Great potential but needs some tweaking .

Overall I like this app. It gives the students the chance to create their own writing piece and share it with the class. It does have limits on the characters, graphics, etc so after awhile it may become boring and lame to the students. I would definitely suggest it to create a couple of stories but would look for an alternate to create more stories.

Overall, I find this app hard to recommend for classroom use for two major reasons - firstly, as noted in the official review, the app lacks audio prompts or instructions, and the ability to modify text and characters is not immediately obvious. Secondly, the in-app purchases are a major turn-off. The app comes with one free story, and requires subsequent stories to be purchased individually, which becomes very expensive. I am not convinced that this app is worth spending money on, which unfortunately limits its practical application in the classroom. I am also curious as to why the app encourages edited stories to be shared via Facebook and Twitter, considering its target audience is very young children. Not all teachers (or parents) are comfortable with the use of social media at this young age, although it is possibly quite reasonable to share a class edited book via a class Twitter account. This would be up to the classroom teacher. Overall, the limited editing capacity and requirement for in-app purchases could make this a difficult (and very expensive) app for widespread student use, although teachers may find it useful for teacher-directed small group / whole-class activities, depending on the lesson purpose.