![]() ![]() There's plenty to explore, but it's also simple to use – no adults required. Here, your children can tap around a town, swiping characters from previous apps into six locations, while making up their own stories about what's going on. This is the latest children's app from Toca Boca, which is on a fine run of inventive, characterful kids' apps. It offers text and audio eyewitness accounts throughout, along with photo, video and maps to explain what happened and when. Just in time for the 70th anniversary of D-Day comes this educational iPad app, telling the tale of the day the Allied forces invaded Normandy hour by hour – you may have guessed this from the title, of course. It's based on the late poet's translation of five 15th-century Scottish adaptations of Aesop's Fables, with a mixture of text, animation, narration from Billy Connolly, and academic notes and interviews. If you loved Touch Press' iPad apps for The Waste Land and/or The Sonnets by William Shakespeare, you'll also be impressed by the company's new release. And if you're looking for Android apps instead, browse the archives of the weekly Best Android Apps roundups. Want more apps? Browse previous Best iPhone and iPad apps roundups on The Guardian. ![]()
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