Barbie Classic: Barbie Storymaker - PC

Create animated stories starring Barbie and all her friends. Bring your Barbie stories to life as never before--on your computer. Choose the setting, the props, and the characters. Direct each character's movements and dialogue, plus add music, sounds, and special effects. You can create thousands of original Barbie stories.

• Choose from the ballet studio, the beach, the stables, the Barbie Dream House, the mall, and more.
• Select from lots of different Barbie dolls, friends, and family.
• You can feature Barbie and her favorite animal friends in your stories.

Review

Children create their own animated stories with Barbie and friends by cutting and pasting characters, stickers and music and recording narration and text. Play begins as kids choose the setting, props and characters for their story. Next, children direct each character's movements and dialogue while adding music and sounds to each scene. Finally, the scenes are linked together and the original story comes to life. The software offers plenty of open-ended creativity options in an easy to use format. Children's work can be saved or printed, and testers enjoyed the program, asking to play it repeatedly. This is one of the better Barbie titles.

• Teaches: writing, creativity
• Age Range: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue