DVD suggestions for DD?

[Eigon]

I've got Camberwick Green on DVD - not many female characters (and Mrs Honeyman isn't exactly a good rolemodel - all she does is gossip), but Windy Miller is a wonderful green character. I've just watched the episode where Farmer Bell, the modern farmer, can't sell his eggs, and finds out that Windy has got in first with his free range eggs!

I'm not really familiar with anything more recent - I was a 60s child.

[Clara]

I've got Camberwick Green on DVD - not many female characters (and Mrs Honeyman isn't exactly a good rolemodel - all she does is gossip), but Windy Miller is a wonderful green character. I've just watched the episode where Farmer Bell, the modern farmer, can't sell his eggs, and finds out that Windy has got in first with his free range eggs!

I'm not really familiar with anything more recent - I was a 60s child.

sounds good! I never watched it as a kid but I was aware of it as our woodwork teacher was called Mr Minton and of course he was labelled chippy minton forever!

[Clara]

What about something from Studio Ghibli?

Japanese Animation but dubbed by the likes of Kirsten Dunst.

I don't know the age of your DD but my girls were given Kiki's Delivery Service when they were 4 years old and still love it. Its about a girl witch who has to go to a new town to do her apprentishp.

My neighbour Totoro - about two sisters who move to the country with their dad to be nearer their mum who is ill. My youngest daughter loves this one.

For something a wee bit scarier there is Spirited Away, Cat returns, Princess Monoke (environmental themes).

There are a lot films but these are the ones that stand out for us.

We can't get enough of these. I would greatly recommend them as they have mainly girls in the central role in adventures. Not one bit of pink or a mention of Holidays anywhere

Cheers, it would be nice to not have to watch Disney all the time! I´ve written all of that down but I think it might be for later, MinkyMonkeyMoo is all of 17 months - whadya think?

[mrsflibble]

Another vote for both pocoyo and night garden.

I love how Pato in Pocoyo flies by spinning his beak around his head.

[kiery]

Yeah they Studio Ghibli might be a bit old for your gorgeous wee girl. My Neighbour Totoro would probably be OK.

But they are well worth it in few years, or now for yourself - Princess Monoke and Sprited away and Howl's Moving Castle especially. Studio Ghibli has a huge following, old and young and when we have gone to our cinema to see them, there has been quite a mixture of ages.

What about Disney's Mullan ( again might be a wee bit old) or Bob the Builder, a bit dated now but at least Wendy holds her own in a male dominated workplace.

Seriously though, we found the BBC children's compilations quite good but I don't know if they do them anymore.

[Eigon]

If you like Camberwick Green, there are two spin offs - Trumpton, which is mainly about the fire brigade that never has a fire to put out ("Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb!") and Chigley, where the owner of the local stately home runs his own steam train.

I'm also very fond of Ivor the Engine, by Oliver Postgate, all about a Welsh railway engine (who sings in the choir, amongst other things). That has quite a jolly cast of eccentrics.
Oliver Postgate also did The Herbs ("I'm a very friendly lion called Parsley") and Noggin the Nog, which is about a Viking king. If it's got Oliver Postgate's name on it, it's going to be enjoyable.

A bit after my time, but my young man loves it, is Bagpuss. Every episode, a little girl called Emily brings a mystery object into her shop. The mice clean it, and the other creatures there tell a story about it.

[Ellendra]

Don't have any little ones myself, but my nephew grew up on Veggie Tales and Signing Time.

[circlecross]

totally agree re Oliver Postgate - watched a doc on him recently AMAZED how much he was involved in that formed a formative part of my childhood TV watching and all made in his shed or something!

BUT cannot stress the while Telletubbies Night Garden thing, as they are made by the same team. Ds2 was bouncing up and down and squeaking tonight in response to Iggle Piggle, and clapping along to the theme tune. It is like the space ship has sent out the signal and the little alien must respond! He has just turned 1 year, and is responding so well to these weird characters that I look askance at, but obviously press some button in little brains.

[citizentwiglet]

It is very, very odd, isn't it? The way these littlies just seem to get completely hypnotised by ITNG?

Mind you, Ellis has no time at all for Teletubbies (is it me, or do they talk more now?) or that other Ragdoll monstrosity - Tots TV. Unfortunately, however, he is starting a worrying addiction to 'Me Too'. Sadly, I can't take happy, cheery Granny Murray seriously having seen her as Isa in 'Still Game'....

[mrsflibble]

Granny Murray is known in our house as "The Riverseafingle Oracle" 'cos all her advice seems to miraculourly come true. I'd love to see someone so a mash up of clips from the matrix and me too.

don't get me started on where that woman gets her cash though- only wears monsoon jumpers, skirts and scarves, livingroom entirely decorated with items from The Pier, that wall hanging she has in her talking corner is £65 alone!!!
AND the blind guy who runs the market stall has the Crumpler camera bag I want (but can't afford) and never uses it for anything!!! what a p***er!!

[circlecross]

the woman seems to have some desire to be old - we too saw her in Still Game and both yelled "It's Granny Murray"

[Clara]

OH returned from England with the Mr Men.

I chose Mr Tickle and watched as Mr Giggle took his "extraordinarily long arms" down to the local school, reached through the window and tickled Peter whilst the teacher wasn´t looking.

These days poor Mr Tickle would probably have his house burnt down by a mob!

[Eigon]

Going off at a complete tangent, I was reading a Milly Molly Mandy story once, when I thought that she, Billy Blunt and Little-Friend-Susan would probably have been taken away by the social workers. In the story, all the adults in the family went to a film show in the next village, leaving the three children, none of them more than seven, alone in a house with an open fire on which they attempted to cook sausages!
The stories were written between the 1920s and 1940s. A different world.

[mrsflibble]

Don't have any little ones myself, but my nephew grew up on Veggie Tales and Signing Time.

oh where is my hairbrush?
oh where is my hairbrush?
oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where
is my hairbrush?

[CaundleMama]

Mine adore Tractor Ted dvds,I hadnt seen them before moving here so maybe they are a *local* thing? real life farm footage with a little cartoon tractor,they adore them & there are great songs on there too! they do an organic farm one,seasonal ones,Winter,Spring etc etc

The smalls are great film watchers & so far we have avoided anything pink & princessy argggg shudders.

Qucik flick thru their drawer,they have Aristocats,Babe about the little pig,one called Mist about a sheep dog,Cats & Dogs which they find hilarious!Come Outside which is from CBeebies with Pippin the dog & Auntie Mabel they loe that one,theres some I picked up cheap in Woolies the Rats of Nimh,Once Upon A Forest,they adore dinosaurs & I found one called a Dinosaurs Story which they watch soooo much!

I got a couple of Baby Einsteins off EBay,Number Nursery is great,the tiger puppet makes them crease up & its good for counting.

oh & Toy Story they like thatI am a bit wary of Disney stuff but generally the older ones arent too too bad.

In our room we have an ancient portable with a video built in so they have a treat & watch in mummys bed things like National Geographic & Readers Digest videos that we got given or off freecycle,charity shops are very cheap on videos now too they have dinosaur ones,dophins,poisonous snakes one about an owl.

Baically anything with an animal in is going to be a hit in this house

I think its really nice they can snuggle up & watch a film,they really enjoy them & its a chance for me to sit down & knit