Bearing in mind I’m from another country and all…
My 3 year old adores Fisher Price Discovery Farm - I don’t, as I find it unbearably cutesy/smug. The baby lamb, in particular, gives me the heebies, and I just want to smack the smile off its turned up little muzzle. But them I’m not exactly the target demographic.
She also likes Jump Start pre-school. It doesn’t irk me too much, but the music gets really, really, irritating.
The Dr Seuss games by Living Books are good- enjoyed by child and parents alike - a lot of slapstick humour embedded in the text, but not much more than computer-based books with a few bells and whistles.
The ones she likes the most though, are local - Australian.
Try www.dataworks.com.au and ‘The Wiggles’ and ‘Bananas in Pyjamas’. Those games have a good interface, logical and pattern matching puzzles plus some abstraction theory, while being fun for her and tolerable to amusing for us when helping.
As background, seeing as you probably don’t know a whole lot about here, we have a government (thus no ads) media service, the ABC, as well as commercial media. Because it doesn’t have to dumb-down for sponsor sensibility, the ABC can afford to be a bit experimental, and it has a great kids department if you like your kids TV funny, and very non-glossy. Bananas in Pyjamas started as an ABC-TV kids show, and grew.
The Wiggles are a band, 4 early-childhood teachers who became a very good kids band.
Also, while not actually computer games, have you looked at the ZBS Foundation kids stuff? I’m a Ruby addict - get the CD’s sent over here and everything.
Or, try the ABC website www.abc.net.au and go to the kids section for various downloadable games. Couldn’t find the CD games on there though.
Now…lets see if the links worked…