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basic colors for todllers/babies
the video in the einstein series given here, is showing basic colors to babies and toddlers. i always recommend the videos in this series. this will give you colors like orange, green, blue, etc, and then show you objects that have these colors, and use other children and puppets to make the learning of the colors fun. i would say this is acceptable for ages 1-4. my son will be four in one month and he knows these colors very well so other than the makeup of the video he isnt learning anything anymore by watching this. however, i think the footage was well put together, if your children are young and still learning this is a great idea.

They should call this Baby Clark instead
Of the three Baby Einstein videos that I've seen (Mozart, Bach, and Van Gogh), this is the worst. The idea is to introduce young children to color and art, which is certainly laudable, but no one can be impressed by the poems (apparently by Julie Clark) that are read aloud as each new color is presented. "Green makes me want to stand up tall, run around and kick a ball"--something jejune like that for each color. In her recorded introduction to the Baby Einstein company and its mission, Julie Clark states that she wants to bring together "great parenting" and "timeless examples of human expression"--but her poetry can hardly be considered a timeless example of human expression. Couldn't she have found real poems by real poets about colors instead?
Finally, I was disappointed that the video makes no effort to talk about color theory, combinations of colors, and so on. This might have been an occasion to teach children that green is what you get when you mix blue and yellow, or that colors in a rainbow always appear in the same sequence. It would have been more rewarding than listening to "When my feelings turn to blue, I pour some happy in my stew."

Another 'hit' for Baby Einstein Company
We have all of the video products of the Baby Einstein Company. This video is more similar in format to Baby Shakespeare than the Baby Mozart / Baby Bach videos. Nevertheless, I would say that Baby Van Gogh is a better attention-getter and -holder than Baby Shakespeare. The visuals are much more professional and entertaining - the main content being color and art, as opposed to poetry readings.

If you are new to the Baby Einstein Company's products, I highly recommend them over the products of the competing companies (we have a VERY extensive childern's video library). The live-action visuals are far more engaging to infants and toddlers than the computer graphics and animation of other videos. In this respect (visually), Baby Van Gogh is even more dynamic than some of the earlier Baby Einstein productions - and certainly has a bit higher production quality. For babies under 6 months, however, I would recommend Baby Mozart as the best 'starter' in the series.

As with Baby Mozart, Baby Bach and Baby Einstein, my daughter (now almost nine months) cannot get enough of this video.

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