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25.8.2012

What is an Ultra eBook? The foundation is a traditional children's picture book, with short simple sentences. Now, add the ability to touch various items in the book to hear sound effects. For example, touch a bird and it chirps. This is like the LeapFrog Tag books, though the tablet (LeapPad or LeapPad 2) lacks the charm of a physical book. However, since it is built from the ground up for the tablet, the bird would also have a bit of animation. There are many things to click on, and it is fun to see what everything does. The tablet can also detect tilt, so you may see an egg roll across the screen if you tilt it to the side, or a character lose his balance if you shake it. Additionally,much like DS games, a few pages react to blowing on the microphone. In short, the books feel more alive than ever before in the LeapFrog line.The Ultra eBooks also add periodic game breaks throughout the story (around 10 total). As always, you can adjust the difficulty for the age of the child. These games are very short and simple, but do add some solid assistance in learning to spell. It is not like a full lesson, so much as it is sneaking a little bit of extra meaning into the experience. This should work well for kids with short attention spans. The learning element is also supplemented with a list of all the words learned, and the ability to record your own reading of the book. The latter is a little clumsy and unintuitive, but it sounds okay when you get it working.The two stories presented are basic interpretations of Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs. The LeapFrog characters are used, which is great for kids that already know them. The animation style is very charming, somewhere between the LeapFrog DVDs and traditional story book art. There are not many frames of animation, but what is here is impressive. I can see kids falling in love with the stories and going back to them over and over. Music is pretty good quality and not annoying, with computer reproductions of an orchestra. You probably won't be humming them, but they set a nice tone. The narrator does a good job as well, though he reads it a bit straight, considering the material.My only complaint about the material is that in adding the spelling lessons and cutifying these stories, they also largely lost their primary educational value. These classic fairy tales were strongly rooted in illustrating important life lessons. The moral of these LeapFrog versions? I'm not sure.Overall, I think that most children will enjoy the Ultra eBook Fairy Tales and learn a little too. The production values are good and the interactive elements add a lot to the experience.
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24.9.2012

We definitely like this! I would have paused about the price, but this included two stories, amazing graphics (it's kind of like an animated movie/story book), and some games. Definitely worth the price, though the cost can add up, so we'll have to pace ourselves in buying others.When we clicked on the first story, we first got a song about how letters make sounds and sounds make words. It was catchy and fun (and not even annoying to me!).Then it goes to the story, which has periodic breaks for games. I do agree with Leapfrog that this will help my daughter with phonics and sight words. (Sometimes they say something will, and I think it's a reach. Not this time!) Our little guy - who is three - likes to watch her play,so he's learning along with her. The difficulty can be adjusted to make it easier or harder; right now, as a new kindergarten student, we have it at the easiest and it's perfectly at the intersection of ability and challenge, so she's learning without getting frustrated. (She currently knows sounds of each letter and can identify a few basic words.)The stories were definitely changed from the originals. They are the Leapfrog re-tellings, and - for example - The Three Little Frogs story has each frog build a house and then a wolf wants to play after they've built their houses. They don't let him in ("not by the green of my little frog skin"), but the wolf doesn't huff and puff. Instead, the inferior materials of some of the homes just fall apart when the frogs jump. At the end, the story is softened from the original by having the "wolf" actually just be their dog whose shadow looked like a scary wolf. I liked the new stories, and I think it could be a good critical thinking skills exercise for kids to compare and contrast the original story with this one.I do wish the game times were separate from the story. Each game time was fun for our daughter (like one with spelling where she got to chose different vowels to complete a word and then the game read the new word to her and taught her a bit about phonics sounds in the process), but each time felt like an interruption to the story itself. My daughter didn't mind, but it still felt disjointed, and I don't think she retained as much of the story. (For example, she had difficulty re-telling it.) I think as she plays with it again and again it will be less distracting, so I don't think this is a major flaw.Overall, I've been impressed with our Leappad experiences, and this ultra e-book is no exception.
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7.9.2012

This is an excellent product for young readers and children learning to read. It combines a traditional illustrated storybook with interactivity and games. Two fairy tales are included: Three Little Frogs and Leap and the Beanstalk. They've both been Leap-ified so the main characters are frogs.Parents can choose the reading level (or the child can choose for him/herself). Level 1 is for the youngest readers and 3 for older readers. In increasing complexity, for example, the same sentence:1: The frogs want a home.2: The frogs want a new place to live.3: The frogs want to choose a new place to live.Tapping the + icon pulls up a menu. Here, the child can change the reading level, navigate to a different page,record his/her voice to read along, and access the games. Left and right arrow icons change the page. A book icon re-reads the entire sentence. I find these icons a bit too small and perhaps not so intuitive to younger children. They should be large and easy to tap with a finger.There's plenty to do. The characters are all animated ((akin to Flash animation), and some pages have more elaborate animation than others. The backgrounds look like watercolor artwork. Tapping on parts of the screen causes different animation effects to play, or hidden items to pop out. Spoken instructions tell you to shake the LeapPad to interact with the story's characters (like waking someone up or shake a cowbell). In the beanstalk story, you can use the stylus to shake some salt and pepper onto a pot of soup. Badges are sometimes awarded for uncovering hidden letters. All these encourage exploration.There is no way to toggle between repeating whole words and individual letters. Swiping across a word quickly with the stylus repeats the whole word. Swiping slowly or clicking on letters sounds out individual letters or phonic groups (ea, ch). There is some inconsistency here. A few words are repeated whole (want, the) and the rest are broken into phonetic parts (f-r-o-g-s).Another potentially annoying feature is the interruption of phonics games every 5 or 6 pages. The child can cancel the game, but it disrupts the reading experience. Overall, this is a very high quality product and an excellent value. There's a lot for your child to do and explore for the money.
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3.11.2012

This is a great program to introduce or re-enforce skills in phonetics, learning letters, sounding out words and of course reading as a whole.As you go slowly over the letters in the words, the letters are sounded out individually. Swipe over more quickly or click and the word is read out in whole. The mini games are another way to re-enforce spelling and letter recognition. It will ask for missing letters to words, etc. They give some fun of sorts in the midst of the stories and reading. It does break it up a little, but it is adding the re-enforcement of skills. My nephew didn't mind the breaks and actually had fun with the games. It gives a sense of accomplishment when getting them right - pride in a job well done.The stories are there for learning,nnot really for the content of the story itself, so while some "pieces" of the fairy tells might be missing, it does not detract from the learning experience and the stories include enough to be a complete story and hold the child's interest.It is really nice that the eBook can be tailored to the reading level of the child. That means you won't have to buy new programs as the child advances - they are all right there in the same program. A preschooler can use it as well as a first or even second grader.The eBook as a whole is a great product, I believe. It is a great way to have fun while learning. There is such a wide selection of programs available for the LeapPad2. It is a great product. The LeapPad2 itself is so worth the money. It is so very well made and durable. I myself mess/play with it for hours at a time. I was really surprised with it. The standard games alone that come preloaded really do keep you occupied and interested. You know it's bad when a child is begging you to give their toy back! I think it is hands down one of the best investments you could make. The aspect of fun and learning at the same time is priceless and it is such a great quality item.The graphics are great and the sound is great. This applies to all LeapPad eBooks and games that we have tried.5 star product overall. No complaints. It is definitely a worthwhile investment for your child. Educational, but very fun too.
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7.3.2013

My 6 year-old has about 15 games and apps for her LeapPad, and this one is a favorite of both of ours. The Fairy Tales eBook contains two stories, Leapfrog versions of The Three Little Pigs and Jack and the Beanstalk, and has the same basic format as the other Ultra eBooks we own... full-color, interactive, narrated story pages, interspersed with educational mini-games. Leapfrog's versions of the fairy tales are fairly far-removed from the originals, very inoffensive and mild. Though they definitely aren't my favorite retellings, they're not bad stories, and I think my 6 year-old - who knows the original Grimm versions inside and out - actually enjoys spotting and telling me about the differences between the "real" stories and the Leapfrog ones.Anyway,the thing that sets this eBook above the others we own are the learning games... they are much more interesting and far more educational than the others we've tried, as well as being perfectly targeted for the true beginning reader. My favorite activity is one where your child is given an incomplete sentence and asked to drag and drop the missing word into the appropriate spot... it is perfect for learning Kindergarten sight words! Overall, this is one of the better LeapPad learning tools out there and very definitely recommended for Kindergarten-level readers.
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7.9.2012

At the moment, the ebook is my son's favorite. He is not a reader yet, so he listens to the stories over and over again, plays some of the mini games, points to the letters and names them.There are two fairy tales in the collection. YOu can choose one of the three reading levels and get more or less complex text on each page. There are animated pictures everywhere. If you tap on a letter it says the letter sound, there is also a way to make it read the whole word, but I cannot figure out how to do it consistently, unlike the Tag reader books that have an icon at the bottom of each page to choose either word, letter sound or name of the letter. The ebook lets you to read a few pages,then offers to take a break and play, or you can get to the mini-games from the menu on the bottom on the screen. Everything shows in landscape mode, so if you are using the first leappad and your child is left-handed, s/he is in trouble, since the stylus attached on the right side of the screen. They fixed it in the second leappad, thankfully.Overall, it seems to be a great book-game, with maybe a little too much entertainment with less focus on actual learning, but it is very consistent with other leapfrog products, so it was expected.
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10.11.2014

I bought 2 games for my grandson's 6th birthday because I knew he was getting a LeapPad 2. I have never seen his LeapPad--or the games so this review is from the feedback I received from a 6-yr old in kindergarten. When I asked him about his new LeapPad I was surprised that he didn't seem that excited about it since he loves playing a few games I've downloaded for him onto an old 7" tablet. He told me he finished the games the night he got his LeapPad. It was the following week before he got the 2 games I'd purchased, including the one being reviewed. When I asked about this Fairy Tale game from the "Learn to Read Collection", he said it was OK, but he let his 3-yr old sister play with THAT one.He is advanced in his class (Oct. birthdate), and my take on these games is that I probably should have stuck with the next learning level for him. He LOVES the recipe game I bought at the same time which was highly reviewed, and also for the higher learning level. My conclusion is that this game has good learning capabilities, but a person needs to pay attention to the child's level of interest and learning. More advanced kids will lose interest quickly.
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19.9.2012

This Ultra eBook is essentially a couple of digital storybooks (LeapFrog retelling of 3 Little Pigs and Jack and the Beanstalk.) It reads the story's simple sentences out loud to you, and then will let you touch a letter or word to have it sounded out. Every few "pages" there's a break for a different game that builds reading skills. While younger children may enjoy the story portion, they will need some basic beginning reading skills to have a chance at figuring out the games.My assessment is that this will help encourage practice for children who are on the cusp of reading themselves. While it's currently a bit of a stretch for my preschooler, he already enjoys it.It's not currently his favourite game on the LeapPad 2, but he does select it regularly.
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18.10.2012

I got this ebook for the Leap Pad 2 through the Vine program for my Granddaughter to use. I was not familiar at all with the original Leap Pad so I can't make any comparisons. This was an excellent ebook, when I got it I ended up playing with it for over an hour! When Leda came to visit she played with it intently for quite some time. I must say I found the little educational interludes where you played games during the book an interruption, she didn't seem to.When you change the reading level the words used change dramatically, it really does change the reading level. All in all I believe this is an excellent book for fun and educational value.

19.9.2012

This is a great idea for early readers and a great addition to the very impressive LeapPad. It helps develop skills in phonics and recognizing sight words. The interactive aspects help to keep it interesting. Don't you love when learning is fun?! The different learning levels are a wonderful idea for not only keeping your children challenged, but also if you have children at different reading levels who share the toy. LeapFrog consistently offers quality learning toys that parents and kids can't help but love.Only complaint: I'd love to add more Ultra eBooks to our Leappad, but the price isn't exactly wallet friendly. At least not my wallet :)

10.9.2012

A Wonderful E-Book for your Leappad, Leappad 2 or Leapster Explorer systems. The Learn to Read Collection Fairy Tales teaches Phonics Skills, Sight Words, Reading Comprehension & Vocabulary. It Contains 3 different levels of difficulty which automatically adjust to your child's learning as they progress. The Fairy Tales E-Book also has 100 early reading words and features the stories Leap and the Beanstalk (jack and the beanstalk), and The Three little Frogs (three little pigs). My 5 year old loves this and it is a great introduction to reading and a great addition to any Leapfrog game collection.

18.10.2012

The ultra ebook collection contains two stories. Both of which come alive with narration and fairytale themed minigames. The concept is solid as there are reasons for the child to come back to the book for high scores, story variation and more. Graphics look great and the games run smooth. I thought there were more titles but this was a limited version we tried. The content of the full software is probably more comprehensive. You can tell that the people at LeapFrog at working at improving the hardware and the software.

17.9.2012

Kids are so tech savvy these days! This is an excellent tool for your little one without having to hand off your own electronic of choice. Some of the accessories needed to go along with it are pricey and I wish they were included, but for the ease of use and versatility, this product is totally worth it. It is also an excellent way to get those youngsters school ready. I give it two thumbs up...even with the hefty price tag.

17.4.2014

From the DVDs (Letter Factory, Numbers Ahoy, etc.) to the Leappad to all the games - it's obvious that LeapFrog knows exactly what they are doing. The characters are engaging, the songs are supremely catchy and the education is top notch. I have no problem letting my toddlers watch/play anything LeapFrog because I know they are always learning something. Well done!!

7.9.2012

These are outstanding quality books for a gaming system, even if kids games have come a long way. They are easy to navigate and easy to hear. My daughter was a little bored initially though so there may be something to the pace or voice that may not pull them in. Now that she has been using the LeapPad more though, she really likes these more and more.

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