Brilliant Creations Advanced Notebook

By VTech Electronics
Price $49.99
Age 5-8 Yrs.

This is something every household with a 5- to 8-year-old should have. It's really quite remarkable - an inexpensive, portable system that looks just like a notebook computer and provides 120 interactive skill-building activities for your child. From an educational standpoint, this is a very valuable tool. Kids naturally want to emulate mom and dad by using a computer, and the activities here are as highly engaging and entertaining as they are instructive. There are 5 invaluable categories - Story Book, Creativity Corner, Language World, Spanish Corner, Math Kingdom, Science Lab, Social Studies, Brain Booster - each of which contains several related activities. You can select the level of challenge manually, but most of the activities have an auto-leveling feature that increases or decreases the level of difficulty based on the success rate in previous rounds. There's a full keyboard, a functioning mouse and touch pad, and a 4.5 inch color LCD screen. Let the fun and learning begin!