Halloween’s around the corner and what best to educate your children about Halloween than through “Nick Jr. Favorites: Happy Halloween”. Featuring six educational, safe and fun Halloween-themed episodes for your young children.
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DVD TITLE: Nick Jr. Favorites: Happy Halloween
DURATION: 149 Minutes
DVD INFORMATION: Full Screen, Dolby Digital
COMPANY: Nickelodeon/Paramount
RATED: NOT RATED
RELEASE DATE: August 24, 2010
Featuring the voices of:
Kathleen Herles as Dora (Dora the Explorer)
Harrison Chad as Boots (Dora the Explorer)
Marc Weiner as Swiper (Dora the Explorer)
Sasha Toro as Backpack (Dora the Explorer)
Jake T. Austin as Diego (Go, Diego Go!)
Sofie Zamchick as Linny (Wonder Pets)
Teala Dunn as Tuck (Wonder Pets)
Danica Lee as Ming Ming Duckling (Wonder Pets)
Traci Paige Johnson as Blue (Blue’s Clues)
Jade-Lianna Peters as Kai-lan (Ni Hao, Kai-lan)
Clem Cheung as Yeye (Ni Hao, Kai-lan)
Starring:
Donovan Patton as Joe (Blue’s Clues)
Trick or Treat? It’s always a treat to celebrate Halloween with your Nickelodeon Friends! Halloween is a special time of year and this DVD has all your favorite Nickelodeon shows as they discover candy, costumes, and haunted happenings! This year, celebrate Halloween with Dora, Diego, the Wonder Pets, Yo Gabba Gabba, Blue’s Clues and Kai-lan all together on one DVD!
Halloween is just around the corner and what best for your children to enjoy Halloween but to learn from their favorite characters from Nick Jr.
Trick or treat? Definitely a treat with this latest Nick Jr. Favorites DVD, young children can learn and enjoy six episodes of “Dora the Explorer”, “Go, Diego, Go!”, “Blue’s Clues”, “Wonder Pets!”, “Ni Hao, Kai-Lan” and “Yo Gabba Gabba!”.
Nickelodeon has compiled six Halloween-themed episodes which include:
- Boo! – In this episode of “Dora the Explorer”, Dora and Boots discover a trick-or-treater who doesn’t need a costume – Little Monster! Help Dora and Boots bring the Little Monster back to the Monster House before the clock strikes twelve.
- Freddie the Fruit Bat Saves Halloween! – In this episode of “Go, Diego, Go!”, it’s Halloween night but the llamas are unable to cross the broken bridge to bring the treats to Diego’s party. But Freddie the Fruit Bat can. Help Diego and Freddie save Halloween!
- Save the Bat/Save the Donkey – In this episode of “Wonder Pets!”, help the pets on their nighttime mission to save a baby bat in Transylvania and then help a donkey actor prepare for his play.
- Halloween – In this episode of “Yo Gabba Gabba!”, It’s Halloween time at Gabba Land and everyone prepares to put their costumes on and party.
- What is Blue Afraid Of? – In this episode of Blue’s Clue, help Steve play Blue’s Clues and find out what is scaring Blue.
- Ni Hao, Halloween – Kai-lan is about to go trick-or-treating with YeYe but Rintoo sprains his ankle. Kai-lan needs your help to make things better for Rintoo.
VIDEO & AUDIO:
The episodes featured in “Nick Jr. Favorites: Happy Halloweenl” are presented in full screen and in Dolby Digital stereo.
Animation features vibrant colors and dialogue is clear and understandable. Picture quality is dependent on the series as “Dora the Explorer”, “Go, Diego, Go!” and “Ni Hao, Kai-Lan” are animation-based, “Blue’s Clues” and “Wonder Pets!” tend to combine CG, while “Yo Gabba Gabba!” is not animated but does have animated segments.
Overall, this is for the children and the picture and audio quality should be satisfactory.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
There are no special features included on this DVD.
“Nick Jr. Favorites: Happy Halloween” is a fun and educational release for children and also parents who want to find DVD’s that are safe and in this case, six Halloween-themed episodes that will help educate children to the concept of Halloween.
My young son literally grew up in his young toddler years watching many of Nickelodeon’s children’s series and through this series, it was very helpful in helping him develop skills on decision making and also learning a little Spanish (through episodes like “Dora the Explorer” and also a little Chinese through “Ni Hao, Kai-Lan”. But also develop singing skills and pretty much hone their decision making skills.
In this DVD series, children are eased into the concept of Halloween and while safe for children, there are no depictions of anything scary at all. There is an episode of Blue’s Clues that goes into Blue being scared but in many ways, it’s an episode to help children not be so afraid of shadows, pictures, etc.
If there was one thing that I am a bit critical about this DVD release, I was hoping that there would be some DVD-Rom content, games or some sort of special feature content included on this DVD. From coloring pages, to fun facts or anything that children can take advantage of after they watch the episodes. But of course, that is me being picky.
For the most part, your young children should be entertained by this release. All episodes are safe for children and parents will also be happy to know that they can learn from each of these episodes.
Overall, for any parent who has a child that is in pre-school or kindergarten, will find “Nick Jr. Favorites: Happy Halloween” a safe Halloween-themed educational DVD.