When Puss in Book was released on June 20th we tried it out as a family. We did the show two ways. First we watched it all the way through on Netflix but not on a computer, on our TV. This way we were unable to make any choices to the story. It went along the existing track. The story was entertaining but we wanted more. We wanted to have control of the story.
So, the second time around we watched the show on the Netflix app on the iPad. We had a fun time interacting with the story. The kids loved it so much that they went and started watching the Puss in Boots series, something that they had not previously shown much interest in watching. They love the Shrek movies but that did not make them jump over to this series. I’d love to see more of these interactive type programs. The official description of this program and trailer is below.
Our Netflix StreamTeam contacts sent us the fun “Anne with an E” care package. It came complete with some Kindred Spirits buttons for Eva to share with her best fried as well as tissues for those episodes that will make you cry and also a copy of Anne of Green Gables plus a notebook to write all of Eva’s imaginary stories.
Eva and Andrew and Allison watched the 90 minute first episode. Allison liked it very much. I think that she read the book as a child. I never read the book myself, but I’ve heard many good things about it. Eva was more interested in getting into reading the book then watching the show. She is much more interested in books these days, which is great. I think that after she reads the book she’s going to want to watch the series. I think that I should read the book as well.
