Description:
Replace your plain gray keyboard with this personable school-bus-yellow fellow, and kids who never looked twice at your workspace will pause, do a double take, and say, "Hey, cool!" This fully functional keyboard is the same as the one you use; it just has a friendlier face. Most of the oval board is that jarring yellow color. Letter keys are purple; numbers and the space bar bright red; and blue plastic (nonfunctional, darn it) eyebrows, eyes, and mouth personalize the keyboard. It looks like a guy with one heck of a complicated nose. This bright keyboard is easy to plug into your CPU, but you'll have to buy an adapter if you have a five-pin keyboard port. Keys are standard sized. Each letter key has a corresponding icon on it: M has a moon, F has a frog, and so on. An accompanying CD-ROM, KidBoard Coach, guides kids through five activities that help with letter recognition and keyboarding speed. The software is probably the weakest part of this package. The "coach" is well intentioned, but the activities feel like drills, not games. The keyboard itself is a sturdy, happy guy. He survived trips to a few different households and patiently smiled beneath the grubby fingers of many children. And yes, he endured many curious pokes in the eye. (Ages 3 and older) --Anne Erickson
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