About this app

"A funny family storybook for learning to read English

Do you think learning can be funny? Would you like to laugh while you learn English? Meet our award-winning friend Heckerty — a 409 year old green-faced witch, hilarious and with a heart of gold.

An Editor’s Choice by Children’s Technology Review, “Recommended by Educators” on Google Play for Education, awarded 4 Stars by CommonSense.org, Shorty Awards finalist, a Mashable Kids Pick and proclaimed a “must have” by The Unofficial Apple Weblog — Heckerty delivers! The superb narration and enchanting animations are ideal for children 3-8 years old, as well as anyone learning English.

Kind and gentle, Heckerty learns every day from her own silly mistakes. And as kids laugh their way through her zany adventures and their magical interactive animations, they discover important life values — caring, inclusiveness, loyalty and integrity.

Everyone loves Heckerty and as you watch your child improve their reading and vocabulary while laughing with Heckerty, you will, too!

So act now and discover just how magical a child’s story can be!


FEATURES:

• Designed for children alone or with an adult — choose between "StoryTeller" and "Read and Play" modes. Coloring book and additional activities.
• New users — the free 3-Minute Tour and Parent/Teacher Guide help you get maximum benefit for your child!
• Kids discover values like diversity, loyalty and caring as they play and learn read and spell.
• Support for 15 languages including English, Chinese (S), Chinese (T), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish (Hindi and Korean coming soon).
• Perfect for ESL (English as a second language)
• COPPA support. Advertising-free.

HECKERTY’S STORY:

Meet Heckerty is the first in the Heckerty storybook series and introduces our zany, funny friend and her loyal cat Zanzibar. In this story, Heckerty mistakenly turns her face bright green while trying to make magic soap to wash her face beautiful for a passport picture! Stuck with her green face, Heckerty worries that people won't like her any more because now she’s different.

Jan Ziff’s extraordinary storytelling brings Heckerty to life in the great British tradition of Winnie the Pooh, Beatrix Potter, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and other magical stories. Creative animations and great stories make Heckerty ideal for entertaining bored children, bedtime stories, and helping kids discover the joy of reading.

Heckerty is also a proven fun way to improve English reading in children and adults. SLPs and other specialists are using the Heckerty stories for children with autism and other special needs.

Today hundreds of thousands of kids and adults around the world have met and loved this funny, green-faced little witch who has helped them learn. Heckerty is a rewarding experience that all ages will enjoy over and over on their mobile devices."

New features

Performance and stability enhancements

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to read from external storage.