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Great for creative girls
My first grade daughter loves Junie B.This cartridge has encouraged her to write in the journal and to create poems.She loves that she can write anything in it and keep it secret with a password.I would highly recommend this game.

Features

• Get help from Backpack and Map
• Use Rocket Sneakers to move fast
• For 1 player
• Exploration game for kids featuring popular TV character
• Play as Dora and Boots

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Great game for a 6 year old!!!
I bought my daugther this game for her 6th birthday and so far it is her favorite. She picked it up right away and it's easy for her to do! She also got the Barbie Princess and Pauper game, the Nicktoons Freeze Frame, and Disney Princess game and this one is much easier than all of them. I even enjoy playing it!

difficult for beginners
This game is an ok game, like others have said, for younger kids its a bit difficult.One thing tho yoiu do not hae to write down the password after each level, just when you decide you want to stop.This way when you turn the gameboy back on you can get back to where you left off.Dora just needs the glasses to get past the bush or whatever is blocking her path and then you can take them off and see clearly.It is necessary to get al the crystals which can be pretty difficult for the usual Dora fan.

Features

• Party game featuring popular Disney characters
• Collect items, move across game board, and play mini-games
• Six playable characters
• Simple controls are good for kids
• For 1 to 4 players

Reviews (5)

Not Too Confusing If You Stick With It - - Persistence Pays
... I give it 4 stars for the reasons mentioned further below.It is given 1 less star from perfection by me because 1) AT First, it is not user-friendly & clear-cut AND because overall the minigames (while original, ingenious, challenging, diverse, thought-provoking, engaging, humorous, etc.) are truly on the difficult side, even in Normal Play mode.

Once you comprehend the purpose of the items bought/granted, converting items to power notes, planting items on another's bingo board, winning stars from the mini games to place on bingo board, trading crystals to buy power notes, and MOST IMPORTANTLY USING YOUR POWER NOTES CONSTANTLY DURING MINI GAMES TO ENHANCE YOUR WINNING CAPABILITIES, this game is right on the money.Speaking of money, for the lowered asking price of this game, you cannot go wrong.The sound, color, music and graphics are superb, crisp and pleasing.

My 9 year old son has played this game for four days straight, and continues to enjoy it.He is pretty adept with game play controls and is an above average player, yet he would lose often and was not disappointed or discouraged--just resolved to conquering the particular minigame as you can PRACTICE as much as you want.I, too, have played a couple of full games with him and was not bored; neither was I angered by not winning much.The minigames are engrosing and quite fun; I do not regret buying this game.

Pros:Practice Mode, MiniGame Explanations, Lengthy MiniGames, Enjoyable and Diverse Games; Graphics & Sound are Great

Cons:Not for Under 6-Year Old Crowd Without an Adult; Mini-Games a Little on the Tough Side

This is a great game to play with your kids!!
My 5 year old daughter and my 10 year old son love this game.I sat down and played with it one day and have played it every day since.It took a little time for my 5 year old to understand the idea of the bingo card on the board game but once she figured out how to buy items, win stars in the mini game and place block items on other peoples bingo boards it has been a blast.This game is a lot like Mario Party only with the twist of the bingo cards.If you let the game run until after credits you will be rewarded with disney cards, there is no fast way to get to them but the kids enjoy looking through all the characters.

Confusing game board play
Being a fan of Mario Party and Shrek Party, I thought Disney's Party would also be enjoyable. Unfortunately, I am irritated that I paid $40 for this thing. The game play is confusing and takes forever to set up and explain, the on-screen text (for the directions) is really hard to read and is extremely verbose.

The mini-games are fun once you figure out how to play them, but game play is lame. You don't get to roll dice and move along a board. Instead, there is a little roulette that determines where you go. You have to play a bingo-style game with items and stars and there are these items, "power notes" and gems to keep track of (I can't even explain it in a way that isn't extremely confusing).

Features

• Transform Barbie, Christie, and Teresa from their everyday looks to glamour girls
• Makeover each friend for a wedding party, a modeling assignment, or an award show
• Get the ultimate facial and foam mask, and choose eye shadows, lipsticks, and blushes
• Create the perfect hairstyles, and design the perfect manicures
• Search 4 different fashion collections to find fabulous outfits

Reviews (12)

My 5-year old Loves it!
For a young girl with a simple fascination with horses, this is a cute game. However, I can see how horse aficionados may not be totally satisfied with 'realism' issues.It is not Pixar, but the graphics and realism are probably adequate for the intended audience.

My daugher was able to complete the game with some assistance in about 1 1/2 hours.Now she's playing again on her own.She enjoyed customizing her hourse and picking outfits for Barbie.

The game worked fine on my daughters Windows XP/Celeron system.

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This is NOTHING like owning your own horse
This game stinks. Ok, well the graphics are ok, but PLEASE!! PUT THE HORSE IN A DIFFERENT PLACE!!! I mean, COME ON!! You don't wear makeup when you go riding, you don't just jump on a pony and say "giddy-up' and TREES ARE NOT IDENTICAL!!! My Mum and Dad bought this for my sister (age-6) and even she thought it was crap! Mattel, please put some thought into your games. I own my own horse (a gray TB mare, Sterling) and this is not how you ride.Please try harder next time. Very disappointing.

Features

• Box set

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One Small Caution
Excellent books. But be warned: you may have to translate some of the awkward phrases and expressions that seem to pop up throughout Cleary's books. I thought she might be European, until I read her bio today. Expressions like "Gay" (meaning happy) and "Crayoning" (which perplexed my daughter until I explained that in America we call it "Coloring.")Things like that.

Ageless
I read and reread these books to my daughters, and I am delighted to be able to read them to my granddaughters!It is so much fun to snuggle in bed and read Ramona books!Ageless and priceless...

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GREAT EARLY CHAPTER BOOKS
When My son was younger these were among his most favorite books.He made sure we saved these so he could pass them on to his little brother to read to him once he is old enough.These are simple chapter books.They range in page count from about 68 to 96 pages I believe so they are relatively quick reads that can be read in a few nights depending upon your child's reading level.This set contains the first four books in the series:

Book #1, DINOSAURS BEFORE DARK

Book #2, THE KNIGHT AT DAWN

Book #3, MUMMIES IN THE MORNING

Book #4, PIRATES PAST NOON

The First, Dinosaurs Before Dawn tells the story of how jack and Annie (the series stars) first find the Magic Tree House and learn how the books can transport them to magical lands and worlds.The first takes them to the Cretaceous period. Through clues and reading the book in hand they learn and discover things about dinosaurs.

In the "Knight at Dawn", jack and Annie are transported back to medieval times.They find a castle and go exploring and find themselves on the run from the castle guards and worry they will never get back to the magic tree house.

"mummies In the Morning" Jack has always been fascinated by and pick up a book that has them traveling back to ancient Egypt.Jack and Annie enter a pyramid and get lost inside.Inside they find the ghost of an Egyptian queen whose been trapped inside the pyramid for ages and Jack and Annie try to set her free.

"Pirates Past Noon"Jack and Annie picture a wonderful beach and are transported to the times of Pirates where they are capture by Captain Bones who is seeking the treasure of Captain Kidd.

These books are geared for kids from the 2nd to the 5th grade I would say.They are entertaining, imaginative reads that help teach kids about history while being fun to read as well.Some have commented that the writing, technically speaking is weak.That may be in some spots but I feel this is mostly intentional as they are writing for 6 - 10 year olds.

These books are really a joy to read and I loved reading them along with my son.I'm glad we saved them!

Good for begining reading, grades 1 and 2
This is probably the best series to get your kid (late 1st through early 3rd grades) launched into reading chapter books. They come in sets of 4, usually focused around a theme such as needing to recover 4 books in ancient history for KingArthur's library, find one book in each adventure.But kids don't seem to get involved with these meta-plots and so the books stand on their own as simply written adventure stories.

Over time, it gets a bit formulaic and thin: Tree house appears, travel in time, get threatened by somebody/something, escape with magical help, return home.Still, your kid will be good for at least 10 books.I'd skip the earlier ones since the later are somewhat better written/produced.

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Finding Nemo #1
This is a really Neat leap pad book!My kids LOVED the movie! And were ecstatic, to get the leap pad book.It has some entertaining games, and my kids ask to play this book alot more than others. I highly recommend this book!It has alot of FUN stuff in it.I hope your children like it as much as my 7, 6, and 3 year olds do.. :)

Like it pretty much
Pretty nice game.The illustrations do not look exactly like the characters in the movie.They are more like cartoon illustrated (see front cover-- the illustrations inside are similar).This was a little dissappointing at first. The voices are pretty good, it has some nice songs, and teaches some educational facts about the sea.My son's favorite part is the deep sea page.

Editorial Review

Features

• Play as Cinderella, Ariel (The Little Mermaid), Snow White, Belle (Beauty and the Beast), Jasmine (Aladdin), and Sleeping Beauty.
• Visit Snow White's enchanted forest, save Belle's magical castle, fly on Aladdin's magic carpet and more.
• Interact with tons of other classic Disney characters, including the seven dwarfs, Genie, and a host of Disney villains.
• Bonus stage featuring a team-up of all of the Princesses.
• Each of the six Princess story worlds has 3 levels, resulting in over 18 levels of fun.

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WOW- But sorta hard
Man this is so cool! I don't even HAVE it, my friend brought it when she came for a sleepover and we practically played it all night! It is sorta hard, especially the Jasmine part, and Belle is the easiest, however I like Cinderella. You play as all six of the princesses so it's like 6 games in one.
Game controls (Note these are for Chapter 1, and you can press start to pause and you can open chests by going in front of them and pressing A):
Belle: B to throw snow ball, left and right to move, A to jump, down to make a new snowball.
Cinderella: A to bonk Lucifer on the head, B to clean the floor, Left and right to move.
Ariel: Up down left and right to move, B to blast with the trident.
Aurora: A to turn butterflys into fairies, B to put the guys to sleep, left and right to move.
Snow White: A to jump, B to sing and put the wicked trees to sleep, Left and Right to move.
Jasmine: Up down left and right to move. Go over a switch to activate it.

Varying levels of difficulty
This game was my 5 year old daughter's first for her new GBA SP.She was able to play Cinderella right away, and worked her way up to Sleeping beauty and Snow White, completing all the chapters for each.She found the 2nd chapter for Belle easier than the first, simply because she didn't know that Belle could make more snowballs (we figured this out by accident).Ariel and Jasmine are still a bit too complicated for her to get through (I found them difficult the first couple of times), but it is a challenge she looks forward to.I believe this range in difficulty is a plus for the game as any child can begin it and work their way up.

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Features

• Color
• Animated
• Closed-captioned

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Why...why...*sob* why...
I watched this film through my fingers, too upset and horrified by what I was seeing to take in the whole view. How could the wonderful, humorous, epic Lloyd Alexander books be reduced to this? Why couldn't a respectable movie studio have picked up the license, and made a worthy film with talented actors? The entire spectacle just made me sick.

The very least Disney could have done would be to make a five-part series that covered all the books, but no. This is the only film there is, and it's not even based on The Black Cauldron. It's a muddled mix of that book (which was the second in the series) and The Book of Three (the first in the series). Blech.

And then--I can barely type this--Gwydion (forgive me if I mispelled it...) isn't in it. At all. He's one of the best characters in the entire series, and he doesn't even get a supporting role!? And that's only the beginning of the heinous omissions. There's nothing about the race to find the Cauldron, the sad trading of the magical brooch, or Taran's swallowing his pride for the good of Prydain, and that's only mentioning a few. Instead, we have some half-baked trash where Taran slashes through hoards with the magic sword Dyrnwyn for a while (when in reality he can't even draw it until he's earned the right), then giving it to the witches so he can destroy the Cauldron. Then Gurgi jumps in the cauldron at the end, but is somehow brought back. By this time, I was trying to find a way to retch and watch the movie simultaneously.

In all, this might be a decent movie to keep the kiddies occupied while you get the housework done, but why? Read them the books instead. Don't waste time and money on pointless trash.

The worst Disney film... Not!
Disney's The Black Cauldron may be the most unpopular Disney animated film ever, but it is so not the worst and it isn't even bad, really.Now, forget that it was rated PG, (So yeah, other PG Disney films included the horrid "Atlantis - The Lost Empire or Home on the Range, but it also included some highlights like Lilo & Stich!) The Black Cauldron offers a soft and interesting story to watch on rainy days, with lots of fun characters, humor and charm, the only thing missing that weakens the film is the lack of songs, but the soundtrack is beautiful.

The Black Cauldron is the story of Taran, a young assistand pig-keeper who is, by his trusting master Dallben, sent on a mission to protect one of the pigs, Hen Wen from the hands of the evil Horned King, who has discovered the powers of the little girl pig and wants to use them to find the Black Cauldron and with it, rule the world.Taran travels through forests eventually losing the pig and finding himself in desperate need of help and then gets caught by the Horned King, Creeper (A troll) and his men.There he finds not only Hen Wen, but also a sweet princess named Eilonwy and a good Minstrel named Flewddur Fflam, who journey with Taran in the search for the Black Cauldron, hoping to destroy it before the Horned King has a chance of using it.
Also adding to the fun is Gurgi, a cuddly creature who longs for friends, the witches of Morva and the fun and colorful Fair Folk.

The Black Cauldron offers a fresh story, although not as fresh or moody as The Rescuers (1977), the atmosphere is close to Sleeping Beauty (1959), very dark but with lighter moments which were missing in other gloomy films like The Great Mouse Detective.

Overall, a pretty overlooked and wonderful Disney film, it has something for everyone, times of scary and dark scenes, fun, musical and simply visually perfect scenes (Like the visit to the Fair Folk's underground cave) and moments for everyone else.Animation is Disney at their finest, very detailed.

4.4/5