Two things about this one are usually got wrong in photographs, so they are worth saying first. It is a single moulded pad, not a laptop that opens - the keys and the screen are on the same face, with a green handle across the top for carrying it. And the screen is a small LED panel that shows letters and numbers, not a colour tablet display. What you get for Rs. 1,799 is a sturdy button toy, and on those terms it is a good one.

The layout does the teaching. Numbers 1 to 10 run across the top, the whole A to Z sits below with a picture on every letter, and eight animal keys - cow, sheep, tiger, frog, bird, duck, panda and gorilla - fill the row between them. A child presses a letter, hears it, sees it on the screen and looks at the picture, which is three ways into the same idea.

Six mode keys change what the pad is doing: Music, Letter, Word, Songs, Spell and Asking, with Story and Read on the bottom row. Asking is the one that earns its place - the pad sets a question and waits for the right key, which turns a press-and-listen toy into something a child has to answer.

Everything on it is in English. The board prints 26 English Words and there is no Urdu marking anywhere on the pad, so treat it as an English alphabet and vocabulary toy - which is exactly what most parents are buying it for before school.

Two details parents notice later: there are separate VOL+ and VOL- keys next to the power key, so the volume comes down without hiding the toy, and the moulded handle means it travels - in a bag for a car journey or to a grandparent's house without a case.

It comes in blue, pink or yellow, and runs on AAA cells that are not supplied. Tell us which colour you want when you order. The price is Rs. 1,799 with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan - Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar and beyond - with stock, your city and the delivery charge confirmed on WhatsApp before dispatch.

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