Description

Join the Zwuggels on their first adventure inthis interactive story book with fun and educational puzzle games.Kids ages 4 and above help the Zwuggels as they travel to the beachfor their summer vacation.
At the beach, children soon learn about mysterious pirate cats andtake part in an exciting treasure hunt.

* Winner of PAEDI 2016 Award for outstanding children's app

KIDS BECOME PART OF THE ADVENTURE
Playing carefully designed mini-games, children discover the storyat their own speed. Step-by-step, by completing puzzles suitablefor children, they explore a magical world of cute creatures,talking animals and pirate treasures.

FEATURES
- Topics: SUMMER VACATION, HOLIDAYS, TRAVEL as well as PIRATES andTREASURES!
- 36 chapters with dozens of mini-games
- an enchanting tale, written in fun rhyming style, similar tonursery rhymes
- gorgeous painting by German picture book illustrator StefanLeuchtenberg
- many animals, contains girls and boys as characters
- children learn about the world of the Zwuggel-dwarves and thepirate cats
- for ages 4-8, toddlers, preschoolers. A great way to encourageearly readers
- perfect as a bedtime story: Play one chapter per day!
- Text can be switched between: English, Spanish, French, German,Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian.

ADVENTURE STORY AND GAMES
Each chapter is a unique game, with its own mechanic that motivateskids to master important skills. Preschoolers, kindergarten, andelementary school age kids join the Zwuggels in many funactivities. First, they get to know their new friends as they helpthem to climb hills, feed their little baby monster, or help themwith their school work. The next day, the Zwuggels leave forvacation. Time to pack their bags!
In the morning, they make sandwiches and soon fly their airshipthrough a mighty storm and eventually anchor the ship at theirdestination.
At the beach, they set up chairs, learn to put on sunscreen, relaxand build a sandcastle. The calm ends when they find a message in abottle from a stranded cat! A boat must be found, repaired andpainted. They fend off sharks, go fishing, feed dolphins, tickleturtles and find the marooned cat. Will they find the legendarytreasure?

WRITTEN IN DELIGHTFUL RHYMES:
“Zwuggels are lovely, joyous things,
they’re friendly, kindly creatures.
They’re really small rather than tall
with funny, charming features.”

EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS
The diverse games are specifically designed to cover a widespectrum of developmental skills:

A. Cognitive skills by solving age-appropriate logicalpuzzles:
- Packing: What to pack for vacation?
- Fishing: Training quick reactions, but also patience;Counting.
- Making sandwiches: Listening or reading; Comprehension.
- Picking the correct key: Matching shapes.
These and many other chapters gently foster learning skills:attention, memory, basic logical thinking, etc.

B. Diverse touch-interactions for improving important fine motorskills:
- basic movement: lifting, placing, moving fingers, dragging,tapping.
- advanced touch-manipulation: painting, scratching, turning acrank, placing and hammering virtual nails.
These diverse interactions are woven into the story. Kids arenaturally motivated to complete these exercises to continue thenarration.

PRIVACY
Your privacy is important to us: This app does not collect anypersonal information. This app does not contain any ads orin-app-purchases.
If you have questions about privacy, contact us at:[email protected]

INFO
The correct spelling is Zwuggels, Zwuggles is an alternativespelling that we discourage ;-)

THE TEAM
Ploosh is a independent app studio based in Augsburg, Germany.

Ploosh GmbH
Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 6
86159 Augsburg
Germany
www.ploosh.de

CONTACT
We’d love to hear from you. We’re a small team. Your feedback willgo directly to the creators of the app:
Email: [email protected]

http://www.zwuggels.com