Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat (Jewel Case)

by The Learning Company

Product Features

• Manufactured to the Highest Quality Available.
• With True Enhanced Performance.
• Latest Technical Development.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005IB4V
• Item model number: 381004
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 11, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,519 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #49 in Software > Children's Software > Interactive Books
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Cat is back--Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat that is, and so are Thing One and Thing Two, his mischievous sidekicks. Kids play along with Tommy and Sally, and their rainy afternoon gets a big boost when the Cat in the Hat "steps in on the mat." Filled with fun activities, kids can turn the house upside down and inside out playing three games: The Balancing Act, The Clean-up Machine, and Pop-Up Activities. Designed to delight ages 3 to 7, children also expand their vocabulary, develop word recognition, practice reading, and more.

In The Balancing Act, kids interact with the Cat in the Hat by balancing his load as he holds up just about every household item imaginable. Children add things or take them away from each side to keep the Cat from falling, and, when he falls, it's no small crash. In The Clean-up Machine, children help clean up the mess created by clicking on objects around the room and directing the arms of the Clean-Up Machine. Other fun activities appear as clickable objects in Pop-Up Activities. Click and throw a basketball, design a portrait, and more.

Product Description

The Cat is Back! Product InformationWith this great CD-ROM and a click of the mouse The Cat in the Hatcomes to life in your house. And along with the Cat come Thing One and ThingTwo they're all here together to have fun with you. You can follow along as thestory is read or click on the objects and play games instead. There may besurprises some big and some small if you just go through once you will not seethem all. Which is why we have found kids will play once and then they will goback and play again and again.Games and activities on every page. Catch Thing One and Thing Twoarrange the puzzles or draw funny faces on the framed pictures for hours ofplay.Balancing act to balance the Cat.  Kids learn about special andcausal relationships as they give the Cat more and more objects to balance.Skills Learned Word Recognition Increased Vocabulary Reading Comprehension Computer Familiarity Spatial Relationships Causal RelationshipsLiving Books® which invented interactivestorybooks has dazzled children parents and the computer world with memorablecharacters sound effects original music and charming animation. Windows Requirements Platform: Windows® 95/98/Me/XP*/VistaRAM : 8MBVideo : VGA 640x480x256 color displayCD-ROM: 2X or betterSound : Windows compliant sound deviceMouse : Microsoft mouse or compatibleMinimum RequirementsPlatform: PowerMac™ 7.1 or HigherMedia: CD-ROMCPU : 68040 or betterRAM : 8MBHard Drive: 80MBVideo : 256 color or better* Requires use of Windows Compatibility Wizard under Windows XP."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat, June 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

This is a geat program. My husband bought the program when our daugter was about 4 months old and she just loved watching the book being read to her. Now she is about a year old and has to play the game every night before bed. It is a wonderful program, you can have the book read to you or you can choose to play on each of the pages. We are always finding somthing new on the pages. I just hope thay make one for The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice but boring, March 15, 2002

By 

Paula Cohen Martin (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

My 3 year old is a big fan of The Cat in The Hat so I was thrilled to find this software. While it's amusing both he and I were very quickly bored. The book is "read" to you and then you get to interact with the images on the page, but there are very few actual "games" and even those are uninteresting. Objects and characters move, speak or do silly things when you click on them but nothing is challenging or requires any thought. There are a few exceptions (on one page you can rearange a portrait on the wall, on another make the cat balance more items...) but it's just nothing interesting and there's not enough...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very engaging, October 18, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

I bought this when my daughter was two years old. She continued to view it regularly for almost two years. There are a lot of different things for her to see on each screen, and it is very interactive. By clicking on the various items, Christina is rewarded with all kinds of surprises. We are still finding surprises that we weren't aware of previously! Highly recommend this!!