Reader Rabbit Toddler with Reader Rabbit's Preschool
© 1997 The Learning Company
Both programs in these toddler and preschooler variety packs are excellent. Reader Rabbit's Toddler provides playful experiences with early logic and language concepts. The program is extremely responsive and easy to use and offers many nice features. For example, parents can type in their toddler's name so that it shows up in the coloring activities. There are finger plays, shape and color games, counting activities and alphabet instruction. Testers, both children and parents alike, loved the colorful graphics, solid activities and gentle theme. Preschool teachers will appreciate that song lyrics and the words to nursery rhymes can be printed out. This is a classic program, a perfect computer introduction for your toddler. In Reader Rabbit's Preschool, kids must help Reader Rabbit and his gang fix up the Carousel, Bumper Cars, Moose Coaster and other broken down attractions of the carnival. To do so, they collect tickets in the park's numerous locations while playing concentration, counting, letter-sound association, art and music games. At the ABC Diner, kids feed visitors by matching food with their beginning letter-sounds. At the Shape Shack, children classify animals and objects. While the animation is not quite as smooth as many recent all-new releases, the activities are plentiful and very engaging.
$19.95, Win 95, Win 3.1, Mac OS (CD-ROM)
Teaches: early reading, colors, shapes, counting, alphabet, classification