Baby Van Gogh

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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: This video is wonderful. My daughter loved it when she was 4 months old, and still does at 6 months. She loves colors and smiles when her favorite scene comes on. The music goes well with the images and there is never a dull moment.
I definitely recommend this if your baby seems to show any kind of interest in art and colors.

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Summary: No more tears
Review: When my 10 month old baby cries [and he is a very good baby], I just turn on Baby Van Gogh, and he is silenced! I have to admit, I can't stop watching it either--and I have seen it at least 100 times! :-)

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Summary: Helped our daughter learn her colors
Review: Beautiful, well done video to help children learn their colors. Our daughter was always fascinated with this video as well as most of the rest of the Baby Einstein series. She would watch any other videos until she was almost 2!

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Summary: Among the BEST!
Review: This DVD/video is among the best of Baby Einstein's well-produced videos. It has plenty of colorful action for younger children, but also has some appeal for those up to 4 years! It is quite engaging, and the Van Gogh theme is just brilliant. As with other Baby Einstein DVD's, however, the menus are impossible to navigate.

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Summary: Baby Einstein Series
Review: Frankly, for the $$ I was unimpressed. I had heard great things about this series and was sorely disappointed. Each of the presentations seem very "low budget." The filming content did not keep the attention of either my child or my nieces or nephews, ages 6 months to 4 yrs. Next time, I will tape animal/art programs from either Discovery Channel or Animal Planet and play my classical CD's in the back ground. Save your self the $$.

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Summary: My baby girl loves this video!
Review: We have purchased 5 of these videos and my 11 month old absolutely loves them! She has been watching them since she was 2 months old and still loves all of them. We recently purchased the Baby Doolittle videos and these are great for her age. The colors, beautiful music, and quick pace of all of the videos are great to keep the attention of an active baby. They are also great to put on in case mommy needs to take a phone call or even a shower! I would recommend these to anyone with a baby...they are wonderful and educational. I can't say enough good things about them...I guess the way I show I love them is to buy the videos for friends and family with infants and toddlers.

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Summary: FUN!!!
Review: This is a beautiful video, with wonderful music and funny images. My baby (13 months old) laughs at the "jokes", and especially likes when children appear. He's too young to appreciate the book, yet, but he already recognizes the images. Whenever I show it to him, he runs to the TV!!

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Summary: Entertaining approach to art appreciation, color recognition
Review: My 19 month old daughter has this video as well as several others in the Baby Einstein series (Mozart, Bach, Shakespeare, and the 2 Dolittles). She has been watching it for 5 months now (since she was 14 months old) and it is currently her favorite in the Einstein series. She calls it "painter goat" and it has gotten her interested in painting with a brush instead of just her fingers. This video is organized around 6 colors- yellow, green, orange, purple, red and blue. After the introduction of each color, a short poem (written and read by Julie Aigner-Clark) scores a short skit highlighting that color. Using toys, video segments from nature, live action sequences of children, and the ubitiquous puppets, the selected color is featured while the puppet "Vincent Van Goat" is painting one of six Van Gogh masterpieces that features that color. My daughter enjoys this video, laughing, clapping and pointing at the screen while we watch. She can now also indentify all her colors and will yell them out at the screen. For this reason, given the educational content and the spark of interest in painting, I have to say this is a very good effort by the Baby Einstein Company. I didn't give it a full 5 stars for two reasons. First, as an adult, I find the poems rather poorly written. This is something I don't think my daughter notices however. Second, some of the colors used tend to run into others, given that they use real world objects like flowers, I know this can't be helped. However, what can be helped is the color of paint they use to exemplify the color. For example, for the color "purple" the can of paint that the puppet uses shows up as blue--it is almost the same color as the blue puppet itself. Further, some of the items used to demonstate purple (such as a hanging mobile) show up as blue as well. It is not the fault of my TV or VCR, my husband suspects that the lighting in the studio when they were filming was incorrect, as certain colors absorb and reflect light in differing degrees. For a child learning her colors, this can be very confusing. In this instance, my daughter names the color blue, which is what it LOOKS like, instead of purple which is what it is SUPPOSED to be. I feel they should have taken more care with the production quality in this regard. However, even with these two reservations, I have to say it is a very good video for a child interested in colors and who enjoys painting.

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Summary: I can't recommend this video enough
Review: This is the worlds best video for young children. This is educational it teaches colors. It also teaches fine art. Unlike some of the other baby einstein videos it clearly is teaching something. Adults can stand to sit through this video. My son is 14 months old and he can watch it 2-3 times in a row. I have an extremely active child and it is the only thing that gets him to hold still. Litterally this goes on and from the boot up of the dvd he is glued to the screen.
It has nice extra features like a list of toys.

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Summary: Best Video yet for 10 week old
Review: I can't believe it! My now 12 week old has been hooked on this video for weeks now! She laughs and coos at the silly puppets and she's learning to recognize when the end of it's near.......I immediately rewind and replay!!