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Product Features
- Hear the famous story read by Kenneth Branagh
- Travel around the universe
- Experience enchanting animated images
- Visit the Little Prince on Asteroid B-612
- Design and print your own diary and stationery
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Amazon.co.uk Review
A classic and much-loved children's story is given a vivid interactive finish in The Little Prince, a CD-ROM that will thrill young readers and their parents. With elegant animations and a low-key, whimsical delivery, this CD-ROM tells the tale of a stranded pilot and his friendship with a strange young man who lives alone on a small asteroid with only a rose for company.
As an interactive storybook, The Little Prince is absolutely gorgeous. Antoine de Saint Exupéry's story is ideal for a multimedia format, since much of the tale centres around the act of drawing pictures. Kenneth Branagh's cheerful and appealing reading of the text is enhanced with sketches that not only appear on narrative cue, but interact with users--changing colours at the click of a mouse or sweeping the book's text aside to highlight the simple, but beautiful illustrations.
The Little Prince offers an intriguing mix of the simple and the sophisticated. While the humour in the story will be more appealing to older players, the games and activities in the program are extremely simple; for the most part, they are composed of animations that come alive at a single click. One game involves maintaining the ecosphere of the Little Prince's home, asteroid B-612, by destroying young baobab plants and watering his rose. Another involves making regular visits to see a wild fox, which will eventually become tame enough to play hide-and-seek with players. Little is required in either of these games except diligence and patience. The animations are simple and repetitive, and many players will tire of them quickly. However, this may only serve to refocus their attention where it deserves to be: on the story itself.
The Little Prince does justice to the original book, adding motion to the illustrations while remaining faithful to the creator's original vision. It also adds an audience-participation element that a simple home-video rendition could not provide. Though it is neither a traditional CD-ROM nor a video game, this presentation will delight its users thoroughly. --Alyx Dellamonica
Manufacturer's Description
Experience this classic tale of friendship come to life through the use of beautiful 3-D animation. Explore the author's moving life story and discover a secret diary. Travel the universe: take care of the rose on Asteroid B-612, and tame the fox on planet Earth. Listen to the Little Prince's never-ending quest for tolerance, love, and understanding.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
I read this book last year at school which is the reason I bought this CD-Rom. It was origionally a French story and it's about a stranded pilot who makes friends with a strange boy who lives alone on a small asteroid with only a rose to keep him company. The CD-Rom is an interactive storybook, there's lots of fun things to do throughout the story such as drawing pictures, and it has plenty of colourful pictures. I think it appeals to parents as well as kids because my parents absolutely loved it and played with it for ages. You can click your mouse at a certain object on the page and it magically comes alive. There's also games to play even though this CD-Rom is not a video game. I would recommend this CD-Rom to kids of all ages who love stories although it might not suit people who are only interested in video games. Overall, I think this CD-Rom is worth getting so add it to your Christmas list!
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
I credit my son (5) with a very fertile imagination and he was really quite persistant with this CD, but he lost patience trying to get into the story... it seemed to take a long time to get past the story telling and there didn't seem a great deal to do. However we'll try again when he is a bit older. From my point of view i thought it was beautifully illustrated and narrated.
4 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Very good graphics and lovely story telling by Kenneth Branagh. The fox taming game is quite compulsive. There is a lot to learn about life in this story. Not just for little children!
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