If you go to
www.childandme.com at the following link
http://www.childandme.com/teach-your-child-read-multimedia/ there are reviews to many products.
From the website here is a review for Monki See Monki Doo:
This is a DVD actually designed and produced by one of the members of TeachYourBabyToRead group. I had lots of mixed feelings when I just got this DVD, expecting it to be non-professional type of videos that are usually coming out from home production… and I was very pleasantly surprised! This DVD turned out to be well made and I actually found it exceptionally good for the little ones! The initial DVD targets kids up 2 years old. It incorporated the good features of many other DVDs for the small babies: similarly to Baby Einsteins they have lots of baby’s favorite images - kids, animals, and even engaging scenes with cute puppets (my kid used to love them when he was smaller). But that’s not all! It has songs, it has poems, it even has little animations! This video actually does what it promises: it helps you to get started with a reading program with kids - it shows 40 introductory words, that are common in baby’s everyday vocabulary.What I absolutely loved was that the words are not animated, like in LeapFrog, they don’t have any distracting shadows and backgrounds, images on the words themselves… it is just so Doman to show large red words and to read it loud and clear. The words are followed by a small demonstration: kids pointing to the body parts, or an animal (if the word was an animal), or a puppet show.What I loved the most about the video is the amount of comments. My major complain about Baby Einstein videos is that they are mostly silent. On the rare occasions when I was showing Baby Einsteins to my son, I’d usually sit next to him and comment every image, every action, every animal. “Monkey See” does that for you: it has plenty of good comments on actions and imagery, plenty of songs and poems that are read nicely and clearly, so mom’s work would really amount only to hugs for the baby who is watching it.My son’s reaction: he is almost three. He has outgrown it (unfortunately!). He was interested for the first part of the show, but he is watching a lot more advanced videos by now and this is for the little babies. So I just turned on the slide show of the words that is available at the end. He was glad to review the old words that he has seen before, and I was glad there was such a simple way to show just the words themselves!In all honesty, if I ever could do a DVD for my kid, that’s how I’d like to do it. I was so charmed that I’ll be definitely showing it to my number #2 one who’ll hopefully join us soon and I’ll be looking forward for more videos from this series.
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