Baby Van Gogh [VHS]

Although I bought this DVD for my one year old daughter, at first it was my 4 year old who seemed most captivated by it. The older requested it ("for the baby") at least once a day, and the younger has been more intrigued with each repetition. She recently followed my husband around the house with the DVD remote control until he turned it on for her. The music and images are pleasant, not in the least annoying for parents who end up viewing and listening repeatedly. What I like best about this one in the series is how it is broken into segments linking a primary color and a specific work of Van Gogh. My older daughter instantly recognized Starry Night, which we have in our home, and Vase with 14 Sunflowers, which she has seen at preschool. This video/DVD works as a stimulus for mental development, and as an early exposure to classic art. Kudos to Julie Aigner-Clark -- again!

Only wanting the best for my 5 month old son, I started on different educational video's very early. With most of them he'll be about halfway through and then get bored. But, with Baby Van Gogh he absolutely loves it. Not only will he watch it from start to finish every time, but sometimes when it's over he'll cry until you rewind it and watch it a full second time through. He will smile, laugh and even yell out at his favorite scenes. If you're deciding which of the Baby Einstein's to buy and not sure where to start, I think this is definitely the right place. Most are not as good as this one.

Good for my class so we can learn colors i saw lit the colors are beautiful and the music its so beautiful And my baby also loves when i showed him

These videos are outstanding. My four month old loves to watch (well, not the whole thing yet) however my five year old adores these series of videos. This is one of his favorites and he's actually learning more about art, music & enhancing his color knowledge(hooray!). I love the music but the puppets are the real stars. My five year old can't get enough of the puppets and their funny noises. Kids of all ages can appreciate these videos.

The videos of the Baby Einstein company have an effect on our 20-month old like no other (and this has been the case since he was 10-months old). He greets the puppets like old friends and is enraptured by the sights and sounds. I sense that part of the series' attraction is the simplicity of the visuals: bare backgrounds and one or two toys and puppets. These "toy tableaus" are interspersed with some lush nature photography in this video, but these segments are only at the beginning and the end. The music's instrumentation is pared down as well. For the very young it seems that a lot of videos ostensibly produced for them are too busy and too noisy. As far as Baby Van Gogh in particular, it really has a lot of wonderful qualities. The idea of dividing it into "chapters" based on individual colors is great. Our child gets a whole color "experience", seeing it in toys,puppets, live action photos and of course the Van Gogh paintings (several of which were unfamiliar to me). The music is mostly rousing and danceable. The only annoying part (at least to this parent) are the space-agy music breaks between chapters. At least these are short. Each color features a poem written and read by the filmaker Julie Clark. These emphasize the emotions of each color and are enjoyable--although "when I am blue I put some happy in my stew" irks me every time I hear it. This video is closest in spirit to Baby Shakespeare and would be an excellent follow-up to it. If I were intending to produce a toddler's video I would spend hours and hours studying the products of this company. They really have the touch.

Great way to shop for the things you really, really want. Hooray! I will shop again very very soon. Great fun, great fun. Very interesting. would shop again and again and again.

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

Product as promised and on-time.

Van Goghなので、映像を期待しますが、他のアインシュタインシリーズとそれほど変わるではありません。ただし、楽曲は軽いアップテンポでいわゆる乗りがよいので、良いと思います。 他のアインシュタインシリーズ同様、録音が非常によいのも気に入っています。

二人の息子はぐずっていてもこれをつけると おとなしくなり 画面にじーっと見入っています。クラシックのフレーズごとに画面がズームアップしたり 水しぶきが上がったりと 子供が飽きない工夫が凝らされていて おもしろいです 英語のナレーションですが聞いているうちに理解できますし 30分間一緒に座って ゆっくり美術館に行けないこの時期に こんな形でゴッホに触れるのもいいかなっておもいます。

This DVD is clean and works great. However, what I loved about baby Einstein was the language options; English, French and Spanish. There are no options in this DVD. I would have liked it to have been mentionned because I am teaching French and English simultaneously to my children and Baby Einstein is a great tool. If I had know I would not have purchased this DVD. So the DVD is exactly what it says it is, so the vendor does not sell anything else than what he advertizes, but some info is missing.