This is an educational tape containing two programs. On side one you have Toyshop, in which you must help Oliver by counting the toys he indicates, putting in your answer using the keyboard. A correct answer is rewarded with a beaming smile from Oliver, an incorrect one provokes an angry frown.

The game is aimed at the early learner and the gleeful responses from my three-year-old shows it's near the mark. It is well illustrated with easily recognisable objects, i.e. boats, teddies and bikes.

The "B" side has a slightly more difficult game, Lollipops, which starts with Oliver asking, "I like lollipops, do you?" It then proceeds first to count lollipops and then to eat them. This gives a simple introduction to addition and subtraction.

After each section Oliver is seen 10 be increasing in size because of the number of sweets he has been eating. My son responded "He'll be sick" and sure enough the next message on the screen was that Oliver felt unwell.

Overall this is a good package to teach the younger or the slow learning child basic number sense.

A.W.