Adventure Workshop Preschool-1st Grade 8th Edition

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $9.58

Features:

• Introduce Your Child to an Exciting On-Screen Learning Environment Brimming with Award-Winning Adventures That Will Build Essential Skills While Having Fun
• Education Software; for PC
• Minimum Hard Drive Space Required: 350.0 MB; Minimum Processor Speed Required: 300MHz; Minimum RAM Required: 128 MB
• Published by Encore

Customer Reviews:

Don't buy this product [Posted on 2007-11-26]
My daughter received this product for her bithday. She was very excited to begin reading with "Reader Rabbit". We could not upload the disks. I tried to call the user support number for technical support. This was an exercise in frustration as Broderbun has designed their phone tree so that you can not speak to a human nor get technical support. Their web site is equally un helpful. Recommend you look for another product for your kids.

Big disappointment [Posted on 2008-01-13]
This package contains 5 games that sound exciting and have familiar names such as Dr. Seuss, Arthur, and Blues Clues. Unfortunately, my kids (ages 4 and 6) were bored by most of the games, especially the Reader Rabbit "game", which spent more time talking to them than letting them do something. Arthur's Pet Chase was quite low-tech; it made the kids use arrow keys instead of the mouse. That was not at all intuitive to them, and they kept reaching for the mouse the whole time. Some of the games frustrated the kids because they weren't sure what to do. For example, if the player didn't touch the keyboard for a while, the game might urge the child to do something but did not tell him/her how to move. The Arthur game didn't even do that -- it just sat there. After a few sessions ended in tears, they lost interest entirely.

Awesome! [Posted on 2008-03-09]
I'm a computer teacher, teaching children ages 2-5 and they love all these games. Another reviewer said that her children didn't know how to play the games, but we as teachers (or parents) are supposed to help them learn. For all my age groups we do lessons on the arrow keys several times in the year and the Authur game is great for reinforcing the lesson. This is a great group of programs.

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