Whistle Stopper - Bugz ...from a bugs eye view

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Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9781577138365 Format: Color ISBN: 1577138368 Label: PPI Entertainment Manufacturer: PPI Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: PPI Entertainment Release Date: 1998-11-11 Running Time: 35 Studio: PPI Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 1996
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: One of the Best Bug Videos for Kidz! Comment: This is one of the best introductory videos on insects and other arthropods I have seen. Being an educator of youngsters and known as the local "Bug Man" in our small town, I highly recommend this colorful and 'not too deep' look at the world of the small. Yes, it is true that there are only about 20 representative species of "bugz" and most of these are native to the Southwest US, but it still has some wonderful close-ups of these beautiful animals engaging their world as our kids (mine included) engage with them. My 6 year old daughter loved this video (especially Rosie the tarantula). Yours should too. Customer Rating: Summary: Great for Kids "into" bugs! Comment: My 3 year-old loves this video. It has catchy music and close-up shots of different bugs! It's a children's video that children will love if they are "into" bugs! Customer Rating: Summary: Great for Kids "into" bugs! Comment: My 3 year-old loves this video. It has catchy music and close-up shots of different bugs! It's a children's video that children will love if they are "into" bugs! Customer Rating: Summary: Okay for the under-6 crowd Comment: I got this video because my kids are really into insects. I was disappointed that they only featured twenty different insects, none of them in their natural habitat, and only a brief factoid about each. The voice-over was, I suppose, meant to be a mom chatting with her child about the bug on the screen, but often the voices were mumbled and indistinct. The camera work was low-quality and there were no really good close-ups. However, my kids enjoyed it and have asked to see it again (they are 7 and 9), so that counts for an extra star; I would only have given it one. Instead of this tape, you might want to opt for "Microcosmos" which is way cooler More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: With all the close-up footage this video provides, the insect and spider worlds can look downright frightening to an adult. But it bears repeating that kids don't have any innate fear of small critters, even ones with an incredibly complex look, one of armor, sheen, helmeted creepiness, and undeniably strange motion. Prior to each vignette, you get thinly produced music and a gently repetitious voice that proffers the full name of each subject. Then there's up-close and personal looks, shot against ideal, plain backgrounds that allow a millipede's scurrying, methodically in-synch legs to kick across the television screen. The mixture of pronunciations and pauses for semi-scientific-sounding segues from bug to bug make this production great for the over-4 set, who seem to clamor for the names, even as they cringe when they look at the hairy back of a seemingly massive tarantula. Educational? Sure it is, in the way that names can be when they're squared up with images, especially ones that move of their own accord. --Andrew Bartlett