Living Books 4 CD Pack - Harry, Grandma, Tortoise & Little Monster

Living Books 4 CD Pack - Harry, Grandma, Tortoise & Little Monster | How to get the books to run in XP

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	Living Books 4 CD Pack - Harry, Grandma, Tortoise & Little Monster Windows \| Broderbund average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

[Ages 3 - 8] Living Books are touched by magic. Characters talk and move, sing and dance. Sound effects, music, humor and lots of animations, create a whole new learning experience. Children just point and click. So they can repeat a favorite part, go back or skip ahead, all at their own pace. Reading skills grow through word recognition. As the computer reads them aloud, individual words, phrases and lines are highlighted. Harry & the Haunted House -- A Book by Mark Schlichting. When Harry D. Rabbit hits one of Earl's famous curve balls right over Stinky's head, it lands in the spooky old house down the street. Harry and his friends cautiously explore the house, searching for their ball, and have a host of hair-raising experiences.

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Fifteen dollar is a good price

My girl just love this four Living books, she plays them a lot, over and over (she is five years old, and does have english as her second language, and they help her to build up her english skills, while she is having fun) . She can choose if she want to hear it like a story, or if she wants to play bye clicking on the pictures on each page. It says up to 7 years on the games, but I should say it fits more 3-5 years old, older would bee bored after playing it once or twice. We just used them on windows 98, and they workes greate.
15 dollar is a greate price for them, under 5 dollars per game!
Definatly worth the money!!

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How to get the books to run in XP

Just in case nobody sees my comments reply, I thought to post this where more people might see it.

I received the 4-pack on Saturday and got all 4 books (Grandma, Tortoise, Little Monster & Harry) installed on a Dell laptop with a 7900 GTX video card, Sigmatel audio chip and running XP by doing the following:

1. Using Windows Explorer, I created a new folder on the hard drive named Living Books, then made subfolders for each of the 4 games (Grandma, Harry, etc).
2. I then inserted each CD into the drive, exited the auto-run launcher (which is replete with AOL crudware), and then viewed the contents using Windows Explorer (WE).
3. Setting WE to the Details view, I sorted the files by date. The actual book files are dated in the '90s; the AOL junk is 2004 - so, easy to distinguish.
4. I then copied each of the book files to the appropriate hard drive folder created in step 1. I made sure to copy the resource folder(s) as well - right-click the folder and select copy, then right-click the appropriate hard drive folder and select paste. The book software expects the resources to be in the correctly-named subfolder. HOWEVER - you do NOT need to copy the Install or Setup executables and .ini files - you are manually installing these on the hard drive; so, no need.
5. Then I located the executable file in each hard drive folder (i.e., "Grandma32.exe" for Just Grandma & Me), right-clicked it, clicked Properties, selected the Compatibility tab on the popup menu, then selected "Windows 95" as the operating system, 256 colors and 640 x 480 resolution boxes checked, then click Apply and then Save.
6. Last, I again right-clicked on each book's executable, and this time selected "Send to Desktop (create shortcut)". This puts the book's icon on the desktop for convenient access.

This way, I have all 4 books installed on the hard drive, accessible from the desktop, and none of the AOL crudware popping up. This morning my son and I went through all 4 books in the interactive mode, and since he's a very curious almost-3-yr-old who pushes and prods everything within his reach :), the original discs are safe & sound where he can't get to them, seeing as how he has figured out how to open the CD drive already! :-)

For those who have already bought the books, I hope this helps. However as another poster mentioned, how the game runs depends on your hardware as well as the operating system.

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Harry and the Haunted House

I used this in my special ed class and the kids enjoyed the story and the animation on the click ons.

Just Grandma and Me

I have seen this program by living books before and would highly recommend it. Unfortunately this particular copy I have seems to also be an advertisement for AOL and I find we are constantly being booted out of the program. It is frustrating for my toddler and for me! If you can obtain the Living Book disc without any other special offers (AOL) then I would highly recommend it.

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