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Summary: Kids are engaged
Review: Both of my toddlers are engaged by this video. We don't play cartoons often for them, but this video is the exception. Children don't need state of the art cartoons, and this one is not, adding to the charm. The songs are catchy, and simple.
We have the abcs and 123s as well. All are entertaining. For parents who like educational videos that are exceptional, I would also recommend the Baby Animals series and Baby Know It All series for live action videos, and the There Goes A... series if you have boys, or girls, interested in everyday things.
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Summary: Kids are engaged
Review: Both of my toddlers are engaged by this video. We don't play cartoons often for them, but this video is the exception. Children don't need state of the art cartoons, and this one is not, adding to the charm. The songs are catchy, and simple.
We have the abcs and 123s as well. All are entertaining. For parents who like educational videos that are exceptional, I would also recommend the Baby Animals series and Baby Know It All series for live action videos, and the There Goes A... series if you have boys, or girls, interested in everyday things.
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Summary: A sweet video that enchants toddlers
Review: First of all, it's useful to know that there are two sets of "Richard Scarry" videos available, each produced by a different company: Cinar/Polygram/USA Films offers a video series called "The Busy World of Richard Scarry", and Sony/Random House has a set of videos named like "Richard Scarry's Best (fill in the blank) Video Ever". There are notable differences between them. The "Busy World of...." series consists of episodes from an actual television series, although I don't know what network originally carried it. It's kind of bland and generic kids TV, and it sorely lacks the Richard Scarry charm. Not recommended. Our family much prefers the "Best...Video Ever" home video series. This series features simple storylines and really sweet, catchy songs that both preschoolers and parents enjoy even after multiple viewings. "Best Learning Songs" is probably our favorite because it covers such a variety of subjects. The story is extremely simple: Huckle and friends put on a show in their backyard. Their show consists of gently educational songs about the alphabet, counting, shapes, opposites, common courtesy, etc. On the downside, the animation is pretty primitive, the image quality doesn't improve from VHS to DVD (we now own both), and the price could be better for a 30-minute program. But those charming, educational songs really carry the day, and both of our kids were completely entranced by this series of videos while they were preschoolers.
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Summary: Good Learing DVD for Children.
Review: I bought this DVD for my 2-1/2 year old son. The content is very useful for the children of his age. DVD provides concepts such as shapes (squares, triangles etc.) as well as ABC's, 123's and up/down, between, under/over ideas. Despite, the very good content, I feel the tempo is slightly slow and does not capture a child's attention for a longer duration. I find my son is always more attentive to videos with some what faster moving action.
Overall this is a good program, and parents will find it useful teaching/learning tool for their children.
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Summary: Poor production quality
Review: I bought this for my niece who has not yet seen it, so I cannot comment on the quality of the content, but I did watch it and was surprised at the poor production quality. The tape seems to be recorded in extended play mode, resulting in a somewhat grainy picture with occasion horizontal lines running down the screen. Also, the voices of some of the characters are recorded by children who mumble, making it difficult to understand what they are saying.
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Summary: Play this one in a crunch
Review: I don't rely on the television to entertain my 20-month old, but when I absolutely have to get things done around the house, I put in this DVD. She LOVES it and is mesmerized for the entire 30 minutes. It isn't fast paced like most cartoons and has beautiful music and lyrics. I even find myself humming the songs as I work. Because of the quality of this DVD, I've purchased other Richard Scarry books and DVDs and have been just as satisfied.
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Summary: Play this one in a crunch
Review: I don't rely on the television to entertain my 20-month old, but when I absolutely have to get things done around the house, I put in this DVD. She LOVES it and is mesmerized for the entire 30 minutes. It isn't fast paced like most cartoons and has beautiful music and lyrics. I even find myself humming the songs as I work. Because of the quality of this DVD, I've purchased other Richard Scarry books and DVDs and have been just as satisfied.
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Summary: Richard Scarry's Best Learning Song
Review: I have a 16 month old boy. He's been enjoying this since he was 12 month old. All the songs are beautifully composed both melodically and harmonically. I can enjoy these songs, too. Now my son started imitating everything form this video.
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Summary: Richard Scarry's Best Learning Song
Review: I have a 16 month old boy. He's been enjoying this since he was 12 month old. All the songs are beautifully composed both melodically and harmonically. I can enjoy these songs, too. Now my son started imitating everything form this video.
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Summary: Best video we have bought yet
Review: I have tried to limit our videos to educational ones only and this is the best one we have purchased yet. My 20 month old has watched it at least 15 times and still laughs, dances and sings with the kids for the entire tape! I am going to start buying the rest of the Richard Scarry collection. It's great to see that these characters haven't changed much from the books I had when I was growing up.
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