Happipets From Happi, best for ages 6-12, $1.99, iPad. Rating: 3.5 stars "Happipets" uses the alphabet as building blocks to create animals and make-believe beasts. With letters that have eyes ...

Endless Alphabet is a fun way for kids to not only learn their ABCs, but to begin learning words on sight. It's all done with animated monsters and short cartoons to keep children's attentions.

As it happens, that’s not a Y, or, at least, it wasn’t supposed to be. Originally, it was an entirely different letter called thorn, which derived from the Old English runic alphabet, Futhorc.