| Mia's Reading Adventure: The Search For Grandma's Remedy | 
 enlarge | From: Kutoka
Category: Software
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 1122
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp, Mac Os X, Windows 95
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1.3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 21202
UPC: 632332021202
EAN: 0632332021202
ASIN: B0000DBYKP
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Exciting, interactive, learning adventure with Mia the mouse | | • | 9 full-featured literary-skills activities each with 4 levels of difficulty | | • | Specially adapted, navigation engine for complete control over Mia | | • | Teaches spelling, vocabulary, reading, phonics, word recognition, and more | | • | For kids ages 5 to 9 |
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Product Description
In Mia's Reading Adventure: The Search For Grandma's Remedy, kids will practice their literacy skills while working to get Mimi the medicine she needs!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Save your money! DO NOT PURCHASE. May 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this game for my two kids 5 and 7 and sat thought an interminable 2hrs while they played it.
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br /The game doesn't come with instructions so you have to find them on the disk. Unfortunately even after reading them I did not find the game very intuitive.
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br /One of the first things to occur is that the mouse gets violently mugged by a Rat. I wasn't expecting that when I bought the game.
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br /It was a complete mystery to me how to save during the progress of the game until (yet again) I looked at the instructions. The progress of the gameplay is not instinctive and I had to look at the instructions (again) several times in order for the kids to progress further.
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br /The complexities of the different mini games are too simple and repetitive, or too hard for the two of them to play without significant help and input from me. I was gritting my teeth much of the time due to the minigames.
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br /On the positive side; the kids were able to handle the interface well, they liked the characters, music and graphics. You can change the complexity level of the game at any time during gameplay by going back to the main menu. It is fairly slick EXCEPT for the save feature which sucks (it should save automatically during the progress of the game).
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br /This is NOT a learning game it is an adventure game with word puzzles, there is NO teaching involved. Since I bought this game expressly for my kids to LEARN I do not recommend it for anything but adventure/ entertainment play.
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br /FYI: For all the "educated" parents out there READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. They tell you how to skip any animated sequence (including the intro movie) - hit the SPACEBAR. How to save - hit F3. How to skip a minigame and win while playing it - hit ESC. How to go to the main menu - hit F2. Oy!
 more like going to a movie than playing a video game. January 29, 2008
Definitely a game you have to help younger kids with. Adventurous and realistic, good graphics, my four year old stayed up way past bedtime to find the remedy so grandma would get better. She is five now and I still have to help her, but, this is a game a child can grow with. Mia the mouse is adorable in this engaging story. Some teaching of reading but more abstract problem solving, detective work, and searching for clues. Good game for a slow paced Sunday afternoon.
 helped my child with telling time December 21, 2007
this game helped my child with her math skills. the levels helped boost her confidence.i would have liked the game to change a little as the level increases.
 Not too impressed October 22, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Mia is hard to move and it is difficult to know what you are suppose to do or where you are suppose to go. Many more times than not, my children get very frustrated and start screaming "stupid mouse!!" at the screen. The activites are set up so they don't teach anything but simply test the child as to what they already know.
Sadly Disappointing October 18, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this game in hopes of adding a good repertoire of word play and phonetic computer activities to my child's reading activities. What I got was aimless wandering and a watered down version of an adventure game.
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br /Those who say that this game is outstanding are surely misleading the public.
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br /My concerns with this game:
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br /The introductions are long and there is no way to skip them. The folks who developed this game were so enamored by their own handiwork that there IS an option to view the exceptionally long introduction on its own just in case you would like to watch it over and over again--Nothing to do with reading.
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br /If you want to opt out of the storybook adventure part of the game and move from just activity to activity, you may! You will, however, find, to your dismay, that each activity is never a new game. Once you've done it--you've seen it! I was floored. For example: My daughter and I opened the "Scary Spider" activity under the second level, it was a letter scramble theme where you were to choose from seven letters combinations that would form words. When you had successfully made five short words from the scramble, Scary scares the cat. Wonderful! Our letter choices were C, D, I, M, E, and R. Ask me how I remember? When we entered the activity a second, third and fourth time it was the SAME JUMBLE EACH TIME. I can only assume that each level of the activity might have been different, but the idea that the game was so incredibly finite where the opportunity for learning could have been inexhaustible disgusted me thoroughly and I ended our experience right there. Why reveal the other three levels in ten minutes? Such a waste...
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br /I also did not like the themes involved with this game. Stereotypes of people with accents got on my nerves. The days of Looney Tunes and the stereotype of "the lazy Mexican" are long over. While those cartoons still exist there are at least disclaimers on the DVDs that promote them to show that these racial and cultural depictions were reflections of attitudes openly prevalent the early forties and fifties. We're supposed to know better today. Worse yet, the activity that is run by the sleepy mouse with the accent confuses children (and adults alike) by rejecting sentences that are syntactically correct. Poor.
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br /For these reasons I personally give the game a two. Many of Mia's antics made the children laugh. I must say that the activities are well constructed, yet fail miserably in variety of exploration. To save anyone else the disappointment of thinking they got an award-winning tool to help his/her child along with reading I must display a star of one. Skip this one and save your money so that manufacturers will know that we need better software to help our kids explore the amazing world of phonemes, spelling and sentence structure. Children certainly deserve better.
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