Richard Scarry's Best Sing-A-Long Mother Goose Video!

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A great way to introduce or underscore the value of Mother Goose, this video uses a simple story about Huckle Cat's search for his missing friend Lowly Worm as a platform for enjoying the famous rhymes. While his mother sings lullabies, Huck wishes on a star that he could find Lowly soon, a wish that carries over into his subsequent dream of traveling through Mother Gooseland. There he meets familiar characters--Old King Cole, Little Miss Muffett, Little Bo Peep--who sing their own rhymes. It's Old King Cole who sends Huck directly to Mother Goose for help. This is a good video for assorted ages. Toddlers are easily enchanted by the cadence and rhymes of Mother Goose material, while the 2-to-5-year-old set can enjoy the story, too. The rest of us can appreciate the wonderfully busy animation and the touching tale of a boy's search for his friend. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

So adorable, a must have.......2007-08-20

I first purchased this when my twins were 9 or 10 months old. They love Baby Einstein so I wasn't sure if they'd like this. The Richard Scarry style animation was new to them and they didn't seem interested. After the first few minutes I shut it off. When they were 13 months I took it back out and this time they seemed interested so I watched with them and that is when I realized how good it was. The little scenes and singing are so cute even an adult can enjoy this. My twins love it too. We usually watch it at bedtime since it begins and ends with Huckle the Cat in bed. They will sit and watch the whole thing without getting bored. The songs are all catchy and cute and it's a great way for them to learn nursery rhymes. This is a must have for your child's DVD/video collection.

Something soothing for babes.......2007-03-08

Found this video in the children's section of the local library when three grandchildren were coming to visit. Two-year-old Maddie suffered a "classic-toddler fracture" of her right leg going down playground slide with grandma shortly after arriving. Together we watched this video about ten times that weekend because it soothed and entertained hurting Maddie. Subsequently purchased DVD from Amazon. Since then grandchildren from 6 months to 6 years have enjoyed the quiet, comforting story line mostly when they are "under the weather." It never fails to calm our ailing grandchildren.

My daughter's favorite Richard Scarry DVD.......2007-02-28

We have five of the Richard Scarry DVDs, but this one is definitely my three-year-old's favorite. (And mine!) It's also a good one to wind down before bed time, as it has a kind of bed time theme. It's Huckle the Cat's bed time, but he wants to find his friend, Lowly the Worm. Huckle drifts off to Mother Goose land in search of Lowly, where he meets many familiar characters, such as Little Bo Peep, The Kittens Who Lost Their Mittens, etc. One thing I really liked about this video is the way they got rid of some of the unsavory parts of the traditional nursery rhymes without it seeming ridiculously PC. For example, the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe with the prolific family is a rabbit (how funny is that?) and instead of "whipping them all soundly" she "kisses them all soundly" and sends them to bed. Countless baby rabbits line up to get a bowl of broth and a good night kiss from mother. It's done so naturally that you hardly notice the nursery rhyme has been "edited." Another instance is the Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds baked in a pie. Well, they're not exactly baked in. The baker tells the blackbirds to hide in the pie to amuse Old King Cole. It makes sense, because he is a Merry Old Soul after all, and in the last scene was dancing a jig with his bubble pipe and encouraging Huckle to stay around for the fun and games in his court.

It ends with a very sweet, old-fashioned lullaby that always makes my daughter look up, no matter what else she's doing. I'd never heard it before. It starts out with the line "Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father carts thy sheep."

I would definitely recommend this title the most out of all the Richard Scarry videos. The singing and the storyline are good quality entertainment, and definitely not annoying!

Awesome Mother Goose.......2007-01-21

I have to say that this is my favorite (and also my daughter's) of the 4 videos I bought my 2 yr old daughter. She asks for Mother Goose and will sit contently as it plays and even asks for it again.

Best SIng- A-Long Mother Goose Video.......2006-11-10

The characters are cute, the songs are contagious. It is a great video!

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