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Amazon.com Kids love Millie, Bailey, Sammy, and Trudy, the characters from Edmark's award-winning Early Learning Series. Now they can feature these and other Edmark characters in their very own animated storybooks, building spelling and writing skills and expanding creativity along the way. This fun-filled program from the educational software experts at Edmark gives kids the power to build stories that come to life right on screen. They can also make alphabet and counting books, write letters, and much more. Kid-tested tools, large buttons, spoken help, and friendly characters make creating animated stories easy and fun for readers and nonreaders alike. Choose from more than 300 stickers. Record your own sound to make characters talk, sing, and laugh. Click on the Sticker Spelling Book to see and hear the spelling of a favorite sticker. Animate characters with the click of a button. Click on Stanley to get fun ideas for stories. Print your stories in color or black and white. Play back your story and watch it come alive on screen. Add a musical introduction to any page or narrate your story. Type words and sentences to add to your story. Stickers get bigger as they're dragged to the front of the scene, and shrink as they're moved into the background. Review Young authors get an early start at penning their own pubs with Edmark's easy-to-use, yet remarkably versatile, storymaking CD-ROM. Kids choose the characters, backgrounds, and music for each page of their story, which can be played back or printed out at any time. They can even record their own sounds and add type (adjustable by size, style, and color). Stanley also offers spoken advice for beginning writers who might need a little push at the starting gate. Likes: "It was a funny, interesting and strange program. It had good graphics, nice settings, and most of what the characters said was clear." Kathleen "There was a lot of animation that I liked. Also, you could record your own voice and make the characters talk." Sean "The stickers stand and sit in all types of positions. There's tons of stickers." Ana Dislikes: "The background, stamps, and font." Rockson "This program was a little slow and the icons were too small." Kathleen Sound advice: "Make it more interesting and fun for older kids." Lena Rating:3/4 ©1999 MacAddict --