My 11 year old daughter hated it.
923011
My 11 year old daughter hated it... it is too wordy, there are too many characters to keep track of and the plot is all over the place.
3092527
My daughter hated this! She would constantly hit her head on the bars when attempting to crawl or stand
740602
My kids did not like it (9 and 12 years old).  they thought it was just a story, they did not seem to learn anything 9 according to them).  I did not read it myself.
557903
it did NOT work at all my 11 year old bought this with her own money she saved up and as soon as it came in she tested it and water went into the case we were going on vacation so I told her to just use it as protection from drops and stuff just not to have it around the water until we got back and then she couldn't hear anything when the case was on very unhappy with this
1218998
I got this for my daughter for Halloween, and she ended up not even wearing it.  She did not like the wig.  It was big and it scared her.  I had her put the outfit on, and she complained that it bothered her and she took it off.  It's a cute outfit, but I don't recommend it.  Try another Dora costume.
2964934
My 9-yr.-old barely glanced through this book. I asked her why she didn't like it recently (she's 11 now), and she said it was too baby-ish. I heard about it through an MPR review and am guilty of ordering it without really checking it out first. It may be fine for a younger crowd.
4455239
After I ordered it, I read the reviews and even though my daughter is an advanced reader, I decided the topics would not be appropriate for my 8 year old daughter.
2928381
my daughter HAD to read it for school. she did not enjoy it. none of the kids who were "forced" to read it liked it :(
4942797
Unfortunately our daughter hated being in it. We tried 2 nights and she woke up almost every hour crying.. We returned it.
4089874
I have an 11 year old daughter, who is presumably the target audience. She was not impressed. "Nobody at my school would wear those clothes". I agree. Those are some pictures of some awful outfits.

The worst picture is the one next to the epiloge, with the thunder thighs stuffed like sausages into too-tight jeans, and those awful Ugh boots. Awful!

Outfits that break the rules - like mixing stripes and plaids - can be interesting sometimes, but most of the time they just don't work. And yet we see them on almost every page. It would be more useful to know what the rules are in the first place. How about, no horizontal stripes on top? How about buying basics you can mix and match? How about appropriate outfits for different occasions? How about some plain old common sense?

The quiz is just stupid. Based on whether you ride a school bus and what your favorite time of day is, you can "discover where you fit on the fashion spectrum". There are apparently only 3 shades on the fashion spectrum, and they are totally meaningless: 1. You love the spotlight and it loves you. 2. You have classic elegance and poise. 3. Everyone's best friend, you're sweet and caring. That's it. Apparently all little girls fall into exactly one of the three categories, and their clothes should reflect that. Excuse me, but how stupid.

And go to a paint store and check out the paint chips? What planet are you from? Nobody does that.

The worst advice of all was telling little girls to pour boiling water on stains. How many 3rd degree burns on children do you think that advice is going to cause?

Probably not too many because most girls are not even going to make it to the chapter on laundry. Not that it would be hard to get there, because this isn't even a book. It's a pamphlet. Printed on extra thick paper, with expanded margins and double spacing, this book still barely fills 100 pages, and most of those are covered with pictures. Whoever wrote this has the intellectual capacity of an ant.
1924028
My 6 yo hated it.  Really awful.  This book should not be sold!
2956196
They were really small and my daughter hated wearing them.  They shed glitter on everything.
2935168
I thought was very immature and reacted like a child.  she is an adult but cries over nothing.  WASTE OF TIME.
485219
I'm really surprised to see so many positive reviews. I got this for my 2.5 year old daughter for Christmas and she has shown almost no interest in it at all. I think she knows that it's more of a "toy" than a real "laptop". The images are hard to see on the screen. This was actually a total waste for us. Maybe better for younger ages like 12-18 months?
3339522
I am not sure what all the rave reviews are about regarding this book. I am pretty sure I don't want my 8 year old daughter reading books that have the word " sucked" in them. I also don't want her reading about celebrity girls who don't wear underwear. Yeah! That was in this book...Not Cool. And while reading this book to her this trash was what I found. I took it away and told her I would buy her another book. It is really sad that parents allow thier children to read such filth. People have no standards anymore
1246024
My daughter was bugging me like crazy to find this toy for her. She was so excited, she ripped the box open and ran downstairs to play. After 30 minutues she said, "I don't understand the reviews we read on Amazon, there is nothing to do in this game." You don't really "go" to school and there's nothing to "learn". The game just says, "you've been to school." No lessons, no nothing. It's been 30 minutes and she wants to return it already.

I'm not surprised. I actually think the first 20 reviews on here must have been written by Hasboro employees. Parents beware! Unless your daughter is from the stone ages and has never seen a video game, this game will bore her to death.
243812
This book wasn't very good. My daughter showed no interest in it whatsoever.