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The Living Books series was a series of interactive animated multimedia children's books produced by Brøderbund and distributed on CD-ROM for Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows . The series began with the release of Just Grandma And Me (an adaptation of the book by Mercer Mayer ) in 1992; other titles in the series included The Tortoise And The Hare , Arthur's Teacher Troubles , and a number of Dr. Seuss and Berenstain Bears titles. Living Books became quite popular in the mid-1990s and were even used in some classrooms to teach English . Some home-computer users reported purchasing CD-ROM Drive s and Sound Card s specifically to run Living Books. Almost all of them had selections for other languages, namely Spanish. CD-ROMS IN THE SERIES ''Just Grandma and Me'' (1993) ''Arthur's Teacher Trouble'' (1993) ''The New Kid on the Block'' (1993) ''The Tortoise and the Hare'' (1993) ''Ruff's Bone'' (1994) ''Little Monster at School'' (1994) ''Arthur's Birthday'' (1994) ''Harry and the Haunted House'' (1994) ''The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight'' (1995) ''Dr. Seuss's ABC'' (1995) ''Stellaluna'' (1996) ''Green Eggs and Ham'' (1996) ''Sheila Rae, the Brave'' (1996) ''The Berenstain Bears In the Dark'' (1996) ''Arthur's Reading Race'' (1997) ''The Cat in the Hat'' (1997) ''Arthur's Computer Adventure'' (1997) ''D. W. the Picky Eater'' (1997) All in all, there were 18 CD-ROMs in the series. Only some are well-known. BIG TUNA NEW MEDIA TITLES Although not published under the Living Books imprint, a few additonal titles by Big Tuna New Media , a joint venture between Mercer Mayer and John Sansevere were published by GT Interactive / Infogrames and are similar in content and look and feel. These are: "Just Me And My Dad" (1996) "Just Me And My Mom" (1996) "Just Me & My Grandpa" (1998) "The Smelly Mystery" (2001) "Little Critter and the Great Race" (2001) "The Mummy Mystery" (2001) |
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