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Product Features
- Read-along storybook.
- 5 fun and challenging activities that reinforce reading skills.
- Each storybook page has 3 reading levels.
- Teaches essential reading skills.
- PC and Mac.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Plucky and earnest in his films, Babe in interactive CD form proves to be an inspirational model and great companion for young readers just crossing the barrier into literacy. Conceived as a storybook, this inventive educational CD presents kids with five themed episodes that challenge their comprehension of general phonetics, spelling, vowel sounds, and reading comprehension. Without effort, a merry lesson in recycling is thrown in as well.
The plotline is deft: Babe and his adorable city friends (chimps, bulldogs, a poodle, a goose, and a trio of mice) embark upon the complicated project of feeding all the hungry animals in Metropolis, an effort that requires much consideration and advance planning (not bad attributes to condone). In the first section, children learn to identify long and short vowel sounds by helping Thrifty the shopkeeper clean up the canal. (In exchange, Thrifty gives them pots and pans for cooking).
In the most successful section, a spelling lesson turns into a magical, empowering exercise via the inventive premise of a fundraiser that involves a bubble machine dispersing letters into the sky. As the chimps Zootie and Bob start the machine, a faint word appears in the background. When the children click on all the floating letters needed to spell the word, the word fully materializes and so do beautiful surprise pictures that may be printed out.
There are two significant glitches in this CD: the use of a murky, squeaky British voice to recite some of the more complicated rhyme passages and the unnecessarily ink-drenched illustrations that take ages to print on all but the most up-to-the-minute machines. In the grand scheme of things, however, these are small complaints about an exceedingly charming product. --Jean Lenihan
Manufacturer's Description
Babe And Friends: Animated Early Reader, by Sound Source Interactive, teaches essential reading skills through adventures with Babe, the animated pig with the big heart.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Only if you're a fan of the piglet,
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This review is from: Babe Early Reader (CD-ROM)
This is a strange mix of entertainment and education, which doesn't quite work for me, nor my 5 yr old son either as he rarely chooses this one to play with. The games take rather a long time to complete and so need a good level of concentration. The graphics are good (finding "moving" pictures hidden on screen for instance) but the voices are quite grating after a while.
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