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Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library
Educational video game series

Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library is a series of four edutainment games from The Learning Company as part of the Reader Rabbit franchise. The first two games were developed in October 1995 and the last two were developed in 1996. The products make use of interactive storybooks based on fairy tales to help early readers broaden their reading, vocabulary, writing and word recognition skills. Each number in the title corresponds to the reading level of the reader they are aimed at.

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Gameplay

In each game, the player has two storybooks to choose from. There are three versions of each story, the first told by Sam the narrator called the "Classic" version and the latter two as different perspectives of characters from the story. The story can be read entirely by the narrator or it can be read by the user with guidelines. The games also include three activities to further enhance learning to read.1 With both the manual and automatic modes, users can read the stories at their own pace.2

Books

GameReleaseBookPagesAlternate narrator 1Alternate narrator 2
Development Library 11995The Three Little Pigs21Second PigWolf
Goldilocks and the Three Bears21GoldilocksBaby Bear
Development Library 21995City Mouse, Country Mouse19City MouseCountry Mouse
Jack and the Beanstalk22GiantJack
Development Library 3Winter 19963The Princess and the Pea16Princess LaurelPrince Albert
The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg14GooseMr. Farmer
Development Library 41996King Midas16MerrigoldKing Midas
The Ugly Duckling13QuillMr. Croak

Availability

Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library 2 was included as the second CD in Reader Rabbit's Complete Learn to Read System, simply titled "Classic Tales".4

Reception

ReceptionReview scores
PublicationScore
CD-ROM Today (Level 1 & 2)5
Family PC85% (Level 3)6
MacUser7

The games were positively reviewed and praised primarily for the variety of retelling the story from multiple points of view.89

See also

References

  1. "The Learning Company brings to life 'The Princess and the Pea' and 'The Goose that laid the Golden Egg'". PRNewswire. January 8, 1996. Archived from the original on February 15, 2018. Retrieved February 15, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180215144036/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/'READER+RABBIT'S+READING+DEVELOPMENT+LIBRARY+3'+FROM+THE+LEARNING...-a017982558

  2. Blasko, Larry (June 16, 1996). "CD-Rom -- Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library 3". Seattle Times. Retrieved May 6, 2020. https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19960616&slug=2334810

  3. "The Learning Company brings to life 'The Princess and the Pea' and 'The Goose that laid the Golden Egg'". PRNewswire. January 8, 1996. Archived from the original on February 15, 2018. Retrieved February 15, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180215144036/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/'READER+RABBIT'S+READING+DEVELOPMENT+LIBRARY+3'+FROM+THE+LEARNING...-a017982558

  4. "Reader Rabbit's Complete Learn to Read System". Archived from the original on February 26, 2008. Retrieved May 4, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20080226195726/http://school.discoveryeducation.com/parents/reviewcorner/software/rrlearntoread.html

  5. "CD-ROM Today, October 1995". Retrieved May 4, 2017. A simple but enjoyable way for young readers http://www.cdaccess.com/html/shared/readdev1.htm

  6. "Family PC, October 1996". Retrieved May 4, 2017. http://www.cdaccess.com/html/shared/readdev3.htm

  7. LeVitus, Bob (December 1995). "The Game Room". MacUser. Archived from the original on January 22, 2000. https://web.archive.org/web/20000122070956/http://macuser.zdnet.com:80/mu_1295/personal/gameroom.html

  8. "Sounding out Stories with Reader Rabbit - The Sunday Courier". Retrieved May 4, 2017. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=896&dat=19960609&id=Z6BSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hH0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4799,1479893&hl=en

  9. "Sounding out Stories with Reader Rabbit - Argus Press". Retrieved May 4, 2017. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=19960622&id=B24iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=w6wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1288,5021839&hl=en