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Ant Hill!
Help the ants dig for gold!

Ant Hill Music!
Make music while helping the ants dig for gold!

Icebreaker
Race through the icebergs!

Icebreaker II

matchstick kidbooks: children's literature, emphasizing books that promote child development

This is a list I began compiling years ago, when I knew several families with children ranging in age from 2 through mid-adolescence.

It's essentially all the books that won at least one award.

The categories correspond to a range of children's ages.
For younger ages, the higher number is the average age of child who would enjoy reading the book, while the lower number is the age of the child who would enjoy listening to the book being read.

These are songs I've written over the years, either for kids, or their parents.

The Future Stinks - 596 KB
"When I was a kid my daddy once said to me, 'When you are grown, oh the things you will see.'"

Go to Bed - 1,447 KB
"Now it's time to go to bed. What else is there to do?"

Bubble Bath - 1,565 KB
"I love bubbles. I love bathtime."

Cleanup - 2,871 KB
"I love to color and I love to play"

Cowboy Robot Blues - 2,658 KB
"I had a job way out west..."

Are We There Yet? - 1,659 KB
"License plate bingo, it's a quarter to three"

The Pooping Song - 4,940 KB
"Pooping. Everybody's pooping."

All Songs

Awesome

A - Appendages
B - Bioengineering
C - Caffeine
D - Dirigible
E - Experiment
F - Freeze ray
G - Goggles
H - Henchmen
I - Invention
J - Jargon
K - Potassium
L - Laser
M - Maniacal
N - Nanotechnology
O - Organs
P - Peasants (with Pitchforks)
Q - Quantum physics
R - Robot
S - Self-experimentation
T - Tentacles
U - Underground Lair
V - Virus
W - Wrench
X - X-Ray
Y - You, the Mad Scientist of Tomorrow
Z - Zombies

Ant Farm

I later learned of a number of similar games, but this was my first effort at employing multiple 'cellular automata'-style agents.

Ant Farm

The same game with an auto-generated music feature that is somewhat interesting.

Video
Paul and Mark try to pick a video to watch

Wallet
Mark searches for his lost wallet

Underwear
Paul and Robert talk about clothes

R2C4
Mark meets a new robot friend

Heart of Gold
Man's best friend

Interactive Storytelling for Children
Diane the Mouse - unfinished