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A program for the over threes well founded in educational practice. Provided an adult works with the young user, it will teach and help to develop concepts, unlike many so-called "educational" programs.

It deals with number and letter recognition, number concepts and bonds, adding, shaape matching, spatial relationship, and can be tailored to the user's present and future development level. If this is jargon to you, then accept that it will truly benefit any child of three seven one way or another.

Entirely in Basic, and none the worse for it, it features attractive and colourful graphics, a small creature called "Clever Clogs", and well-written sound based on nursery rhymes. The ZX Printer is utilised if connected. Six different "games" are available, so there's no shortage of fun.

This program cries out for Microdrives. The authors have tried to pack in so much there is just no room for extra UDGs to improve each game. With a Microdrive, each could be loaded into the RAM under software control and could be more complex. Recommended.

D.M.