“Nickelodeon Favorites – Once Upon a Rhyme†is recommended for parents wanting something educational and fun for their children. Featuring seven episodes from Nickelodeon’s top children’s shows, this DVD is recommended for younger children!
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DVD TITLE: Nickelodeon Favorites – Once Upon a Rhyme
DURATION: 7 Episodes (139 Minutes)
DVD INFORMATION: Full Screen, Dolby Digital
COMPANY: Nickelodeon/Paramount
RATED: NOT RATED
RELEASE DATE: April 30, 2013
Bubble Guppies
Created by Jonny Belt and Robert Scull
Team Umizoomi
Written by Soo Kim, Michael Smith, O. Kevin Strader, Brian L. Perkins, Jennifer Twomey, Jeff Borkin, Sascha Paladino, Clark Stubbs
Produced by Soo Kim, Michael Smith
The Fresh Beat Band
Executive Producer: Scott Kraft, Nadine Van der Velde
Dora the Explorer
Created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh and Eric Weiner
Wonder Pets!
Executive Producer: Josh Selig
Blue’s Room
Executive Producer: Traci Paige Johnson, Angela C. Santoromero
Developed by Wendy Harris, Dave Palmer, Jennifer Twomey, Dr. Alice Wilder
Join your Nickelodeon friends for storytime in 7 enchanted takes! Explore fairy tales with Dora, Bubble Guppies and Blue! Search for treasure with team Umizoomi! Save nursery rhymes with the Wonder Pets, and join a royal wedding with the Fresh Beats!
In the latest Nickelodeon children’s DVD compilation of “Nickelodeon Favorites”, the theme is nursery rhymes. Featuring seven episodes from Nick Jr. children’s shows such as “Bubble Guppies”, “Team Umizoomi”, “The Fresh Beat Band”, “Dora the Explorer”, “Wonder Pets!” (note: “Wonder Pets!” comes with a second episode) and “Blue’s Room”.
Included are the following episodes:
- Bubble Guppies – “Who’s Gonna Play the Big Bad Wolf” – The Bubbleguppies learn about actors and what a play is about and find out who will play the Big Bad Wolf.
- Team Umizoomi – “The Umi City Treasure Hunt” – Team Umizoomi meets their friend Square Beard the Pirate. And he gives them the map to the long-lost treasure of Umi City.
- The Fresh Beat Band – “Royal Wedding” – The band is excited that a royal wedding is happening in town, but what happens when the princess calls off the wedding because she wants to marry Twist?
- Dora the Explorer – “Dora Saves the Three Little Piggies” – Dora and Boots go to Fairy Tale Land and must help the Three Little Piggies.
- Wonder Pets – “Help the Cow Jump Over the Moon/Save the Unicorn!” – The Wonder Pets are contacted by a pop-up book that needs them to help a young cow from a nursery rhyme, jump over the moon. In the second episode, the Wonder Pets jump into a storybook to help a unicorn who’s horn is lost inside a tree.
- Blue’s Room – “Little Red Riding Blue” – Blue, Sprinkles and Joe do their own version of “Little Red Riding Hood”.
VIDEO & AUDIO:
The episodes featured in “Nickelodeon Favorites – Once Upon a Rhyme†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†is animation-based, “Team Umizoomi†and “Wonder Pets!†tend to combine CG, while “The Fresh Beat Band” and Blue’s Room utilizes real live actors and puppets. But also the fact that these episodes range from 2007-2012.
But I doubt children will be to picky with video and audio, but if anything, picture and audio quality for this DVD is very good.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
“Nickelodeon Favorites – Once Upon a Rhyme” comes with no special features.
Are you a parent looking for a children’s DVD that your young children will love, episodes that are safe but also episodes that your children can learn from? Definitely give Nickelodeon’s “Once Upon a Rhyme” a try as children can learn about popular stories derived from nursery rhymes. But also episodes filled wit a lot of adventure, fun and as always, is educational for children.
With “Bubble Guppies”, “Go, Diego, Go!”, “Dora, the Explorer” and “Wonder Pets, these four episodes showcase the importance of teamwork and decision-making, while The Fresh Beat Band utilizes music to entertain the children with music and “Team Umizoomi” utilizing math.
And with Nickelodeon often releasing children’s DVD’s based on a certain theme, this is the first DVD compilation to feature episodes that revolves around the nursery rhyme theme.
My child was raised watching these Nickelodeon educational children’s shows and I do believe that it helped in his development as he is doing exceptionally well at school, especially when it comes to decision making and also an appreciation for other cultures and languages.
Overall, your young children should be entertained by this DVD. All episodes are safe for children and parents will also be happy to know that they can learn from each of these episodes and also it will definitely help keep the children occupied as well.
“Nickelodeon Favorites – Once Upon a Rhyme†is recommended for parents wanting something educational and fun for their children. Featuring seven episodes from Nickelodeon’s top children’s shows, this DVD is recommended for younger children!