Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10455 in Toys & Games
• Brand: LeapFrog
• Dimensions: 3.86 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
From your first reading experience together to the independent toddler years, the LittleTouch LeapPad platform is designed to build early learning skills with stories that come to life with the simple touch of a finger. Just place the book on the LittleTouch platform, pop in the cartridge, and use finger touch on any page to bring learning to life.

Babies grow so quickly, and the LittleTouch LeapPad learning system is designed to grow with them!

Every book lets you choose from 3 grow with me settings:

Music & Soundscapes
Sparkling musical rhythms and sounds stimulate early brain development.Infants and newborns display a remarkable high receptivity to music. Research has shown that a baby's brain is fully capable of recognizing key, pitch and tempo. That's why Setting 1 provides baby with a way to explore a variety of stimulating sounds, rhythms and music.

Word Play
Short descriptive phrases introduce word-object association and build early language skills.Six to twelve months of age is the prime time for baby to begin to recognize words as part of sentences. Baby begins to babble, and understand the meanings of words. That's why Setting 2 exposes baby to short phrases in the appropriate visual context.

Laugh & Learn
Fun-filled rhymes and early learning interactions develop preschool readiness.Twelve to twenty-four months of age is a period when word comprehension, word production, and grammar skills increase dramatically, and include abstract ideas like shapes, numbers and colors. That's why Setting 3 is filled with rhymes and early learning concepts that build preschool readiness.

The LittleTouch introduces key early learning concepts including problem solving, memory, language, early reading, early math and creative thinking ensuring your child is engaged and their development stimulated.

Customer Reviews

THERE'S ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
The Little Touch leappad is a very nice educational toy with many advantages. It can keep a toddler entertained and teach a lot of things, but it can't be used alone; you need to be there and do all the work, the leappad is merely a tool (f.ex. it gives instructions that you have to help the child follow, as in choosing the right colour or the right object or even stand up and dance, no way can a child younger than 2 follow them on his/her own and of course the child needs motivation to do it, no toddler will interact with a piece of flat plastic).

Other than that it's essential that the books are made of some other PLASTIC material as they tear and fold easily and NO, they are not baby friendly as Leapfrog suggests - or waterproof.
Another thing is the sound volume, it needs to go underneath or on the side, because where it'placed it's only a distraction for the young child (buttons are more fun than flat pages).

To sum up, with a few modifications and maybe the addition of leds to keep a younger child entertained needed, for ages 12mts-3years (no way is it for a 6 month baby), I will give it 4 stars.