A Day at the Beach With the Fuzzooly Family

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A Twenty-four hours at the Beach with the Fuzzooly Family unit

For Ages 3 to eight

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Reviewed on:
PowerMac 6100/60 with 8MB and 2XCD
Pentium90 with 8MB and a 2XCD

Content
A Day at the Beach with The Fuzzooly Family is an interactive storybook near a family�s beach adventures. The words are highlighted as the narrator reads them -- which could help with discussion recognition if your child pays attending. More on that afterwards. In a variation on the standard animated book motif, the user is allowed to "jump into" each of the screens to participate in the story through games and activities. For example, in one scene there is trash all over the beach and the child must help clean it up and make up one's mind which trash is recyclable.

There are many things to explore inside each activity, and the games and activities change slightly each time they appear -- at least that'due south the claim and was true in our tests. In one activity, Herman the Hermit Crab has lost his crush and the child must aid him pick a new ane. Each time this activity comes up, there are different shells for Herman to pick from. �My son was very proud about new discoveries he made within the program,� one parent wrote. �Each animation held and so much to see.�

Ease of Install / Use
Installing the Fuzzooly Family CD is fairly simple. Once the programme starts, you volition demand the manual. Pocket-size tasks such as how to turn pages in the story (click on the screen margin in the direction you want to movement) and how to skip over songs or animations are not immediately obvious. The transmission is concise and helpful.

Methodology
The Fuzzooly Family unit has wonderful graphics, sounds and games that will entertain your child and help him or her with introductory computer skills. However, this is more entertainment than educational reading software. While the reading part of the plan may assist with reading skills, just as any reading you practice with your child is beneficial, information technology is not the focus of the program. In fact, most of our kid testers skipped the reading altogether, and jumped correct into the exploration activities. When questioned as to why they skipped the story, the more calculator-experienced kids replied that "the story isn't nigh as interesting as the [activities]." We think that they're correct; when compared with other interactive books, the Fuzzooly Family unit has a weaker story, but better interactive options.

The activities will assistance a young child improve beginning computer skills, small motor skills, and center-hand coordination. Near of the activities crave some planning and involve apply of the mouse to click and drag items on the screen. Some of the games are environmentally focused. Several of our parent reviewers felt that the Fuzzooly Family unit �would be a great start program for a child.�

Proxy Parent Value
The Fuzzooly Family is an entertaining program for kids. The instructions within the program are articulate and there is a lot of feedback for the child. Once a child has mastered the bones skills necessary to utilise the software, he or she will exist happy to play alone with it. �My daughter took the plan over in one case we had worked through it. She was so busy with information technology, I cooked dinner in peace,� wrote a parent reviewer.

Best for...
Davidson recommends the Fussooly Family for children age three to 8. Some iii year-olds volition non exist ready for information technology and many 8 year-olds will be bored with it, just the age range works as a guideline. The plan should be pop with most kids -- your child does not need to have any special interests to savour information technology.

Bottom-Line
Our reviewers would buy The Fuzzooly Family again. It is fun and entertaining, it helps children gain and improve upon basic computer skills, and it appeals to nigh kids. I child�south biggest complaint was, �My friends all want to play with it all the time.� Our only caution: don't wait your kids to read along with the narrator before jumping into the activities, unless you're sitting alongside them.

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	PC	Macintosh
Operating System	Win95 or Windows three.ane or higher	Organization 7.1 or later
CPU Blazon and Speed	486/33 MHz or faster	Centris, Performa or better
Difficult Drive Infinite	1 MB	n/a
Memory (RAM)	8 MB	eight MB
Graphics	256 colour monitor, 640 x 480	256 color monitor
CD-ROM Speed	2x	2x
Sound	Sound Equalizer or compatible	n/a
Other Needs	QuickTime SW (incl)	QuickTime SW (incl)

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