Dora the Explorer: Fairytale Adventure PC Play Pack
Ages: eC - Early Childhood Ages 3-6

Kids who watch the Nickelodeon channel will already be familiar with Dora -- the bilingual half-pint Latina. The game gives you free choice of going through the story and playing the games or going directly to the adventure game mode. There are three levels of difficulty to choose from which actually make the games more complex instead of simply making them longer. The maze game at the top level is as good as it gets. I recommend reading the manual that comes with the game, otherwise you might miss the storybook activities. I'll tell you anyway. There are three fairytales, three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstralk and The Gingerbread Man in both English and Spanish, which you can read, print and color or have read to you. There are also 14 songs from the cable show. During the whole adventure Dora speaks in both languages. Don't be surprised of your little one starts shouting, "Vaminos!". Oh, and the game comes packaged with little Dora herself.

Reviewed by: Editor - 11/04