This educational software is very effective in teaching children all the letters of the alphabet. The 22 games (some focus on lower case, some upper) progress through levels of difficulty, and each offers the option to either repeat a game or advance to the next level. These games center primarily on selecting the correct letter (spoken by the narrator) from a collection of letters presented onscreen. The number of letter...Read more

Kids will learn letters, spelling, sounds, and practice reading, writing, numbers, counting and more, all by enjoying the wealth of interactive fun and games found on this InnoTab Learning Cartridge. With a wide variety of approaches, these highly creative and engaging games are effective at introducing, reinforcing, and building upon letter, word, and reading skills. Kids will learn letter-matching in Mechanic Shop, find...Read more

This highly interactive game for the LeapPad Learning Tablet lets kids accompany twins Aartem and Autumn Aardvark on an adventure-filled quest to find the Monkey King's treasure. Along the way, players navigate a network of mazes and other puzzles. They'll uncover ancient chalk rubbings (each of which reveals a piece of a story), place statues on matching pedestals to help them get across water, outsmart monkey guards, an...Read more

Children are absolutely delighted by this interactive game for the LeapPad Learning Tablet. In it, they help undo a mix-up Tinker Bell causes when she knocks over a vial of pixie dust and jumbles all the fairies' talents and colors. Kids place planes, inclined planes, weights, levers, and other simple machines in just the right locations so that blue pixie dust can move from point A to point B. In doing so, they develop l...Read more

This educational app for the LeapPad Learning Tablet is extraordinarily well-designed and well-suited for preschoolers. It is highly interactive, with gentle, friendly onscreen characters Turtle, Tiger, Monkey, and Koala ably guiding your child from one mini-game to another. The inviting, easy-to-follow interface smoothly advances kids through several games and activities that enhance their fine motor skills, visual discr...Read more

This game for the LeapPad Learning Tablet does a fabulous job of interweaving an exciting storyline, rapid-fire action, and science learning. In their mission to rescue the trapped Energy Buddies (without whom the world as we know it has gone dark), kids navigate their onscreen Jetpack Hero through treacherous terrain, engaging enemy forces and collecting atomic elements along the way. The hero's jetpack is powered by mol...Read more

This highly entertaining game for the LeapPad Learning Tablet helps kids develop artistic skills through a series of drawing and guessing activities. Throughout, they are supported and cheered along by onscreen friends Dot, Dash, and Mr. Pencil. Children choose which of a group of onscreen objects they wish to draw (there are almost 200 in all), then recreate it using various onscreen art tools. When finished, they decide...Read more

This educational gaming system from LeapFrog gets kids' minds and bodies moving in concert as they laugh, play, and learn. Its intuitive, easy-to-use interface was designed with young kids in mind so that simply by pointing, waving, wiggling, dancing, and swiping, players interact with onscreen objects and characters. Depending on the game, kids use either body motion alone or a handheld controller to play. The controller...Read more

In this wildly entertaining active learning game for LeapTV, children use a combination of math and physical skills to save Elder Banzai and his Ninja Banzai Beans from the clutches of Shitake Sheffu. Kids deactivate a force field and earn bonus Banzai Beans by adding and subtracting, using ones, fives, tens, and hundreds in any combination to build the needed number. They can then use the Banzai Beans they've earned as p...Read more

When mischievous flying baby dino eggs take off on an adventure, it's Ty and friends to the rescue! Children adore this game in which they use the LeapTV controller to fly their onscreen dino counterpart through an aerial obstacle course, gliding over volcanoes, ducking rock formations, and vacuuming up flying baby dino eggs at the press of a button. Kids find the animation and effects to be quite fun and exciting. The fa...Read more

A calamity occurs when all the Toast Critters gather for the Great Story Festival. Instead of the Great Story, a great sneeze scatters the letters all through Toast Critter Valley. But fear not. Through the magic of LeapTV, your child will help the Toast Critters retrieve all the lost letters so that the Great Story can be told. By standing in front of the television, kids use body motion to grab, bat, and bop onscreen le...Read more

The strange, fantastical, inter-connectable pieces in OgoBILD construction toys tend, in and of themselves, to inspire new heights of creativity. This kit not only contains 103 of those incredibly versatile building pieces, it also includes Animate It! Express, software that makes making your own stop-motion animation films as easy as 1-2-3. That is about as perfect a set of ingredients for unleashing creative fun as we c...Read more

The simple but carefully thought out activities in this LeapTV game help kids develop healthy emotional awareness. Through the use of lovable animal characters and simple facial expressions, children learn to identify their own emotional state and to care for themselves accordingly ('when I'm scared, I talk to a friend). Similarly, they are asked about the emotions of their onscreen animal friends and given healthy, nurtu...Read more

It often seems Activision couldn't possibly top previous enhancements to the Skylanders franchise, yet they continually come up with surprising innovations that make the game more action-filled and exciting than ever before. This time out, Skylanders SuperChargers adds land, sea, and sky vehicles to the mix, introducing a fleet of powerful vehicles piloted by a special team of characters. SuperChargers offers 20 new Skyla...Read more