they have an impressive line of protective silicone sleeves that fit snuggly over an iPod nano and include a range of hip monster creations, with editions available for both iPod nano 3rd and 4th generations.

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users can create and dress their own avatars, mix their own music, and create animated dance videos that can be downloaded onto your iPod for viewing and sharing.

We also sometimes download stuff from Gameshouse – Tumble Bugs and Feeding Frenzy for example are easy to understand and play, they also both like Garden Dreams.

My kids are autonomously home educated and do not yet read, so it’s a challenge to find stuff that they don’t have to read to play, but still has some educational value and is not just time frittering. I’ve found that anything marketed as ‘educational’ tends to have rubbish graphics and interface and not much appeal, really.

This doesn;t include web-based stuff as my kids are not on the web yet.

For anyone who’s wondering, my kids *don’t* spend all their time on their computers (my 6 year old has my old powerbook, the 5 year old has a refurb macbook). They do nothing but play for a day or so and then they spend a week or so doing something completely different and barely touch their computers, until for some reason they go back to them again.

I reluctantly invested in a P.C Emulator (oh the shame, the shame) because I really wanted them to be able to play stuff like Pharaoh, Caesar, etc. when they are older (and, O.K. I wanted some oldschool playing for myself over Xmas!) and I’ve not seen a mac sim or worldbuilder that comes up to those games. And of course I can’t wait til they are old enough for the Myst series.

Oh, and also Fritz and Chesster chess games – both girls love these games (there’s a 1 and a 2) and after a few days playing the 1st title they were able to play my husband on a real life board.

Fritz and Chesster, Kid Pix, Green Eggs all are available in the Applestore and quite pricey. Plopp and the GamesHouse stuff are downloads, and reasonably priced.

Sorry for the hugely long comment – looking for decent kids games for the Mac that don’t feel like a P.C port has been a bit of an obsession for me lately.

These new offerings by MacKiev look like they’re worth a try – though perhaps a bit pricey for the limited amount of content (compared to all the free Web-based stuff out there).

Thanks for the positive review.