I purchased the Echo Dot Kids Edition for my 6 year old granddaughter (whom I have custody of) for Christmas last month. Because (like always) Santa overdid it a bit, I was concerned that she may not really be interested in the Echo Dot. Plus, the fact that the Echo Dot has no picture that she can physically see or anything for her to do with her hands (as if she were on a computer or tablet, etc.) really had me thinking if she even took it out of the box at all, she wouldn't play with it longer than about 2 minutes and it would end up in the bottom of a toy box.
But, to my pleasant surprise, she has played with the Echo Dot Kids Edition every single day since Christmas. She absolutely LOVES it!
She and I play games with it together, she asks Alexa all kinds of questions (including what the weather will be so she knows how to dress for the day) and her favorite thing to do is to have Alexa tell her bedtime stories until she falls asleep. She can even request specific stories like Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, etc. And she also LOVES that she can request whatever song she wants to hear, on demand.
We haven't tried it yet, but we're told Alexa will also set an alarm for her, as well. We'll probably try that when school starts back in a couple of days.
We're extremely pleased with the Echo Dot Kids Edition and I'd definitely purchase this item again.
The only suggestion I have would be for the manufacturing company to make it to be rechargeable and to use it plugged in, as well (like a tablet or cell phone) instead of having to have it plugged in all the time to use it.
But, I knew this was the case when I bought the item, so I wasn't disappointed.