The Kidstory Series is a series of six interactive storybooks for children, developed by Brilliant Interactive Ideas and produced by Active Imagination (a Packard Bell company) on CD-ROM for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. The stories are narrated by the host Mick. Glen Uslan, the Vice President of Active Imagination, intended the products to be affordable for customers, while retaining good quality. The company intended to have a total of 15 titles produced by the end of the year. By 1996, the company invested around $400,000 in additional titles.
Games in the series Title Author Release date Number of pages Notes The Pirate Who Wouldn't Wash Michael Salmon January, 1995 11 Milly Fitzwilly's Mouse Catcher Marcia K Vaughan 1995 10 The Friends of Emily Culpepper Ann Coleridge 1995 The Wrong Way Around the World Kevin Hawley 1995 The Little Engine Julie Holland 1995 The Yukadoos Joy Cowley 1996 Received a 1996 Newsweek Editor's Choice Award. There's a Dinosaur in the Garden Michael Salmon 1996 11
Commercial performance Packard sold its computer products that came with a CD that included three of six Kidstory software products. From the United States, the products were sold worldwide in Australia, New Zealand and parts of Europe and Asia. Packard also had the products translated in Japanese in an agreement with Fujitsu.
Critical reception Packard's Kidstory series was rated as an A+ Learning Library.
See also Interactive storybook
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