Product Description

Explore Reader Rabbit's world and discover colors, shapes, songs, animals, letters, numbers, and more. Your child will be captivated and delighted by this enchanting land of fun and learning activities! First steps into a world of learning and discovery.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #284 in Software
• Brand: The Learning Company
• Model: RRT3744CE-I
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Macintosh, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 10.25" h x 1.63" w x 9.50" l, 1.10 pounds

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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.
Teaches: colors, shapes, counting, alphabet, early reading, early math, logic
Age Range: 1 1/2-5 Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue

Amazon.com Review
Reader Rabbit Toddler is part of a curriculum-based system that is designed to keep children learning all through their elementary school years. Simple, brightly colored graphics and classic sing-along songs make all these activities a sure hit with toddlers.

This pack gets kids off to a great start with an introduction to letters and numbers, matching and patterns, music, and mouse skills. In "Follow-Me Theater," children take a physically active role with finger plays and singing along, while in "Baby Animal Bingo," sounds are matched to help parent animals find their babies. The characters of Reader Rabbit and his sidekick, Matt the Mouse, are funny and friendly--and always ready to help if your child needs a hint.

Because these characters are in every unit--all the way to sixth grade--and the basic format for each level is similar, children can dive right in to the new curriculum skills without the distraction of different graphic styles or character guides. This pack includes the next step--Reader Rabbit Preschool--as a free bonus. You'll see quickly why this series is so often used in schools, and we're sure your toddler will love it as much as her future teachers already do. --Jill Lightner

Amazon.com Product Description
Toddlers learn by observing and exploring the world around them. Reader Rabbit Toddler is a wonderful way for your child to explore and discover numbers, letters, shapes, sounds, and songs. No mouse skills are required. It's so easy to use and fun to play that your child will want to visit Reader Rabbit again and again! You can even personalize the experience by adding your child's name to the game. Reader Rabbit Toddler includes fun learning games, plus printable activities for play away from the computer.

Reader Rabbit Toddler was designed by learning-development specialists, along with the input and feedback of parents. The content is bright and upbeat with fun-filled characters, stories, and songs. Experts agree: Reader Rabbit Toddler is an excellent way for your child to begin the learning process! (Ages 18 months-3 years)

Customer Reviews

Love it.
Bought it for my then three year old. He is five now and still shows an interest in it. Great practice and fun, too.

NOT MACINTOSH COMPATIBLE
Although listed as Mac Compatible, this product is only compatible with OS 9. If you went out and bought a new Macintosh computer today, your child would not be able to use this software.

Very Engaging
I have a 4 year old boy with developmental delays (cognitive, fine motor, speech)... so this was perfect for him. Between the games easy mouse use design (and me setting the mouse on a slower motion), he quickly became independent with the game. It became a great reward for good behavior after therapy sessions.

It has multiple activities, covering a wide range of abilities and interests: Coloring & Peek-a-Boo (perfect for young children learning how to control a mouse - all they have to do is move the mouse and the objective can be met); Shape Sorting & Bubble Popping (perfect for children who have more mouse control and learning basic preschool concepts; Alphabet & other matching activities (perfect for moving forward with those preschool concepts).

It's an older game, so you can install it on older computers easily, as well as new computers.