Here's a delightful blast from the past ('93 to be exact). Originally a Living Book (Broderbund, 1993), The New Kid on the Block brings 16 poems by Jack Prelutsky to life, with both read to me and let me read modes. Prelutsky's funny poems are especially effective with children, dealing with such things as a dog that is put together wrong and homework blowing up. Mark Schlichting says "with Living Books we experimented with ’living‘ text, where children could tap on any word and hear it pronounced or build the whole sentence word by word. With The New Kid on the Block we were able to go one step further; every noun identifies itself in animation and every verb does its action, turning this app into a living dictionary.”