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Reader Rabbit is an edutainment software franchise created in 1989 by The Learning Company. This series currently makes up the greater part of a franchise of grade-based and subject-based titles, where the games for infancy through second grade feature Reader Rabbit. The games for third grade through sixth grade instead feature The ClueFinders.

As one might presume, the first game in the series taught language arts, featuring a variety of simple games designed to teach schoolchildren basic reading and spelling skills. Originally, the title character's name was changed to reflect a change in subject, as with Math Rabbit, but it has apparently since been decided to retain the character's original name regardless of the subject area covered by a particular game. "Reader Rabbit" is presumably a play on "Peter Rabbit."

Recurring characters

Reader Rabbit

Reader Rabbit is the main character of the series. He is a sort of bluish color. He is in pretty much every game, but he has more important roles in specific games.

Sam the Lion

Sam the Lion is, obviously, a lion. Though he exists in all Reader Rabbit systems, he is the main character in Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade. In the other games, the story revolves around Reader Rabbit doing various educational activities in which the player would interact to help Reader Rabbit. In Reader Rabbit's Interactive Reading Journey, Sam wished to rule a kingdom since "a lion should be king." In Reader Rabbit's Interactive Reading Journey 2, the focus of the game is his quest to find his imagination. In the end, it turns out that his imagination (in the form of a small cloud named Sparky) has been with him the whole time.

Mattie the Mouse

Mattie the Mouse is a female mouse. She is the main character in Reader Rabbit's Kindergarten.

P.O.P.

P.O.P (pronounced "pop") is the "program options pad" and is therefore similar to LapTrap from The ClueFinders.

Minor characters

Penelope the Parrot

Penelope is a parrot featured in Reader Rabbit Math Adventures Ages 6-9. She has been found on an island by Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion. She is a very bright green.

Pirats

The Pirats are pirate rats in Reader Rabbit Math Adventures Ages 6-9. They are "enimies" of Reader Rabbit and friends. There are a few of them. In Reader Rabbit Math Adventures Ages 6-9 there is a little cave thing in the upper right part of the map with a flag (if any pirats are there yet) and when there is a flag, it means a pirat is there. The flags change colors when a new pirat is there. If you go there, each pirat has a song they sing if you click on them.

Songs

  • This Is A Life For Me
  • Rough And Tough As Me sung by Pearl

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