Baby's First Impressions, Vol 4 - Numbers

Much like the other nine volumes in the award-winning Baby's First Impressions series, Numbers uses familiar objects in surprising ways to captivate young viewers. Three oatmeal-raisin cookies magically creep onto a bright background as a gentle voice says, "One! One cookie!" and a colorful number 1 materializes atop the cookie. In a similar fashion, silly plastic jungle animals, fruits, and vegetables move with stop-action camerawork to illustrate other numbers. While these 10 enjoyable sequences will especially appeal to the youngest audience (about 8 months to 2 years), preschoolers will also enjoy seeing other kids use numbers to play hide-and-seek, repeat rhymes ("One, two, buckle my shoe!"), count backwards, and handle simple math problems ("How many kids do you see? That's right, two. Let's add two more. Now how many do you see?") A brief test (in which viewers are asked to determine how many objects they see) and a final group count to 20 wraps up this delightful study of numbers from the talented creators of such topnotch educational series as Bilingual Baby and Brainy Baby. --Liane Thomas