Richard Scarry's Busytown

by Pearson Software

Product Features

• 8 entertaining activities packed with hours of positive playtime
• Puzzles and games, each with 3 levels of difficulty
• Memory matching and spelling games, jigsaw puzzles, mazes, and more
• Color, paint, and print out your favorite Busytown characters and buildings
• Designed especially for children ages 3 to 7

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00003IELZ
• Item model number: 671315102
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,702 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #96 in Software > Children's Software > Thinking & Problem Solving
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Richard Scarry's Best Activity Center Ever is full of games, puzzles, and creativity tools designed especially for children ages 3 to 7. These eight entertaining activities are packed with hours and hours of positive playtime and important educational value.

Puzzles and games, each with 3 levels of difficulty!

• Memory matching games at the Post Office
• Jigsaw puzzles at the Billboard
• Mazes in the A-Maze-ing Hedge Garden
• Connect the dots at the Observatory
• Spelling games at the Ski Chalet

Cartoon movie theatre--just like on TV!

• Enjoy cartoons from The Busy World of Richard Scarry television show

Creative fun for everyone!

• Color, paint, and print out your favorite Busytown characters and buildings at the Art Studio
• Make a scene with your favorite animated Busytown characters, props, and backgrounds at the backyard stage

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for little bitty kids!, November 24, 2002

By 

B. A. Colle "golemjack" (USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Richard Scarry's Busytown (CD-ROM)

My son was two years old when we got this software, and he LOVED it! Really, all a child needs to learn at that age is how to work the mouse, and now to click, and how graphics interact. He doesn't need to learn Calculus and French. So if Busytown doesn't "challenge" the older children, that's fine. It wasn't intended for older children any more than Sesame Street is intended for them. But this software definitely has its place in the scheme of things, and I would recommend this as a GREAT first software program for toddlers.

Busytown is like a storybook that lets the child build things and make things move. It has different buildings or places they can enter and do different fun things, and highly enthusiastic actors doing the voice overs and vocals, singing catchy songs my son loved to sing with them. There are probably kids who will get bored with it as they get older. But you need to have something good, and fun and reliable for the smallest children. And this software appeals to the same children who love the Richard Scarry books, your 1-4 year olds.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for little bitty kids!, November 24, 2002

By 

B. A. Colle "golemjack" (USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Richard Scarry's Busytown (CD-ROM)

My son was two years old when we got this software, and he LOVED it! Really, all a child needs to learn at that age is how to work the mouse, and now to click, and how graphics interact. He doesn't need to learn Calculus and French. So if Busytown doesn't "challenge" the older children, that's fine. It wasn't intended for older children any more than Sesame Street is intended for them. But this software definitely has its place in the scheme of things, and I would recommend this as a GREAT first software program for toddlers.

Busytown is like a storybook that lets the child build things and make things move. It has different buildings or places they can enter and do different fun things, and highly enthusiastic actors doing the voice overs and vocals, singing catchy songs my son loved to sing with them. There are probably kids who will get bored with it as they get older. But you need to have something good, and fun and reliable for the smallest children. And this software appeals to the same children who love the Richard Scarry books, your 1-4 year olds.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Richard Scarry's Busytown 200 cd-rom, January 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Richard Scarry's Busytown (CD-ROM)

This is not very educational. My 4 year old finds it boring. Most of the program they give you the answers by flashing a star to tell you which direction to move or which item to choose. It does not help them think at all and I would not reccomend it.