 | Where the Wild Things Are and Other Maurice Sendak Stories (Scholastic Video Collection)
Buy used from: $6.96 You can't go wrong with Maurice Sendak, and the animation is wonderful.
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 | Tikki Tikki Tembo... and More Favorite Tales (Scholastic Video Collection)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.15 My favorite on this is Hot Hippo, although the Story of Anansi comes a close second. Again, wonderful animation, great accents, well told.
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 | Red Riding Hood... And More James Marshall Fairy Tale Favorites (Scholastic Video Collection)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.13 Yes, grandmother and Little Red are devoured, as they should be, and they are plucked from the wolf as he is slain, as he should be. Not overly graphic, but true to the original tales.
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 | Scholastic Video Collection 27 - DVD Bundle
I would save yourself some money, and just get the whole collection. They're all good. Well animated (just two and three are done with stills), very true to the original stories. Go for it.
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 | Signing Time Baby Sign Language - Volume 1-3 Plus Music Cd
All of the Signing TIme videos are great. The production is initially quite amateur, and then sophisticates rapidly through the series. Sign Language had my son and his cousin speaking earlier and more fluently than most other kids we know. These are largely vocabulary videos. But awesome.
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 | My Baby Can Talk - First Signs
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $8.85 This is done in a format very accessible to very young children. My son loved it from age six months. This video was the best starter signing video. The format is loosely similar to the Baby Einstein videos, but so much better.
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 | My Baby Can Talk - Sharing Signs
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $12.53 Also very nice.
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 | Richard Scarry's Best Learning Songs Video Ever!
Buy used from: $44.95 This is the best of the Richard Scarry Videos. I didn't like the Mother Goose one. The only other one I would really recommend is the counting video. Not the the others are awful, just unremarkable.
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 | The Jungle Book (Limited Issue)
Buy used from: $12.92 This is a very well done Disney Classic, with a fantastic soundtrack. My son loves it.
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 | Animal Alphabet: Learning Your ABCs with Animals
Buy used from: $32.98 Fantastic Australian video with strange animals (N is for Nudibranch), and silly songs, some are obviously stretching a little, but the footage is awesome, and it's quite entertaining.
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 | Curious George (Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $4.59 This is stop action puppet animation, and is very well done. It also has a lot of other stories on it, including frog and toad.
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 | I Dig Dirt
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $8.15 The machine/truck/vehicle videos are disappointing in general. For sure steer clear of the "There goes a...." series. They're silly, and not in a good way. This one is okay, and the boy loves it.
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 | Big Machines, Vol. 1
Buy used from: $15.14 Not great, but it keeps him entertained. I'm not a boy. I don't get it.
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