The app constantly goes from a selected animal to the beetle. For no reason at all. Happens quite frequently. Makes for not being able to relax to the music with the child.

This app didn’t recognize the pages and crashed four times while I was reading the book to my daughter (using the arrow buttons on the app) the first time. After that disaster, I was able to get the app to sometimes recognize pages when sitting by myself pointing it at a book open flat on a table. But what’s the use of that? This is not going to be “magical” or “intuitive” or even very useful. But on the plus side you can hear all about dan brown if you bought the book mostly because it has a celebrity author and don’t want to actually read to a child with it.

I spent a wonderful afternoon with my grandkids, 3 and 6, the book and this app. The 3-year-old was proud of his responsibility for aiming the camera at each page, and we all enjoyed the beautiful music. The app worked nicely. Just make sure the kids don’t cover the camera lens with their fingers when aiming at a book page.