Sesame Street: Baby and Me

by The Learning Company

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00001QHZE
• Item model number: SSY3744AE
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 24, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,801 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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This two-CD set consists of two older Sesame Street titles: Let's Make a Word! and Get Set to Learn! The activities introduce children to vocabulary, spelling, sequencing, ordering, memory and problem solving. The software has great graphics and strong kid appeal. In Get Set to Learn!, five carefully structured, multiple-choice style games are hosted by "America's Favorite Game Show Host," Guy Smiley. Each game has four levels of play which automatically adjust in challenge, and children are rewarded with fun, animated prizes. If they have trouble, the games get easier and hints are provided by the Sesame Street Characters. The activities are very well designed in the way they ask children to sort, count and classify at progressively more complex levels. In the Kooky Cookie Game, Cookie Monster helps children put cookies of different colors and shapes in a specific sequence (e.g., A-A-B-A-A-B). Dunk or Dare is a game where Oscar helps children count, add and subtract up to 20 items. In Count it Up, Up, Up!, Big Bird asks children to count as many as 40 objects in his tree. The CD's flaws include long transitions and no record-keeping. The second CD has children join Guy Smiley in his game show, Let's Make A Word. As contestants, kids can choose from six Muppet playmates and four discovery sites (farm, construction, park and restaurant), resulting in 24 possible activities. At each venue, Elmo, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, and others introduce concepts such as beginning letters and sounds, rhyming words and spelling. Rosita even teaches kids a bit of Spanish vocabulary. Features include free exploration and guided play, clues and automatically adjusting difficulty levels.
Teaches: computer skills, letters, numbers, phonics, early math, Spanish
Age Range: 4, 5, 6 Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue

Amazon.com Review

Yes, it's possible your baby may try to teethe on the mouse at first. And you can pretty much count on your child occasionally bringing her or his fists down on the keyboard with a smashing degree of force. Yet once your kid begins participating in the muppet-happy fun and learning opportunities packaged into Sesame Street Baby & Me, you'll surely risk a little wear and tear on your hardware. A joint project between the tech and design wizards at the Learning Company and the wise educators and artists at the Children's Television Network, this CD is an impressive example of what an adaptive medium the interactive CD can be.

Graciously hosted by popular Henson muppets such as Elmo, Zoe, and Big Bird, this parent-child program bubbles along gently and merrily from games of "Peek-a-Boo" to "Do What I Do" to "Silly Songs." Transitions from screen to screen and activity to activity are handled slowly and calmly, just as a baby needs. ("Are you saying bye bye?" Big Bird asks. "Okay, bye bye.") While the parent navigates, the child discovers the power of the mouse (to "rake up" screens full of autumn leaves, or "unwrap" presents) as well as the effects of the keyboard buttons (to make Elmo pop up in "Peek-a-Boo" or advance to new letter pictures in an alphabet game).

The only disappointment in this CD is the absence of any nod to urban culture or childhood emotional education that the Sesame Street television show handles so beautifully. Indoors and out, all the scenes have a rather bland and homogenized look. As well, there are only one or two moments that display CTW-style wit (Elmo's relationship to the doe-eyed Baby Natasha is the best). Here's hoping they crank up the playfulness, emotional sensitivity, and world culture references in version 2. (Ages 1 to 3). --Jean Lenihan

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Never to early, February 1, 2000

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[e-mail] (Southern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sesame Street: Baby and Me (CD-ROM)

I just bought this for my 11 month old son. He really enjoys the pee-a-boo game. He quickly learned that when he hit the key board (I do mean hits), Elmo or Big Bird (his two favorites) peek out from a different hiding spot. At only 11 months, his attention span is short, but in one of the games you can add your own pictures. My son loves this. He will sit for 20 minutes and hit the keys to see a new picture of his family and himself. I highly recomend this as a first, computer game.

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Far superior to Jumpstart Baby for the under two set., March 5, 2000

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M. Henry "Grandma-ellen" (Bellevue, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sesame Street: Baby and Me (CD-ROM)

Having a 17 month old grandson who adores Reader Rabbit Playtime for Baby, but hates Jumpstart Baby, I bought Baby and Me with some hesitation. It has been happily accepted, especialy the peek-a-boo game and the animal sounds game. A feature that is most welcome is that there are some games in which the child taps a key (any key) and the adult runs the mouse (great for now) but it also has games in which the child runs the mouse. This would seem to extend the life of the software into the three year old range and make a nice transition into the next level of toddler computer games.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and Educational Software, January 5, 2000

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"tylersmom" (Southern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sesame Street: Baby and Me (CD-ROM)

My 14 month old absolutely adores this software program. The Peek-a-boo game makes him laugh out loud, pointing at the screen, and hitting keys on the keyboard. They don't have to be computer proficient to love these games. I would recommend it highly.