Game Review: Dragon Tales: Learn & Fly with Dragons
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What Parents Should Know
This software provides a lot of bang for the buck with 11
different educational activities. Kids love playing with the
characters from the "Dragon Tales" PBS television show.
Common Sense Media Review
Flying baby dragons and fanciful fairies await children in
Dragon Tales: Learn & Fly with Dragons,
the newest software featuring the stars of "Dragon Tales," the
hit PBS preschool show.
Cassie, the pink dragon, needs help teaching her younger siblings how to fly. Players join Cassie in taking her siblings on adventures during which they earn their Dragon Badges, a prerequisite to learning to fly.
To earn a Dragon Badge, each little dragon needs to help two inhabitants of Dragon Land. The help takes the form of cleverly disguised educational activities. Thus, when baby dragon Val stops to help Arlo put his prize-winning junk pile back in order, the player learns spatial relationships by deciding whether to dip a junk item into a shrink or an expand puddle to make it fit in the hole in the pile. Likewise, with baby dragon Zuzu, kids help a fairy round up missing horse flies and sort them into numerical groups. In doing so, they practice counting and addition. Other activities involve memory games, logic, creativity, shape recognition, patterns, and following directions.
After the three little dragons have earned their Dragon Badges, they head to the Training Course to learn flying moves. The flying exercises incorporate more preschool learning, such as "Fly to the object that is not a square."
By the time the little dragons have learned to fly, kids will have played 11 different math and logic activities, which automatically adjust in difficulty depending on the child's response.
This delightful software comes packaged with a free "Dragon Tales" book.
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