a Whale Who Dreamt of a Snail - FREE - a Children's Bedtime Story
9.0 | 2.3
This beautiful goodnight story inspires children to think about their dreams, while playfully showing them the diversity of animals and environments around the world.
-Specifically designed to be one of the first apps your child will experience
-Free of any in-app purchases
-Designed so the youngest child will be able to navigate easily without getting lost or confused
-Astonishing Retina resolution shows off elegantly painted illustrations with a sprinkle of animation
-Includes narration and background music
-Option to read to yourself or read along
Thank you. We hope that you enjoy sharing this small creation with your little ones.
App Review, Kirkus Reviews:
A boy is tucked in bed under a crazy quilt. “I dreamt of things that were never seen, / sunlit valleys with hidden streams / that flowed to oceans deep and clean.” Clearly the work is for the young, and they too should be tucked in bed, for the action here is purely visual—and minimal at that—and there is no need to be touching the screen.
Tolentino’s artwork has a Rousseau-esque naïveté, albeit on a simpler level; muffled chimes and gongs serenade the narrator, whose voice approaches a whisper as her inflection rises and falls to the rhyme. In that deep, clean ocean lives a whale, and the whale is also dreaming. The whale dreams of a desert and sand, where a snail of many hues is dreaming of a forest dripping with dew. In the forest, hummingbirds dream of snow reflecting moonlight, and burrowed in the snow is a mouse who is dreaming of a warm cabin. Rather than discontent, Heimbach coaxes a sense of adventure and exploration—a great circle—from the dreamscapes, each beckoning. In the final tableau, all of the animals appear as constellations in the night sky that enfolds the cabin, giving a timeless, ancient quality to the lullaby. A passage toward sweet dreams, with enough variety in the imagery for repeat visits.
- KirkusReviews.com