Mia's Language Adventure: The Kidnap Caper is the fourth title of Mia's Big Adventure Collection

Mia's Big Adventure Collection

Mia's Big Adventure Collection is an edutainment software series created in 1998 by Kutoka Interactive. The series consists in four subject-based titles for children in elementary school.- Gameplay :...

 software series created by Kutoka Interactive

Kutoka Interactive

Kutoka Interactive is an educational software company founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1995. The company produces, develops, and distributes both subject-based and grade-based video games for Windows and Macintosh.- Background :...

. Release in 2003 in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 and the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, the game teaches French and Spanish as a second language to children between 6 and 10 years old.

Adventure

Mia's grandmother Mimi is kidnapped just after winning an arts contest. The player must help Mia find out who did it to free her.

Activities

The game's 14 educational activities teach Basic vocabulary words
(objects of everyday life, animals, fruits & vegetables, occupations, family members, etc.;) adjectives, verbs, numbers, prepositions, sentence structure, placing the adjective, verb tenses (present, past, future)

Critical reception

The game received positive reviews from Review Corner, Commonsense Media, Washington Post, Chicago Parent, Boston Herald

Boston Herald

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, and others.

Awards

The game received the Parents' Choice Gold Award

Parents' Choice Award

The Parents' Choice Award is an award presented by the non-profit Parents' Choice Foundation to recognize "the very best products for children of different ages and backgrounds, and of varied skill and interest levels." It is considered a "prestigious" award among children's products, and has been...

for 2004 in the software category, the National Parenting Center "Seal of Approval" for Spring 2004, the 2004 BESSIE award for the same year and several others.

External links

• Mia's Language Adventure at Kutoka.com