My grand daughter loves this and Running on Zero, one for letter skills, the other for math. Both are fun, and teach the child. They challenge your child to try harder, for a better score, even though there's no grading involved (the way it should be)

While my 3 yr old and 5 yr old play this game some, it doesn't compare to the other cartridges we own. There is only one game on the cartridge. It is simple, and I'm not convinced it has much educational value, as do most of the other Leapster games we have. I recommend you buy the Draw & Write or the Letter Factory. My children fight / "take turns" over those two games and they are educational.

My son received the Leapster system for his 4th birthday as a gift. It comes with this game. While this game isn't the most challenging, my son enjoys it. I am not sure at what level the previous reviewers children are at, but my son doing very well at school. Maybe they are academically beyond him. He knows all of his letters, their sounds, and can read three letter words. He can also write out all of the letters in the alphabet, uppper and lower. So while this game isn't extremely challenging, he still found it fun. I haven't found controlling the letterpillar to be difficult at all, as a previous reviewer said. The arrow buttons on the control respond fine when controlling the letterpillar. I think this game was great as a "free" game with the system, because it allowed him to get used to using the controller. And my son isn't electronically deprived. He uses our personal computer all of the time to play games. He also has a V-Smile with other games. We wanted this as a portable gaming system. Again, it was a good first, free game. I have nothing bad to say about it considering I didn't have to pay for it.

We bought this game for our 3 and 5 year old - they do not like it at all! It is a very boring game and difficult to maneuver the caterpillars - don't waste your money!!! It kept their attention for about 5 minutes and then they moved on. They love the SpiderMan, Nemo, and Disney Princess cartridges the best!

I bought my [...] daughter this game yesterday, she played it for 2 minutes and hated it. I played it for 5 minutes and now understand why she didn't like it. There is only one game on the cartridge- you pick one of three letterpillar faces and then you are supposed to use the arrow pad to guide the creature to eat letters. Level one has 1 capital letter and 1 number on the screen, if you eat the number the letterpillar gets sick and it tells you to eat the letter. Once you eat the letter, another one appears, and so on. If you run into the wall or a brick, the creature dies and after the creature dies three times, your game is over. We have the Kindergarten cartridge and the Disney Princess Cartridge and both of those have multiple games on each one and are so much more interesting to play. Don't waste your money on this one!