(Rage) and Quiet - Orisinal***

Orisinal: morning sunshine. The land of pastel colours, of restful beauty, of gentle tinkling music, and - fast moving eyes and fingers! The personal playground of Ferry Halim, as the artist himself puts it, is an oasis of pretty little games which will appeal to your aesthetics as well as provide you with some finger fun. You? Yes, you, for unfortunately, the colour scheme, no matter how pleasing to adult eyes, just doesn't hold interest for the very young. The games have cute themes and characters, but by and large are too fast for little fingers, so that doesn't help either. The game premise is usually very simple, as in the teatime game below where the mice have to be moved out of harm's way by simply clicking above or below them, but the pace is relatively fast for tiny tots, and they get discouraged after a while.



The main page is a flash animated page but it doesn't take long to load at all. Hovering over a little thumbnail will light it up with brighter colours, and its name will appear below.



There are games which are easy to play of course, and even toddlers may enjoy watching them as you play and provide commentary, but you have to play all forty six of them first to be able to figure out which these are! Whether that is a bonus or extra work is your take! Starry night, for example, requires simple mouse movement to bounce the yellow star in such a way as to light up the other stars.



The site does have ads, but they are unobtrusive, at the bottom of the page, so the experience is not spoiled. The music, as I said, is wonderfully peaceful.

Here is a snapshot from the bungee bear game. Catch a rabbit from behind by jumping (using the left click) and you get points. Bang into it from front, and no good results. Trouble is, mouse movement, even a little bit, will often reverse your direction, so if you thought this was a simple game, just try it!



Below the games, in the miscellaneous section, you will find buttons for the store, flowers, rain, guest book, link back, wallpapers and trailer. Of these, flowers is a sort of ecard - there are a few pale (really pale!) pink flowers to be picked from the garden, resized and rotated and stuck in a crystal orb, so you can send them to - me :) Or anyone, of course. But the best is the rain button. Click to get a visual of a garden, or presumably a garden for only a tiny corner of the screen is really visible clearly - and rain falling unending. The music is not quite just rain sounds, but it comes close. Try it for a tranquil Zen experience!

And now for the disclaimer! Not all the games are as little-girl-in-sunshine as I have suggested. There are a couple of bam-bam games as well - but thats your choice. Even those are cute though!

The url - http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

P.S. This is actually the second half of the original post, focusing on the 'quiet'. The first half, on 'rage' will follow. Soon.

Evernote - no, don't note Wild Republic*

Have I mentioned Foxmarks before? I have, right. So today it is the turn of Evernote. A nice way of making notes from webpages and happily forgetting them thereafter. That is, if you are a copious note maker like me. Friends from college (if they are reading at all; likely they are going - ah the advantage of the net -being able to tune out this irritating person!) will remember that. So, today, when vague remembrances in the terra not-so-firma of my mind leaned towards some recipe seen somewhere with brinjal but no oil, I searched all my books where it could possibly be. Then I checked my recipe notebooks. Especially the phone diary, stray scraps of papers on the fridge and backs of envelopes gathered for throwing away. And, finally, long past dinnertime, I remembered! Evernote! A couple of clicks, and I have the recipe, its photo, and the link to the original. A great resource, Evernote, but like all new toys, it had had its days in the sun. Not its fault I am sure. But I am also babbling. Oh dear, I have been reading The Enchanted Castle again, so any faint stirrings of attempts to inject humour into the proceedings may kindly be attributed to that tome. Ahem, returning to Evernote, try it if you haven't already. Its rather nice to be able to clip just one little piece of information that you want rather than copy pasting and then not reading that word document ever, or worse, bookmarking and forgetting why you did so and where. See, its all the same - I lose things all over the place, but still, you, I am sure, are better, by far. Right?



Incidentally, that recipe - it is Mark Bittman's 'cold eggplant salad with sesame dressing'. Very simple, and different, and has no oil, and is tasty. Try!

Wild Republic is a brand of K&M International, Ohio. Founded in 1979 by Gopala B. Pillai, this toy company states that is mission is to "to educate the younger generation about the beauty and wonders of our animal kingdom in a fun and creative manner". Their toys are designed to be as near natural as it is possible for toys to be. But the reason I was going to talk about them was their series of stuffed birds - Audobon birds. These cute stuffed toys produce real bird calls recorded mostly at the Cornell university if I recall correctly, or the Audobon institute, when squeezed. Till sometime back, you could check the entire range of birds online - they featured the real bird, the toy bird, and the birdsong, along with details about the bird's habitat, call and other habits. It was a great introduction to the world of birds for young kids. But, when I checked up today, I found that the site has been totally redesigned and all you get are simple images of the stuffed toys, and not too good at that. To say that I am disappointed is rather an understatement.

Oh well, on with the show!

The kids only section promises more than it delivers somehow. Perhaps it is the slightly flat, not so cute nature of the graphics (not as much as the toys anyway). Or maybe simply the absence of enough games. But I have a feeling that they are building on it, and will likely be introducing more.



The games section has a couple of puzzles, and one game where the child will click and drag names under photos of five stuffed toys. The paint section has five images to colour. Routine stuff. I guess by this time I have become something of a connoisseur in kiddie games, and nothing but the 'excellent' satisfies! Maybe someone should employ me as their resident critic if not a contributor! (Nindak nearey rakhiye etc. etc.)



The other finding, other than the disappointing one that is, was this animation movie - Stripes is a hero. A large one, and a nice idea for storyline, but the execution was, once again, less than perfect. The animation had a slightly puppet-ish quality to it, some visuals were repeated (kids catch that very quickly!), and once again, the characters not too cute or original either.



A webcam, a link to find zoos, and e-postcard makes up the rest of this section. If the birds had still been there, I would have given this site three stars, meaning worth checking out. As it is, check it out on a rainy day, or if you are planing to buy a product and looking up anyway. I have the birds and I can recommend those for sure! (The only problem is that their battery runs out after 4000 squeezes and you'd have to open the seams and 'unstuff' the bird to replace it.)

URL for the kids section - http://www.wildrepublic.com/kids.html

P.S. The site takes a little while to load up, being all animated. You can safely skip the intro :)

P.P.S. Nindak nearey rakhiye is the beginning of a hindi couplet which essentially means that you should keep a critic very close, for who else will give you the kind of feedback that will make you grow?

Walk backwards to the Elk story***

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Walking backwards

"Tom has taken to walking out of rooms backwards. He'll be standing there, watching Joanne and I in the kitchen, and it will occur to him that he should be in the next room. "Bye bye!" he'll say, and completely fail to turn around before leaving. Every once in a while, he'll keep offering "Bye byes!" as he heads out. I mean, he's still facing us, so why not?

I am constantly astonished at how often he tries something new, just to see what it feels like, just to gain a different perspective on this world thing we've got going. The boy's got no inertia, no reason not to experiment. Life is a block box to him, to be toyed with and poked at until it does something interesting. Why not walk out of a room backwards? Why not run in circles until you fall down? Why not touch this or jump on that or scream for no reason or just babble to yourself, to see what sounds you can make? Why not do something new every day? Why not?"

Why not?

Ponder on these words for now :)

Today's featured website is another of those leaves fluttering on a lonesome branch all by itself. Ladies, gentlemen and children, let the curtain rise without more ado on this incomparable production - My Life as an Elk, starring you and the elk, hosted at The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Wyoming, USA. Claps and whistles please!

The museum is a great treasure find by itself when you are in the vicinity of the Grand Canyon and can take some time out to browse its galleries. Its website is also ok, but nothing exceptional. Of the games it offers - Art tales is out of commission, and Rungius leads to an error message, so I have no idea what they are! Animal athletes is an interesting concept: it has directions for real life games like sharks and dolphins (a swimming tag game when kids pretend to be sharks and dolphins) or the missing prairie dog hole game (a sort of variation on musical chairs with children being the prairie dogs). I guess it'll come in handy when you have a bunch of kids all learning the same things about prairie dogs or such, and you can reinforce the message while playing.

So, the only actual online game is - My life as an elk, and its not really a game. More of an interactive story. But wow, what a story! Just goes to show how much you can teach with some imagination and hard work.



Right in the beginning, with the sound of elks baying in the background, you can choose if you want the narration on or off. If the child is old enough to read, go with narration off - it slows things down somewhat. But keep the sounds on: you don't get to hear those sounds often in the city! The next choice is that of female or male, and a name of course. Thereafter the story starts right after 'your' birth, and leads up to migration to the elk refuse in deep winter.



The palette of the storyboard is rather dull for small children, but it does bring out most of the artwork in the story - paintings and sketches with bit of info about them that you can discuss at the same time. With each change of scene, leaves fall, first green, then yellow-red, and finally snowflakes. Winds howl and birds twitter. At crucial junctures, you have to decide, as the baby elk, if you want to flee or hide, swim or walk - and each choice tells you something about the elk. There is just enough information to be interesting and not overwhelming. Such a lovely tool to teach children about the wild, about art, about natural history! What a pity that it is over so soon! And I do wish that they had made the artwork clickable, or at least had another section showing these in detail, so you could really look them over.

The url for the elk's story - http://www.wildlifeart.org/Learn/Games/ElkStory/
(If you want to check the other pages, follow the appropriate links above.)

P.S. Its not done to quote nearly half of another's post - especially when it only one interesting line behind. Of interest to me I mean. But I just couldn't find a way to get this anecdote of Greg Knauss at the blog An Entirely Other Day shortened without punching its meaning. He says it so well that I really don't wish to add any more to it.

Except to admire also his ability to see the magical quality of his son's simple silly antics. I would have dismissed it as nonsense. Or laughed at it, perhaps, if not scolding to 'watch where you are going' so as to not bump and break things. The knowledge of this rigidity of mine is a very painful realization, more so when I recall, albeit with the mist of time shrouding this immense distance, the wondering, curious, exploring young person I used to be... I need, my child needs, more flexibility, more bridging towards what I used to be; why and how did the responsibility that came with parenthood turn such a damper? Am I answering my own question here? Or just proving the point?

P.P.S. I have a feeling that I am missing something about Greg Knauss. Was he some pioneer of the blog world? Of the net? Someone I ought to know of but don't? He disappeared off the net sometime after this entry - I can't find any recent posts or activity in his name (reading the old ones though), but surely I am missing something! What do you know about him?

P.P.P.S. Oh god, not again! The font gods at blogger have once again chosen to impose their wish upon mine, and try as many times as I might, I just can't get the font changed in the first para. Sorry folks.

Of trains and Thomas the tank engine***

Oh well, some posts just aren't meant to be. For the entire last month, I have been thinking of writing about - umm, shall we let that be a secret for a while more? Suffice it to say that this post, started actually a couple of days back, was supposed to be IT. And then, it isn't. All because I saw this photo by Jan Bussey, over at Cascade Exposures. (Note: photo copyright rests with Jan Bussey; not to be reproduced without permission. And yes, I have permission!) It is so well taken that merely looking at it makes me feel the shaking jolting train under my feet, the gravel flowing still underneath. And I remember.

The feel of wind, warm but easy, whipping my face, tangling my hair, leaning out of the door hanging by the handles, courting danger, or into the window grill, facing the engine shooting soot. From time to time, the whiff of seas, the freshness of foothills, the earthiness of gobar piles and choked up ponds, the unusual aroma of those little yellow catkins on thorny trees I never knew the name of, the smell of greenery at dusk.

The village panoramas, the countless eucalyptus rushing past, the bullock cart on distant dirt roads, the herds of thin cows, the hankies of yellow or green pocketed in little fields, the desolation of dry river beds. The road running alongside a long while, with its line of apparently motionless trucks peeking between trees, the tableaux of tractors at crossings; the children, recoiled from in their unknown-ness, shouting, throwing pebbles, following; the unending wires keeping company to the train tracks.

The feeling of freedom, of anticipation and adventure, of summer holidays. And later, traveling along, of being suspended for a while in a space time where you can be just who you are, or want to be, not needing to be the role you play...



And, after a little while, as nostalgia wears off, and I remember other journeys besides those made as a child to nani's, I remember also the hidden faces of smart cities - the clustered asbestos roofs all different levels tagged on to each other like art nouveau multimedia collages; the railway houses, all alike in their unimaginative boxness, dry and gardenless for the most part; the slums and rotting garbage piles, and the haphazard back alleys in posh colonies seen from a different perspective... The gleeful child's outlook gets tempered with new found vision of the anguishing adolescent. The children, too thin, feet unshod, asking for money or food as they run; the little windblown heaps besides the tracks of discarded plastic bottles, cups, plates and other stuff; the shit on the tracks, the spits inside, on floors too dusty to lean down and open bags on, the stinking spilling toilets. All of a sudden, I am grown up, just going from one place to another, choosing instead of windy second class carriages - being able to choose, the first class, then A/C cars, and not going back, for any romance that had been in the past. As the windows dull with darkened double glass, and preferred overnight fast trains, books, always a companion, become even more so. I now, fret about seats, worry about baggage safety, avoid sticky conversations with uncomfortable fellow passengers, looking in vain for more congenial beings. I remember the emotions, and I long for - but seldom find, or allow myself to find, that feeling of being complete, myself, whole, undivided and exultant, as I sit in the train carrying me hither. I sit and muse about recent events of life, think of the loved ones left behind more often than not, plan for the chores ahead, already trying to manage tight time schedules from taking this break...

The train journey becomes, now, just travel.

On, then, to today's site - Thomas and friends! I haven't yet touched on the sites of the popular tv networks, except BBC, for a good reason. They each have far too many characters, and so, games, with little common except that these shows are on that particular network. I have been wondering how best to approach them - according to the shows, or the networks, or bit of both, and it appears now that I shall have to do the last. For this site is actually owned by HIT entertainment, UK, although the copyright for Thomas and friends is owned by Guillame (Thomas) Ltd. If I had a post on HIT, there would be, understandably, very little info about Thomas. But on the other hand, because there are links from here to the other shows of HIT, I can't not mention them either :)

The url I have linked to will take you to the initial choose-your-country page. When I last checked, each country had slightly different games and layout, but at the time of posting, at least the sites for UK and USA are now identical.



The home page above will link to activities, games and engines - which is all about the various engines featured in the show, and is quite useful for the little fans out there. The activities page has some colouring sheets for offline work, plus other downloadables like posters and wallpapers. It also has simple games - an online colouring one and a decorate the sheds game.



The games on the site are not too complex either, doable by a preschooler on the main. The graphics, on the other hand, throughout the site, are excellent.



The usual matching game, puzzle and click to burst balloon games are present, of course. Common, but fun for young kids nevertheless. The ones which are slightly challenging are the remote control and race games. Building an engine or the lego station are easy as well.



The emotions game is an unexpected finding here. It consists of matching the emotion named with the engines shown, and is useful for the toddler group as well. In fact, for most games I have found that an adult playing them will keep infants and toddlers engaged as long as the visuals are good and there is something happening as opposed to just numbers or words on the screen.



The url - www.thomasandfriends.com

P.S. For the life of me, can't remember any train poems that I have liked! Can you?

Children's book trust and the Rosetta project****

Continuing our discussion of small publishers in Indian children's literature, I doubt if the Children's Book Trust can be called 'small'. Established in 1957, the trust publishes up to or more than 100 titles annually - but this data from their website is apparently from 1997, judging by their referring to CBT being 50 years old. In any case, it has been around for a very long time, though its visibility, even in the country is rather low. I wonder why that is the case, considering that the books are really pocket friendly - the picture books for example, may be priced as low as Rs. 15 - 25, and there is a significant, if not large, choice available. I haven't found these books at most of the big bookstores. Nor have I seen them in the nukkad stationery shops, where at least they could have jostled for attention with similar priced alphabet and number and picture and activity books from other publishers. There isn't even a possibility of buying their books online, so the nostalgic NRI must needs buy them in person on the next visit home...



The print quality is usually good, the storylines marginal to good - the art better. Once again, there is a wide difference between the truly creative books (of which there are more than a few) and the ones which appear to be written just by throwing a few sentences together. But for all that, they constitute a marvelous introduction to reading for the Indian child, because all of them are India centric. The characters, even the animals, are Indian, as is the milieu. The books are in English, and Hindi, but none bilingual. This I think is a major drawback, for at one stroke it alienates the entire non-hindi speaking populace, and does not allow for the possibility of a child learning to read English through these books.

The other problem I see is that there is very little of contemporary reference. I totally agree with the need for children to be exposed to the rural or semi-urban India, as well as the forests and tribes and ancient tales - all these are stories worth the telling. But we also need new stories, set in the new India, with new concerns and realities. Because when my child grows up, and looks to Enid Blyton for playroom adventures, and sees the tales of Munshi Premchand as distant as Raja Bhoj, I shall have nothing to offer as an alternative. No matter how rigorously I may discuss these picture books now, they are just as much of an 'imaginary' world as those of Finland or Ethiopia. Almost just as exotic. And so when the time comes to allow our children their choice in buying, where will the CBT be? I am supporting it wholeheartedly, but will my child - till a parent?

Children's books online: The Rosetta project is another book related website that I have fallen for. Quite the antithesis of the CBT site - it has freely downloadable (for personal use only) children's books of old which are out of the copyright domain.



Being a volunteer driven project, they are always in need of donations and volunteers - to give books, scan them, translate, and do other chores. You can see that I am setting up for another call to volunteer :) But worth it, don't you think? Especially if you have some old books up in the attic that will be out in the yard sale next. Or if you love the feel of old books, love looking at the illustrations from those times, or even, miss some book handed down from your parents or grandparents. For these books are scanned and posted. Simple, but effective. The text is easily readable as long as the book was well preserved, and they do take care to use only the unspoilt ones.

The books are surprisingly quick to display. Navigation is not thrifty - just arrows for next page, but it works. A few books have translations available, but you have to click for it on each page, and it pops up in a separate small window right in the middle of the page. There is no voice over or other animation. But can you resist looking at the old favourites? Featured here - The tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter,



The little engine that could, by Wally Piper,



and Kidnapped by R.L.Stevenson.



They also have a few multimedia downloads available for sale, along with tee shirts and such in their store.

The url - http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/

P.S. Have you come across the Paper tigers? Reading one of their old blog entries about the Bologna book fair, in which they mention small publishers around the world, I was struck by this fragment - "for without quality it is hard to foster a love of reading and provide the key to the mirror/window." That is at least partly what ails the Indian scene at present: lack of consistent high quality of books. Not just the quality of the printed material, which is quite adequate, but of vision, and of storytelling. In the blog, they have mentioned Tara books, of which I was unaware till Priya commented about them. Now this is a publishing house which seems to have put in all their effort in selling to the global community. The books are priced in about the same range as those of CBT - but in dollars. Which makes it a simple choice for households struggling to manage their budgets - don't buy the book! On the other hand, I wonder what the quality is like? I haven't read any - surprisingly haven't even noticed any in the bookfairs either - so I would welcome information about their books, especially in comparison with the NGOs or CBT/NBT.

Edit 3rd Oct.2008 - I have received word from Guy Chocensky - the webmaster of the Rosetta project, that they are particularly short of funds, and books, at this time. As the traffic on my site is rather too sluggish (euphemism for nobody-reads-this-boo-hoo), I have no great hopes for an immediate response, but am still letting you all know :) Man lives on hope!

And oh, he also says that they have over 600 books :)

Write addict on Children's museum of Indianapolis***

So, is this official addiction, this wanting to write something even when I am not supposed to, especially because I am not supposed to? It is, in its own way, intoxicating, this life of the mind: this reaching within for words, for ideas; this celebrating the power of thought; this glorying in the incredibly awesomeness of thinking. Humble wonder and dizzying sense of mastery unitedly gaze at this prerogative, this privilege of the creation of thought.

So, to counteract, I found this in an article by Mark Ravenhill at the Guardian yesterday - "A personally defined landscape can easily become an enclosed and introverted prison, referring only to itself." One line to remember, to take from another mind. One line, perhaps out of context, surely meaning something else when it was written down, but one line to put my meaning to, here, and flag.

The Children's museum of Indianapolis is apparently the world's largest children's museum, spread over 19 acres of land, receiving more than a million visitors each year. The figures I, however, would be more interested in are the number of visitors to their website! They list fourteen awards, including one from American Library Association. I am not entirely sure that it is all that great a design, but judge for yourself. If you are a teacher, or parent to a home schooling kid, museums in general are a great resource, so this would be handy on that score. They apparently do have study units and other resources for teachers, and conduct workshops at the museum for home schooling kids, for which you can register. I, on the other hand, have so far been solely concerned with the total experience of a site, which includes content as well as layout and ease of usage, so I was not overly thrilled by the very functional look. Once you overcome that first prejudice, the kids section of the menu will lead you to games according to age - preK to grade 2, grades 3-5 and grades 6-8.



The games open in new windows, which may or may not be full sized. Some of them are allied to the exhibits at the museum - in fact the window will also have information about show timings and other such tidbits. Others are plain games. A few are common i.e. they have three levels corresponding to the three age groups previously defined, while others are unique for that group.

Among the games for the younger children, I was enticed by the label of trains of past, present and future. However, the name was deceptive, and the game involved placing passengers and cargo in the correct train compartment and such. It has three levels involving visuals versus increasing use of reading, but adult help may still be required, if only to maintain some interest. An interesting game for children nevertheless.

Build your robot is exactly what the name says, and is enjoyable and funky. You can print out the robot image when you are finished.

Dinosphere is one of the games allied to their exhibits, and has three levels, not all of which may be incompatible with your young child's understanding. Explore and see. The dinosaur related ABCs were disappointing for some very mundane and stretching a point entries. Other activities were more fun. The older children get a better deal with thought provoking discussions about whether fossils are or ought to be private property etc.



Fireworks of glass allows you to place some virtual glass bobbles on a wire framework - a simple and fun task well within a preschooler's range, even at the third level. There are also level based informational modules to do with glass sculpting, which were too dry for my kid though.

Haunted house is the section most enjoyable in October, because the games are simple colouring, puzzles and catching treats by using the keyboard.



Jolly days winter wonderland has suggestions for kids to play offline during winter - nothing great. The puppet game has great potential, and I thought it would be fun to talk about puppets of the world, but it invariably messes up on my browser. The first level starts off with giving different puppets personalities - good for helping children identify emotions and their expressions. The next section logically ought to have something to do with using or mobilizing these puppets, but it doesn't. Instead you have to match some puppet photos with the kind of puppets they are - invariably this is where we get a blank so I don't know more :) And there is no back button, so if you have to go back and choose another level, you can't.



I am not going to cover the other two age ranges - you can get a good enough idea by the above. Do check out the mummy related animation in the grade 3-5 section though, even for a younger child -



All in all, a very variegated selection of games - understandable as it is not a game site per se. Useful for integration in teaching however. The url - http://www.childrensmuseum.org/

P.S. If you haven't yet read the article quoted above, do. It is an interesting thing, more so because it gives the sense of being slightly incomplete, of being - dare I say it - more of a blog entry than an essay. And the comments are even more interesting, showing the myriad ways his words have been interpreted. Each has seen something just slightly different from the other, enough to cause arguments and discussions if all these people were in the same place, same time.

List of sites covered August - September 2008

Why is it that when you know you can't pin ideas down on paper, they will taunt you with their delicious nearness, soaring on fairy wings just within reach? I had promised myself to work on some other stuff - and bang, every few minutes I'd be thinking, 'I could write about that....' Of course, when I really do sit down to, none of these imps will as much as peep within :)

Anyway, because it has been hard staying away, and because I still want to keep my word, here is just a list of all the posts so far, in alphabetical order, so it may be easier for someone new to find them :)

Animaland*** - preschooler, kindergarten, tween, teen
Artpad*** - preschooler, kindergarten, adult
Babloo - preschooler, kindergarten, tween
Bembo's zoo*** - preschooler, kindergarten, tween, teen
British Council**** - toddler, preschooler, kindergarten, tween
Caillou**** - toddler, preschooler, kindergarten
Cbeebies***** - toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten, tweens (note: this link is to the part IV of th post about cbeebies, but they are linked serial fashion)
Dr. Seuss*** - kindergarten, tween
Fifi*** - preschooler, kindergarten, tween
Faust and Hubert*** - infant, toddler
Fun baby games online*** - infant, toddler
Fisher-Price**** - infant, toddler, preschooler
H.I.P.(History in your pocket) pocket change**** - preschooler, kindergarten, tween, teen
International Digital Children's Library***** - preschooler, kindergarten, tween, teen
Kiddonet*** - toddler, preschooler, kindergarten
Kipper** - toddler, preschooler, kindergarten
Kneebouncers***** - infants, toddlers
Mauki*** - infant
Netsmartzkids*** - kindergarten, tween, teens
Peep and the big wide world***** - toddler, preschooler, kindergarten
Pocoyo*** -infant, toddler
Poisson rouge***** (Red fish) - infants, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten
Spectratone*** - toddler, tween, teen
Starfall**** - toddler, preschooler, kindergarten
Storyplace***** - toddler, preschooler, kindergarten, tween
Tumblebooks***** - kindergarten, tween, teen
Up to ten***** - infant, toddler, preschooler, kindergarten, tween
Visible body**** - preschooler, kindergarten, tween, teen, adult