Puddle Books

Puddle Books, also known as Fisher-Price Read & Play Library, were a series of interactive storybooks produced in 1995 and released in 1996. These were Funnybone's versions of the Living Books games by Bröderbund that were popular at the time.

All six released games consisted of original stories. In each story, you can pick from three narrators to narrate the story: Richardson J. Rabbit, P.J. Puddles (Susie in The Lie) and Grandmother Casey.

The opening to the games shows P.J. Puddles skipping with a frog, and the frog jumps into a book and P.J. jumps in.

Most of the story pages in every game have "Jump In" scenes, in which the player can jump into scenes by clicking on them and players click around to uncover hidden games, activities, animations and songs. Clicking on the frog will go back to the story page.

The Puddle Books demos, found on all six games and Fisher-Price Ready for Preschool, lets you read a summery of the story and let you sample a page from that story.

The games would later be re-released from The Family Software Club in 1998, minus the Fisher-Price awning.

The games were discontinued by around 1998-99 due to being too similar to the Living Books games.

Games

 * The Lie
 * A Day at the Beach with The Fuzzooly Family
 * After the Beanstalk
 * Yolanda Yellsalot
 * Baxter's Birthday
 * Louie Lumpfield and the Heroic Wet Dog

Trivia

 * The slogan "Leap into Learning" shares its name with a LeapFrog LeapPad sampler book.