???Editor's Choice Award THE DESCRIPTION: The app is broken into three parts – narrated story, text-based story, and interactive game. The game is based on the story’s main character, Jax – a baby brontosaurus – and involves finding Jax in one of ...

THE DESCRIPTION: “Sharks Guide” features “A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World” in full text. THE GOOD: With this app, you can access an entire shark textbook on your mobile device. This is a very thorough guide to ...

THE DESCRIPTION: “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” contains all of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s fairy tales. THE GOOD: This app gives you access to the entire collection of Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales. You can customize the font, background color, and adjust the scrolling ...

THE DESCRIPTION: “Today’s Horoscope” offers a daily horoscope for all 12 Zodiac signs from KT the Astrologer. THE GOOD: Read an in-depth daily horoscope that includes a brief description, today’s rating, mood forecasts, and keywords. You can also get a basic forecast ...

THE DESCRIPTION: “iLaugh” is a database of over 50,000 jokes. THE GOOD: You can read and rate jokes quickly and easily. The app offers a variety of genres, and you can adjust the settings to customize which jokes you want to ...

THE DESCRIPTION: Wattpad is eReader billed as "the world’s most popular e-book community". It is more interactive than most other reader apps, with lots of user-generated content. THE GOOD: The main selling point of Wattpad is the social element. When you read something ...

THE DESCRIPTION: An A-Z encyclopedia that provides standard, organized facts about every country in the World. THE GOOD: This is a basic World encyclopedia in an application, with information about each country arranged by Geography, People, Government, Economy, Transnational Issues, Communications, Transportation, ...

THE DESCRIPTION: Stanza is a plain, fast functional program for reading e-books. THE GOOD: Stanza gives you access to a lot of books that are in the public domain, including all of Shakespeare, Jane Austin, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. You can also buy ...

THE DESCRIPTION: eReaderPro is a nice-looking but slow app for reading e-books. THE GOOD: eReaderPro is more elegant than similar e-book readers. Like other readers, it has day/night modes, but with more muted, pleasing colors. It’s easy to highlight and make ...

THE DESCRIPTION: BookZ is the simplest, fastest e-book reader out there. THE GOOD: BookZ reads .txt files without conversion, registration, or ads.  Although the initial tap zones are somewhat odd and counterintuitive, you can set your tap zones to something a little more ...