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Product Description
Amazon.com
LeapFrog My Own Story Time Pad provides personalized play for preschoolers ages two and up. Kids can watch fun animations and listen to stories, emails, and music as they explore the world of Scout and Friends. Parents can personalize the Story Time Pad with their child's name, favorite stories, special "emails" from friends and family, and a unique music playlist. This device comes with batteries intended for in-store demonstration only. It requires three AA batteries for continued operation.
Stories, Music, Messages, and More
The Story Time Pad is a great way to jumpstart an early interest in reading. It's a compact media device that appeals to a generation of kids surrounded by portable devices and electronic readers, yet is educational and builds early learning skills. Kids will love pressing buttons and listening to stories, music, and messages you've customized just for them.
Personalize Content to Suit Your Child
What's special about this device compared to other e-readers designed for kids is that parents can gear this toy to appeal to their child's personal tastes. It comes pre-loaded with one story, one email, and three songs, and holds up to five stories, ten songs, and three emails at a time. Via a standard Internet connection, you can customize some of the over ten existing stories and print coloring and activity pages featuring Scout and friends.
Another fun feature lets you choose and customize pretend emails to your child from family and friends. Write them a special "I love you" or "Happy Birthday" message, tell a joke, or simply encourage them to have fun and learn. The device then plays these emails out loud for your child to hear.
Easy Setup with Step-by-Step Instructions
The instruction booklet guides you through the comprehensive setup process, which takes under five minutes. You'll need to download the LeapFrog Connect application for the Story Time Pad, connect the device to your computer via the included USB cable, and follow the clear online directions on how to personalize content by entering your child's name, favorite stories and music, and email messages. Once you save all that data, your child is ready to play.
Kid-Friendly Operation
The Story Time Pad is easy for kids to operate on their own. A switch on the back slides to turn the device on and off. (In the case of an auto shutoff, the device will restart with the touch of any button.) The clearly labeled buttons on the lower part of the interface let kids select story, music, and message mode. Our testers liked that in music mode kids could hit the paw button and press the letters to make silly animal and other sounds. That way, they're not simply listening, but are actually interacting with the device.
There's also an ABC button that starts a mode where letters say their names when pressed. When kids press on one of the four character buttons on the top portion of the interface, they'll hear Scout, Eli, Violet, or Penny say a few words.
What's in the Box
Story Time Pad, USB cord, and instruction booklet.
Product Description
With LeapFrog My Own Story Time Pad, kids can enjoy personalized plays, read stories, identify alphabets and watch fun animation. It is preloaded with five stories and four fun characters who read to kids. I
Why You'll Love It: t can be personalized with children's names, age and favorite colors by connecting to the internet.
Age: 2 years and up
Features
- Kid-friendly interface
- Tablet can be easily personalized
- Easy to set up with USB cord and internet
- Learning with fun
- USB Cord
- Instruction booklet
Customer Reviews
PACKAGING: Easy to get out of the box. Nothing excessive. Comes with a USB cord.
SETUP: You have to sign up for a parent account and go through about 10-15 minutes of downloads and choosing which options you want on the device. It's a simple process and lets you pick which stories, songs, and melodies you want, plus it lets you add your child's name and a couple of personal touches-- their favorite color and food (chosen from a list). You can also choose from pre-selected sentiments to "email" your child from you or anyone you choose. You'll get to have 3 e-mails preloaded on the device with simple sayings like "You make me so happy" and "I can't wait to see you."
One down-side is that you can choose only one name, so if you have more than one kid who'd use it, you're out of luck. Of course, you can go back and change it later, but just one name at a time.
BATTERIES: You can't use rechargeables. Requires 3 AAs, and it comes with only "demo" batteries. There's an auto-shutoff feature if you leave the device on accidentally.
APPEARANCE: It's about the size and weight of an e-reader like the Kindle or Nook. The actual viewing screen, however, is much smaller. The screen is just 2.5 inches wide by 1.5 inches high, and I wish it were bigger than that. We could have done without the three characters on top, who don't really have a purpose (they just say things like, "Let's listen to a story!" or "Let's listen to music!" when you press them.
SOUND: The speaker is in the back of the device. There are two volume settings. I found the quiet one too quiet, but the louder one is fine.
WHAT IT DOES: There are four functions:
1. The ABCs. This is a really common part of kids' electronic devices, and there's nothing special about this one. You press a letter and it tells you the name of the letter, its sound, and something that starts with that letter.
2. E-mails and messages. This shows the three pre-loaded e-mails you've sent (at random), plus Scout sends some e-mails, too. Then it writes an e-mail back from the child. ("Hey! Let's write back. 'Dear Aunt Lisa, You make me happy too. Love, [Your Child's Name].") It also provides a screen for the child to write their own stories-- but!-- and here's part of why I deducted a star-- it doesn't actually do anything once the child finishes writing. It doesn't save the story or try to read it. It just erases it once you hit another button. This won't matter for the 2-year-old set, but for kids who actually are learning to write, it's frustrating that there's no way for them to save what they wrote to show anyone.
3. Stories. These are very short, animated stories about Scout and his pals. Some of them are customized with the child's name, favorite food, or favorite color. This is what makes the device different and interesting, in my opinion, and this is the other part of the reason I deducted a star: You can save only 5 stories on the device, and like I said, they're really short. I love that this device incorporates my child's name into the stories... it's exciting for kids to hear their names spoken by Scout. I just wish there were more stories, and options for longer stories. My daughter (age 4) is a real bookworm. I would eagerly have taken the tradeoff of losing the other common features (like the ABCs and songs) in favor of more stories and/or stories with a little more to them.
4. Songs. You can load four songs with Scout singing the vocals (eh) and five that are just melodies. You get to pick from a list of about 20 of each. They're what you'd expect-- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Mary Had a Little Lamb, The Wheels on the Bus, etc. plus two classical songs. The music is nothing wonderful, but nothing that'll drive you batty, either.
OVERALL: I think this is a great toy for the 2-4-year-old set, especially for car rides and rainy days.
I found it to also be very durable. We have already dropped it a few times and it has come away fine. However, the screen is really hard to read especially in certain lighting. For a tablet that is supposed to encourage reading it won't encourage anything if my daughter can't read it. She loves the games and the functionality is perfect but the screen is the main reason that I gave it 3 stars. I really wish they had gone with a better quality screen.
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