World Famous Comics: Mother Goose Treasury - Vol. 1
Mother Goose Treasury - Vol. 1
Starring: Cheryl Rhoads, Rebecca Birney, Serafin Rocha, John Lovelady, Hal Smith Directed By: Frank Brandt Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC Label: Image Entertainment Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 02, 2001 Running Time: 58 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 1987-09
Description: The most endured and popular nursery rhymes of Mother Goose are timeless, and children who could only see and hear the classic tales, can now sing along. Each song is lavishly produced with full orchestration, beautiful costuming, and exquisitely detaile
Amazon.com: Tired of inane sing-along videos with cheesy music and a lack of cohesiveness? The Mother Goose Treasury, Vol. 2 features fully orchestrated songs, elaborate costuming, bright backgrounds, and even a story line! The scatterbrained Mother Goose and her young gosling Bertram are headed to town to complete some grocery shopping. Along the way they encounter a plethora of famous Mother Goose characters, including Jack (as in "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick"), Miss Muffet, Mary (and her lamb), Humpty Dumpty, and Simple Simon. Each encounter elicits a recitation of the appropriate story, either in song or verse, complete with choreography, puppetry, and onscreen subtitles. The "puppetronic" technology deserves special mention--it brings the puppetry to life and is suggestive of Jim Henson's Muppet productions. Joining the puppets is a large cast of human actors who sing, dance, and generally enthrall audiences from 3 to 8 years old. This volume offers 58 minutes of sing-along fun that kids will request repeatedly. For more Mother Goose sing-alongs, check out Mother Goose Treasury, Vol. 1. --Tami Horiuchi
Ignore the Twisted Negative Reviews The couple of lengthy critics are twisted people projecting new age hippie values on your children. This series creates a beautiful, truly well-performed, not talking-down-to and WHOLESOME fantasy for kids, so they can be kids and not miniature politically correct adults. It's a tragedy people like those naysayers exist. At least the more mature, wiser reviewers get it.
What's so special is they have well-schooled dancers or actors and they perform the verses that are not well-known. I just re-viewed them with my daughter who is now almost 12, and we truly enjoyed them as vivid high-caliber children's theater, quite apart from the nostalgic of having watched them together 10 yrs ago. And the goose character really moves like a goose, truly well-done. The honk-honk is cute, fits the part, and NOT overdone.
Happy to have Mother Goose Video! My 3 children experienced and loved the Mother Goose video in VHS form. I was so happy to find this in DVD form so my little granddaughter could have this experience as well. "Grandpa" is looking forward to viewing this again too--really brings back good memories!
Mother Goose at HIT! I remember this when I was young and HAD to watch it with my younger brother and sister. For some reason the title song to this collection always stuck in my head. So when I had a child of my own (she's 2) I decided to track down the Mother Goose I remember. I cannot believe I found this on DVD! My daughter absolutely LOVES these 2 dvd's. Best purchase I ever made for her. She's entertained, she loves Humpty Dumpty, she loves all the singing and she get's up and dances with the songs! I agree that the cinematography is horrible and the actors aren't so wonderful, but I remember my bro and sis loving it...and NOW MY DAUGHTER ADORES IT! I wish I could find volumes III and IV on DVD!!!!
It's a low budget hit! My son has responded to this video from an infant. Now he is 2, and still loves it, singing with it, and knows all the songs. He is not much of a video watcher at 2, since he seems to busy for tv, however there's something about this collection of Mother Goose ryhmes that he really connects with. So I would give this video 2 thumbs up!
Glad to find on DVD This series is well done musically and the performances are all clever and entertaining for your pre-school/kindergarten audience. The video is very professional with the feel of a lavish production of years gone by.
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