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Once kids figure out the unusual navigation, they will experience a cute story with great graphics, endearing characters, and loads of fun educational activities!

Common Sense Media Review
Have you ever heard of a vegetarian wolf? How about talking beavers that play tennis with their tails? You will meet these and other charming creatures in Didi & Ditto Kindergarten, new grade-specific software from the creators of the award-winning "Mia" series.

Didi and Ditto, twin beavers, star in this software. Kids choose to play as Didi (a female) or Ditto (a male). Zolt, a vegetarian wolf, captures the twin that the player didn't choose, and the adventure begins. Because Zolt isn't fond of beaver meat, he agrees to release the captive twin if he is given fruits and vegetables. The player scurries to earn the food by playing 12 educational activities that cover math, literacy skills, thinking skills, and music.

Kids visit eight lush, 3-D landscapes looking for food. Loads of clickables (special places that animate when they are clicked) permeate the environments and educational games. Kids play with Tiny Turtle at the Waterfall where he is blowing shape bubbles with an underwater tube. Players grab the shape bubbles and move them into position to complete a pattern. In Blue Bear's cave, youngsters party with balloons that teach them identification of letters, alphabetical order, and phonics.

This software works so well because of its darling animated characters. Kid-testers were delighted to meet Hootdini, a little owl who performs magic that never quite works correctly; and Comedy Ann, a mosquito who tell jokes.

The educational activities are well delivered and can be played on three levels of difficulty, which makes this software useful as a child grows.

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