In Dragon Tales Learn and Fly with Dragons explore Dragon Land as you help Cassie's brothers and sisters learn to fly. Earn a Dragon Badge by using your early math and thinking skills to round up the Royal Horseflies, find toys for Zak and Wheezie, play hide-n-seek with the Nodlings, and more. Then, make your Dragon Badge glow by learning unique flying skills you can use to play an action-packed game.

Disney's Magic Artist Studio lets you draw, paint, and create animations with your favorite Disney characters. Create, animate, and print your images with tools and paints that burst onto your screen. Roses sprout from your canvas, and butterflies soar through 3-D paintings virtually dripping with color. Disney character images dance to disco, rock, classical, and island beats.

In Strawberry Shortcake Incredible Cookie Machine, kids will follow their tastes buds to exercise their brains!

Zoboomafoo Creature Quest

Help Jay Jay Earn His Wings and Learn about NatureNumbers & MathProduct InformationJay Jay is nearly ready to embark on his very own delivery route! But first theyoung jet plane must show he has mastered all the right skills. Hit the skywayfor fun games and lessons about nature numbers and math. Help Jay Jay pick uppackages and pass his tests with flying colors!  Help Jay Jay prove he'sready to fly solo on his own delivery route.  Create colorful drawings withJay Jay and learn about nature numbers and more!  Celebrate success withJay Jay and his fabulous fleet of flying friends.  Then celebrate with thebest fleet of friends a child could ever have!Get ready for a magical flight with Jay Jay!Skills Learned Nature Science Addition Measuring Sequences Estimating Matching Comparison Number Recognition Pattern Completion Following Instructions Deductive Reasoning Coloring & Creativity Critical Thinking Computer SkillsIncludes 6 Activities Nature Videos Fun Jay Jay Songs Fun PrintablesFun Activities IncludeWhich Animal?Find the right animals at E.Z. O'Malley'sTM Ranch! Listen carefully to theclues. You only get three chances to choose!Lightning Bug PatternsLightning bugs dance creating a pattern of colored lights. Click on the bugsthat repeat the same pattern sequence!Number ChaseHelp HerkyTM The Helicopter round up numbers on a slippery slalom. Follow JayJay's directions to stay on course!Stack & MeasureUse a variety of tools to measure objects for Big Jake'sTM cargo hold. Thatbicycle is two hammers highApple SortingRed yellow and green apples fall to the ground. Sort the apples into thecorrect baskets by color and quantity.Windows Requirements Windows 95 98 Me 2000 XP Pentium II 266MHz or equivalent processor 64MB free RAM (128 MB RAM for Windows XP/2000) 35MB Free Hard Drive Space 8X CD-ROM 16 bit DirectX compatible 2MB memory Windows compatible sound card speakers and mouse 800X600 16 bit display QuickTime 5

Combines exciting multimedia technology with great story-telling traditions that have brought Bible stories to life for thousands of years. Teaches kids, reinforces, and tests their general knowledge of the Bible.

With this playset, kids can actually drive Thomas the Tank Engine, toot his horn, switch tracks, link him to other trains, and engage in all manner of Usefulness, the chief currency of the Island of Sodor. The Thomas-shaped plastic playset straps easily over standard keyboards (not ergonomic ones or laptops). A red throttle moves Thomas forward or backward along the track. A green lever switches tracks to change direction. A yellow whistle noisily announces Thomas's arrival and also helps him link and uncouple with other trains. Finally, Thomas's smiling face is a button that can be pushed to get hints and friendly patter. These four simple controls make this an inspired CD-ROM that will suit a wide range of ages. Toddlers will love simply throttling Thomas around the tracks, while older kids will enjoy games that encourage spatial skills, decision making, and problem solving.

The four main games are wonderful, involved exercises. They all involve Thomas being helpful: finding "Important Supplies"; locating the "Missing Mail Truck," then helping to sort its mail; rescuing stranded passengers in "All Aboard," then making sure they are properly ticketed and delivering them safely to their destinations; and rebuilding an avalanche-damaged track in "It's a Landslide!"

These games are somewhat complex: in the landslide game, kids must switch tracks, couple Thomas with the Troublesome Trucks, haul rocks up mountains, signal Harold the Helicopter to unload the rocks, then deliver the empty trucks to James for hauling away. Thomas's water supply must be watched and replenished during this strenuous work. And after the rocks are in place, there's still work to do! Only after kids go to another screen to collect flatbeds and track pieces from Cranky the Crane, then deliver those parts to the mountaintop, is the job done. Phew!

Also, if players abandon a game without completing it, they can't access any of the four mini games (which are mazes and races), and Sir Topham Hatt will chide in his chipper manner: "There's still a lot of work to be done!" This is not a CD-ROM for the lazy, and fortunately, the folks who made it didn't use any shortcuts either. Older systems without a lot of storage space may have trouble digesting this graphics-heavy program, but for us the program chugged along like Thomas himself, and the action on the screen corresponded smoothly with whatever control was being used on the playset. "Builds a work ethic" isn't one of the features mentioned on the box, but this diligent program and playset could put youngsters on the right track. (Ages 3 and older) --Anne Erickson

Reader Rabbit Kindergarten Special 2-CD Edition

George is up to his usual antics, sending circus animals flying through the air in dashing acrobatics in six games and activities that will teach children how to recognize letters, sounds, and to sound out words.