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Animal Numbers: Learning to Count with Animals

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We own both videos, animal alphabet and animal numbers. They are fantastic, the music is catchy (both my 2 and 4 year olds love to sing the songs) and the animal footage is beautiful. I would recommend this duo to anyone. It also helped increase my 2 year old with number recognition. He could count to 10 before this video, but now can look at a number and tell you what it is.

We have both Animal Numbers and the Animal Alphabet (which is the better of the two) and enjoy both. Time Life put these out and they do have some fantastic animal footage that is both entertaining and educational. Our 4 year old absolutely loves both DVDs to the point of exhaustion. Our 2 year old gets a little bored because they are a little too advanced for him. Both videos use animals to express the concepts of numbers or letters. Through repetition and humor, the child learns sequencing in this video. Although I recommend the Alphabet Numbers DVD, IMHO the Animal Alphabet is far superior and would be an asset to any child's DVD collection.

At first I thought this video was a little strange -- not what I expected of an animal counting video. It has fast-paced images with very lively music by an Australian band. But it is so well done. The video footage is outstanding, and the original music goes really well with it. Each song is excellent. It's clear that a lot of work by those with expertise went into making this video.

I'm not the type to park my son in front of the tv all day, it is mostly just for some time for me to get stuff done (dishes, laundry,...) I found this movie at a discount store for $3 while on vacation. My son was just a year old when he started watching it. HE LOVES IT! He is now 17 months old and watches it at least once a day. I just ordered the alphabet dvd, hopefully he will love it too. I don't think it is just for older kids, my son loves this movie. I disagree that it doesn't get annoying but I don't usually watch with him...I value the 40 minutes of mommy time.

Our 2 year old twin boys enjoy both Animal Numbers and Animal Alphabet. The songs are catchy and great footage of the animals. For some reason they prefer Animal Alphabet - maybe because we had that one first. Both boys are really into animals right now. We read a lot of books and play games that are based on animals. Since they're also learning to count and say their alphabet, the Animal dvds were a perfect choice.

I bought this and the ABC version together for my 2 year old to get her started (she loves animals). The songs are great, the footage is awesome and she enjoys when I sit with her and repeat the names of the animals. However the reviews lead me to believe they were OK as a first video, since I bought so many numbers and ABCs videos I have to say that for my kid, the best responses have been for those videos that have a lot of repetition. It will be a great song DVD for our car when she is ready to "review" what she has learned, and I will definitely NOT be bothered by the songs, they are not at all annoying, the songs are really different from other DVDs and their rhythm varies from song to song.

We bought this video and the Animal Alphabet video for our son when he was 17 months old. We were looking for live-action stuff that would be good for someone of his age. He's now 22 months old and still loves it. The footage on this video is amazing. I enjoy it because I get to see animals I'd never heard of before (a widow bird, for example) and I get to see animals I'd seen before do things I hadn't seen before. It's a Time/Life production so it's not surprising that they have excellent footage and production values. The songs, written and performed by British composer Anton Mullan, are both catchy and educational. Everyone I've shown this video to has been impressed. A side note: the video intrepidly introduces "zero" after having counted from one to ten. The concept of zero will be out of my son's reach for many years, I think!

This is truly an educational movie. Not only does it teach counting but also teaches about the animals with snappy upbeat songs.

This video teaches much more than just the numbers 0-10. The real footage about animals is fascinating and so fun to watch. The songs are catchy and easy to sing along with. Your children will be able to name dozens of animals at the zoo after watching this video. It's great for all ages. My sons are 2 & 7 and both of them watch parts of the video almost every day. I like it, too!

The video shows lots of jungle animals with the numbers and counts. I thought it was educational. They showed the animal and played a song and told about the animal. My kids seem to like videos that tell a story. My children were not really into just watching animals only. But, if your children love to watch REAL animals then they might like this one. I thought it was very educational.