Little Lala’s iPhone Applications | Review and Giveaway

Lauren Selig is the imaginative woman behind Lala Travels and Little Lala. Lauren was given the nickname by her younger sister with whom she spent time traveling the world during her childhood. Together they would explore diverse cultures, people, places and foods. Lauren has spent her adult years continuing that journey with her husband and two young daughters.

In addition to being a successful businesswoman and entrepreneur, Lauren is active in the Seattle community serving on the boards of the Seattle Aquarium, the Seattle Rep Theatre, the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences and the JCC, and is a member of the RIAA and Fashion Group International. Lauren lives in Seattle with her husband Kyril, and in her spare time, which is limited these days, she enjoys the outdoors.

Little Lala is a delightful children’s book that toddlers and adults of all ages will enjoy. Grab your passport and join Little Lala, a curious and adventurous girl, as she takes a trip around the world searching for delectable dishes for a magnificent party for her friends.

Real Little Lala to your kids or put the book in “play” mode and let your children listen to the beautiful voice of Flora McGill.

My toddler loves to play this book when we are at the doctor’s office or while I am shopping and she loves it. She has started doing something that I am happy with too ever since we received this to review and that is repeating countries names over and over. I am so happy that she has learned something new  in this ever convenient method of on the go learning.

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Lala’s ABC’s is a beautiful, easy-to-use alphabet flashcard app that helps toddlers learn to read. Each card features a letter of the alphabet in uppercase and lowercase, an adorable drawing of an animal whose name starts with that letter, and the word for the given animal.

Read the letters and words together with your children, or turn on the sound and let your kids listen to the beautiful narration by singer Flora McGill. The app also features a “shuffle” mode, in which the letters are chosen at random.

As with all learning products this “flashcard” style teaching aide is perfect for toddlers to use. My daughter loves to follow along and make the sounds of the letters after the narrator and has even learned to recognize a few animals that she didn’t know. I love anything that teaches my children and this app is one of them.

I am impressed by these apps not only in the teaching sense but the illustrations are great too. And I have been given the opportunity to giveaway a copy of each of these apps to one lucky Dirty Shirt reader. To enter see rules below…

Giveaway

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• 1 Extra Entry – Tweet this giveaway. Copy and paste – @Jentifa is giving away 2 Little Lala iPhone Apps! Check it out here http://tinyurl.com/mva3ub. Then come back and leave the direct link to your tweet (go to your twitter account, click on the words when your tweet was sent (ie. 5 seconds ago) and copy and paste that link in comments.
• 2 Extra Entries – Write a post on your blog linking to my blog.

This giveaway will run through midnight on September 13, with winner being announced the morning of September 14. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to anyone with the ability to go to Apple iTunes.