Comments & Reviews

In over 10 years, many websites and a few magazines have reviewed us and we have received many comments from children, parents, teachers... Here are a few that touched us most...

"Students having fun!
I am a computer teacher in Texas. My students LOVE Red Fish! When they have a choice of free time, I have watched them to see which game they pick. About 90% of my students immediately go to Red Fish! They have many other places they can choose, such as www.pbskids.org, www.funbrain.com, www.starfall.com, and www.tvokids.org; all of these are great websites, but most of them go to the RedFish website. I just wanted you to know how much they enjoy it. The website is fast and has so much to learn with. They love the 4 alphabets and I have had several lessons on the difference in the English and other languages. Thank you for providing a fun place for my students to go to. I am not sure where you are located, and my students down here in south Texas may never get there, but they can reach across the world and enjoy learning! Thank you again!"

Jan Womack

"One of the great things about the web [...] is its great DIY ethos, an ethos that results in some terrifically unique, offbeat, maybe even somewhat esoteric content, content that could never be produced or maintained even at the relatively large scale of a local PBS station. I hope Walter is a good example of this sort of content [...].

One of my personal faves: http://www.poissonrouge.com/, a completely self-funded pre-K kids’ site with some of the best interactive content on the web! Sites like this are what make the web truly astounding![...].

Ultimately, there’s something to be said for content that is created for its own sake — ie, content not geared to sell anything, sustain a TV station, build an author’s career etc. Too often, creation for the joy of it is lauded in principle but ridiculed in practice (“You self publish? Gee, you must not be very good!” — just ask James Joyce, Vincent Van Gogh, Franz Kafka, etc about that one!). "

Tom Straw
Please check out the rest of his site : www.onlinestoryworld.com/walter

"The site encourages, relies on, and rewards exploration. It’s only gotten better as I let students cooperate with each other (they love to show others how to navigate to something). While some of the more complicated puzzles may not entertain many students, I was very pleased to find one autistic student who happily spent hours on those."

J. T. Powell

"I have a little girl just about to turn three and she loves it. It has done wonders for her mouse skills, unlike any other websites we have found she can use it completely independently and she is still finding new things to do on it."

bigfish@poissonrouge.com