This is another FREE app for the iPad & iPhone from TabTale LTD, the creators of Friendly Shapes (see previous review). It is designed to teach opposites to very young children by using cute drawings of dogs. Although it is named Dog Story, there really isn’t a story per se. Instead, the book introduces kids to the concept of antonyms. It also has fun animations and/or puzzles on each page. The app has three modes: auto-play, read-it-to-myself, and read-to-me but there is very little difference between auto-play and read-to-me. There is also an option to record your own voice as you read. There were two sets of antonyms that I didn’t feel were quite accurate: angry/glad and brave/shy. I would think that a more appropriate antonym for angry would be calm and a more appropriate antonym for brave would be cowardly. The other 11 antonyms in the book were more geared towards a young audience: wet/dry, cold/hot, young/old, etc.

Just like Friendly Shapes, this app has ads placed at the bottom of each page between the backward and the forward arrows. But, for $.99 you can remove them so little fingers won’t end up hitting links to things like the Hotels.com app, the Gilt app, Fairway Solitaire, and other products not necessarily geared towards kids.

I am not sure that there is enough content in this app to pay $.99 for the non-ad version but you might want to try for free 🙂