Good Morning Maisy [DVD]

My son brings the Maisy books and DVDs to me to read or play. He walks over to me and says "MAISY". He loves Maisy so much that it makes me personally sad when I have to turn it off. What I love about Maisy is that the characters are so innocent and playful. Maisy shows examples of sharing, caring, patience, logic, and more. It is very educational. There is one segment where Maisy drives a train carrying animals. My son counts along as Maisy stops to pick up a new set of animals. It is great and enjoyable. If you are looking for a refreshing break away from the stuff on TV, Maisy is it. And, if you have Maisy books and the DVD your children will learn so much from Maisy.

My 19 month old daughter LOVES Maisy mouse. The Good Morning Maisy DVD has 4 episodes: Count with Maisy (30 minutes), Maisy's ABCs (34 minutes), Maisy's Colors and Shapes (28 minutes) and Maisy's Farm (54 minutes). Count with Maisy has 5 segments (5 min each) in which Maisy is counting something. The topic of each segment is: Train, Bus, Harvest, Fleas, Hide & Seek. Between each segement is a short song. Maisy's ABCs is not broken into mini segments. Maisy and her friends try to find things that begin with each letter of the alphabet, with lots of help from the narrator. Although ABCs are a little old for my daughter, she stays entertained and likes watching this episode. Maisy's Colors and Shapes is 5 segments: Balloons, Spots, Shed, Circus, Plane. There are no songs between the segments. I've been disappointed by this episode. It seems that there were technical difficulties when they produced it. The opening plays twice in a row. After the Circus segment the credits roll, and then there is the final segment "Plane." I also don't think that most of the segments go with the title of "colors and shapes." None of this bothers my daughter, but I find it annoying. Maisy's Farm is my favorite, as well as my daughter's. The first 20 minutes is all one long segment of Maisy on a farm, planting seeds and taking care of the animals. She goes through the 4 seasons and you see how the animals and the land changes. I find it interesting that the narrator's voice is different for this segment, and he uses terms occasionally that are more British. Following this are 7 of the regular 5 min segments: Duckling, Breakfast, Toot toot, Shopping, Bugs, and Mountain. I'm not really sure how most of them relate to Maisy's "Farm," but they are all cute. The episode finishes with the song "Maisy, Maisy had a Farm." (Like Old MacDonald).

We love Maisy above other cartoons because it has great picture - not too detailed or elaborate - easy to follow for our baby. Bright colors and chunky black outlines. This DVD offers learning facets too with the number and letters portions. Love the long length and variety of the film. As an elementary teacher, I have to critique the way that they taught the "R" sound, sounding it out "ruh" instead of "errrr" - "errrr" is noticed the same w/ a couple other letters, but all in all, I don't think the proper way to teach the R sound in my school's phonics curriculum. I it makes a huge difference and won't scar your baby's phonics abilities later in life!

This came scratched. We ran it through our dvd cleaner and it is beyond repair.

had to purchase this again; we wore it out after two kids! What a great show; the kids LOVE Maisy (boy or girl), and the characters and songs are adorable, and it really teaches them about numbers and the alphabet. The DVD runs for a long time, too -- almost 3 hours. I can't recommend this HIGHLY ENOUGH! 10 stars!!

This is a wonderful title for any small child. The colorful images and music hold tremendous appeal for my 3-year-old and with 4 full-length shows on the DVD, it is a great value. I also like the fact that Maisy and her friends always have a can-do attitude and teach toddlers a few good lessons along the way. My only complaint is that I wish a breakdown of the individual segments was listed so that I know which episode contains the segment my child insists on watching that day!

Play Time with Maisy basically lives in our DVD player, and has become a real morning ritual in our house -- and at this point, I have just about every frame memorized. Even though my toddler is happy to see it over and over again, I was looking for a little variety when I bought Good Morning Maisy -- but this collection doesn't keep to the same format. There's one "episode" that follows the normal pattern of intro/story/song/story/song/story/song/story, but the rest of the DVD has two alternate format episodes (and be aware, the ABC's episode really is 1/2 hour of the alphabet, which is very, very hard on the attention span of the target audience) and one cobbled-together set of stories that are poorly edited together such that you see the intro a few different times in odd places and the credits run in the middle and the songs are missing, etc. Also, n.b., the Farm stories have the British narration, which is not only a different voice, but a different pace, pronunciation and vocabulary, which can be slightly disorienting. So: even though we LOOOOOOVE Maisy, and will happily watch her do pretty much anything, I have to say I'm annoyed with the editing on this particular collection.

My son enjoyed watching Maisy on Noggin so much that we recorded a number of episodes using our DVR. Inevitably I needed to save room on our DVR drive and decided to delete the episodes, so I bought "Good Morning Maisy" hoping he would enjoy it as much as he had the Noggin episodes. I was very excited to receive "Good Morning Maisy". I was even more excited after we started watching. Much of the content was new to us - I don't think Noggin includes the loveable songs after every episode - and is wonderful. Maisy and her friends are not obnoxious, the colors are stimulating, and I can't find anything to dislike - I love it.

My daughter has loved Maisy since turning 2 years old (she's not quite 3 yet). Maisy is fun and enjoyable (and I don't even mind watching it). This DVD helped her learn not only the alphabet and counting to 10, but it has also taught her to figure out which sounds go with which letters, and what letter a word starts with. We can say any word to her and ask her what letter it starts with, and she's almost always right! Obviously, the DVD itself is only part of the learning equation, but I was surprised how much more she learned than I expected. And don't worry about the trailers at the beginning of the DVD. Just try hitting some of your DVD fast-forward buttons 3 or 4 times --there's a way to make it skip right to the Maisy DVD menu.

I bought this for my two-year-old son after we received Play Time with Maisy as a gift and discovered that he loves Maisy as much on DVD as he does in the books. We also liked the fact that the storylines are really appropriate for a toddler and focus on ideas and objects that are interesting to that age group. This DVD is slightly different from Play Time in that some parts are presented as individual short episodes, while others such as the "ABC" and "Farm" sections are much longer. There is a small amount of overlap between the two videos: at least one of the episodes and one of the song sequences appear on both Play Time and Good Morning. This DVD has been as big a hit with our son as the previous one. The music and imagery are lovely, and you get quite a lot of episodes on a single disc. I think an improvement to this video would be to eliminate some of the repetition of opening and closing credits - it does seem to have been slapped together somewhat. The fact that some of the episodes have a British narrator and others have an American one contribute to the feeling that the video was put together a bit haphazardly, though this is probably only noticeable to parents and not to children. The fact that the previews for other videos play every time you put the disc in is a bit annoying, but it only takes a few seconds to fast-forward through them. I'd recommend Maisy to anyone looking for a video featuring subject matter, characters, music and a pace that is appropriate for very small children, and for both boys and girls.