Posted by Aaron on December 27, 2011 in
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- Discover melody, rhythm and harmony
- Learn about friendship and working together
- Bonus interactive features: Language Flash Cards and Let’s Interact!
- Sing along in English, Spanish and French
Geared toward your growing preschooler, Juno Jr. expands on the Emmy Award-winning Juno Baby line with beautiful, original, orchestral music, rich story lines and a deep emphasis on music education and appreciation. Join Juno and her brother, Rai Rai, as they take an adventure to the imaginary, magical, musical world of Harmonia Springs. When Bunny presses the big red button on Murphy's Shush Machine, she inadvertently silences the town of Harmonia Springs. Juno realizes that, in order to bring life back to the town, she and her friends have to create their own music through melody, harmony, rhythm and - most of all - friendship. DVD has options of watching in English, Spanish, or French. For every product sold, the Juno Company donates a very special music DVD to a child in need.When Bunny presses the big red button on Murphy's Shush Machine, she inadvertently silences the town of Harmonia Springs. Juno realizes that, in order to bring life back to the town, she and her friends have to create their own music through melody, harmony, rhythm and — most of all — friendship.
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Entertaining and Informative,
For the first 15 months of her life our daughter has only watched and enjoyed one video Baby Einstein – Baby Monet – Discovering the Seasons which is perfectly acceptable, since we rarely have her watch television. However, there are times, like on long drives when it is nice to have something that can capture her attention and still have a redeeming value. Juno Jr. “The Day the Music Stopped” has made it onto our playlist!
The video combines semi-animated puppets with some live action animals and kids. The story is very creative and incorporates a very informative lesson on music. Juno and her friend must bring music back to Harmony Falls. They are able to do this by finding melody from local birds, rhythm from a train, and harmony from some singing frogs. Once they combine these elements they are able to bring the music back to Harmony Falls. Along the way various musical instruments are *hidden* in the landscape. The shingles on a roof are piano keys, a chimney is shaped like a cello, and so on.
While the story is wildly imaginative (visually) and informative it isn’t worth much if it is unable to capture our daughter’s interest. I am happy to report that our daughter danced and cheered at various spots in the video. I can’t say that she sat down and watched it non-stop (hey, she is 15 months old – if she stopped for 45 minutes for ANY reason other than sleeping we would be concerned) she did enjoy the puppets and the music. It rates as a success in my book!
Final Verdict- The market for children’s videos is very saturated, but I would highly recommend giving Juno jr a try – I know that we will be buying a 2nd video!
5 Stars
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|Educational and super cute!,
A great deal of imagination went into this children’s DVD. The puppets and live action kids and animals are the characters in a story about Juno and her friends who are out to bring music back to the fictitious town of Harmonia Springs. The story incorporates all sorts of rhythms, music and harmony that are found in everyday life and the out of doors that allows the characters to bring the music back. The puppets, Juno, her brother Rai-Rai, their pet cat, caterpillar and rabbit among others, are all imaginatively created and colorful. Lots of action and lots of music make this an interesting program, even for adults, but especially for children.
A mom, Belinda Takahashi, Ph.D is the Emmy winning producer and composer of the music and program which is all original. The DVD includes several authentic sounds and rhythms that are played by real orchestras, so the listeners are exposed to and can begin to appreciate the sounds that are more than just cartoony stuff. I like that it’s a little more sophisticated than most kid’s DVD’s but still fun and cute.
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|Vibrant and Engrossing,
My Daughter loves Juno and isn’t one to stop for many videos. She’s 4 1/2 and aside from Little Einsteins she really won’t sit through an entire episode of anything most days, shes never been the boob tube type. But I am happy to report Juno made her very picky cut, lasting almost the entire run time in which she remained in the room to play and still paid half attention (she usually is off to her room by then). She loves the puppets (having long grown bored with Sesame Street), and doesn’t find them scary at all (as she has with most puppets not on Sesame Street. I really liked it as well, especially the colors, very nice on the eyes overall!
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