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Game Information
- Platform: Nintendo DS
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- Collect items and unlock bonus content as you read! – Spot the feathers, musical notes, mushrooms and flowers hidden within the pages and collect them all to unlock recipes and fun activities.
- Character Information and Magical Sound Effects! – touch the links in text to pop up character profiles or re-play a sound effect
- Share with Friends – Use the DS wireless connections to share a sample chapter with your friends and unlock bonus content!
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Product Description
Product Description
If your kids enjoy a good book, but you still have trouble getting them to read, then try turning on your DS instead. This unique interactive adventure contains three of classic children's author Enid Blyton's most acclaimed books, as well as three modern stories based on the world of The Faraway Tree. All six stories come on a single cartridge and all include amazing multimedia features.
This developer was founded in 2007 by Electronic Arts, after they bought Burnout developer Criterion Games. Also based in Guildford, Bright Light specialises in family games and has worked on the Harry Potter tie-ins as well as original titles such as Zubo and non-game projects like Flips.
 Discover the magic of Enid Blyton's classic tales. |
 Watch the stories come alive with new images and sound. |
 Meet Silky the fairy and others in The Faraway Tree. |
 Leaves on the screen? Simply brush them away as you read. |
Holding the DS vertically like a book you can turn pages simply by flicking the stylus across the touchscreen. Adults and children can read together and use the special in-built hyperlinks to access relevant pictures, sounds and character and location information.
Kids can also have fun spotting special pictures of mushrooms, flowers, feathers and musical notes hidden within the pages of each book and by collecting them all they can unlock extras like mini-games and fun recipes. All kids love to read, this just helps them to enjoy the experience even more.
Key Features- Six of the best: Includes six whole books: The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree, The Folk of the Faraway Tree, Silky and the Rainbow Feather, Melody and the Enchanted Harp and and Petal and the Eternal Bloom.
- Magic book: Special multimedia hyperlinks let you access character information, images and sounds from each book as you read.
- Hidden extras: Unlock extra content and secrets by searching each page for hidden images of mushrooms, flowers, feathers and musical notes.
- Progress tracker: Parents can track exactly how much kids have read while special quizzes test to see how much they've taken in.
- Share and learn: Share sample chapters with a friend via the wireless connection and you can unlock extra bonus content for yourself.
This developer was founded in 2007 by Electronic Arts, after they bought Burnout developer Criterion Games. Also based in Guildford, Bright Light specialises in family games and has worked on the Harry Potter tie-ins as well as original titles such as Zubo and non-game projects like Flips.
Product Description
The Enchanted Wood is one of Enid Blyton's most memorable and truly imaginative stories, capturing a world where almost anything can happen if you just believe in the magic of nature and its creatures. Many adults will have fond memories of discovering the world of The Enchanted Wood, from the delightfully gentle Silky the Fairy, to the wonderfully bizarre but terminally jolly Moon-Face who along with a host of strange and mysterious characters live among the branches of The Magic Faraway Tree. Enid Blyton's classic Faraway Tree Stories collection on Nintendo DS and DSi includes 6 interactive books on one game card. Three of her well loved titles; The Enchanted Wood; The Magic Faraway Tree and The Folk of the Faraway Tree and three new Enchanted World titles inspired by her characters and writing: Silky and the Rainbow Feather; Melody and the Enchanted Harp and Petal and the Eternal Bloom.
- Collect items and unlock bonus content as you read! Spot the feathers, musical notes, mushrooms and flowers hidden within the pages and collect them all to unlock recipes and fun activities.
- Character Information and Magical Sound Effects! Touch the links in text to pop up character profiles or re-play a sound effect.
- Share with Friends - Use the DS wireless connections to share a sample chapter with your friends and unlock bonus content!
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I just got this for my almost-7 year old, who loves the stories, constantly begs for them to be read and re-read as bedtime story fodder, but has never considered trying to read the copy she's had in her room by herself, it just looks too big and intimidating to her.
She was beside herself when she saw this loaded up on her DS - she mostly sees Mum and Dad reading ebooks so she was chuffed just to have one of her own - but she went on to read the first chapter in one sitting, and now won't be without it - absolutely loves it.
The interactivity is OK, nothing special, but the stories are as good as ever, and being able to wrap them up in the DS seems to be a real motivator. Love it.
She was beside herself when she saw this loaded up on her DS - she mostly sees Mum and Dad reading ebooks so she was chuffed just to have one of her own - but she went on to read the first chapter in one sitting, and now won't be without it - absolutely loves it.
The interactivity is OK, nothing special, but the stories are as good as ever, and being able to wrap them up in the DS seems to be a real motivator. Love it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Fun:
This is the first DS Flip I've bought & it was an Xmas present for my 6 year old. The initial reaction wasn't promising: "It's for girls. It's got a fairy on it." When we got him started on it "It's not a game just a book." (There are interactive elements but not many.)
However, it turned out to be a book he really doesn't want to put down. The DS format had made all the difference. He even grabs it to read a bit between breakfast & school. He can read fine for his age but would moan about anything more than a few pages long. He's played/read this far more than the Ben10 DS game he also received at Xmas.
I'm so impressed with how it's changed his attitude to reading for pleasure as opposed to homework I've bought the Artemis Fowl one as a birthday present for one of his friends.
However, it turned out to be a book he really doesn't want to put down. The DS format had made all the difference. He even grabs it to read a bit between breakfast & school. He can read fine for his age but would moan about anything more than a few pages long. He's played/read this far more than the Ben10 DS game he also received at Xmas.
I'm so impressed with how it's changed his attitude to reading for pleasure as opposed to homework I've bought the Artemis Fowl one as a birthday present for one of his friends.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I recently discovered the Nintendo DSi for reading books, it is perfect!
I also own the "100 Classic Book Collection" for the DSi and that is already great!
Then I purchased 3 Flips for the Nintendo DS,
- Enid Blyton: Faraway Tree Storys
- Cathy Cassidy 6 Book Pack
- Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl
and I am totally stunned!
First you can easily access several books on every Flips collection
and that makes it really handy (much heavier holding the real books and what grand pile in real books it would be indeed beside the bed).
Then you have nice colour pictures to go with your reading and interactive features, for example if a new character is introduced you can touch the name, which is underlined and get information on the character. And when you have reached another chapter there is always a summary of the previous chapter only a touch away. The most surprising feature are the interactive sounds and images that go with the text - it is difficult to explain but it certainly improves your imagination while reading. There are also collectibles between the pages and you get rewarded once in a while. I will not tell everything, otherwise I will spoil your fun.
Maybe it is intressting for you to know that I am an adult who likes reading children's books (some of which I read when I was a child and some of which I discovered later). This is a great way for children to get into the wonderful world of books and storys!
But I think the Flips could also do nicely for books from other categories and for all ages!!!
I really hope that more bookcollections will come.
I would really like the whole "Harry Potter" series and "The Lord of the rings" trilogy and The Holy Bible (and many more....) in Flips.
It cost me a lot of backpain to read these really heavy fantasy books!
So if Nintendo wants to compete with other multi digital devices as the Ipod Touch or ebook-readers, there is a chance!
For all Flips I give 5 stars and even more if that were possible.
I also own the "100 Classic Book Collection" for the DSi and that is already great!
Then I purchased 3 Flips for the Nintendo DS,
- Enid Blyton: Faraway Tree Storys
- Cathy Cassidy 6 Book Pack
- Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl
and I am totally stunned!
First you can easily access several books on every Flips collection
and that makes it really handy (much heavier holding the real books and what grand pile in real books it would be indeed beside the bed).
Then you have nice colour pictures to go with your reading and interactive features, for example if a new character is introduced you can touch the name, which is underlined and get information on the character. And when you have reached another chapter there is always a summary of the previous chapter only a touch away. The most surprising feature are the interactive sounds and images that go with the text - it is difficult to explain but it certainly improves your imagination while reading. There are also collectibles between the pages and you get rewarded once in a while. I will not tell everything, otherwise I will spoil your fun.
Maybe it is intressting for you to know that I am an adult who likes reading children's books (some of which I read when I was a child and some of which I discovered later). This is a great way for children to get into the wonderful world of books and storys!
But I think the Flips could also do nicely for books from other categories and for all ages!!!
I really hope that more bookcollections will come.
I would really like the whole "Harry Potter" series and "The Lord of the rings" trilogy and The Holy Bible (and many more....) in Flips.
It cost me a lot of backpain to read these really heavy fantasy books!
So if Nintendo wants to compete with other multi digital devices as the Ipod Touch or ebook-readers, there is a chance!
For all Flips I give 5 stars and even more if that were possible.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Exceeded expectations and got my 8 year old reading at every...
This far exceeded my expectations.
Basically its a series of 6 books that you read on your DS. You turn the DS on its side so that you are holding it like a book. Read more
Basically its a series of 6 books that you read on your DS. You turn the DS on its side so that you are holding it like a book. Read more
Published 20 months ago by ostrich1ostrich
Fun
This has provided another way of reading for my daughter. She loves the pictures which some Flip books don't have.
Published 21 months ago by cuppa
Flips Faraway Tree Stories
I bought this for my 6 year old daughter who absolutely loves it. She eagerly awaits collecting mushrooms and loves the sounds as well as the pictures. Read more
Published on 9 May 2010 by Jessica Rabbit
Has captured 6 year old interest well
Bought as a book to take on holiday. The collecting of items while straight forward seems a good hook for kids. Thoroughly recommended and we are hoping for more titles
Published on 25 April 2010 by Mrs. Deborah Vaughan
flips: enid blyton
Love these stories from when I was a kid. (long time ago). I hope to see more of enid's books like amelia jane, and hope that they will also do many more for adults aswell. Read more
Published on 12 April 2010 by M. Hall
Faraway tree stories.
Slow, and rather unexciting, I bought this to encourage my daughter to read the book but she didn't like the graphics the games and point collecting were very basic and not... Read more
Published on 19 Jan 2010 by Ravin Rover
cool reading!!!!
bought this for my 10 year old daughter (who loves Enid Blyton) she loves this game. Fantastic for getting them reading in a different way. Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2010 by Mrs. S. Woodman
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