Sneak Peek Review of the Children's DVD Barney: Best Fairy Tales

This is a sneak peek review of the children's DVD Barney: Best Fairy Tales This product comes from Lionsgate and HiT Entertainment and is due to be released November 9, 2010. Barney: Best Fairy Tales was provided to me for review, but I was under no obligation to recommend it. My observations are my own.

Synopsis of the Children's DVD Barney: Best Fairy Tales

What's the ol' purple and green dinosaur up to now? Why, he spots Baby Bop at the gazebo with a bunch of books set up, so she can play librarian. This gets Barney in the mood to share some classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes, where the kids as well as BJ and Baby Bop play the characters. The settings of the following fairy tales and nursery rhymes take place in either the park or the caboose: The Shoemaker & the Elves, The Sharing Hen, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Boy Blue/Old King Cole, Goldilocks & the Three Bears, The Tortoise & the Hare, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, The Girl Who Cried Wolf (not Boy in this children's DVD), Three Little Kittens, and Jack & the Beanstalk.

Singing and dancing are added to a number of the vignettes in this children's DVD for a full "Barney" effect. Now, with these fairy tales and nursery rhymes, there's a real "Barney factor" added to them, so as to make sure all of the characters basically experience a happy ending and/or don't die, including the giant in Jack & the Beanstalk. You won't even hear the phrase from that particular tale that goes "...I smell the blood of an Englishman."

For all those Disney Channel fans, look for a young Demi Lovato during the approximately 49 minutes of video footage that covers these fairy tales and nursery rhymes. She's listed as a cast member in the closing credits. The extra features include the "Super-Dee-Duper Shape" game that's a video puzzle challenge, as well as one of Shaun the Sheep's characters having an airing of his own show, that being Timmy in Timmy Time. The episode, "Timmy's Plane", sees Timmy the lamb have trouble with his arts and crafts project that's a paper airplane.

More about the Children's DVD Barney: Best Fairy Tales

I recommend this product because it's once again a series of positive and uplifting programs for children, who will learn such good qualities like sharing and not making up lies. Nonetheless, kids will eventually encounter the actual fairy tales either at school or during a bedtime story reading, which don't include the "Barney interpretation" of events. This children's DVD has a Suggested Retail Price of $14.98, and will be available at retail outlets like Amazon.com on November 9, 2010. For more information about Barney, go to the dinosaur's website here.