The New York Times Guide to the Best Children's Videos

by Ranny Levy and Kids First!

Book Overview

The only guide you'll need for choosing the best videos -- and CD-ROMS -- for your family. INCLUDES: More than 1000 entries of kid-tested and adult-approved videos currently available. Listings... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671036696
• ISBN13: 9780671036690
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Helpful Guide for a Busy Parent

I found this guide extremely helpful in letting me and my children know the content of videos that were new to us. I would love to say that I have time to pre-screen everything they see, but the reality is I look to books like this to help me make the right choices for my children. I am impressed that Kids' First has taken the time and effort to review this material and made it easier for me to know what my children are watching. We are all looking forward the next edition.

Seems useful so far

I have only had this book for a couple of months, but I have repeatedly found its assessments right on target. I especially like the way that it covers both movies and CD-ROMs, and the way that it breaks reviews down into fairly narrow age groups (just a few years wide). All my actual experience with the book has been only with movies for those in the category covering 5- and 6-year-olds, but in each case it has helped me identify a movie that has been suitable for my kids without being incredibly boring for me and my wife. Movies that we've gotten that are not reviewed in the book, in contrast, have almost always been problems along one dimension or the other.