Disneys Animated Storybook:
The Lion King

  • Publisher: Disney

    Audience

    preKindergarden to 2nd Grade

    Commentary

    This CD-ROM is based on the movie. It is basically a storybook which allows the user to ask what a word in the text means, go forward/back a page, and ask for help.

    There are no manuals or accompanying instructions. These are contained within the CD, which could be frustrating if one could not get the CD to install for any reason.

    This animated storybook is entertaining. The user can select a number of options including: hearing the story, playing a game, selecting a favorite page to see again. The game is rather simple, but appropriate to the audience.

    One slightly detracting thing was that the mouse cursor is hard to locate and use while the story is playing. The most annoying part of this CD-ROM after just a few uses was that upon closing, you had to wait until all the credits played before it would let you get entirely out.

    The graphics and sound are great and wonderful to view. Animation is excellent and the game is quite fun. (The user must move the lion cub to pounce on Zazu, but if he turns around must crouch down in the grass. It is much like red light/green light.)

    Minimum system requirements are not given on the package or inside the package. They were only given in the ³ReadMe² file once the CD-ROM loaded. (which means you have the requirements, or it would not have loaded onto your system).

    Reviewer: Carol Jones. She began her undergraduate degree at Erskine College in Due West, SC. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in Spanish in the spring of 1994. She will graduate from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science in December 1996 and plans to be an elementary school librarian.

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