My First Scholastic Storybook Treasures, Volume
Four: Robot Zot! (DVD Box set)/Nickelodeon Let’s Learn ABCs + 123s (DVD singles)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: C/D/D Main Programs: B/C+/C+
Some of
the most convenient children’s titles are compilation releases, like the
following coming out on DVD now…
Besides
the many singles issued, Scholastic has their various comprehensive volumes of
DVD and My First Scholastic Storybook
Treasures, Volume Four: Robot Zot! is the latest offering the title short
with three similar shorts (This Is The
House That Jack Built, Trashy Town,
Stars! Stars! Stars!), The Curious Garden short also with three
other shorts (Including The Lion &
The Mouse, Fletcher & The Falling
Leaves, Planting A Rainbow) and
the Too Many Toys short with three
similar shorts including Zack Braff on Wallace’s
List, I Lost My Bear and Inch By Inch.
Extras
include Read-Along capacities on all three DVDs and author interviews on each
DVD (Garden has two, the others one),
but that is more than enough to make this new volume the equal of the fine
previous volumes showing once again that Scholastic is very serious about
quality DVD product for bright young minds that we simply do not see in the
marketplace enough.
Nickelodeon Let’s Learn ABCs and 123s are separate singles meant to teach the very basics to the
network’s youngest viewers. Both have
episodes of Team Umizoomi, Dora The Explorer, Blue’s Clues, Go Diego Go!
and Wonder Pets! (lots of
exclamation points) with ABCs adding
a Ni Hao, Kai-lan episode for seven
episodes total and 123s offering
five episodes total.
Good for
what they are, at least they are not the same old repackage or limited single
DVD compilation and will get young viewers to think and enjoy the materials
presented. There are no extras on either
DVD.
The 1.33
X 1 image on all the DVDs are colorful and just fine, though some can have
detail issues and aliasing errors, though the Peter Brown
Garden
interview is here in 1.33 X 1, it is actually an anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X
1 image that widescreen TVs can decode if one wishes. The lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo across all
the DVDs here are also just fine, though some of the narration on some of the
Scholastic shorts is a little more forward or slightly louder than I would have
liked, that does not equate any kind of defect.
You can
find more titles from all these series like these and as ongoing parts of these
by using our search engine to see what else is available.
- Nicholas Sheffo
