Leap Frog Tag and Tag Junior - a review and a competition

Leap Frog were very kind and sent Top Ender a Tag Reading system and Baby Boy a Tag Junior Reading system to review and generally have a good play with after CyberMummy. As soon as the parcel arrived, Baby Boy and Top Ender had pulled out the packages and I only just managed to get a couple of photos before the packaging was in the recycling and they were both sitting cross legged on the floor working out what they needed to do to play with the new gadgets.

Top Ender loves the Tag Reading system. She already had it as a gift from Granny before she started school, but the new Tinkerbell book was a BIG hit! The Tag Reader is styled like a pen and it is used similar to a pointer, where you need to point the end at the text or picture and then it will "read" the page out loud. Baby Boy also loves his Tag Junior, and he thinks that it looks like EVE from WALL-E! The Tag Junior is held more like a bingo pen/stamp and again is run over the page and text and it also "reads" the page out loud.

The Tag Junior is recommended for ages two to four and there are several hard paged books that go with the system and the Tag system that Top Ender had is designed for ages four to eight and has several hardback books with paper pages and more are being added to the range all the time.

Each book contains a different learning skill, in "The Backyardigans Opposites" it is about opposites (you had worked that our already though right?)  and in "If I was" its about different animals. Top Ender's books are more story based, but again do have an educational angle with new words being added to her vocabulary and also helps to understand more about structure of sentences and there are other activities in the books too.

Once a week we connect the Tags to the PC (its Mac compatible too) and we are able to see what Baby Boy and Top Ender have been up to and to further enhance the learning that they have been doing there are printables to download too. It has been great as Top Ender loves to read on her own, but I still like to know what it is that she has been reading! It has realy helped Baby Boy to get used to using books himself and getting ready for reading and seeing what detail there is on the page. Baby Boy will often sit on the floor with the Tag and read a few pages by himself, before asking for Daddy, Top Ender or I to read along with him, and he has no problems at all using the Tag although his favourite function does seem to be the on/off switch!

I think that they are both great products and the cheapest price I could find the Tag Junior for was £23.99 and the Tag was found at £12.49 and both make a great Christmas Gift! The other benefit of giving this as a gift, is that on the recipients next birthday, (or Easter, or Halloween, or Valentines Day or just any day you want to say I love you) you can buy a book to go with the system from the ever increasing range!

Now as I said Top Ender already has a Tag Reading System and so I have checked with Leap Frog and they have agreed that I can have a competition to give away the spare Tag Reading System! So the following things need to be done in order to enter;

Firstly make sure you are following this blog (I am sure you are) either via email or Google Friend Connect or on our Facebook page or via Networked Blogs as I like to see that you all love me...

Then read my blog post from yesterday about Helping your Children learn to read and learn to love to read (and if you want to leave me a comment on that post with other suggestions then that's fine by me!) then answer the following question in the box below and leave a comment here so I know you have entered and can make sure your answer appears in my summary!