Perfect as a starter app for very young children, this musical exploration experience turns your iPad into a musical bandstand, featuring eight sleeping animals. A tap wakes them up, and causes them to sing a song.

Each animal brings a different voice to the mix, so children can play with different sound elements. The free app comes with six songs: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Row Row Your Boat and 1 2 3 4 5. Two Christmas Carols were added last fall.

Some of the animal movements seem random, and their song is not tied directly to a child's touch. However, most of the app is extremely responsive, and it's easy to "scribble" to the song, spinning items around. Also worthy of note is the quality of the music.

Unlike Toca Band, where the music never ends, each song has a fixed length, and children can explore other animate features on the screen. Extra songs, sold as an in-app sales, are shown with locks.