Classical Baby: Im Grown Up Now: The Poetry Show

Age appropriate!

Wonderful DVD. Beautiful poetry, absolutely charming children talking about poetry, and superior art and animation.

we have so many magical moments with these series!! we thought our 16 months old baby is too young for this but he just loved it from first sight! he is now 26 months and still this film is one of his favorites! very well done, thumbs up! we love giving this as a present as well..

love this series

I love it. It is HBOs great production. Baby can listen to it and watch it again and again, and it is so well done, we do not mind repeating it for her, again and again. I love this DVD is excellent. The only downside it is that if you live in Europe you need the kind of DVD that plays universally all formats. But otherwise this is an excellent production.

I am not a poetry person but I do love this poetry DVD.]I appreciate watching the pictures / art. They are so beautiful and creative. My baby loves watching other children talk. She loves the songs. I wish the DVD can be longer. it feels like 15 minutes long to me.

The Classical Baby: Poetry is putatively for children. Granted, it is quite pleasant to watch - especially if you are a child. But I think this production is more valuable for its contents and the value we might place on it, should we already know a little bit about poetry. All the reviews on this site about this production are quite pleasant, but this one is written to the person that knows a few names and wants to know more. How would you like to hear William Carlos Williams read HIS OWN poetry in his high, quavery voice, and then the entire (short) poem is repeated by a little girl - by memory. Then Andy Garcia, whose Spanish is absolutely perfect, recites a poem about a butterfly. Langston Hughes recites his poem about rain in April while children are seen playing in the rain - who could forget his voice? And the finale is a mother rabbit telling her baby rabbit the Browning poem How Do I Love Thee - read by Gwyneth Paltrow! It is truly a memorable finale for a fine video. Look how much it costs! Isnt that a STEAL for some of the greatest poetry ever written? If you have a child old enough to watch this production, you wont be sorry. But dont let that stop you if you dont have children! DO IT FOR YOURSELF!

as the original series...has interviews with kids talking about how poetry makes you feel...very sweet but not in alignment with the others in this series

My 3 month old baby loves this dvd. I thought this would be too difficult for 3 months old, but she absolutely loves it. She loves to listen to other older children talking and she talks back to them! She watches attentively and laughs and giggles too. We have Classical baby Music, Art, Dance and now Poetry which she enjoys all of them. I wish there are more to the series and that they are longer than 30 min.

I bought this with my future grandson in mind. But, when my current grandson, almost 4, saw it he wanted it, now. He has memorized some of the poems already, less then a month later. I think that is the highest recommendation a product can receive.