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Storybook Weaver is a 1990 educational game originally released on floppy disk for the Apple IIGS, aimed at children aged 6–12. An updated version, Storybook Weaver Deluxe, was released for Windows and Macintosh computers and featured much more content than the original. Both versions were released by MECC. The Deluxe version was made available for both home and school environments. A Teacher Resource CD for the software included lesson plans and user guides.
The graphical objects offered in the software included food, furniture, vehicles, vegetation, housing, floors, doors, walls, weather effects, natural landscape features and so on. The characters which could be placed in a story included humans, animals and make-believe people from fairytales and classic mythology. There were many human characters of various nationalities, most of which had several positions to choose from, including standing, running, sitting and sleeping. Fantasy characters included fearsome dragons, , fairies, giants, ghosts, Greek mythological creatures and magical beings such as sorcerers and witches such as Baba Yaga. Any object could be creatively manipulated to produce various effects, through flipping objects through various angles or modifying colour, size and shape in a paintshop-type program. For example, a puddle of water could be turned red to represent a pool of blood.
This version largely kept the original backgrounds, items and characters from the original game and added a large number of new objects and categories, such as a world landmark category, including the Statue of Liberty and the White House. The objects from the original version were updated in higher textures to match the quality of the new objects. The game offered a lot more features in the real and modern indoor and outdoor world, including streets, cities, a bedroom, a classroom, a shopping mall and much more. The game didn't skimp, however, on aspects of the ancient or fantasy worlds.
A noticeable feature of the Deluxe version was its bilingual capacity. Users could now write stories in English Language or Spanish language, accompanied with a bilingual text-to-speech feature, an English/Spanish spell checker and a thesaurus. Deluxe also included "story-starters" for children who found it more difficult to get into the creative mindset, a voice recording feature, spoken tutorials and a library of object sounds and music. The Deluxe version of the program was re-released in a 2004 edition.
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