After unboxing the LeapReader, you first have to charge the LeapReader pen and then you have to download the LeapReader Connect App on your computer. Home Retail Group Card Services Limited is registered in England (04007072) at 33 Holborn, London, United Kingdom, EC1N 2HT. Now that we have learned our lessons, let me tell you about the LeapReader pen I have been raving about.

This includes downloading whichever audiobook or companion audio you want for your LeapReader book which you can then upload onto your pen by connecting it to your computer. I bought the Learn To Read vowel book sets and we sit together and he tries to sound out simple 3 letter words then we use the pen to see if he's correct and to explore the sounds. The LeapReader pen has some sort of a sensor at the pointy end that detects the words and images in the LeapFrog Reader books and other items. Also books can be difficult to source, they can be very expensive in some cases and my boy only uses the Leapreader occasionally by himself. Another also taught him all the names of dinosaurs and the last one helped him learn about wild animals and their habitats.Loved that it helped with difficult words and allowed numbers and letter writing to be massively improved. LeapReader offers a library of nearly 100 audio books, music albums, and trivia challenges that you can download from the LeapFrog App Center. His letter and number formation is a bit sloppy still so I am using the writing books with Mr Pencil to help him improve.

If you bought the book in a different country than the one you are currently in, make sure that the proper country is selected in the top-right of the page. Sadly, when it arrived, it turned out to be a version of the LeapStart Go system, another similar concept introduced by LeapReader, and it wasn’t compatible with the LeapReader.

If you are interested, the software for the pen also downloads usage data from the pen when charging. With the book and position known, the Tag device looks up the appropriate audio to play for that location in the book and plays it. He had a really good go at writing on the paper and loved that he could do it and copy the examples. The entire LeapReader library includes more than 150 titles for children at different stages of the learn-to-read journey, so there’s always more content to keep them engaged and learning! Actual storage capacity on the Tag and LeapReader devices may vary depending on the content downloaded.

One thing that we noticed was that the LeapReader book had tiny grey dots covering the whole page even the text and the images. To save you time, we read through hundreds of LeapReader reviews and summarized the top five features that parents, teachers and industry groups love most about LeapReader vs Tag. Most activites have two levels so kids can play and learn at the right level and move up when they're ready.Another way to do this is that you can touch a page inside your LeapReader book with your LeapReader pen while it is switched on and it will prompt you to connect it to your computer to LeapFrog Connect to download the companion audio. This means that they can use the books on their own but you get to see how they are progressing as well.

One side has a political map and the other side has a colorful map full of pictures of children from different countries and animals and lakes and mountains. It also collects statistics on usage to reconnect with the software and present electronic rewards to the learner and help parents monitor learning progress. Leapfrog were useless and in the end it went in the bin and I had a very unhappy little boy and a bunch of useless books.It’s a little tricky to set up- we only have iPhone/iPad at home so had to download the software on Granny’s computer instead which meant the little one couldn’t play with it straight away. Using the book in a separate room is fine but when there are other things going on it's a little hard to hear what is being said.