The lovely folk at Wasabi got in touch with us to tell us all about their storybook apps and as soon as we saw their ethos, we instantly wanted to find out more.

Wasabi sing from the developer song sheet of providing engaging content-rich apps that don't fleece parents for micro-payments but still retain high production values and reasonable prices.

We took a look at "Look out Larry!", a great little story where a lizard tries to get through his adventure-packed day in one piece.

Interaction is the key with Wasabi's story apps, and young readers are encouraged to join in and help Larry escape the various animals in the outback that would like to eat him for lunch, dinner and tea.

Listening to the utterly lovely lilting australian of the lady who reads the story, I could quite happily have listened all day! Charlotte loved helping Larry escape and there's a rather delicious little twist in the story at the end. I'll leave you to find that one out for yourselves.

The app features a match pair game for a bit of extra fun, but it's really all about the story and the great painterly visuals and atmospheric sound production lift this a notch above the ordinary everyday storybook apps that seem to be flooding the app store. We love Larry!

Check out the Wasabi website and the app store for more great preschool apps and stories.

Charlotte's best bit: Poking Larry and listening to him squeak! Poor Larry!

Daddy's favourite bit: That lovely Australian accent, and lovely painted visuals.

(Kindly supplied to us for review by Wasabi Productions)

Well hello there little lizardy fellow! What are you up to?

This is Larry, and he's one of the stars of a brace of new children's apps from Australian publisher / developer Wasabi. For quite some time now we've championed the cause of app developers who clearly 'get' that parents will quite happily pay for apps that don't nag about in-app purchases, are put together with great skill (and love), and can drag children away from the slightly less educational side of owning a family tablet.

So let's take a look at what they're up to?

Visiting the Wasabi website is a treat for the eyes and you'll soon get to find out about Wasabi's range, and some of their in-house 'stars' like Larry - the lizard staring out at you from the header of this very article.

Larry stars in several of Wasabi's apps including:

Lost Larry (on iTunes) (On Google Play)

Lazy Larry Lizard (on iTunes)

Look Out, Larry! (on iTunes)

If lizards aren't your thing, why not take a look at Ten Giggly Gorillas instead! (on iTunes)

Looking at the production values of these, and also Wasabi's ethos which sounds like a wishlist for the kind of apps we really like to talk about, it's definitely worth taking a closer look at what Wasabi are up to. In fact we're going to do just that in the very near future so keep 'em peeled.

In the meantime, please visit the Wasabi website to find out more. It's hot stuff!