- Platform: Windows, Macintosh
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Everyone - Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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The Cat is back--Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat that is, and so are Thing One and Thing Two, his mischievous sidekicks. Kids play along with Tommy and Sally, and their rainy afternoon gets a big boost when the Cat in the Hat "steps in on the mat." Filled with fun activities, kids can turn the house upside down and inside out playing three games: The Balancing Act, The Clean-up Machine, and Pop-Up Activities. Designed to delight ages 3 to 7, children also expand their vocabulary, develop word recognition, practice reading, and more.
In The Balancing Act, kids interact with the Cat in the Hat by balancing his load as he holds up just about every household item imaginable. Children add things or take them away from each side to keep the Cat from falling, and, when he falls, it's no small crash. In The Clean-up Machine, children help clean up the mess created by clicking on objects around the room and directing the arms of the Clean-Up Machine. Other fun activities appear as clickable objects in Pop-Up Activities. Click and throw a basketball, design a portrait, and more.
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The Cat is back! This time he's in your house and on your PC! Follow along as the story is read, or click on objects and play games. As kids play along, they will discover big and small surprises along the way. (Ages 3-7)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect Introduction to Computers for Young Children!,
By shannonhills (southern california) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)
I bought this CD-Rom a year ago, in preparation for my young son's inevitable interest in computers. I had no idea what it did, what games it had, etc. When my 4-year old son put it in the computer for the first time, I was blown away. It is so much more than the review indicates. This core of the disc is the Cat In The Hat story, but the level of interaction is awesome. On each page, you first hear/see the story. When the narrator is finished reading (or the characters are finished talking) on that page, you get to play. You can click on every single image on the page and it does something creative and entertaining. And not just the characters. I'm talking the floor, the doors, the window shades...even the stairs. Long after my son and I had started playing and I'd been through each page dozens (maybe hundreds) of times, he discovered new things to click on that were even more enteratining than those I'd shown him. For example, in the page showing Thing 1 and Thing 2 flying their kites in the hall, if you click on the stairs it starts moving like an escalator, mall "muzac" starts playing, and Thing 1 and Thing 2 appear on the escalator as shoppers, saying, respectively, "I've sure got a lot of things to return," and "I've sure got a lot of things to destroy." This program is absolutely darling, and you grown-ups won't mind being called over to the computer repeatedly when your little one announces, "Mom, look what happens when I click on the Cat's hat!" In terms of age-range, it's perfect for a first-time exposure to computers, yet I believe it would appeal to older children as well. My son, who just turned 4, had never used a computer before, and yet in no time he was navigtating by himself and clicking on everything in sight. He even found out how to shut the program down before it ends, whereas I had been using control-alt-delete! At the same time, my boyfriend's 10-year old and his friends can't keep from looking over my son's shoulder and excitedly telling him to "click on the fish! click on the bed!" Graphically, I don't have a lot of experience with this type of software, but the program is completely animated. It's not just static pictures of the story-book pages. The animation is along the lines of the 1971 Cat In The Hat Original TV Series DVD (which tells a different story, but is another must-have!). Educationally, I can't give an opinion because my son hasn't started to read yet and isn't too interested in the words yet. But I do know that it seems to have the same abilities and features as Leap Pad books: it shows the written storybook as it narrates the animation, highlighting each word as it is read, and it repeats the words if your child clicks on them (with some funny variations). All in all, a wonderful, entertaining program for both children and their parents who will endure its endless repetitions!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cat in the Hat,
By Ann (Nanjing, CHINA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)
Have used Dr Suess books, especially Cat in the Hat, to teach English to young learners. With the animation and learning support offered by this excellent CD-rom, language development is readily stimulated. The children beg for it day after day!
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3.7 out of 5 stars (10 customer reviews) 12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)
This is a geat program. My husband bought the program when our daugter was about 4 months old and she just loved watching the book being read to her. Now she is about a year old and has to play the game every night before bed. It is a wonderful program, you can have the book read to you or you can choose to play on each of the pages. We are always finding somthing new on the pages. I just hope thay make one for The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Nice but boring,
By Paula Cohen Martin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)
My 3 year old is a big fan of The Cat in The Hat so I was thrilled to find this software. While it's amusing both he and I were very quickly bored. The book is "read" to you and then you get to interact with the images on the page, but there are very few actual "games" and even those are uninteresting. Objects and characters move, speak or do silly things when you click on them but nothing is challenging or requires any thought. There are a few exceptions (on one page you can rearange a portrait on the wall, on another make the cat balance more items...) but it's just nothing interesting and there's not enough...
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very engaging,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)
I bought this when my daughter was two years old. She continued to view it regularly for almost two years. There are a lot of different things for her to see on each screen, and it is very interactive. By clicking on the various items, Christina is rewarded with all kinds of surprises. We are still finding surprises that we weren't aware of previously! Highly recommend this!!
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