LeapFrog Sing-Along Read-Along

Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

I bought this item at a local dis­count store (for much less than the list price of $19.99 I have to say!), and am very happy with it. I am famil­iar with Leapfrog prod­ucts and was expect­ing a high qual­ity prod­uct, but in my view this beats the other DVDs Leapfrog has pro­duced (though this prod­uct has a dif­fer­ent func­tion and does not directly com­pare with Let­ter Fac­tory, etc– it’s com­ple­men­tary). The pack con­tains a DVD with 12 music video clips and 12 cor­re­spond­ing book­lets. The idea is that the child picks up the songs and words and after s/he gets used to the tunes etc tries to read the book­lets with­out the music DVD. The sto­ries are well planned and unfold in a spe­cific order that pro­gres­sively builds knowl­edge (e.g. short o, i, func­tion of a, e, i etc.). The story con­tent is clear and uncom­pli­cated, with nice, big and crisp bold Arial sub­ti­tles for the song texts; the ani­mated char­ac­ters and graph­ics are funky, col­or­ful and inter­est­ing but not too tech­ni­color and visu­ally ‘loud’; the music is upbeat, in var­i­ous music styles (rang­ing from rock to jazzy blues) and encour­ages singing, but it is not over­whelm­ing and enables the child to focus on the writ­ten and spo­ken words. Absolutely rec­om­mended. Will not regret!