This week in children's apps features Horton Hatches the Egg, the Dr. Seuss story retold with professional narration as an app. Also this week is Dim Sum Warriors, the app that teaches players English and Chinese. And finally, there's The Berenstain Bears' BIG Bedtime Book, which collects six classic bedtime stories, reimagined with bears in the key roles.

Title: Horton Hatches the Egg

Publisher: Oceanhouse Media

Release date: April 4, 2012

Price: $1.99

Background: Horton is persuaded to sit on an egg while its mother, the good-for-nothing bird lazy Maysie flutters off on a vacation. Horton is teased and taunted by his jungle friends. Horton is captured by hunters but he keeps his promise and protects the egg. When Maysie returns and demands her egg back, something incredible happens.

Features: Read to me, read it myself, and auto play modes. Professional narration, words highlight and are read aloud when tapped.

Title: Dim Sum Warriors

Publisher: Yumcha Studios

Release date: April 3, 2012

Price: Free

Background: A comic book app about kung-fu fighting snacks that helps players learn both Chinese and English.

Features: Voiceovers, instant translations, hanyu pinyin pronunciation guides

Title: The Berenstain Bears BIG Bedtime Book

Publisher: Oceanhouse Media

Release date: March 30, 2012

Price: $4.99

Background: Six original bedtime stories from Mrs. Grizzle's collection, including "Little Red Grizzly Hood," "The Three Billy Goats Gruff Meet the Bogg Brothers," "The Three Little Cubs and the Big Bad Pig," "The Gingerbread Bear," "Goldibear and the Three People," and "The Little Red Hen."

Features: Read to me, read it myself, and auto play modes. Professional narration, words highlight and are read aloud when tapped.