Best Tablets For Kids

Apple iPad mini Apple's App Store still has the best selection of kids' and educational content, and the iPad mini is priced and sized for smaller hands. If you want access to those iPad apps, the Apple iPad mini will run them all at a nice $120 discount to its bigger brother.

My husband and my daughters - ages 6 and 8 - have been working together to create some apps. One of them, MixUp DressUp, gives even the most uncoordinated of hands the opportunity to create an elegant and fun dress-up creation with just a swipe of their fingers.

Traditionally, most children's apps developers have focused on Apple's iPad and iPhone, as that's where they believed most app-buying parents would be found. In 2013, though, there's been a clear shift in those attitudes, with the result being more and better Android apps for kids.

Samsung has launched a new Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab 3 Kids, a variant of the Galaxy Tab 3 tablet targeted at children. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Kids features a 7-inch WSVGA display with 1024x600 pixels resolution and a pixel density of 170ppi.