The Kidstory Series

The Kidstory Series
Genres	Literature, edutainment
Developer	Brilliant Interactive Ideas
Publisher	Active Imagination
Platforms	Windows, Macintosh
First release	The Pirate Who Wouldn't Wash January 1995
Latest release	There's a Dinosaur in the Garden 1996

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. ^[1] 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. ^[2] By 1996, the company invested around $400,000 in additional titles. ^[3]

Games in the series

Title	Author	Release date	Number of pages	Notes
The Pirate Who Wouldn't Wash	Michael Salmon [4]	January, 1995 [3]	11
Milly Fitzwilly's Mouse Catcher	Marcia K Vaughan	1995	10
The Friends of Emily Culpepper [5]	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. [3]
There's a Dinosaur in the Garden	Michael Salmon [6]	1996	11

Commercial performance

Packard sold its computer products that came with a CD that included three of six Kidstory software products. ^[7] 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. ^[3]

Critical reception

Packard's Kidstory series was rated as an A+ Learning Library. ^[8]

See also

• Interactive storybook

References

1. "Packard Bell launches six new CD-ROM edutainment titles. - Free Online Library". www.TheFreeLibrary.com. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
2. Kirka, Danica (1995-05-30). "New Kid Software on the Block". LA Times. ISSN   1091-2339 . Retrieved 2018-07-30.
3. "Amendment no. 4 to form S-1" (TXT). www.sec.gov.
4. "Books 2".
5. "112.1034: The Friends of Emily Culpepper - video game - PC Games - Video Games - Online Collections - The Strong". www.MuseumOfPlay.org. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
6. "Books 1".
7. "The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware on April 14, 1995 · Page 15". Newspapers.com. 14 April 1995. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
8. "Business & Technology - Software Branch Is Kid Stuff For Packard Bell - Seattle Times Newspaper". community.SeattleTimes.nwsource.com. Retrieved 31 August 2017.