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ManualiPc just released another fairy tale storybook for the iPhone. They were nice enough to give me a promo code so I eagerly checked it out. Little Red Riding Hood, $0.99, is very similar to The Boy Who Cried Wolf which I reviewed a few weeks ago. The illustrations which according to the app store were made by a “contemporary cartoonist” are nice and caught the eye of both my 3 and 5 year olds. On the downside, I wouldn’t mind a few more pictures as there are only six. Nonetheless, overall this is one of the better storybooks I’ve found for the iPhone as it has an interactive drag feature for the illustrations that I haven’t seen in other apps. When you open the app you are taken to a screen with three options. Start Story, Options and Credits. Options include volume of story, volume of background noise in story and different ways to transition from one page to another. Personally, I like turning the background noise up to hear the chirping birds. Covering about the bottom quarter of each page is the text which you swipe to get to the additional text for each page. To get the narrator to read you press the sound icon in the upper right corner of each page. It would be nice to have an option to play the new text each time you swipe, but I believe the developers were wanting to encourage the kiddos to get used to swiping and tapping. They may do this a lot as one of the nicest features of the app is that most of the images on each page can be pressed and dragged. I hadn’t seen this with other storybooks and its a great feature. The story is the one everyone knows with illustrations of the wolf, Grandma and even the hunter. I like the image of Grandma tied up on the floor as you can see here on the left. Not sure what this says about me but I laughed out loud the first time I saw it. Overall this is a high quality storybook. Much better than most of the free ones you will find.