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    Top 5 Kids Apps You Don't Want to Miss

    By Chris Crowell | Mashable – Sun, Jan 27, 2013

    Click here to view the gallery: Top Kids Apps This Week

    Chris Crowell is a veteran kindergarten teacher and contributing editor to Children's Technology Review, a web-based archive of articles and reviews on apps, technology toys and video games. Download a free issue of CTR here.

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    Is it too far out of season for a vampire-themed app? Let's hope not. Click through the gallery to see which apps -- some spooky, some not -- to download for your kids this week.

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    Children's Technology Review shared these 5 top apps with us from their comprehensive monthly database of kid-tested reviews. The site covers everything from math and counting to reading and phonics.

    Check back next week for more Top Kids Apps from Children's Technology Review.

    Image courtesy of Flickr, flickingerbrad

    This story originally published on Mashable here.

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