*** LITTLE UPSTARTS VOL. 1
Provides an opportunity for parents to interact with their babies by combining specific step-by-step exercises and guided professional instruction with entertaining visuals and sounds. Promotes proper physical development in babies. Adult Juror Comments: Excellent instructional DVD that gives step by step exercises and guided professional instruction for helping your baby who is zero to five-months-old. Clearly presented and illustrated with visuals such as live action segments between parent and baby, original drawings, puppets, marbles and colorful play objects. Designed for parent and caregiver to do with their baby, giving them the opportunity to nurture her natural development while bonding with their baby and encouraging them to move about in their first few months of life. Well done. Both male and female parents are shown. Background music is very respective but it's the only drawback. The professional instruction is outstanding.
Age: 0-1
DVD. 30 min.; $16.95
Independent short from.LITTLE UPSTARTS, LLC. *** LITTLE UPSTARTS VOL. 2
Provides an opportunity for parents to interact with their babies by combining specific step-by-step exercises and guided professional instruction with entertaining visuals and sounds. Promotes proper physical development in babies. Adult Juror Comments: Excellent instructional program. Useful for parents and infants. Clearly presented. Sensitive to infants and parents. Demonstrates that infants are not dolls. Starts a parent's concern about exercise. Great step-by-step guide to exercising your baby who is five-to-eight-months old. Great visuals. Male and female parent are shown. Puppets, toys and line drawings provide interstitial entertainment. Goofy but they work. The instructional element is very, very well done.
Age: 0-1
DVD. 30 min.; $16.95
Independent short from LITTLE UPSTARTS, LLC. WAY TO GO, JUNO
From haircuts to the dark, Juno and the gang have worries that are as varied as their personalities. Through friendship and support, Juno and her friends cope with their various apprehensions. Adult Juror Comments: Such a fabulous program. Addressed issues toddlers face such as haircuts, eating different kinds of food, being afraid of swimming in the water and naptime with great ingenuity and creativity. One juror said, "The best programming I've seen for toddlerhood - has made me a convert. This is an Award Plus!" Structure, inventive style, addressing fears and concerns of the young child in an imaginative, enticing, engaging way where screen time for a young child is used wisely in presenting material for the child to learn and grow along with parent participation. Delightful character puppets explore the concerns of a young child in creative, diverse ways to encourage one to overcome her fears. The title rings true to the quote at the beginning of the program by Ralph Waldo Emerson - "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." Each situation is addressed with creativity, imagination and variety: from cutting one's hair, to eating broccoli and taking a nap. Music including both the original songs played by live orchestral musicians and standard known classical along with live action animation, inspire, educate and entertain. Available in English, Spanish and French. Kid Juror Comments:
Age: 1-3
DVD. 35 min.; $20
Independent short from JUNO BABY. (SERIES, AGES 2-5)
IT'S A BIG BIG WORLD: THE BIG SLEEP
Created by Emmy®-winner Mitchell Kriegman, set in a lush rainforest lives Snook, a giant dancing sloth in the World Tree with his diverse group of animal friends. Together they investigate the world around them and learn about science, nature and environmental stewardship. Includes: "The Big Big Sleep" where the characters of the World Tree get their rest. "Go to Sleep Wartz" where everyone wants to play all the time and never sleep again. "Sleepover: When Wartz: - Where Snook explains what causes lightning and thunder and addresses why they frighten us. "Sounds of the Forest" Where jungle noises are frightening enough to keep you from sleeping until you find out where they come from. "Hot Enough For You?": There is no breeze in the hot World Tree and Winslow hypothesizes that if he can find out who in the tree is cool, he will know who has taken the missing breeze. He goes to visit the other animals, learning how everyone handles the heat, but he can't find the breeze thief anywhere. Finally, Snook explains that if there isn't air moving from one place to another as part of the weather, there isn't any wind to make a breeze. But there is something they can do to beat the heat - take a nap! Sloth Lessons: After Winslow tells Bob that he should try being more carefree, Bob decides that since Snook is the most laid back animal he knows, he is going to become Bob the sloth. But, after spending some time with Snook eating, moving and sleeping like a sloth, Bob realizes that he isn't made to be a sloth, and there are some really neat things about being an anteater.
Age: -
74 min.
Feature film from SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
