## Description

Play through the year with Caillou, the bald-headed little boy – animated star
of the PBS series based on books written by Christine l’Heureaux and
illustrated by Helene Desputeaux.

After you sign in and choose a season, _Four Seasons of Fun_ opens on Caillou
‘s room, where you help Caillou get dressed to go outside by picking the
appropriate clothing for the season – select the long pants for winter, for
instance, by clicking on them and dragging them to Caillou to dress him. Some
of the options are deceptive; several of the hats and shirts should logically
be appropriate for more than one season, but aren’t allowed. However, there is
no “penalty” for wrong choices, just a gentle suggestion to try again.

After you have dressed him, Caillou goes outside. Here there are a number of
interactive objects and games to play, and you have the opportunity to pick up
or win items to place in Caillou’s Nature Book. There are icons along the
bottom of the screen that you can select to go home, view your Nature Book,
access help, or exit the game, and as you run your cursor over the icons a
character speaks the options aloud in a clear, friendly voice. Arrows that
appear at either side of the screen will take you forward to the next screen
or bring you back to the previous one – very easy for a young child to
understand and use.

Each season has it’s own activities as well as some that are available year-
round: in the fall you can help Caillou clear a path through the leaves on the
playground by clicking on the tiles showing the letter he names. In spring,
there is a see-saw game where you can help Caillou balance by choosing a
partner for him whose number matches a number on the screen. In winter, help
Caillou match his snowman to the one his father built.

There is a Bouncin’ Ball game in each season (In winter the ball is actually a
snowball.) – you select a word that rhymes with a word Caillou says by
throwing a ball at it, and a Race Along game (Or skate, or skateboard,
depending on the season), where you have to decide whether to move under,
over, or around obstacles in your path. There is a Picture Perfect game;
choose the items that don’t belong in the picture onscreen. This, like
dressing Caillou, can be a little confusing at first when you are unable to
remove beach-related things from the lawn in front of a house – however, it’s
the season that is the important factor here!

Four Seasons of Fun will give the 2-6 year-old child practice in several
early-learning areas including decision-making, letter and number recognition,
pre-reading skills, and ordering of events.

Caillou: Four Seasons of Fun