Amazon also offers some customers a special deal – order now and pay 20 percent of the cost at checkout and the rest via four monthly installments charged to your credit card.
The Fire HD Kids Edition is a genuine tablet, with a quad-core processor, 8 GB of onboard memory, HD video, front and rear cameras and Dolby Digital Audio. Plus, it comes complete with a rugged and colorful protective case in your choice of pink, blue or green.
The tablet also comes with one year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, offering access to 5000 kid-friendly books, movies, television shows, educational apps and games. Amazon FreeTime Unlimited normally costs about $3 a month. While geared toward children ages three to eight, the service includes a fair number of chapter books that may interest slightly older kids.
Amazon FreeTime Unlimited includes video selections such as:
- Super Why!
- Caillou
- Dora the Explorer
- Go, Diego, Go!
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Thomas and Friends
- Bob the Builder
- Word Girl
- Martha Speaks
FreeTime Unlimited books include:
- “Ivy & Bean” series
- “The Amazing Spiderman” Level 1 Reader
- Mickey Mouse Clubhouse books such as “Mickey’s Space Adventure” and “Minnie’s Valentine”
- Dora the Explorer books like “Say Ahhh! Dora Goes to the Doctor” and “A Day at the Beach”
- Disney Princess chapter books such as “Rapunzel: A Day to Remember” and “Jasmine: The Missing Coin”
- SpongeBob SquarePants books like “SpongeBob Goes to the Doctor” and “Happy Birthday, SpongeBob!”
FreeTime Unlimited includes many educational Android apps as well, such as:
- Dora’s Dress-Up Adventures!
- Dora ABCs Vol 1: Letters & Letter Sounds
- Potty Time with Elmo
- Sid’s Science Fair
- Dora’s Enchanted Forest Adventures
- Dora ABCs Vol 2: Rhyming Words
- Team Umizoomi Math: Zoom into Numbers
- Elmo Loves 123s
- Batman: Stickers with Sounds
- Another Monster at the End of This Book…Starring Grover & Elmo!
- Dora ABCs Vol 3: Ready to Read!
- Kids ABC Trains
- Shape Builder – Learning Puzzle Game
- Kids ABC Phonics
- Kids Preschool Puzzles
- Miss Spider’s Tea Party
In addition, the Fire HD offers parental controls that let you create individual profiles for each child, personalizing screen time limits, educational goals and age-appropriate content.