Little Cook is a newly released app, crafted by Aquility. This app looks great, plays well and is definitely worth the purchase.

To start, you appear within a kitchen full of clickable food items. Once you click on one of them, you get to play a game of mixing and matching ingredients to make that item (e.g. a sandwich).

Once you complete your recipe, a wonderfully illustrated girl tries the food and lets you know how it tastes. You can click on the fork/spoon graphic to give her another bite, and after each bite is another opinion on the taste. This section, for me, sets this app apart from most.

Apps that do the bare minimum give redundant and predictable feedback, which takes away from the fluidity of the experience. As a rule, the more canned it feels, the less engaging and educational it will be.

Instead of the easy route, Aquility has given the taste tester a wide range of responses, which I found appropriate for the many bad sandwiches and delicious ice cream sundaes my little guy made (he might have culinary school in his future).

Little Cook follows a quality…recipe:

great images + solid audio + easy usability = your kid engaged and learning.

This will quickly rise to the top of the category, especially at a recession-friendly $0.99!

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