Editorial Product Review: :A delightful tool to help kids learn their letters, Richard Scarry's Best ABC Video Ever finds Busy Town pals Huckle and Lowly Worm discovering that it's Alphabet Day at school. Their teacher, Miss Honey, invites her students to join in a spirited rendition of 'The Alphabet Song.' Next comes a series of 26 vignettes developed around each letter and cleverly intertwined with Sergeant Murphy's investigation into the mystery of some stolen bananas. Simple, sweet, and as entertaining as it is instructive, this production exemplifies ...
Editorial Product Review: :Everything you'd expect from those roly-poly, TV-bellied creatures is packed into Teletubbies: Nursery Rhymes: animation, videos, singing, dancing, tumbling, and, of course, nursery rhymes. Each of the Teletubbies is introduced to the joys of old-time school rhymes: Po happily noshes on her Tubby Toast as the mysterious speaker rises from the ground to warble 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.' Dipsy and Laa-Laa tumble down hills like 'Jack and Jill.' Tinky Winky learns the fundamentals of 'Pat a Cake.' Kids will shriek with Dipsy as he ...
Editorial Product Review: :The Sesame Street character has fun singing some catchy new songs (you and your toddler just might, too), explaining the difference between light and heavy, having a laugh over pictures and numbers, and sharing the screen with a good-natured Whoopi Goldberg and Julia Roberts. Of the various Elmo videos, this one really does have the choicest material and stands up to repeat viewings--a big plus with little ones. --Tom Keogh
Editorial Product Review: :Finally, parents will have something to pop in the VCR when their hopelessly addicted tots ask for a hit of the blue dog during one of the many hours it's not actually playing on television. This 50-minute video contains two segments that touch on several traditional tales, but focus on 'The Three Little Pigs' and 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears.' There's a little Elvis humor for the adults, but most of the jokes are aimed squarely at the pre-K set, who are asked to ...
Editorial Product Review: :Time for Tubby bedtime! But those lovable, roly-poly critters are having a heck of a time settling down with their Tubbytronic blankies. First Tinky Winky wants to dance, then Laa-Laa gets the itch to play with her big orange ball, and Po just has to zoom around on her squeaky scooter. Each takes turns waking the others, resulting in 70 minutes of favorite songs such as 'Rock-a-bye Baby' and 'Itsy Bitsy Spider,' simple bedtime stories, and plenty of wiggles and giggles. Not exactly 'lulling,' ...
Editorial Product Review: :Lily Bunny practices counting by starting with herself as one and working her way through her Busytown neighborhood until she counts 10 hatching chicks at Farmer Fox's farm. But the stakes rise when Lily's parents suggest she go for 11 through 20. This takes the help of Huckleberry Cat and Lowly Worm, and some adventures involving balloons, grocery store trips, and the like. The numerals appear on the screen each time Lily counts, and she recaps in song after counting to 10 and then ...
Editorial Product Review: :Barney, BJ, and Baby Bop invite young viewers to accompany them as they visit the Fort Worth Zoo in this 50-minute, never-televised Barney show. Unlike the typical televised episode, this installment is shot completely on location. Absent is the core group of children who interact with Barney--instead, Barney focuses on BJ, Baby Bop, and his young viewers. BJ attempts to chronicle their journey through the zoo with his camera, Baby Bop embarks on a quest to introduce her stuffed elephant Nellie to a real ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:It's Potty Time Is Not For Parents. It was designed for children in order to take as much work off the parents as possible. Children should begin watching this video as soon as they watch TV. They will not potty train at this time, but they will learn the songs and sing them all the time. When their bodies are ready, usually between 18 & 24 months, they begin to understand the songs they have been singing and quickly translate the words into action. ...
Editorial Product Review: :'Wha's dat?' exclaim the Teletubbies. It's a pumpkin--a magic pumpkin with facial features that appear and disappear. You can imagine the giggle-provoking chase scene that ensues when the pumpkin obtains Dipsy's hat! Almost as soon as Dipsy retrieves his hat, it's blown off by a gust of wind. Luckily, Tinky Winky, Laa-Laa, and Po are ready to lend a helping hand. Then Laa-Laa takes an indoor walk to avoid the rain--watch and laugh as she goes around and around, again and again. There are ...
Editorial Product Review: :Here's the third toe-tapping collection of songs from the Australian kids' group the Wiggles. Quickly described as the Monkees for the Barney set, these popular singers will keep your little ones moving about with their collection of original songs and standards. It's unfortunate the group that packed in audiences in its 1999-2000 tour of America only has two songs recorded in concert; the bulk of the 15 songs are done on sets with plenty of youngsters sharing the stage with the rainbow-colored quartet. Whether ...
Steering clear of many of the pitfalls that sapped past video-on-demand broadband solutions, Vudu delivers the closest thing to "Netflix in a box" that we've seen to date.
It's June 29th and Apple is finally ready to let the public play with the iPhone. The past six months have shaped up to be the highest profile mobile phone launch ever, Apple has conjured up an...
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