Customer Reviews

Mercer Mayer's Just Me and My Dad

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Just Me and My Dad is wonderful. Not only is there a story and animation but an entire video of Little Critter's "camping trip" can be seen on his TV (20 minutes). This CD introduces Little Critter well, or continues the relationship from Mercer Mayer's books. Stimulates spatial memory as well as interest in reading. My 2 year old was motivated to master the mouse with this program and it translated to his continuing development because of the activities and story. We have been using this program for three years now and he still chooses it as one of his favorites.

Just me and my Dad is an excellent children's book, and this software version does an excellent job of reading it. I bought it mainly to help my 5 year old son learn to read, and I find it very useful. However, it gave me tremendous frustration at first when I couldn't get it to run at all on my one year old Windows XP machine. I own many children's software, such as the Magic school bus series, Jump Start, Reader Rabbit, DK software, and other Living Book series such as the Cat in the Hat, and they all run well or at least partially on my machine. This one doesn't open AT ALL, and every trick I used that worked in the past failed. Luckily, I was able to borrow a friend's computer with Windows 98, and it runs beautifully. My son particularly likes the little movie on it. It is surprisingly well done and captivates his attention. Highly recommended for those who can downgrade.

My kids have dozens of programs -- I'm afraid to even count them all -- and this is one of their all-time faves. Not only is the story fun, but clicking around the pages yields lots of surprises and giggles. And they're always finding things they've missed the first few dozen times through the story. Of course, with me being the dad, this version ranks several steps above the version of ``Mercer Mayer's Me and My Mom.''

Little Critter is a sweet, sometimes mischevious, well behaved little critter. In this story, Little Critter and his dad go camping. The software is easy to play with and each page is loaded with fun things to click on. It also contains the hidden animated image then will have your child laughing when he or she pushes the button. All of the Mercer Mayer software, Me and My Mom and Me and My Grandmom plus the books and even movies are terrific. This is a great piece of software to read with your child. Girls will also enjoy it. Highly recommended!

Someone purchased this cd by Mercer Mayer for me. My grandson who is 3 years old today just loves this story. He also enjoys the stickers and playing in the sand. I have looked all over the place for other cds by Mercer Mayer along the same line. Everyone seems to have heard of them but do not know where to purchase them. Could you help me with this. How many cds does Mercer Mayer have besides Grandma & Me at the beach and Just me and my Dad.

I'm amazed to see so many positive reviews. We've tried this on at least two computers, under Windows 98 and 98 SE, and it crashed a lot on both of them. On our current Win 98 SE computer, it crashes once per page at least, making the program effectively unusable. Sadly no patch is available.

As another reviewer points out, it doesn't autoplay when you insert the disk.

Its another great Mercer Mayer game. They should make more. I love them all, but the others do work on XP. This will not work. I was able to run the movie, but not the game on XP. Children under 3 will like it!

My 1 1/2 and 3 1/2 year olds both love this one. A fun story with lots of funny hidden surprises. Only one complaint: the movie shows up too small. Otherwise it's perfect.

My 2 year old daughter just loves "Just me and my mom". My grandmother bought it for my little sister and she is now 10. The CD that I have is for the Mac. and it works on my brand new Windows XP. It won't let me install it, but I got it to work.
Whenever I turn on the computer she comes to me and says "me and my mom". So the first thing that I do before I can do anything else is let her do her thing with the computer. I also have "Just me and my Grandma" but I haven't tried it on the computer yet. I hope that it works cause my mom comes and stays with her when I'm at work.

This item is rated for 3-7 years old. However with this age group it does not automatically run when placed in the CD Drive. This make it impossible for the younger this age group is to use on their own. It seems an auto run command should be used on software used for children to provide them with hassle free use of the product.
If it does't run what use is it no matter who the writer is. I have Windows 2000.