Amazon Maximum Age: 8 years Amazon Minimum Age: 36 months Binding: CD-ROM Brand: The Learning Company EAN: 0772040771614 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Format: CD-ROM Label: The Learning Company Manufacturer: The Learning Company Model: CGM3744AE Publisher: The Learning Company Sales Rank: 9667 Studio: The Learning Company
Product Description: In this endearing story, Little Critter and his Grandma spend a day at the beach where Little Critter rides a windblown umbrella, fends off a nasty crab, goes snorkeling and much more! Features interactive, unique teaching tools that can talk and play with your child in a way those traditional, one-dimensional books cannot.
Amazon.com Review: Mercer Mayer's highly entertaining Just Grandma and Me CD-ROM will keep plenty of restless grandchildren occupied for hours. Choose to hear the story read aloud, or simply click on the play options and quickly start building sandcastles or collecting shells from the sandy beach.
This fun, interactive story follows the adventures of a cheerful little critter setting off on a trip to the seaside with his grandmother. Big, bold text runs across the top of your screen for each section of the lively animated story, and every word is clearly highlighted while it's being read aloud. Accompanied by gentle music and realistic seaside sound effects, children can click on objects such as buckets and spades and be told what they are called, or they can simply listen to the characters while they talk and play together by the sea.
Initially it can be a bit tricky to work out how to use your mouse button to stick flags in the sand or move crabs around the beach. But one of the key aims of this educational CD-ROM is to encourage children to explore the interactive story. There's even an opportunity to tickle granny's toes while she's buried in the sand! Such activities will keep plenty of young grandchildren and their grandmothers fully entertained. --Justin Hunt
Amazon.com Product Description: In this endearing story, Little Critter and his Grandma spend a day at the beach, where Little Critter rides a windblown umbrella, fends off a nasty crab, goes snorkeling, and much more! Mercer Mayer is the award-winning author and illustrator of more than 100 children's books. This software includes the original storybook and with one click can be experienced in English, Spanish, or Japanese.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Just Grandma & Me
Just Grandma and Me CD-Rom -- I have triplet 4 year old children plus a 3 year child. They all love reading the book Just Grandma & me. When the CD-Rom arrived and they saw it on the computer, each child had a great time either just listening to the story being told to them or interacting with the story or playing with the sand on the beach. It was a great purchase and I know the children will be able to do even more with this CD like learning the words and reading. By watching the CD, they can now read the book to me!!!!!! Highly recommend.
Rating: - Works on XP some hints!
Well I was afraid when I installed it, because like other reviewers it stops when you press some objects in the game. Found the solution right click on the icon for the game. Choose properties then choose to run it on windows 2000! It works no problem. Its a fun story and you can make fun sand castles in the game. Its great for little kids my son is 3 and other games are to hard for him even blues goes to school. This is a nice game for children under 3, older than that they will play it once and then leave it on the shelf.
Rating: - Great for foreign language learning
We just received our copy of Just Grandma and Me software by Mercer Mayer and The Learning Company. This and several other CD-ROM titles by Mercer Mayer can be played in several languages including German, perfect for our bilingual family! My two-year-old listened to it about 4 times in his first session. The story is straightforward and leaves nice pauses between sentences so mom or dad can repeat or explain if necessary. These titles would be great for elementary school age kids as well.
Just make sure if you're running Windows XP to get the latest version. I highly recommend this game/read-aloud storybook.
Rating: - A brilliant story for kids everywhere
I teach English as a second language to Chinese children and the CD-ROM is a real boon to me. I have used it with kids of ages 4-11 years, even the adults love it. The characters and content have universal appeal and the 'story' is very simple.
Rating: - Great computer game!
This was the first computer game my son ever played and many years and many programs later it is still one of the best. It is simple enough for a 3 year old to play with no assistance, yet engaging enough for older kids to enjoy too. Highly recommended!
- Just Grandma & Me
- Works on XP some hints!
