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Home Education Best Sellers -- May 1997

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Reference Software (Mac & PC)
This
Month
Last
Month
Title Publisher Price
Survey
1 1 Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe(CD Mac, Win, Win95) Microsoft PC
Mac
2 2 Encarta Encyclopedia(CD Mac, Win, Win95) Microsoft PC
Mac
3 4 Grolier Encyclopedia
(CD Win95/Win,CD Mac)
Grolier PC
Mac
4 5 World Book Encyclopedia (CD Win) IBM PC
5 3 130 Million American Dictionary (CD Win) American Business Information PC


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Education Software for the Macintosh...
This
Month
Last
Month
Title Publisher Price
Survey
1 1 Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (CD, Mac) Mindscape PC
Mac
2 8 Lion King Activity Center (CD) Disney PC
Mac
3 3 Winnie the Pooh (CD) Disney PC
Mac
4 5 Pocahantas Animated Storybook (CD) Disney PC
Mac
5 2 Aladdin Activity Center (CD) Disney PC
Mac
6 * Scientific American: Planets (CD-ROM) Bryon Preiss
Mac
7 * Guitar Method (CD-ROM) EMedia PC
Mac
8 10 Magic School Bus: Body (CD Mac) Microsoft PC
Mac
9 * Correct Grammar (CD-ROM, Mac) Learning Company PC
Mac
10 4 Ultimate Human Body (CD) DK PC
Mac


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Education Software for Windows...
This
Month
Last
Month
Title Publisher Price
Survey
1 3 JumpStart First Grade (CD Win95/Win) Knowledge Adventure PC
Mac
2 2 101 Dalmations Animated StoryBook (CD Win/Mac) Disney PC
Mac
3 1 Ready to Read With Pooh (CD Win/Mac) Disney PC
Mac
4 5 JumpStart Kindergarten (CD Win95/Win) Knowledge Adventure PC
Mac
5 * Tonka Construction (CD Win) Hasbro PC
Mac
6 4 Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (CD MPC) Mindscape PC
Mac
7 6 Winnie the Pooh Print Studio (CD Win95) Disney PC

8 9 JumpStart Preschool (CD Win95/Win) Knowledge Adventure PC
Mac
9 * JumpStart Second Grade (CD Win95/Win) Knowledge Adventure PC
Mac
10 10 Toy Story Activity Center Disney PC
Mac


* Title not on last month's chart.

Source: PC Data. List is based on units sold by forty-two retail and mail-order chains, representing over 70% of the U.S. market.

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