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Dragon Tales: Learn & Fly with Dragons

(2004, Computer Software - Preschool, Rated EC, Play it on: Mac/Windows)
  • Is it age appropriate?

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    Not age appropriate for kids under 4, age appropriate for kids over 5; suggested age 5.
  • Is it any good?

    5.0
  • Common Sense says

    Fly with dragons while learning math and logic.

Why We Rated This on for Ages 5 and Up

The good stuff

  • Educational value:

    Not an issue.
  • Messages:

    Not an issue.
 

What to watch out for

  • Violence & scariness:

    Not an issue.
  • Language:

    Not an issue.
  • Consumerism:

    Not an issue.
 

What Parents Need to Know

This review of Dragon Tales: Learn & Fly with Dragons was written by Jinny Gudmundsen

Parents need to know that this software provides a lot of bang for the buck with 11 educational activities. Kids love playing with the characters from the Dragon Tales PBS television show.

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  • Families can talk about how some of the activities relate to real-life experiences. What seems familiar? Also, families can talk about how the young dragons help their neighbors in Dragon Land. Kids: How could you help people in your community?
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What’s the Story?

Flying baby dragons and fanciful fairies await children in Dragon Tales: Learn & Fly with Dragons, featuring the stars of the Dragon Tales PBS preschool show. Cassie, the pink dragon, needs help teaching her younger siblings how to fly. Players join Cassie in taking her siblings on adventures during which they earn their Dragon Badges, a prerequisite to learning to fly.

To earn a Dragon Badge, each dragon needs to help two inhabitants of Dragon Land. When baby dragon Val stops to help Arlo put his prize-winning junk pile back in order, for example, the player learns spatial relationships by deciding whether to shrink or expand an item to make it fit in the hole in the pile. Other activities involve counting, memory games, logic, creativity, shape recognition, patterns, and following directions. After the dragons have earned their badges, they head to the Training Course to learn flying moves through more preschool learning.

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Is It Any Good?

By the time the little dragons have learned to fly, kids will have played 11 math and logic activities, which automatically adjust in difficulty depending on the child's responses. This delightful software comes packaged with a free Dragon Tales book.

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Publisher’s Details

Released on 08/12/2004, price $20.00, not online enabled
ESRB rating: EC

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