighting to help improve reading and musical skills
– Hear individual words spoken with the tap of a finger
– Original dialog from the 1966 animated classic
– Captivating narration by Peter Robbins, the original voice of Charlie Brown
– Charming soundtrack featuring music and sound effects from the original holiday special
If you like Halloween-themed games, also consider picking up Halloween Arcade, which has an average review rating of 5/5 stars and is currently on sale for 99 cents. From Amazon:
The entire family will enjoy these 9 causal pick up and play Halloween themed games. Puzzle games, a haunted house, and plenty of zombies and ghosts to shoot, Halloween Arcade is the perfect app to get your ghoul on this Halloween!
Halloween Arcade comes with the following games: Kid-n-Zombies, Zombie Frenzy, Haunted House Shoot, Halloween Clix, Pumpkin Shoot!, Pumpkin Up, Zombie Jump, Pumpkin Pop!, PopAPumpkin!
Amazon Top 50 Reviewer J Chambers says:
I don’t usually buy these game bundles with several games in them, since more times than not, most of the games are poorly done and have little play value. “Halloween Arcade,” however, rises above most of the bundles, having some pretty good arcade games. The app is rated “All Ages,” but the games will have the most appeal for kids, since the rules are very simple, and the sound and graphics are not bad. There aren’t any classics like Angry Birds or Plants vs. Zombies in the bundle, but several of the games would keep your kids occupied for a while…
Most of the games are simple enough to pick up that they don’t have any instructions. Even the ones that have instructions are straightforward and easy to learn.
I’m giving “Halloween Arcade” five stars, not because there are eight great games in the bundle, but because there are almost certainly a few games that any kid would enjoy and will want to compete with their siblings or friends for high-score bragging rights.