With a baby on the way in my extended family, I’m fascinated by all the different options for getting a jump-start on a child’s education. I was impressed by the Bubble School Adventure app and was surprised to discover that the Lite version is far more in depth an app than I’d expected. There is more than enough to keep children’s minds engaged with the array of levels and the selection of animals, numbers, and colors. As an adult, I can see how pre-school-age children would find the games engaging. There are different ways to interact with the information being learned, so I can’t imagine that a small child would get bored. I easily got sucked into playing through the various levels as I was checking it out. I don’t doubt that the bubble-popping is a pleaser for little fingers, and I found the sound effects to be attention-grabbing and not nearly as annoying as other children’s toys I’ve come across. The illustrations and animation are what I believe to be kid-friendly and eye-catching. I especially loved the positive reinforcement aspect of it – it offers praise when the correct answer is picked and if a wrong answer is chosen, it simply re-prompts for the correct answer instead of giving a buzzer noise or having the voice-over state “wrong” or “incorrect”. While you have to purchase the full version to access all the levels and options available, based on what I’ve seen already it’s well-worth the $1.99 price, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to my friends with pre-school-age children, and I’ll definitely be passing it along to the pending parents-to-be for when their child is old enough for it.