STYLE: Children RATING OUR PRODUCT CODE: 86581-DVD492 LABEL: W9049 FORMAT: DVD Other video ITEMS: 3 RELEASE DATE: 2009-11-30 RRP: £11.99
Reviewed by Ian Hayter
As many will know, the WonderKids set up regularly release CDs and DVDs of songs based on Bible stories and passages for children. Here the songs are accompanied by images - not animated ones, as you might expect, but a series of still illustrations (By the way, each DVD proclaims that it lasts 30 minutes - they are much longer than that for some reason). The illustrations themselves are of the standard you'd find in a good children's Bible, but the fact that they don't move (other than some zooming in and out) may come as a bit of a disappointment. There's a pretty good range of stories from both Old and New Testament, but the ".& Friends" titles stretch Biblical interpretation and chronology beyond the usual limits - Samson's friends include Elijah, Zacchaeus and The Prodigal Son, for example. Even the fact that the voices are provided by singers such as Rebecca St James, Max Lucado and Steve Green cannot really raise the standard of the package. I can't see the average two to six year-old sitting and watching this for more than a couple of minutes.
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Product Description
These 3 DVDs will take your child on a journey through some of the greatest Biblical adventures: watch as beautiful Queen Esther saves her people, as Daniel sits in a den of lions, while Samson shows the incredible strength that God gave him!