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Reader Rabbit 1st Grade

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Reader Rabbit 1st Grade (originally stylized as Reader Rabbit's 1st Grade) is a computer game in The Learning Company's Reader Rabbit series of children's educational games, released on January 14, 1998.

Plot[]

The Old Theatre has everything ready for a performance. However, Spike the Porcupine feels dissatisfied about not being the star of the show, so he hides the musical instruments, costumes, scripts, props and other necessities so the performance cannot start. Reader Rabbit and his friends have only a number of hours to make preparations before tonight's performance.

Characters[]

Voices[]

  • Jeanne Hartmann - Reader Rabbit
  • Laura Rice - Mat the Mouse
  • Mark Foster - Charlie Chipmunk
  • Sean O'Kane - Stanley Skunk, Papa Bear, River Turtle
  • Rebecca Wink - Babs the Beaver
  • Pete Shoemaker - Pierre
  • Brett Abramson - Penelope the Parrot
  • Andrea Fulton - Professor Owl
  • Irene Trapp - Baby Bear, Singing Bird #1
  • Susan Parks - Singing Bird #2
  • Peggy Fischer - Singing Bird #3
  • Roger L. Jackson - Spike the Porcupine
  • Christopher Louie - Homer the Autograph Hound
  • Doug Boyd - Costu-Matic

Activities[]

Babs' Workshop (Science & Measurement)[]

  • Animal Geography Gateway
    • Gameplay: Choose the animal that doesn't belong in a particular environment.
    • Skill: Animal Habitats
  • Measure It!
    • Gameplay: Select the correct parts that correspond to the dimensions indicated by Babs, which are measured using bear, moose and rabbit footprints.
    • Skill: Measuring Length
    • Item earned: Sets
  • Prop Sorter
    • Gameplay: Using the sorting machine, sort all of the animals that fit Babs' description by clicking on the bottom buttons to operate the platforms and send the animals sitting on them all the way to the top stands.
    • Skill: Sorting by Animal Traits
    • Item earned: Props

Pierre's Studio (Creativity & Music)[]

  • Autograph Hound Gateway
    • Gameplay: Help Reader Rabbit autograph the right photo of a particular mood in Homer's scrapbook based on his description of the photo.
    • Skill: Identifying Emotions
  • Pattern Piano
    • Gameplay: Reproduce Pierre's songs. Each musical note has its own color and every song part has two sequences of colors. Compare them to find the missing one.
    • Skill: Completing Patterns
    • Item earned: Musical Instruments
  • Billboards (renamed Posters in the UK version)
    • Gameplay: Paint four posters for tonight's show using different colors, various stickers of the cast and various shapes, a pencil, an eraser, a brush, and a fill bucket.
    • Skill: Painting & Creativity
    • Item earned: Billboard Posters

Professor Owl's Treehouse (Reading)[]

  • Doorbell Spell Gateway
    • Gameplay: Fill in the word below the picture by picking the correct letter.
    • Skill: Spelling
  • Word Bird
    • Gameplay: Help Penelope learn the correct lines for tonight's show, by hearing the words from Professor Owl and selecting the correct sound that stands either at the beginning, the middle or the end of the word.
    • Skill: Associating Letters & Sounds
    • Item earned: Gag Items
  • Silly Scripts
    • Gameplay: From a list, select the correct word that fits the context of the script.
    • Skill: Reading Comprehension
    • Item earned: Scripts

Papa Bear's Store (Math)[]

  • Week Creek Gateway
    • Gameplay: Fill in the missing weekdays to get to Papa Bear's store on the turtles.
    • Skill: Days of the Week
  • Costu-Matic
    • Gameplay: Assemble the costumes by paying the correct price for each of the four parts of the costume using coins of 1, 5, 10 and 25.
    • Skill: Counting with Money
    • Item earned: Special Costumes
  • Costume Count
    • Gameplay: Count the costume parts on the board and add or subtract to get the right number.
    • Skill: Adding & Subtracting
    • Item earned: Show Costumes

Items[]

Main article: Reader Rabbit 1st Grade/Items

Songs[]

Specifications[]

Skills List[]

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Spelling
  • Phonics
  • Addition & Subtraction
  • Counting Money
  • Days of the Week
  • Problem Solving
  • Measuring & Estimating
  • Identifying Emotions
  • Similarities & Differences
  • Animal Traits
  • Creativity & Music

Special Features[]

  • Applied Learning
  • Multiple Levels

Personalized Version[]

On June 28, 1999, a personalized version of Reader Rabbit 1st Grade was released, which added the use of A.D.A.P.T. Learning Technology and the Personalized Learning Center as a second disc. In 2000, another version was released, featuring the Treehouse Launcher and the Learning Creations program.

Quotes[]

  • Reader: Let's make sure we have everything. Props?
  • Stanley: Hey!
  • Reader: Costumes?
  • Mat: We got 'em.
  • Reader: Scripts?
  • Penelope: (squawks) A-Okay!
  • Reader: Music.
  • Mat: Check. ("Right" in UK Version)
  • Reader: Okay. Let's go home and get a goodnight sleep.
  • Reader: Hey everybody! We've got work to do. Raise the curtain, Charlie!
  • Mat: Who would be mean enough to ruin our show?! What will we do?
  • Charlie: Oh no, everything's gone!
  • Reader: We can't panic. Let's think.
  • Charlie: We could ask Papa Bear to make new costumes.
  • Reader: Yes!
  • Mat: Pierre could compose new music.
  • Reader: Yes!
  • Stanley: Babs could build new sets!
  • Reader: Yes!
  • Penelope: And Professor Owl could write new scripts!
  • Reader: Yes! It just might work!
  • Reader: Sign in, and let's get going.
  • Reader: What's your name? Find it on the list, or type it in.
  • Professor Owl: Please do come in.
  • Reader: Thank you, all. And good night.

Trivia[]

  • This is the only game in which, while having multiple levels of difficulty, the levels are not mentioned during gameplay.
  • This is the first Reader Rabbit game to have science as a subject.
  • Although the game was released in 1998, the first version's back cover, disc and title screen as well the credits have a 1997 copyright. This implies that the game was produced that year.
  • Traces of an early cover art (complete with the mid-1997 styled chalkboard logo) can be found in The Learning Company Product Catalog (1997-1998).
  • Many graphics, scenarios, and the user interface from this game would later be re-used in Reader Rabbit Thinking Adventures Ages 4-6.
  • This is the first game in which Babs the Beaver, Pierre, Papa Bear, Baby Bear, and Spike the Porcupine, who had different voice actors in the original release of Reader Rabbit Kindergarten, are voiced by Rebecca Wink, Pete Shoemaker, Sean O'Kane, Irene Trapp, and Roger L. Jackson, respectively.
    • Each voice actor also re-voiced each respective character for the second release of Reader Rabbit Kindergarten.
  • This is the second Reader Rabbit game to be developed by KnowWare, after Reader Rabbit Toddler.
    • It is also the second game to be fully 32-bit, requiring the Microsoft Win32s extension to be installed to run on Windows 3.1.
  • In some cutscenes, when the scene changes, there is a brief black screen before the scene changes. This is possibly due to the limitations of the Smacker video format in the game.
  • Some pressings of the original version are missing the logo caption in the title on the CD cover.
  • In the original version's title screen, the "st" in the game's logo is underlined.
  • On the cover, Reader Rabbit wears a red beret and is holding a megaphone, but he does not use either one in the game. The back of the original jewel case cover shows him holding a top hat and cane which he also does not use in the game.
    • However, Charlie can be seen holding a megaphone in the intro, and Reader wears the top hat on the Big Show flyer.
  • On the cover, Babs' hat is red rather than yellow.
  • In the 2000 release, the scene where Reader leaves the theatre and tells the player to sign-in is omitted, as the sign-in screen appears before the main game rather than after the intro sequence. This is also the case with other grade-based games aimed at 3 to 8 year-olds that were re-released in 2000.
  • The image on the cover of the UK Personalised version is mirrored.
  • On the original cover art, Reader has bare hands just like in-game, but on the 1999 and 2000 covers, he has white gloves.
  • Charlie's shirt doesn't have the red stripes in this game. He is also missing his whiskers.

Goofs[]

  • When the gang finds out that the supplies are gone, the blue stripes on Reader's sweatshirt are the same greyish blue color as his fur. This is fixed when he says, "Let's think."

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