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Go on an augmented reality journey and learn greetings around the world with Greetings for Children, enter a lush fairy-tale world with the Thief of Wishes, read along with The Quiet Way Home, or dig up bones with Archaeologist Ice Age Dinosaur. Plus, advocacy groups accuse YouTube of tracking children.
Garry Froehlich
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The Quiet Way Home
by fishdog.net
Updated. Award-winning author Bonny Becker and artist Benrei Huang have created a quiet picture book for children ages 4 to 7. A grandfather picks his granddaughter up from school and they take the quiet way home. Avoiding noisy dogs and banging trucks, the pair stroll across fields and peaceful paths, relax in a patch of blowing dandelions, and take in the quiet sounds.
Archaeologist Ice Age Dinosaur
by MagisterApp
Updated. In this adventure, Bonnie, a paleontologist, goes into the ice land and discovers hidden dinosaurs. Like a true explorer, look for bones hidden underground to build the dinosaur skeleton, then learn about dinosaurs with animations, puzzles and sound effects. Color the characters using a magic brush.
Greetings for Children
by VIVE FZE
Free. W5go has created an AR & VR enabled app that will take children on a fun-filled journey around the world. In the W5go playground, kids will meet students from many different cultures. These friendly students will greet you with a happy hello from their native language. Use the app to learn time of day greetings “good morning”, “good afternoon”, and “good night”. Then, explore the globe in AR by tapping a country to learn more greetings.
The Thief of Wishes
by All Blue Studio
The Thief of Wishes is an interactive book which will take you into a fairytale world where “happily ever after” is only one of many possible endings and nothing is as simple as it looks.
Consumer Advocacy Groups File Complaint Against YouTube
“The complaint contends that YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, has been collecting and profiting from the personal information of young children on its main site, although the company says the platform is meant only for users 13 and older.
The coalition said YouTube has failed to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, a federal law that requires companies to obtain consent from parents before collecting data on children younger than 13.” See more at bostonglobe.com.
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