Why I buy this one ?
- Exciting, interactive, learning adventure with Mia the mouse
- 9 full-featured literary-skills activities each with 4 levels of difficulty
- Specially adapted, navigation engine for complete control over Mia
- Teaches spelling, vocabulary, reading, phonics, word recognition, and more
- For kids ages 5 to 9

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What our customer's say!

"Save your money! DO NOT PURCHASE.", I bought this game for my two kids 5 and 7 and sat thought an interminable 2hrs while they played it.

The game doesn't come with instructions so you have to find them on the disk. Unfortunately even after reading them I did not find the game very intuitive.

One of the first things to occur is that the mouse gets violently mugged by a Rat. I wasn't expecting that when I bought the game.

It was a complete mystery to me how to save during the progress of the game until (yet again) I looked at the instructions. The progress of the gameplay is not instinctive and I had to look at the instructions (again) several times in order for the kids to progress further.

The complexities of the different mini games are too simple and repetitive, or too hard for the two of them to play without significant help and input from me. I was gritting my teeth much of the time due to the minigames.

On the positive side; the kids were able to handle the interface well, they liked the characters, music and graphics. You can change the complexity level of the game at any time during gameplay by going back to the main menu. It is fairly slick EXCEPT for the save feature which sucks (it should save automatically during the progress of the game).

This is NOT a learning game it is an adventure game with word puzzles, there is NO teaching involved. Since I bought this game expressly for my kids to LEARN I do not recommend it for anything but adventure/ entertainment play.

FYI: For all the "educated" parents out there READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. They tell you how to skip any animated sequence (including the intro movie) - hit the SPACEBAR. How to save - hit F3. How to skip a minigame and win while playing it - hit ESC. How to go to the main menu - hit F2. Oy!

"more like going to a movie than playing a video game.", Definitely a game you have to help younger kids with. Adventurous and realistic, good graphics, my four year old stayed up way past bedtime to find the remedy so grandma would get better. She is five now and I still have to help her, but, this is a game a child can grow with. Mia the mouse is adorable in this engaging story. Some teaching of reading but more abstract problem solving, detective work, and searching for clues. Good game for a slow paced Sunday afternoon.

" helped my child with telling time", this game helped my child with her math skills. the levels helped boost her confidence.i would have liked the game to change a little as the level increases.

"Not too impressed", Mia is hard to move and it is difficult to know what you are suppose to do or where you are suppose to go. Many more times than not, my children get very frustrated and start screaming "stupid mouse!!" at the screen. The activites are set up so they don't teach anything but simply test the child as to what they already know.

"Sadly Disappointing", I bought this game in hopes of adding a good repertoire of word play and phonetic computer activities to my child's reading activities. What I got was aimless wandering and a watered down version of an adventure game.

Those who say that this game is outstanding are surely misleading the public.

My concerns with this game:

The introductions are long and there is no way to skip them. The folks who developed this game were so enamored by their own handiwork that there IS an option to view the exceptionally long introduction on its own just in case you would like to watch it over and over again--Nothing to do with reading.

If you want to opt out of the storybook adventure part of the game and move from just activity to activity, you may! You will, however, find, to your dismay, that each activity is never a new game. Once you've done it--you've seen it! I was floored. For example: My daughter and I opened the "Scary Spider" activity under the second level, it was a letter scramble theme where you were to choose from seven letters combinations that would form words. When you had successfully made five short words from the scramble, Scary scares the cat. Wonderful! Our letter choices were C, D, I, M, E, and R. Ask me how I remember? When we entered the activity a second, third and fourth time it was the SAME JUMBLE EACH TIME. I can only assume that each level of the activity might have been different, but the idea that the game was so incredibly finite where the opportunity for learning could have been inexhaustible disgusted me thoroughly and I ended our experience right there. Why reveal the other three levels in ten minutes? Such a waste...

I also did not like the themes involved with this game. Stereotypes of people with accents got on my nerves. The days of Looney Tunes and the stereotype of "the lazy Mexican" are long over. While those cartoons still exist there are at least disclaimers on the DVDs that promote them to show that these racial and cultural depictions were reflections of attitudes openly prevalent the early forties and fifties. We're supposed to know better today. Worse yet, the activity that is run by the sleepy mouse with the accent confuses children (and adults alike) by rejecting sentences that are syntactically correct. Poor.

For these reasons I personally give the game a two. Many of Mia's antics made the children laugh. I must say that the activities are well constructed, yet fail miserably in variety of exploration. To save anyone else the disappointment of thinking they got an award-winning tool to help his/her child along with reading I must display a star of one. Skip this one and save your money so that manufacturers will know that we need better software to help our kids explore the amazing world of phonemes, spelling and sentence structure. Children certainly deserve better.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Very Morbid Storylines", I bought two of the Mia computer games for my emotionally disturbed special ed. class. I bought it specifically for one little guy who has been in crisis since his grandmother (caregiver) passed away. The storyline of the game is that Mia has to SAVE her gravely ill grandmother. Then she gets MUGGED by a rat! I feel this is a little to noir for small children. The math game (which I am returning unopened) is about her house burning down, and if she could prevent it by going back through time. I feel like this puts a whole world of responsibility on young subjects. I am returning both games!

"Mia's Reading Adventure:The Search For Grandma's Remedy", this item was bought for a friend's grandaughter after purchasing the math software of the same character. Her reading level has improved since using this program. We're hoping more of Mia's software will be available for other subjects. I recommend the Mia series for young children to help them increase their reading and math skills.

"Graphics are excellent but game sucks.", The creators of Mia's Reading Adventure would be better engaged creating movies and not children's games. There is just way too much expository and not enough interaction to make this worth your child's effort. If you're looking to teach your pre-k/k child reading skills I'd recommend the Blue's Clues games instead. Any older children would probably get as frustrated as mine did.

"Content is ok but without state saving", I bought this CD for my 5 years daughter. She likes it but it is quite hard for her to progress. Everytime you need to spend a few minutes to listen to the sing without a way to get rid of it. There is no state save function in the game, every time you need to start from the begin.

"useful as a game, but not to learn to read or help with the process", I thought this game would be useful to help my daughter start with the reading process, but that is not the case. As a game it's pretty entertaining, and it has very subtle clues that makes children have to think and look farther beyond. I would place the correct ages for this game between 6 and a half and eight and a half years old.