Last fall I called Mattel to complain that the Barbie PC had fewer educational titles than the HotWheels PC package.
The main attractions are the accessibility of the touch interface and the vast number of apps, including many educational titles.
Operating out of elegant late-Victorian premises, it stocks a wide range of books, including educational titles such as revision guides and 11+ practice papers.
You can find more educational titles like brain teasers and Art Academy, where your child can learn to draw in step-by-step tutorials.
But parents surveying those apps, or the educational titles available for every gaming console, will find little to guide them toward which (if any) offer much beyond the most basic skill-building blocks.
Ask your average Comic Con vendor if he's got any educational titles, and prepare to be met with the rather-too-swift assertion that his cyborg-superheroes and rotting zombies "promote literacy".
She said that the company wanted the two computers to have roughly the same amount of software but said that the larger number of popular Barbie programs, like Barbie Fashion Designer and Detective Barbie, left less room for educational titles on the girls' computer.
Pearson, which publishes The Financial Times, Penguin books and educational titles, will receive $2 billion for its 61 percent stake in I.D.C. "The price is slightly ahead of our expectations," said Alex DeGroote, media analyst at WestLB Panmure, adding that the price was about 17 times I.D.C.'s historic profit.
He has since appeared in more than 200 games, including educational titles, sports simulations and, most famously, in a series of side-scrolling platformers alongside his brother Luigi.
Unlike a lot of "educational" titles, they have a sense of humor, high production standards, and don't overtly teach, but encourage a lot of clicking and experimentation.
