Just Grandma and Me App Reviews

I love these little critter books. My two year old loves them too. These OceanHouse books are among the best for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch apps for kids out there!

Without the "Living Books" aspect of the experience, the magic just isnt there. Anyone who ever sat with a 2-year-old for hours discovering all the treasures hidden throughout each page will be disappointed with the hollow shell this version represents.

Excellent story rendered well to the computer age. Great value for money!

It made me sad to purchase this book. I remember the living books from the nineties and was looking forward to sharing them with my son. Unfortunately, what we have here is a bad interpretation of the original. I guess i should have read the description first. While they imported the original reading of the book, all the animations and interactions were completely left out. This is nothing more than a "read-to-me" story book with absolutely no interactivity at all. This developer should be slapped for the lazy job done to this wonderful story. What a waste of my money.

My mother read this story on the iPad with her granddaughter and they had a blast exploring it together. The young girl loved all the sound effects, especially the kid on the beach. Easily worth the purchase

This version does not include any of the interactive animations of the original version that was done for the PC. When you click on objects in the story, it just says and shows the word for the object. In the original version, whenever you click on an object, the object animates in a fun way; i.e. the crab snaps his claws and scuttles away. Its really too bad this version does not include the animations! My kids grew up with original, and were SO disappointed when we bought this to show our little nieces and it didnt do what we expected.

Okay I am a sucker for the find-the-grasshopper and find-the-spider aspect of this book. It adds a little extra fun to an already great story. Love the artwork, narration and sound effects as well.

Oceanhouse did a great job making an App out of this classic book. The added game of finding all of the spiders and grasshoppers is fun too! HIGHLY recommended for young readers and nostalgic adults. An excellent reading tool for beginning readers.

I was so hoping that this would be like the Living Books computer games that came out in the 90s, but it wasnt. Its a fine ebook, but not at all what I hoped for. Too bad.

Just Grandma and Me was one of the numerous series of Living Books where it told the story but each page was filled with animated actions that were truly entertaining. Now you click on images and it tells you that Grandma is "grandma" and fence is "fence" Absolutely missed the incredible novelty of Living Books.

We had this program for our computer 20 years ago - a great program but... This version is okay but it is different. No more bees or signing fences. No snapping crabs or mooing beach guests. Just words popping out of objects. This is okay but a bad remake. They should have stayed true.

I was looking forward to seeing the old pc version and sharing the experience with my daughter. I look forward to seeing the new and improved update soon. To anyone considering purchasing, I recommend holding out till then.

Ok id read the description of this app. And say its different for the 90s version and doesnt have animation to keep the price "low", well the music, voice are not very nice and the only animation are the words. I dont like it I prefer the 90s version. And my baby didnt like it either.

I havent experienced the original version that was mentioned in previous reviews, but my granddaughter and I both LOVED this one! The narrator is a child, it isnt too long and the illustrations are adorable (so Ill buy a couple more). I can even relax while the automatic story tells itself...a mini-vacation for grandma!

Was hoping that it would be interactive like the original books that you could do on your computer. This was about 15 to 18 years ago. But you could click on things and they would react. For example the fence would move and give grandma a little poke and she would make a noise. You could click on varies objects and they would react. This does none of that. Just a plain old read along.

This may not stack well to the PC versions of yesteryear, but my 3 yr Son cant get enough of the Dr. Seuss and Little Critter books. In fact he prefers the Little Critter books, because he love to search for the spiders, mice and grasshoppers thru out the pages.

I too was hoping this would be the original interactive story book created by Living Books. These games are what TRULY bring an iPhone / iPad to life in the eyes of a child. Give me the interactive version please...... (and make sure Little Critter does his dance too......

If you ever had the cd story book then you will feel let down. I bought this feeling sure,that the program after so many years would have gone towards the side of better graphics more animations the things that were so endearing to the original. But no. This could and should have been done right! Maybe an upgrade to get it like the original would make me feel like I could suggest it to all the childrens parents I work with. The original program worked on like an Old 2 MEG Mac LC! Sad so Sad. Apple gives you the iPhone and iPad and you give us a way to take our money. Do the program right or give to a company that can!

My granddaughter asks for the Little Critter books over and over. The old PC versions sound magical but we never saw them so we are happy with these. :-)

In the 90s I was an Apple Education Specialist and I took my Mac LC in a case to schools to Demo at Parent Teacher nights and guest reader assemblies the Mercer Mayers "Just Grandma and Me" by Living Books and it was always the show Fav. When the Grandkids arrived I scoured computer shows and the Net to provide all the Grandkids the same experience on their computers. When I saw this was available for my iPad I was ecstatic and tapped my iTunes account to get a copy. Boy was I disappointed, the pages were there and the same voice was there but the interactivity and animations were GONE. Those features are what kept the children coming back over and over to read and interact with the book. My children even used the multi-language feature of the Living Books series to aid in their learning of Spanish. As others have commented, if the developer cant do it right or better let someone else have the license to replicate the look and feel of the Living Books series. Its not as if the iDevices arent up to the task the Mac LC was a 16mhz 2MB computer with CD150 CD-Rom drive even a 16GB original iPad should be up to that task. Anxiously awaiting an update so I can use my iPad as Grandpa becomes a guest reader for the Grandkids in school.