Product Description

Join Dora, Boots, and Diego on an amazing wildlife rescue adventure! Play five learning games that introduce essential preschool and kindergarten reading and math skills. Then plug into the TV and play with three animal adventure stories. Learn about different animals, and help them return to their homes! For use with the Leapster L-Max Learning Game System, sold separately.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10297 in Toys & Games
• Brand: LeapFrog
• Model: 30442
• Released on: 2005-10-06
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.75" h x 5.00" w x 1.50" l, .20 pounds

Features

• Players help Dora and Boots cross rivers and rescue animals
• Helps preschoolers and kindergarteners master more than 45 skills
• Teaches letters, numbers, critical thinking, patterns and logic, phonics, animals, and Spanish language
• Plug the L-Max handheld into the TV for even more interactive learning
• For use with the Leapster L-Max Learning Game System, sold separately

Editorial Review
Two favorites of the discerning 4- to 5-year-old crowd come together for an exciting educational adventure! Dora the Explorer and her friends leap into the Leapster learning game system to help their preschool and kindergarten cohorts master more than 45 skills in letters, numbers, critical thinking, patterns and logic, phonics, animals, and Spanish language. Five of the games can be played anywhere with a Leapster or Leapster L-Max handheld. Then plug the L-Max handheld into the TV for even more interactive learning. Players help Dora and Boots cross rivers and rescue animals by matching letters, words, and opposites, following letter and number patterns, and gathering important facts. The only clue young explorers might miss on their wildlife adventure is how much learning they’re accomplishing—it’ll feel just like fun to them! --Emilie Coulter

From the Manufacturer
Join Dora, Boots and Diego on an amazing wildlife rescue adventure! Play five learning games that teach essential preschool and kindergarten reading and math skills. Then plug into the TV and play with three animal adventure stories. Learn about different animals and help them return to their homes! What it Teaches: * Letters * Phonics * Animals * Numbers * Spanish language

Customer Reviews

Too expensive, one less game than previous version
My 4 y/o loved playing his older cousins Leapster, so when I found the older unit at a great price, I got it. I knew I'd have to have the same Dora game, but could only find this L-MAX version. The problem starts with a feature of the L-MAX that only allows one of the games called "Animal Adventure" to be played if L-MAX is plugged into the TV. That means the older, cheaper verion of Dora offers an extra game on the handheld! I think product development really dropped the ball on this one.

I returned the L-MAX version and found the cheaper plain Leapster version instead. I'm still offended that Leapfrog would charge more for this version and offer less.

If your kid doesn't need to plug into the tv, pass this one up and shop for the non-L-MAX version of Dora's Wildlife Adventure.

Cute Game
This was the second of two games I purchased from ToysRUs buy one get one free after Christmas sale. (I think $29.99 is a bit much for games for this toy, but the sale price was well worth it!) Honestly, I would not have paid full price for this game, it has several cute stories that teach early math and reading skills as well as introductory Spanish. My son is 5, he enjoys this game but would pick up Counting on 0, and Mr. Pencil and Spiderman before the Dora cartridge!

Adventure learning
This game is big fun for an almost six year-old. I wasn't sure if he would like it because he is no longer an enthusiastic Dora the Explorer fan but the game is educational (a big selling point for me) and interesting enough to hold his attention for hours on end.