Product Details

• Actors: Baby BumbleBee Kids
• Directors: Baby BumbleBee
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, French, Spanish, German
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Baby Bumblebee
• DVD Release Date: February 28, 2002
• Run Time: 195 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005RDT9
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,246 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

It's tough to imagine that the average tot wouldn't get adequate exposure to the objects presented in Bee Smart Baby: Vocabulary Builder, Vol. 1 to master their recognition and rough pronunciation by around 18 months, but parents in a hurry to hear their little ones jabber on about the things oft encountered in the first year or so of life will be grateful for this half-hour video. The concept is, as it should be, simple. First objects are shown in a variety of settings--a toy train going around a track, then a real one chugging along; a series of noses, some on grown-up faces and others belonging to kids; a large spoon stirring a bowl of pasta followed by a baby spoon against a blank background. Then a gentle-voiced narrator states the item's name twice, once at its introduction and again when it's time to move on. At first it seems we're in for nothing more than a laundry list of animals, body parts, and utensils, but then a pattern emerges: a series of four already-shown objects skitter by again, and they're repeated in order. This simple structure will appeal to caregivers who devour child-development studies--the benefits of repetition in early learning will be well known to them--and the makers of this video seem tuned in to the likelihood that it's the well-educated who are most apt to be watching along. To sweeten the deal for such grown-ups, they've set this video to the music of Mozart, which has been shown to constructively stimulate young children. --Tammy La Gorce

Product Description

Enhance Your Child's Development with Baby BumbleBee's NEW Interactive DVD! More than just a video, this new Interactive DVD offers a multitude of learning opportunities designed to enrich your child's early learning environment! Build Basic Vocabulary Use the DVD video to build early receptive vocabulary. This is a great way to make the most of your baby's early window for language development. Communicate Early Using Sign Language Use the Interactive Sign Language Tutor to teach your child ASL signs. Studies suggest that this may raise IQ scores significantly.

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43 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of its Class in infant stimulation - not just for vocab, December 20, 2000

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A Customer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bee Smart Baby, Vocabulary Builder 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is simply fabulous - but inappropriately marketed. This is a first class infant stimulation video in the same class as the best of the Baby Einstein Companies products. My toddler- now 1 year old LOVES this video. The main value is not vocabulary - I would think that most toddlers would learn all the words presented between 18 mos. and 2 years old, anyway. By watching this video, infants & toddlers learn to associate the 'real thing' with other representations of the object (like kids playing with or using the object, and toy-versions of the object). There is a language skills benefit that the infant / toddler learns to associate the word spelled out on the screen with various representations of the object with the spoken word. Besides all of this, it is highly engaging for a number of reasons.

Like many similar (infant stimulation / development) products, the sound track is classical music, mostly Mozart. The voice on the tape is a woman's, and she says a word (like train, teddy bear, ball, dog, nose, etc.) in a non-monotonous way (this is a big problem with other videos of this type). Then we see a series of shots of kids of all ages using or interacting with the object, a live-action video shot of the object, a still-shot of the object, and a toy-versions of the object. Some of the greatest features of this video are that it includes animals like dogs & cows that my daughter - like most toddlers - loves to watch. Also, it is well known that infants / toddlers like to see faces, especially other babies. There are numerous shots of kids of all ethnic backgrounds and ages - shot in very engaging ways including close-ups, and doing things (like bouncing a ball - for "ball," or eating with a spoon - for "spoon"). The production quality of this video is superb, and you don't get the sense that the producers cut corners by inserting cheap computer-generated animation (which I have found are not good at keeping babies' attention).

We have a rather complete library of infant stimulation / development videos, including all of the 'So Smart' Series, Baby Einstein Company's videos, the BabyScape videos, and a Baby Genius' video - all of which I have reviewed on this site. I consider this video, "Bee Smart Baby," and Baby Einstein Company's "Baby Van Gogh" - the 'best of its class.'

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than Baby EINSTEIN-Not as good as Baby Babble!, December 18, 2004

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M. Peruzzi "Enzio'sMommy" (CLINTON TWP., MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bumblebee Kids Vocabulary Builder 1 (DVD)

Just bought for my 18 month son...The dvd is not great but not horrible either, my son seems to loose his interest (compared to Sesame Street...Who wouldn't? Ha!), but keeps his interest with the baby einstein ones(we have all of them)they use alot of puppets were this cd uses Real life objects with an occasional puppet reinacting the words. This dvd is clear and repetative which I like...Example: Jump (shows children,animals jumping)Eat (shows babys eatting etc.) then it goes back and recaps all the diffrent action words. He laughs when they get to the word "tickle". They repeat alot of the words which other tapes do not (Einstein,So smart) which in my opion is good to reinforce.
My son needs the repetition, My son also has a slight language delay so that is why I bought this tape. The einstein tapes he has been watching since he was about a month old and they did not help my sons language even with me interacting with the videos, although he enjoyed them, I used to rave about the Einstein videos to every mother,bought them for my friends kids and then I found these other dvd's. I would highly recommend taking a look at the "Baby Babble" cd by talking child. That is a excellent tape done by 2 speech pathologists. That video he likes and it keeps his attention.
To sum this up....I would say this ranks 2nd compairing to all other language tapes that are on the market, Baby babble being ranked #1.

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helped my autistic son with his vocabulary., October 24, 1999

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lesli mitchell (atlanta, ga) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bee Smart Baby, Vocabulary Builder 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

My son is diagnosed with autism and did not begin to use functional language until he was two and a half years old. We tried everything to get him to speak more and to speak clearly. Then my mother-in-law found Bee Smart Baby. Although it's targeted for younger children, it was perfect for my son. The objects used to build vocabulary are those that my son was familiar with and enjoyed learning about--trains, cars, planes, body parts. Within a few days of watching the video he could say every word on it! We realized then how much our son was a visual learner and we'd recommend this video to any parents who have a child with language delays. Now, just a few months later, our son's vocabulary is over 100 words and growing every day. Thank you, Bee Smart Baby! Looking forward to your new volumes!