Product Description

Bring the magic of books to life with this innovative reading and writing system. The Read & Write LeapPad Learning System is uniquely designed to make stories come to life right on the page through talking characters, engaging narration, music and playful sound effects. Choose from a library of wonderful interactive storybooks featuring your child's most beloved characters. Children simply touch the book's pages with the dual-function Magic Pencil to hear letter sounds and words read aloud, make characters come alive and play exciting learning activities.

With LeapPad Plus Writing books, your child can also practice writing letters and words correctly, play games and even solve mathematics problems. The Read & Write LeapPad Learning System works with all LeapPad books and cartridges, including LeapPad Plus Writing, Quantum LeapPad and LeapPad. A true love of books begins with positive first experiences. System teaches: reading, writing, phonics skills and mathematics. Includes a sampler book; does not contain writing features. LeapPad Plus Writing books are sold separately. Requires 4 "AA" batteries, not included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11007 in Toys & Games
• Brand: LeapFrog
• Model: 30467
• Dimensions: 15.90" h x 12.00" w x 2.60" l, 2.65 pounds

Features

• Teach your children with the world's best reading and writing system
• Bring the magic of books to life. Now with two ways to play and learn!
• Play interactive games! Sounds out and spell words!
• Touch characters to hear them come to life!
• 4-8 years

From the Manufacturer
Bring the magic of books to life with the world's best reading and writing system. The Read & Write LeapPad® learning system is uniquely designed to make stories come to life right on the page through talking characters, engaging narration, music and playful sound effects. Choose from a library of wonderful interactive storybooks featuring your child's most beloved characters. Children simply touch the books pages with the dual-function Magic Pencil to hear letter sounds and words read aloud, make characters come alive and play exciting learning activities. With LeapPad Plus Writing books, your child can also practice writing letters and words correctly, play games and even solve mathematics problems. The Read & Write LeapPad learning system works with ALL LeapPad books and cartridges, including LeapPad Plus Writing, Quantum LeapPad and LeapPad. A true love of books begins with positive first experiences. Used in 16,000,000 homes*, 100,000 classrooms and 30 countries, the LeapPad learning system offers just the right touch to inspire a love of books that will last your child a lifetime. What It Teaches: * Reading * Writing * Phonics Skills * Mathematics * Sampler book, included, does not contain writing features. LeapPad Plus Writing books are sold separately.

Customer Reviews

Inspires Great Interest in Reading and Writing
My daughter received this for Christmas with a number of books. We had been fighting over the reading and writing problem for quite some time. She's four and wants nothing to do with reading and writing. Shortly after she got it, she was sitting down wanting to do all the writing games. She's gotten a lot better with her letters and writing and she's had it less than a week. I think much of the value of this system depends on the books that you get for it, but I think it's already been a wonderful educational tool for her and she shows no signs of stopping. Now instead of dreading "school time", she keeps asking if we can sit down and do her school books together because they're so much fun.

The only down side I can see to this system is for the parent that thinks they can hand this off to their child and walk away to do something else. That may be the case after they figure out how it all works, but until that point, adult guidance is useful. It's worked out well for us because I sit down next to her and help her out a bit. Maybe in the future she'll get into it more and then will be more independent, but for now it's definitely something we have to do together.

Tons of fun, but not durable
I bought this LeapPad for my son last year and my son has been playing with it for a year now. Today I bought him a new LeapPad book and only half way through the new book, the LeapPad stopped working. At first I thought it was the batteries, but soon I figured out the problem is at the wiring of the pen. It only works when I hold the pen at a certain angle. But how can you tell a 4-year-old to hold it still all the time! It basically is a piece of junk now sitting in my garage.

My son has been playing with LeadPad products since he was 17 months old. The LittleTouch LeapPad worked great. The 2nd one (My First LeapPad) broke after one year. Now the 3rd LeapPad also broke after one year. LeapFrog really needs to improve the durability of their products.

4 1/2 and 6 year old love it
I got this for my 4 1/2 year old daughter for Christmas with the reading and writing book and she loves it - her 3 year old brother fights for a chance to read and write in it too. We also got one for our 6 year old nephew who is in Kindergarten with the dinosaur book and he loves it too - he loved how interactive it was and wanted to show us everything he was discovering.