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Rating:  - Great for kids
My husband and I both work on computers, so our 2 year old was fascinated. I wasn't expecting her to pick this up, so fast. Not needing to click the mouse is a huge plus and just by large motions, she can play all the games. I was very impressed and she loves to play Reader Rabbit!
Rating: - An excellent program for toddlers
My review is based on the french version - 'Lapain Malin - Maternelle 1' which is slightly different (and better in my opinion) than the english version.I bought this program originally for my 1.5 year old daughter who INSTANTLY took to it. Since we used my laptop, by age 2 she was very familiar with the touchpad on the laptop to manoever the game. Now at age 4, she STILL loves playing the game along with my new 2year old son (we now play on my iMac). I can totally leave my 2 year old alone with the game and he will play with it for hours. AMAZING. They just get it and it's loads of fun. I HIGHLY recommend this title. I've tried other subsequent programs in the series with less success for some reason. But this is definately a must-have if you want to introduce your youn ones to the PC
Rating: - The perfect introduction to the computer!
Our 2-year old daughter was fascinated by the computer, but all the age-appropriate software we had was either much to simplistic (actions required only banging on the keyboard to produce a result), or required a considerable amount of help from an adult due to the need to point and click. She was very interested in the mouse, but could never quite get the concept of pointing and clicking, which was always very frustrating for her.My favorite thing about Reader Rabbit Toddler is the method it uses for teaching little ones how to use the mouse. Making selections requires only moving the very large mouse pointer to an object on the screen, then holding it in place for about 5 seconds. A series of dots lights up, one at a time, with a pinging sound, to indicate that the object is going to be selected. This reduces accidental selections, and allows plenty of time to change your mind and move the pointer to a different object. (Clicking to select the object will also work, which our daughter caught on to very easily once she mastered the "pointing" part.) Within about 3 days, she was able to use the mouse to select and play the different games with very little help. After about a week, she could play completely unassisted, and had completely mastered pointing and clicking a short time later. The software provides a wide variety of activities, all of which are launched from the same "home" location, which is very easy to return to when finished with an activity. The activities are cute, colorful, and very fun for this age group. Activities including a coloring book, which requires only rapid movement of the mouse to fill in the pictures; a music activity, in which Reader Rabbit does finger plays for various familiar songs; some simple games involving letters and numbers; and some animal matching games. (There are some others, but I can't recall them off the top of my head.) It seems to me that the primary focus of the software is to be cute and entertaining enough to keep a child's attention while helping them to learn fundamental computer skills necessary for using any software. It has been about 3 months since our daughter first started using the software, and she has already moved on to other, more complex software (her current favorite is Jump Start Pre-K -- much better than Reader Rabbit Preschool.) I suppose that my only complaint about the software is that it didn't really "grow" with her ability, which would have made it last longer. Although, we probably would have gotten much more use out of it had we started using it when she was younger. (The box says ages 1-3, and I wouldn't hesitate to try it out with a 1-year old on my lap. I think a 3-year old would master it very quickly.) I would highly recommend this software to anyone who wants to introduce their toddler to the computer.
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