Baby Songs - Animals

Starring:Hap Palmer
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

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Children's songwriter Hap Palmer mixes kids and animals in this 26-minute installment of the award-winning Baby Songs series. His bouncy variations on the classics ("Old MacDonald's Farm," "Bingo," "Itsy Bitsy Spider") and his toe-tapping originals will get children ages 1-6 off the couch and on their feet. Nine music videos feature real-looking kids of both genders and all ethnicities imitating elephants, eagles, and kangaroos ("Elephant," "I'm Glad I'm Me") as well as traditional farm animals. In "Baby Chickie," children dress as mom and baby chickens to act out the hatching of the egg, juxtaposed with footage of the real thing. Next, a family sees for themselves "What's Bigger Than a Bear?" at the Los Angeles Zoo. Finally, Palmer brings the circle of life back home with "My Baby," in which a big sister practices on her doll what she learns from Mom and newborn sibling. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Customer Reviews:

Triplet Mom's LIFESAVER.......2007-06-03

Ok, to begin with I had no idea who Hap was. I just knew that I didn't want my triplets hooked on broadcast TV stuff that was full of marketing, commercials, etc. So we ordered BabyFirstTV (kinda like HBO for babies) and during the programming they would show these videos. It didn't take long for me to notice that my kids were MESMERIZED by Palmer's music videos. I quickly recognized the prints and hairstyles from my own childhood (80's kid) and went on a search until I found the DVD's here. The kids LOVED them and now that they are almost two they actually ask for them by name. I would HIGHLY recommend these DVD's to anyone who is interested in exposing their children to music, rhyming, social skills, development skills, sillyness and laughter via your DVD player. I am not saying they take the place of actual experiences but they sure do enhance them. You don't know how handy it is to get your triplet toddlers to quickly cooperate and follow instructions by just singing a simple song to them. Anyway, long story short.... WE LOVE HAP PALMER AND THESE DVDs!

Baby Songs - Animals.......2007-01-26

One of the best videos I have ever used for 1-5 year olds.
Very high intrest and the teaching is incredable.

BABY SONGS series is WONDERFUL!.......2007-01-16

This is a great video! My 17 month old boy/girl twins are totally infatuated with the entire Baby Songs series, but my daughter who loves animals is entranced by this one. She loves all the animals & the music too, she'll dance around to it or pull her chair close to the tv & sit staring at it intently. Hap Palmer's recipe for entertainment has definately worked for my kids. I appreciate the simplicity of the arrangements...simple props and ordinary kids (no actors) are choreographed into the videos. Great, quality entertainment! A+++ series...highly recommend them all.

My kids love it!.......2006-05-18

We love baby songs at our house. I have a three year old and a one year old and Hap Palmer's songs never fail to put a smile on their faces. I was first introduced to Baby Songs as a teenage babysitter in the early 90's. The toddler for which I babysat had 2 Baby Songs videos which he loved to watch. I found that songs like Today I Took My Diapers Off and Sitting In My Highchair would be running through my head for days. Years later, after having a child of my own, I was delighted to discover that many of those same catchy tunes that I remembered from my babysitting days had been compiled in DVD format. We started by renting at the library and then purchased our own copies of Original Baby Songs, Baby's Busy Day, Baby Songs ABC, as well as this Baby Songs Animals video. I prefer Original Baby Songs and Baby's Busy Day to the other two we own, but in all fairness, my kids seem to adore all four equally. Yes, the songs are a bit corny and the hairstyles and clothes are a bit outdated (which I find endearing in a nostalgic sort of way), but your baby, toddler, or pre-schooler is sure to adore it. Isn't that what really matters? Be aware that this video contains only 9 songs, excluding the Baby Songs theme, which runs at the beginning and end of each Baby Songs DVD. This is roughly half the number of songs on the other Baby Songs DVDs we own. Our copy has been mislabled as having a running time of 45 min. I timed from the start of the Baby Songs theme to the end credits and it was actually only 25 minutes long. I don't mind this since I think this is a very appropriate length for a DVD designed for the pre-school set, but you definitely get less Baby Songs for your buck with this one. The songs are all very Baby Songsish, sweet and corny, wholesome and fun. Our personal favorite is "Amazing". Each verse of this song names a bunch of different animals and flashes a picture of each animal as it is named. My kids looooove the real animal footage and I do too since it is something like a trip to the zoo minus the slimy sunscreen and overpriced snacks. My only criticism of this song is that when they name chickadee they flash a picture of a fuzzy, yellow chick, when in reality a chickadee is a bird that looks more like a fat sparrow than a baby chicken. Still, we can't get enough Baby Songs and I would buy this DVD again in a heartbeat.

Not a favorite but tolerable........2006-05-12

Positives -

Happy & friendly, none of the harsh sarcasm seen on many kids cartoons nowdays.

Soothing on the nerves of a baby and mommy sick of Barney and puppet shows!

Nice background for keeping playtime mellow or white noise for napping in a busy house.

Negatives -

Video isn't very interesting, very generic. My son adores animals but he snored through this.

Songs are VERY VERY long and complex for baby songs. Itsy Bitsy Spider congradulations, your epic adventure has been imortalized with this new ballad of your saga! Good luck learning them all I get the warm fuzzies being right occasionally while singing this with my baby, but we aren't exactly video freaks.

Should be called toddler songs not baby songs, my baby showed very little interest in this video til he started teetering on the toddler stage.

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