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=== Tropes featured include: ===
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Some games have extra scenes that aren't in the original books.
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* [[Animal Talk]]: Ruff in ''Ruff's Bone'' can only bark, but is able to talk to the player.
* [[Anti-Frustration Features]]: According to [http://silicon-valley.siggraph.org/MeetingNotes/LivingBooks.html this article], the running guy cursor during the load screens was used to keep the players distracted while they wait.
* [[Art Evolution]]: The early titles feature more computer-ish graphics (the characters are very basic in design and have no shading). Eventually the characters started to look more like actual illustrations, and the animation gets progressively better as time moves on.
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* [[Feelies]]: Almost every title came with the book it was based off of, and a parental guide in a few cases.
* [[Follow the Bouncing Ball]]: The words were highlighted as they were read.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: The series inspired quite a few clones, like the ''[[Disney]] Animated Storybook'' series and others.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: A book on Page 12 of ''The Cat in the Hat'' foreshadows the events of ''The Cat in the Hat Comes Back''.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: With all the things to click in the background, this is basically happening ALL THE TIME to the characters in the story.
* [[Guide Dang It]]:
** The paper airplane on Page 24 of ''Arthur's Teacher Trouble'' is hidden in an extremely obscure spot. As in, the last place you'd ever expect to look. On top of that, the click box is very small. {{spoiler|The location of it is just barely above Mr. Ratburn's head.}}
** The dragonfly in ''The Tortoise and the Hare'' is hidden in some very obscure places, and is commonly used as the yardstick for levels of obscurity when it comes to other [[Guide Dang It|Guide Dang Its]]. For example, {{spoiler|on Page 11, he's hidden on the far left, a place that looks like there's nothing to click on there.}}
* [[Here We Go Again]]: {{spoiler|In ''Ruff's Bone'', after Ruff FINALLY retrieves his bone from a long journey, his owner throws it again. His reaction is...less than satisfying.}}
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: A kid on Page 3 of ''Sheila Rae'' mentions why he was sent to the principal's -- through talking too much. This, of course, prompts him to start getting very talkative about it.
* [[Interface Spoiler]]: On many occasions, during a huge plot twist or something along the lines of that, the text would always be displayed as the twist was being worked.
* [[Iris Out]]: ''Sheila Rae'' ends on this.
* [[Licked by the Dog]]: On Page 3 of ''Sheila Rae'', a click spot has a dog coming up to Wendell, while he's tied up in a jump rope. He tries to get the dog to untie him, but he gets licked on the face instead, and he finds it disgusting.
* [[Mini Game]]: Some later games included one, and even later games included several.
* [[Musical Nod]]: A record player on Page 7 of ''Arthur's Teacher Trouble'' plays the [[Recurring Riff]] from ''Just Grandma and Me''.
* [[Oddball in the Series]]:
** ''The New Kid on the Block'' is the only one to be based on short poems rather than a whole story. Much of the interaction also comes from clicking on the text.
** ''D.W. the Picky Eater'' is the only game that doesn't use the [[Game Engine|Mohawk engine]].
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