Winnie the Pooh Storybook

by Disney

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000023VUW
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,517 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #35 in Software > Children's Software > Interactive Books
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Young Winnie the Pooh fans will initially enjoy this 18 screen story of Pooh and his quest for honey. Featuring clear graphics, original narration and orchestrated music, the story contains a mixture of about 100 clickables hidden in the illustrations. There are also four games and five musical videos with classic standard Pooh songs like "Deep in the 100 Acre Wood," and "Little Black Rain Cloud." By moving the bee-shaped cursor around the screen and clicking, children can discover a variety of clever, animated musical routines. Other features allow for easy toggling between English and Spanish, and a slider bar menu makes it easy to get to any page, activity, or song quickly. Despite the quality of the story elements, our testers found the pacing of the program slow and the four games limited. In a butterfly catching game, for example, children are asked to help Roo catch passing butterflies by clicking on them. Each time they click, they hear a reinforcement message that cannot interrupted, such as "you're a good helper," or "that one got away," which interferes with efforts to catch the next butterfly. The need for faster pacing, more child control, and greater challenge range holds true throughout. Activities include an attribute matching game, in which Piglet gives a verbal clue like "I'm looking for something square and made out of wood," plus two matching games and a hide-and-go-seek activity. The activities are generally lacking in educational value. In all, this program makes a good first impression with its wonderful music and graphics, but overdoes the reinforcers and musical routines at the expense of child-control.
Teaches: early learning skills, English, Spanish
Age Range: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue

Product Description

Children can Join Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and the entire gang on a reading adventure. There are plenty of mind-challenging games and sing alongs to make reading fun! Each click of the mouse invites kids to explore and bring new magic to a classic story.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!, January 19, 2002

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apoem "apoem" (Bosque Farms, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winnie the Pooh Storybook (CD-ROM)

First- The story is cute. It is not one my son has gotten tired of. He likes the fact that he can click on different places in the screen and different things will happen. That alone is fun.

Second- I like the fact that you can push a button and the page will be reread. I also like the fact that there is another button that will highlight some words and explain them a little bit more in depth.

Third- My son enjoys the games. I haven't found them to be the most educational games around. However, that isn't why I bought this software. I bought it because my son enjoys Pooh and this is a cute story. The games do require some reasoning skills and are educational. Particularly the one where you have to listen to piglet describe an object and pick it out of a lineup of toys.

Fourth- the cute music songs with the words that are highlighted so you can sing a long are a great bonus for my son. He can't read yet, but he sure likes to point to the words and watch them get highlighted. It is really a prereading type of skill for him right now (words mean something, you read from left to right etc.)

Enjoy.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars response to "Children's Software Revue" review, January 7, 2001

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Bill Penn - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winnie the Pooh Storybook (CD-ROM)

The "Children's Software Revue" review is factually accurate and I found it very helpful when deciding to purchase a version of this CD-ROM. However, I'd like to add a comment to this one section of their review:

"Activities include an attribute matching game, in which Piglet gives a verbal clue like 'I'm looking for something square and made out of wood,' .... The activities are generally lacking in educational value".

Lacking in value? Even though the phrase is modified by "generally", I think it ignores several ways in which this particular activity is potentially useful for particular children. I'm not an expert in cognitive development so I won't say very much about the deductive processing skills being employed (providing that the child happens to be at a level where this helps). My area is language acquisition, specifically foreign language / second language. For children (and adults?) doing this game in a language that is NOT their native one, the activity has educational value.

However, having said that, I wish the clues were repeated more often. If you click on the wrong object, Piglet only says things like "No, that's not the one I'm looking for". He does not repeat the clue. If you didn't catch it the first time, you're out of luck -- you have to click each item until you happen upon the correct answer.

Other than this one point, I agree with the "Children's Software Revue" review: This is a good product. Your kids will like it and you'll get good value for your money.

-------- note --------

I bought the Japanese version in Japan, and it contains the English version. I bought it for my 7-year old daughter, who's fluent in Japanese but not a native-lavel speaker of English. She finds this CD-ROM interesting in both languages, so I believe this CD-ROM will help her English. The US CD-ROM contains a Spanish version, so if your situation involves English and Spanish, my message may be relevant to you.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not something they'll get tired of quickly, December 13, 2000

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Joy Woller (Antioch, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winnie the Pooh Storybook (CD-ROM)

My almost 2 year-old son loves this storybook, and I have to say that even after dozens of play-throughs, I'm still enjoying finding the surprises. The "Read and Play" option allows you to click on objects on each screen, and I'm still discovering secrets (like, if you click on certain things multiple times, the action changes). My son now remembers his favorite hidden tricks, and I think it's a very stimulating, interactive game to be playing with him. This is currently the only software program I have for him, and I'm hoping I can find another of such high quality in case we both get tired of it!