A World of Fun & Learning,
1st Grade Edition
Company: Humongous
Estimated Price: $19.99
http://www.humongous.com

Humongous has done it again. A World of Fun & Learning, 1st Grade Edition, will bring joy to parent and child alike. Humongous has taken two favorites, Freddi Fish, The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse, and Big Thinkers 1st Grade and bundled them with a great activity notebook.

Freddi Fish, The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse, has been around for sometime. There are toys missing in the school house and a ghost is to blame. Children help Freddi solve the mystery and find the missing toys.

Big Thinkers 1st Grade, also not a new comer to the Humongous lineup, takes your first grade level child into a world of discovery. It introduces children to math, phonics, and telling time in a fun and exciting way.

What is new to this bundle is the Freddi Fish Notebook. This is a great little activity book for any boy or girl. Activity book is a small six-ringed notebook with a heavy plastic cover with Freddi and Luther on the front. Once opened it is divided into four sections, Fun, Learning, Stickers, and Color. The Fun section has all kinds of games. There are mazes, connect the dots, and word play, to name a few. In Learning you have an adventure in telling time, making words and adding and subtracting. Stickers... well, there are Stickers! The Color section holds large pictures to be colored and enjoyed. Actually the whole book (with the exception of the stickers) can be colored and enjoyed. What is so nice about this notebook is that a child can carry it around with them anywhere. Humongous has a website of coloring pages and activities for the young child. http://www.humongous.com/clubhe/color/colorfred.html

What is included:
Freddi Fish, The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse and Big Thinkers 1st Grade CD's, Freddi Fish Notebook, and for the parents, a $5.00 CD-ROM rebate, and (my personal favorite) a coupon for 50 cents off Keebler cookies!

Requirements and Installation
68040 (25MHz or faster) Macintosh, with 8MB of RAM, a double-speed CD-ROM, and 256 colors.

Summary

A World of Fun & Learning, 1st Grade Edition, is a great addition to the Humongous lineup. It is wonderfully packaged and the notebook fits into the hands of the smallest adventurer. Every parent that I have talked with has been thrilled with the Humongous line-up of programs. This newest addition was anxiously received by my granddaughters. Hats off to Freddi Fish and Luther!

MacMice Rating: 4.5

Lyn Price
lyn@mymac.com