Can a toddler understand Baby Jake?

I watched Baby Jake with my grandson, one morning.

Baby Jake is a children’s animated series shown on CBeebies.
Maddy Darrall is the creator and producer of Baby Jake for production company Dallall Macqueen, with animation through JAM Media.
                                     
The main character is Baby Jake he has a real baby face added to an animated body.

The adventure storylines are based on Baby Jakes imagination and are voiced by his brother Isaac in the series.

As an adult I found Baby Jake to be a colorful fantasy for tiny tots, narrated by a child the language was unknown to me – baby language?

Is this something I should learn, in order to communicate with my grandson.

I wondered as I watched him mesmerized by the series, sitting focused watching Baby Jake jump around the screen on one of his adventures.

Maybe my grandson can understand the baby language, where I as an adult cannot?

I would recommend the series for children under two years of age, as they seem to adore it.

My final thought: we need a book on baby language to fully understand those little noises babies and toddlers make? 

If you have one then let me know.

Invasion of the Little Robots?

I watched Little Robots with my grandson the other morning on CBeebies, after a few minutes as usual he was off playing leaving me to watch it alone.

The theme tune is really catchy it got me hooked. The children’s programme was actually very entertaining and I'm and adult.

Little Robots is a stop-motion animation, produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Create TV and Film Limited.

The series is based on the book by Mike Brownlow and published by Ragged Bears Publishing.

                                                       

The animation and stories are great, the idea to use metal works and create a wonderful series out of rubbish, sorry I mean scrap metal is quite genius.

The main character is called Tiny voiced by Hayley Carmichael, he repaired himself and his friends who live around a nut and bolt tree. Tiny uses a lever to turn night into day.

The stories are based in a very tidy and clean scrap heap, I mean scrap yard, sorry I mean junkyard.

All the characters are great, with actor voices being use, Lenny Henry and Su Pollard are just two of the well known voices that can be heard in the series.

My favourite robot character has to be Scary the bat voiced by Mike Hayley.

Scary makes me laugh when he tries to scare his friends he usually fails because his voice isn’t frightening enough.

I would definitely recommend this programme, ideal for both children and adults to watch.

My final thought: it’s a great children’s series, funny, witty and it has great animation.

However the question still remains, is Scary the Bat scary enough?

What do you think?  

Let’s Play Dressing Up?

I watched Let’s Play with my grandson which is a fantastic dressing up programme, it teaches a particular profession which is great for children to know. It encourages children to dress up and play along.

                                     
Let’s Play is a children’s dressing up television programme, shown on CBeebies.

The show has 2D-illustrated backgrounds the animation was created by Studio Liddell in Manchester, the Foundation in Maidstone.

Sidney Sloane and Rebecca Keatley are the actors and presenters for the children’s programme, they are fun to watch and work well together.

The “What do we need to know?” part of the programme is very informative and shows what the character can do or use in situations.

The theme tune is very catchy, you will probably sing along to it like me.

I cannot choose my favourite character both Sid and Rebecca are good at play acting and dressing up and they are fun to watch. 

When they sing “Let It Be Me,” the facial expressions always make my grandson smile I’ve even tried doing the actions myself.

It’s definitely worth watching, the children will love it. 

It’s a brilliant dressing up programme, fun to watch, informative and child friendly.

What do you think?  

Is Everything Rosie?

I watched “Everything’s Rosie,” with my grandson which is an animated programme for children aged 3 to 6 years.

The series was created by Victoria Corner for V&S Entertainment Ltd, and is shown on CBeebies.    

The series is about a little girl called Rosie which shows her adventures and friendship with her friends Will, Holly, Big Bear, Oakley, Saffie, Raggles, Blue Bird and some annoying Acorns.

Rosie lives with her friend Raggles in a wonderful playhouse that is on a hill overlooking a playground.

My grandson likes watching the programme he stands in front of the television smiling at the characters and dances when the theme tune starts playing. The first time I heard it I thought it sounded a bit dated, however that has not stopped me from singing along to it each time it comes on.

The character Rosie is very kind always thinking of her friends, helping them when they are sad making them feel happy again.

My favourite character is Holly, a cute little girl who is gentle, very helpful and loves big bear.

In my opinion the friendship and helping others element in this programme are very strong which is important for our children to learn.

It is definitely worth watching, your children will like the colorful animated stories.

My final thought: we should all follow Rosie’s example, be more friendly and helpful to our friends and to new people we meet, or does that only happen in animation?

What do you think?