It's Sam the Lion's birthday, and Reader Rabbit is gathering his friends in Wordville to create goodies for a surprise party in Reader Rabbit Thinking Adventures Ages 4-6 (The Learning Company). There are eight activities in all, with three different levels, so challenges abound for kids. For example, Mat the Mouse is rehearsing a sleek dance team to entertain at Sam's party, and kids are asked to figure out the next move a dancer should make when the music resumes. On the lowest level, that's not hard because the dancers freeze in their last dance step, so it's easy to spot what should come next. In the highest level, dancers do their steps and resume their original positions, making it harder to determine just what should come next without some quick thinking and a bit of visual acuity. Other party planning involves making cookies with patterns, styling wrapping paper and banners, sorting toys for the goodie bags, wrapping presents according to set patterns, and testing out a new version of Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey. Fortunately, kid's progress in each of these activities is stored for their return, because in some cases they have to do an activity 18 times in order for the surprise party to come off. Some kids may find this a bit tedious, although others will be driven to get the party organized, so allow them computer time to complete a long series of activities. There's also a Print Shop activity where kids can print off party invitations and wrapping paper. You may want to limit printing privileges, as some kids want a sample of each wrapping paper. It's unfortunate that there's no free-form mode in any of these activities. Kids liked many of the ideas, but wanted to try out their own versions like choreographing dances or wrapping packages in their own fashion. This program takes advantage of many of the best abilities of the computer to set up logic activities for kids, but beware of the boredom factor of repetitious activities to get to the final goal (this also limits replay appeal). A second CD contains printable worksheets and activities as well as a tool for accessing your child's progress in using the program.