Baby Einstein - Baby Noah - Animal Expedition [DVD]

My 9 month old loves this video. We had Mozart, Beethoven and Santa (DO NOT buy) already. This one is a lot different because there is actually moving footage of the animals with great music. He is too young to get into the animal naming parts, so he gets bored then, but whenever the puppets or the music come on he is mesmerized. The DVD says its for older children, so maybe naming the animals wont be as boring for him in a few months. I like watching it with him. Id give the DVD 5 stars, but Disney is completely shameless in placing ads at the beginning and end of the DVD during the first play. I vow not to buy another with this sort of advertising no matter how good they say it is.

Excellent entertainment for babies

This is a great movie for younger children. I wouldnt say there is alot educational value to it, but the classical music being played is good for little ears. I wish Baby Einstein would have more word visuals and voices speaking. I think there are maybe 10 words spoken throughout the whole thing. But my son really enjoys the hand puppets in the movie and I play the Janes story time for him in the bonus features.

fabulous concept: showing (ostensibly american) children the world of animal diversity, by visiting different climatic regions. a fitting subject for the baby einstein genre. so what historical genius traveled the world, discovering and documenting the diversity of animal life? thats right: darwin. but beyond disneys fear of a subject controversial only to the uneducated, this video is a big hit with my kids. the two main pluses are the diversity of animals it shows, and the monologue seems sufficiently subdued to allow me to do the naming and explaining to them (although i have a hard time explaining why an elephant is refereeing an ice block race between two penguins).

My son has had this one since he was very small and hes always loved it. Hes two now and hes still into it so thats awesome! Its fun to watch with all his favorite animals in it. I love it

You cannot go wrong with anything Baby Einstein!

I have these dvd my son and nice and nephew love them

This is the ONLY baby einstein video I have ever thought was educationally valuable at all (I have a doc degree in child psych). I admit I am not a baby einstein fan, since it seems that most of them demonstrate little awareness of how children acquire language. The other ones I have seen are slow paced, with little thought towards helping infants make logical connections between words and concepts, the baby Noah is fantastic. It follows a predictable format that repeats names of animals with multiple images of those animals set to upbeat music, as well as shots of interesting toys and cute puppet shorts. The dvd is fast paced with lots of repition, and the overall tone is humorous and exciting. My 8 month old son is fascinated by this one, while he has never given any of the others more than a passing glance.

I Love Baby Einstein.

I dont really like this dvd. I dont care for the narrators voice (Julie Clark). Each time she says the word animal (which she says alot) it sounds like she is saying ain-i-mal...its just very annoying to me. This video shows animals from the savannah, rain forest, ocean, the outback, and polar regions. I borrowed this from the library and each segment begins with a drawing of a habitat and then it zooms in and shows a drawing of an animal half hidden. Then a door opens and you see the animal. They dont say what the animal is. Then they show live action of the animal. Then they show the door again and this is where I think they say the name of the animal. I remember a lot of zooming in and out for the doors and it is very, very slow. There are much better videos about animals. Brainy Baby Animals is better, Your Tiny Jungle Tot is better (see my reviews for those). On the main menu of the dvd it has about Baby Einstein and these moms are saying things like, invaluable, dont know what we would have done without it. etc. I dont get it. Baby Einstein is way too over-rated, in my opinion. Ive seen about 16 of them and have only liked Baby Neptune, Baby Galileo, Baby Newton & Numbers Nursery. I have written reviews for these also as well as many other childrens videos. Please read my reviews.