A Fairy Tale Christmas
Price: £12.99, available from 27 November from all big retailers
Best feature: A good story, and relevant for this time of year!
Worst feature: The unattractive style of animation.
Baby Bright:
Baby Bright and the Farm, and A Day With Baby Bright
Score: 4/5
Price: £12.99 each from all big retailers, and a donation is
made to Great Ormond Street Hospital. Best feature: Its lively approach
to learning and engaging questions.
Best feature: Its lively approach to learning and engaging questions.
Worst feature: The animated babies – everything else is quite
aesthetically pleasing apart from them!
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Score: 4/5
Price: £12.99 from available from all good retailers and from
the BBC shop
Best feature: The stories; they combine the sweetness of the characters
with often quite scary predicaments!.
Worst feature: The non-animated sequence at the beginning of each
story becomes a little wearing.
Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties
Score: 3/5
Price: £10.89, available from 11 December from amazon
Best feature: Bill Murray.
Worst feature: The stereotypes. We don’t all speak like PG Wodehouse
characters you know!
Maisy – Colours and Counting
Score: 4/5
Price: £3.97, from Amazon
Best feature: The animation is friendly and bright.
Worst feature: Neil Morrissey’s and the characters’ voices !
StringbeanTiny Tales
Score: 3/5
Price: £12.99, from www.stringbean.tv
Best feature: The disco-dancing fruit.
Worst feature: The fact that it seemed to be modelled so much
on the Baby Einstein DVDs; it seemed a rather poor copy of them. They
would have done better to concentrate on the puppets to create something
really original in the marketplace.
The Little Cars in the Great Race
Score: 3/5
Price: £12.99, available from 27 November from big retailers.
Best feature: The cars make an interesting an unusual choice
for main characters.
Worst feature: The animation seems a little outdated compared
to some of the offerings on the market these days.
The Little Mermaid (2 Disc Special Edition)
Score: 4/5
Price: £13.99, available from amazon
Best feature: As can be expected with Disney, the animation is
superb.
Worst feature: Some of the songs can grate on adult ears but the
kids will love them.
