''Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library'' is a series of four

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games from

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as part of the ''

Reader Rabbit ''Reader Rabbit'' is an educational game franchise created in 1983 by The Learning Company. The series is aimed at children from infancy to the age of nine. In 1998, a spiritual successor series called '' The ClueFinders'' was released for o ...

'' franchise. The first two games were developed in October 1994, the third was developed in 1995 and the last one was developed in 1996. The products make use of

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s based on fairy tales to help early readers broaden their reading, vocabulary, writing and word recognition skills. Each number in the title corresponds to the reading level of the reader they are aimed at.

Gameplay

In each game, the player has two storybooks to choose from. There are three versions of each story, the first told by Sam the narrator called the "Classic" version and the latter two as different perspectives of characters from the story. The story can be read entirely by the narrator or it can be read by the user with guidelines. The games also include three activities to further enhance learning to read. With both the manual and automatic modes, users can read the stories at their own pace.

Books

Availability

"Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library 2" was included in "Reader Rabbit's Complete Learn to Read System" on the second CD simply title "Classic Tales".

Reception

The games were positively reviewed and praised primarily for the variety of retelling the story from multiple points of view.

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