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Reader Rabbit's Interactive Reading Journey

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Reader Rabbit's Interactive Reading Journey is a computer game in The Learning Company's Reader Rabbit series of children's educational games. It was released in 1994. It was re-released as Reader Rabbit Reading Adventures Ages 4-6 in 1998. The sequel to this game, Reader Rabbit's Interactive Reading Journey 2, was released in 1996.

Summary[]

Sam the Lion, while talking with Reader Rabbit, realizes he has no kingdom. Mat the Mouse tells them about the Reading Kingdom, and so with Pop the Program Options Pad, they set off to find it.

Characters[]

Activities[]

Each activity appears in one Letter Land at a time in the following order, and consists of three parts. (Activities are not playable when the sound option is turned off.)

  • Nan's Nest - Nan babysits the word birds in the nest.
    • Say - Readers say the sight words shown onscreen.
    • Phonics - Players blend word prefixes and suffixes to make words.
    • Words - Players click on the correct words until all three word birds are hatched.
  • Ben's Ant Band - Ben leads a band of ants, who play instruments.
    • Say - Readers say the sight words shown onscreen.
    • Read - Players read each sentence and choose the word that best completes it.
    • Words - Players help the ants gobble up the correct words from a group of nine.
  • Mit's Mess - Mit cleans up a mess of acorns and peanuts in his tree house.
    • Say - Readers say the sight words shown onscreen.
    • Phonics - Players choose whether to put a peanut into the big acorn (if the word has the correct suffix) or into the trash can (if the word does not have the correct suffix).
    • Words - Players click on the correct words until all of the acorns are put away. (Reader Rabbit's friends pop out of one of the big acorns each time an acorn is put away.)
  • Fishtown Follies - Rock Fish hosts an underwater word show, swallowing word fish and hosting the Super Snail Sprint race.
    • Say - Readers say the sight words shown onscreen.
    • Play - In the Super Snail Sprint, three snails race. Players click on the snail with the correct word, and that snail moves one turn. The first snail to reach the finish line wins.
    • Words - Players choose the fish from a group of three with the correct word.

Books[]

# Book Related Letter Level of Reading
1 Look at This Book S 1
2 Look at This Hole! S 1
3 Look at Me M 1
4 This is Not Sam M 1
5 Sis, Mat, Mit, and Sam H 1
6 Sam Meets Sis H 1
7 I Am Not Shade T 1
8 Sis Sees the Apple T 1
9 Mat's Raft F 2
10 The Hat Fell on Mat F 2
11 Ann's Hat D 2
12 The Snowman's Hat D 2
13 The Mask W 2
14 Sid and the Apple W 2
15 Sit in the Hole B 2
16 The Fort is a Mess B 2
17 Ants in the Sun R 3
18 Feet in a Tree R 3
19 Ed, Ann, and the Apples C 3
20 Sis Needs a Pot C 3
21 Ann Needs a Net Tr 3
22 The Sheet is on Ed Tr 3
23 Mat's Pot of Mud N 3
24 Shell, Sand, and Apples N 3
25 Mat Sits on a Fish G 4
26 Mat and the Nut G 4
27 Look! No Spots! P 4
28 Slim Fish Gets Fat P 4
29 What Is That Seed? K 4
30 Wet in the Rain K 4
31 Mud on the Sheet Q 4
32 Snowballs and Snowmen Q 4
33 Mat Meets the Bad Men V 5
34 Mat's Wish V 5
35 Mat, Sam, and Will L 5
36 The Surfboard L 5
37 The Fun Fish Y 5
38 The Bus and the Bell Y 5
39 Ben the Ant Z 5
40 Buzz the Bee Z 5

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Trivia[]

  • This is the first Reader Rabbit game to be localized in countries outside the United States and Canada and to be translated in other languages besides American English.
  • This is also the first Reader Rabbit game to have a storyline.
  • The W, Tr and N Letter Lands each feature respective locations from the games Reader Rabbit 1, 2 and 3.
  • Each Letter Land in the game represents a consonant letter, except the Tr Letter Land, which represents a consonant blend (Tr).
    • The game excludes all the vowel letters A, E, I, O, U, and the consonant letters J and X.
  • The concept of this game was re-used in Reader Rabbit's Learn to Read, using a similar interface that follows a long path with up to four Letter Lands every segment, each one having a book to read and reading activities, but with a different story and plot.
    • All of the activities in the aforementioned game are based on the activities from this game, except Music Labeler, which is based on the Labeler Game from Reader Rabbit and the Fabulous Word Factory and its remakes.
    • However, the aforementioned game has a Letter Land for all twenty-six letters of the alphabet, and there is only one book per Letter Land.
  • Starting with this game, Reader no longer wears overalls or gloves. He just wears a red sweater just like he did in the 1991 versions of Reader Rabbit 1 and Reader Rabbit 2, although he is still seen wearing the overalls and gloves on the cover art and exit screen. Additionally, Pop's eyes now have larger pupils.
  • After the release of Reader Rabbit's Interactive Reading Journey 2, the number "1" was added to the end of the title in later pressings of the game.
    • In the UK version, the "1" does not appear in the game's logo during the title sequence, but it does in all other instances.
  • The 1994 release had 40 individual printed storybooks whereas the 1996 and 1997 releases had 5 storybooks with 8 stories each.
  • This is the first game where Pop is used as the sign in screen.
  • Reader and Sam's in-game sprites would later be reused for the Reading Development Library series.
  • In the 1994 version, Reader's mouth moves when he talks about the books. In later versions, it doesn't.
  • In later versions, some letter lands have more objects.
  • In the intro, when Mat comes when she saw Sam feeling sad, her bloomers were shown.
  • On the 1994 and 1996 covers, the word "Interactive" is not outlined but it is on the title screens.

Goofs[]

  • On the help button, Mat's denim dress is purple instead of blue. This is also the case with the sequel.

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References[]

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/19970111223207/http:/www.softkey.com/html3/pr/irj.htm
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