

Like most Toca Boca apps, this is a wordless, completely open-ended app that can be enjoyed by the smallest kids.

You can literally spend hours playing with it.

he gentle, hypnotic background music helps to immerse you in the world of the app. When I downloaded the app, I played it myself first (as I always try to do) and found it difficult to put down! The graphics are excellent. You can even take photos of the animals you are observing, and these are saved instantly to your Camera Roll. You then follow the animals around, observing their movements and feeding them, collecting berries or mushrooms wherever you find them so that you can satisfy the animals’ individual appetites. You shape your world with mountains, lakes, or rivers and populate it with various trees and animals, each of whom thrive in a different habitat and hunger for a different kind of food. The app is an addictive, Sims-like world building game. She adores this app, asking me for it every day. “The bunny rabbit is playing follow the leader with me! I’m going to follow him and see where he goes.” She was playing Toca Nature, and its wistful, quirky music formed a soundtrack to my drive home. Recently in the car my daughter was playing with the iPad in the backseat.
