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A suite of four nicely graded programs for the three-six age group, although they could be used by others.

Pirate Ships is simple one-to-one matching. Key presses are very simple, usually involving only the space bar. Space Stations is number recognition - matching windows on the rocket to the number on the station to which it flies. Roll a Ball needs number sequencing skills too and has no margin of error. A single mistake means starting again. In Which Way, the child must compare groups of objects and see which is the larger to decide which track to send them down.

In all, very well thought-out and programmed, both educationally viable and progressive. Unfortunately, it is seriously let down by documentation. ASK, which wrote the program, usually has excellent colour manuals, but this is not true of the Dragon package. At least two pages of instructions are missing - making it rather difficult to use. This should be dealt with by Dragon Data immediately!

D.C.