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- 8.25.16
Facebook Live Video: Sal chats with Duck Duck Moose co-founder Caroline Hu Flexer
Facebook Live5.22.2016
"20 Best New Social Apps: Made by children’s apps firm Duck Duck Moose, WonderBox is a social app designed to be used within families. That means private messaging between parents and children, as well as creative challenges to share, and educational videos."
The Guardian2.26.2016
"20 Ways to Use a Tablet in the Classroom -- Make movies [with] ...ChatterPix Kids (iOS) to turn inanimate objects and drawings into animated talking heads."
The Guardian12.21.2015
"Best Learning Apps of 2015: WonderBox's curated videos and creative challenges will ignite active learning."
Graphite9.29.2015
"5 of 5 stars. Learn, create, and share in a safe, stimulating, and inspiring environment with this wonderful collection of curated Web content and creative challenges that take learning to the next level."
Graphite9.13.2015
"Children are using apps like Instagram and YouTube in their millions, even if they shouldn’t be. WonderBox blends the best of both – creativity and educational videos – in an app for parents and children. An inventive idea, artfully crafted."
The Guardian9.10.2015
"WonderBox harnesses the treasure trove of information across the internet with creative challenges that explore interesting people, places, and things."
EdSurge9.2.2015
"5 of 5 stars. Overall, this app offers a unique and valuable platform for 21st century learning and is interactive learning technology at its best."
Common Sense Media8.16.2015
"Innovative 'WonderBox' app revs up kids' curiosity - WonderBox creates a powerful learning environment because it stimulates curiosity, encourages creation and provides a safe way to collaborate with others."
USA Today8.13.2015
WonderBox "is richly infused with maker-inspired content. You don't just watch an amazing video of a treehouse. You're given a sketch pad for making one. It's as if there's a creative teacher living inside this app."
Children's Technology Review8.13.2015
"Duck Duck Moose is back with an app that breaks some new ground by providing educational and controlled social features which allow kids to explore fascinating and educational topics."
iLounge8.13.2015
WonderBox "brilliantly offers irresistible DIY projects supported by curated videos that teach kids the skills necessary to be inventive. WonderBox will pique your child’s interest in the world and rev up their creative juices."
Tech With Kids3.12.2015
"Educational apps from indies also topped the charts, such as Word Wagon HD from Duck Duck Moose"
Kidscreen8.7.2014
Pet Bingo "'presents learning in a fun way to make knowing math facts automatic,' said Google certified teacher and education technology specialist Juli Kimbley....K-5 teacher Terri Eichholz recommended Chatter Pix, having used it in class."
Venture Beat3.27.2014
"Caroline Hu Flexer: Solve a Problem You Personally Care About - The cofounder of an educational games company discusses great advice, tough lessons, and why doing right by kids is key to her business."
Stanford GSB Magazine3.20.2014
"Go beyond the basics with cool apps that promote 21st-century skills. Emotions and Social Skills - Try Peek-a-Zoo by Duck Duck Moose"
Common Sense Media3.19.2014
"Pet Bingo Review: Effective and fun CCSS-aligned math for K-4. Pet Bingo is a great math activity that can challenge a class of learners at many different levels."
Common Sense Graphite2.12.2014
"Like other highly rated apps from Duck Duck Moose, Trucks may seem like simple fun, but kids exercise problem-solving skills as they are challenged to find the interactive elements and use them to move the sequence forward."
Chicago Tribune12.25.2013
"10 Of The Year's Top Apps For Kids: ChatterPix Kids - Get ready for a big 'Wow.' This free app lets kids turn anything they can photograph into a puppet."
USA Today12.12.2013
"ChatterPix allows kids to be creative in crazy wonderful ways... It's a combination of wonderful technology and creativity involved with the kid driving the experience. A really exciting new app, and it's free!"
PBS Holiday Tech Hangout11.25.2013
"The best curriculum based apps are retaining a playful and approachable aesthetic while ensuring academic rigor is in place (Moose Math and Pet Bingo from Duck Duck Moose are great examples)."
Digital Book World11.21.2013
"20 best new iPhone and iPad apps and games this week - ChatterPix Kids by Duck Duck Moose"
Guardian11.8.2013
9 Best Apps for Your Kids: Pet Bingo is a wonderful app for kids that are still picking up arithmetic. It combines math-based puzzles with "Nintendogs"-style pet gameplay.
Business Insider9.10.2013
"App founder keeps family tradition of education alive with Duck Duck Moose"
South China Morning Post9.8.2013
"The 7 Best Educational Apps for Kids. Moose Math - When in search of new apps, start with this awesome math app that will make the activities (and the subject) fun!"
Babble9.3.2013
“Bright Apps for Little Learners. Word Wagon - A beret-wearing animated mouse takes you on a phonics trip through Paris. On the way: Learn the spelling of various objects by shifting letter tiles around, Scrabble style. It has “kindergarten prep” written all over it."
Daily Candy Kids9.2.2013
“The best reading apps for kids: Back to School Tech Guide. Duck Duck Moose Reading Formerly called the Kindergarten Reading app, this app from award-winning developer Duck Duck Moose was developed by an early educator to introduce beginning readers to phonics, sounding out words, spelling, and learning lower case letters."
Cool Mom Tech8.27.2013
“12 Book Apps for Kids: Peek-a-Zoo. A perfect tool for learning social cues, this easy-to-use game presents children with different cartoon animals and asks players to distinguish which animals are demonstrating a specific behavior or trait (ideal for ages 2 and up)."
Working Mother Online8.21.2013
“Duck Duck Moose App: Wheels on the Bus. This app is a sing-along with high-quality graphics and fun interactive objects on each screen. It makes the classic children’s song much more fun."
Spanglish Baby8.18.2013
"Back to School Kids Learning Apps: Moose Math is designed for K and 1st grade, both my 8 and 11 year old think this app rocks — because it’s FUN! The gist is to build cool things for your own city while practice counting, addition, subtraction and geometry."
Imagination Soup8.13.2013
"Moose Math is a very nicely done and polished educational app, that’s good for young kids."
iLounge8.12.2013
“11 Math Apps to Make Your Kid a Numbers Whiz: Duck Duck Moose's Park Math ($4) presents kids with a series of fun, interactive math games. Count a rabbit's swings, subtract ducks as they go down a slide, make two amounts even by adding or removing mice from a seesaw, and more."
LilSugar8.8.2013
“10 Reading Apps to Get Kids Back to the Books: Duck Duck Moose's Park Math ($4) presents kids with a series of fun, interactive math games. Count a rabbit's swings, subtract ducks as they go down a slide, make two amounts even by adding or removing mice from a seesaw, and more."
LilSugar4.27.2013
"More Trucks by Duck Duck Moose is a great kid friendly app, with no in-app purchases or ads."
Examiner3.10.2013
"New toys and apps for girls present strong role models: Princess Fairy Tale Maker"
USA TODAY1.26.2013
"The company’s award-winning (and fun!) app, Wheels on the Bus, is celebrating its 4th anniversary"
People.com1.25.2013
“Princess Fairy Tale Maker is like coloring app meets make-your-own adventure book. With tiaras.”
Cool Mom Tech1.18.20132012
“Reading apps for kids gets a dandy new addition with…well, the Kindergarten Reading app.”
Cool Mom Tech- 12.21.2012
“Kindergarten Reading HD – Phonics, reading and spelling are the fundamentals that kids focus on in this fun interactive workbook from one of my all-time favorite kid-app makers, Duck Duck Moose.”
NBC News12.13.2012
“Caroline Hu Flexer, Co-Founder of Duck Duck Moose, featured on ‘Tech Game Changers – Huffington Post Live’”
Huffington Post12.7.2012
“Kindergarten Reading: It’s a zoo-themed phonics story to help children master their letters.”
The Guardian11.26.2012
“Mom Entrepreneurs: The Talented Women Behind the Leading Children’s App Developer”
Huffington Post11.1.2012
“Leading iOS kids app developer Duck Duck Moose has released many new titles this year… with Trucks and Draw and Tell as a couple of standouts.”
iLounge10.9.2012
“With the backing of Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed, Duck Duck Moose offers a slate of educational children’s apps based on original content and characters”
Startup Beat9.26.2012
“Kids App Maker Duck Duck Moose Raises $7M Series A From Sequoia, Lightspeed & Others”
TechCrunch9.26.2012
“Duck Duck Moose Gets Golden Egg — When it comes to apps that actively engage young children, one of the companies with products on every list is Duck Duck Moose.”
Children’s Technology Review9.4.2012
“Time’s Top 25 iPad Apps for Kids: Angry Birds Space (#1), Trucks HD (#2), Princess Fairytale Maker (#7)”
Time8.31.2012
“Park Math ($1.99) is a beautifully designed math app from the fine folks at Duck Duck Moose (If you’re looking for good, high-quality kids programming I recommend any and all apps from this company.)”
MSNBC8.27.2012
“Warren Buckleitner, the editor of Children’s Technology Review, suggests that as parents explore the options they should take note of which brands consistently produce quality apps. Two that stand out, he says, are the Toca Boca unit of Sweden’s Bonnier AB… and Duck Duck Moose Design LLC, whose apps include Musical Me!, $1.99 in the Apple App Store, and Wheels on the Bus, 99 cents for Apple devices and $1.99 in Google Play.”
Wall Street Journal8.8.2012
“We bought many of the Duck Duck Moose apps, visually creative titles that seem to be growing up with our early childhood learners. (“Monsters vs. Superheroes” is the latest winner.)”
San Francisco Chronicle5.11.2012
“App smashup: iPad apps that’ll keep your kids entertained” — Rosa Golijan highlights Trucks HD in her video review
MSNBC5.3.2012
“Talented kid-apps developer Duck Duck Moose is back with its latest iOS effort, focusing on trucks. Children can play with various virtual trucks, accompanied by a number of popular nursery rhymes.”
The Guardian3.18.2012
“Draw and Tell: This drawing app is a marvel in design from the ease of touching the screen to create art to the wonderful way it encourages kids to become animators of their own stories.”
USA Today3.13.2012
“Word Wagon — A beret-wearing animated mouse takes you on a phonics trip through Paris…. It has ‘kindergarten prep’ written all over it.”
Daily Candy Kids3.2.2012
“Draw and Tell — An iPad app released Wednesday makes it easy to combine a drawing on the tablet with an audio memory — such as your child’s description of his or her artwork.”
Mashable3.2.2012
“Draw and Tell — Kid-apps developer Duck Duck Moose has launched its latest creative app, which gets children drawing, colouring, adding virtual stickers then recording their voice to create a story.”
The Guardian2.16.2012
“App developers like Caroline Hu Flexer, co-founder of kids-app maker Duck Duck Moose, says promoting her apps with the group has helped her Palo Alto company compete with kids-app developers like Walt Disney Co. and Nickelodeon.”
Wall Street Journal1.26.2012
“In Defense of Kids Games: Many Offer Good Lessons — Fish School: The game’s developers, Duck Duck Moose, take a basic concept – using school of fish to make shapes that teach about letters and numbers – and execute it well.”
San Francisco Chronicle1.16.20122011
“Road Test Duck Duck Moose: Duck Duck Moose titles have won a number of awards and are top sellers on iTunes”
South China Morning Post- 12.23.2011
Puzzle Pop named one of the New York Times’ “Best Apps for Children – End of Year Edition”
The New York Times12.18.2011
“Peek-a-Zoo named of USA Today’s “10 Top Apps for Kids”: “This app’s special appeal is that it teaches kids about emotions. Using adorable animated zoo animals in search-and-find games, kids learn to look for details about the 19 featured animals.”
USA Today12.6.2011
Peek-a-Zoo rated 5 of 5 stars by Common Sense Media: “This wonderful app educates kids in an uncommon way, focusing on social and emotional cues.”
Common Sense Media11.29.2011
“Finding Good Apps for Children With Autism — Among the apps she recommends are… Duck Duck Moose…”
The New York Times11.23.2011
“Meet the Parents Behind the Best Kids Apps — We recently dropped in on Duck Duck Moose, to find out more about the trio’s creative process, their impact on kids, and what the future has in store.”
Today.com11.21.2011
“The Future of Technology: Kids’ Tech – Creative Learning in the iPad Age” (video)
MSNBC.com11.17.2011
“Kid-apps publisher Duck Duck Moose has struck again with new iPhone app Peek-a-Zoo, which aims to introduce a series of animals to children, along with emotions, actions and activities.”
The Guardian11.2.2011
“Duck Duck Moose: Now More Than Just Apps — [They have continued] to produce apps aimed at young children that support early learning and development around music, math and literacy in ways that are playful and engaging for children.”
Wired10.24.2011
“Duck Duck Moose has a strong reputation for its range of kid-apps, and Puzzle Pop looks to continue that trend. It offers a collection of animated puzzles, complete with jazzy covers of famous children’s songs.”
The Guardian10.24.2011
“The Best Educational Apps for Kids — Fish School HD: Colorful fish teach your preschooler his letters, numbers, shapes, and colors in an under-the-sea world.”
Parents.com10.22.2011
“the clever interactive illustrated songs that companies such as Duck Duck Moose produce as iPhone apps – such as Incy Wincy Spider and Old MacDonald – point to future possibilities.”
The Guardian10.18.2011
Wheels on the Bus by Duck Duck Moose mentioned as an example of interactive media in CTR’s response to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ statement on the use of screen media.
Children's Technology Review10.11.2011
“Great iPhone apps for Toddlers — Wheels on the Bus: For 3-year-olds, really any app from developer Duck Duck Moose is a great early learning choice, but this one is a nice starter.”
Today.com9.17.2011
“What Are the Best Apps to Get Your Preschooler Reading? — Word Wagon – by Duck Duck Moose is a phonics and spelling app designed for beginning readers.”
iVillage8.29.2011
“Duck Duck Moose Goes Musical — Musical Me!… is exactly what parents with young children need to explore the world of music.”
Geek Dad Wired.com8.29.2011
“Feed Kids’ Brains With These Fun Learning Apps — build reading skills by playing Word Wagon with Mozzarella and Coco to learn the names and sounds of the letters, and how to spell words with up to six letters”
USA Weekend8.3.2011
“Rebecca Romijn: What’s in My Bag? — ‘The iPhone is great for toddlers,’ the 38-year-old explains. ‘I have Itsy Bitsy Spider and Old MacDonald apps.’”
US Weekly4.28.2011
“It’s actually hard to select just one of Duck Duck Moose’s award-winning apps to feature here. The company recently won three Parents’ Choice Awards, including a Silver Award for Park Math.”
KQED Mindshift4.2011
“Jenna Lyons, President and Executive Creative Director of J. Crew, says: ‘I play Park Math with my son. It’s hysterical and smart. You have to line up puppies with their tails wagging, from smallest to largest.’”
Vanity Fair, May 2011 Issue3.28.2011
“iPad Gives New Hope to Those with Autism and Other Disorders — Via Services counselor Darla Gary, helps Jacob Cuellar, 9, with the Park Math app on an iPad….”
San Jose Mercury New3.20.2011
“Best Apps for Young Children — Fish School: …schools of fish transform themselves into different colours, letters, numbers and shapes. Combining education with imagination, this is a must-have app for early learners.”
AOL Parent Dish3.20.2011
“Best Apps for Young Children — Duck Duck Moose Apps: With four apps to choose from all based on traditional nursery songs these are original, inventive and imaginative apps.”
AOL Parent Dish2.21.2011
“Packing 101: Travel with a Babe in Tow — Along with a few toddler-oriented apps on the iPhone (like my favorite Old MacDonald by Duck Duck Moose) we didn’t need anything else.”
Huffington Post2.17.2011
“10 Best Apps for Kids of 2010 — Park Math HD: A seven-pack of games was inspired by a pieces of playground equipment…. gently introducing the core number concepts that lie at the root of mathematical understanding.”
Children’s Technology Review1.24.2011
“The Best Apps for Toddlers — The Wheels on the Bus is a superbly animated and highly interactive app. From spinning the wheels to swishing the wipers, there is plenty for children to poke and slide and they’ll love the music”
The Guardian1.20.2011
“Best iPhone Apps for a 4-Year-Old Girl? — Fish School: This sweet educational app has great graphics and cute sound effects to help kids learn basic preschool skills like shapes, numbers and letters.”
Cool Mom Tech1.19.2011
“Top 10 Apps Kids and Moms Love — Park Math: A great educational app for kids learning to do math. Baa Baa Black Sheep: An educational app for preschoolers."
NBC Studio 51.13.2011
“Among the game producers that stand out are Duck Duck Moose who makes apps like Old MacDonald and Baa Baa Black Sheep…. Younger children won’t tire of seeing animals do silly things…while singing along.”
Children's Technology Review