| Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library | |
| Developer: | The Learning Company |
| Publisher: | The Learning Company |
| Composer: | Kevin Village-Stone[1] |
| Genre: | Adventure, Edutainment |
| Platforms: | Windows, Macintosh |
| First Release Version: | Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library 1 |
| First Release Date: | 1995 |
| Latest Release Version: | Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library 4 |
| Latest Release Date: | 1996 |
Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library is a series of four edutainment games from The Learning Company as part of the Reader Rabbit 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 interactive storybooks 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.
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.[2] With both the manual and automatic modes, users can read the stories at their own pace.[3]
| Game | Release | Book | Pages | Alternate Narrator 1 | Alternate Narrator 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development Library 1 | 1995 | The Three Little Pigs | 21 | Second Pig | Wolf |
| Goldilocks and the Three Bears | 21 | Goldilocks | Baby Bear | ||
| Development Library 2 | 1995 | City Mouse, Country Mouse | 19 | City Mouse | Country Mouse |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | 22 | Giant | Jack | ||
| Development Library 3 | Winter 1996 | The Princess and the Pea | 16 | Princess Laurel | Prince Albert |
| The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg | 14 | Goose | Mr. Farmer | ||
| Development Library 4 | 1996 | King Midas | 16 | Merrigold | King Midas |
| The Ugly Duckling | 13 | Quill | Mr. Croak |
Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library 2 was included as the second CD in Reader Rabbit's Complete Learn to Read System, simply titled "Classic Tales."[4]
The games were positively reviewed and praised primarily for the variety of retelling the story from multiple points of view.[5] [6]