Product Description
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Help Clifford's owner handle all her chores before the Big Red
Dog's birthday party! / Ages 4-8
Review
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Inspired by the "I " series of books, this collection of nine
activities combines the trademark I- rhyming riddles with
collections of small photographs of objects, animals and other
things to create brain teasers that exercise problem solving
skills, word play and creativity. Though a little like a
one-punchline story, these visually rich games range from Oops
Hoops, where kids sort different objects according to types, to
Woodblock City, where kids search for items mentioned in riddles
in a scrollable woodblock urban center. Graphics are intriguing,
a real delight just to look at, especially in the Find Me
activity which is wonderfully illustrated with a chalkboard
cluttered with drawings, pictures, objects and words. The Nature
game uses a magnifying glass to scour for hidden objects, and the
challenging Make Your Own I lets kids choose from more than
200 objects and mix them in with their own riddles. Scenes tend
to be busy enough to make the search eventful, but redundancy
here makes the law of diminishing return applicable-especially to
the older end of the age range. A 2000 Parents' Choice® Silver
Honor.
Reviewed by Don Oldenburg, Parents' Choice® 2000 -- From Parents'
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Kids love pouring over the photo collages in search of each
hidden object in this new I CD, derived from Jean Marzallo's
enjoyable book, I School Days. Like the others in the series,
the transition to CD-ROM is a nice one. There are still seven
types of puzzles to solve, each one containing all-new object and
word searches. Some games ask kids to find the objects in a
riddle, for instance "I a pretzel, some beans in a hand, Red
corn, eight candles, a BUS TRIP planned," with each riddle read
aloud. The objects in question are colorful and interesting, and
the search pages are plentiful, with fresh riddles each time kids
play. The other puzzles are challenging and fun, keeping kids
engaged. There's a Balloon Popper game in which children find the
missing piece that sets a "Rube Goldberg" type contraption in
motion. One puzzle has kids sorting objects into progressively
harder Venn diagrams and another has them finding pictures to
break secret codes. Testers favorite is still the "Make-Your-Own"
I activity where players create collages of objects and then
write their own riddles for friends to solve, even
their own voices if they wish. These can be saved, or printed for
use away from the computer. While this may sound like just a lot
of fun and games, there are many rtunities for learning.
Vocabulary is reinforced and there are several chances for
children to use listening and problem solving skills. This CD is
even more responsive than previous versions, letting players
interrupt the narration. Our testers thoroughly enjoyed the
program, and their parents and teachers commented that it gets
kids thinking and having fun at the same time.
Teaches: reading, logic, classification, visual memory, matching
Age Range: 5-8 -- From Children's Software Revue® -- "Subscribe
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