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2 Blues Clues VHS videos, Stop, Look and Listen and Reading with Blue is offered in this auction.
Stop, Look & Listen review by Amazon.com
This 51-minute video opens with Steve taking a new look at familiar surroundings. As Steve and his viewers play Blue's Clues to figure out what Blue saw outside, they get a glimpse of how perspective can change an object's appearance. Just watch how a paw print changes when reflected in a mirror or take a look at a bundle of sticks through a vase of water. The fun really begins when Blue offers Steve his kaleidoscope to view books, a butterfly, and Mailbox's letter. Steve and his young viewers also make use of perspective and deductive reasoning to help Squirrel figure out who's calling him.
The second episode focuses on mysterious sounds around Steve and Blue's house. As Steve tries to discover what Blue just heard on the porch, he's intrigued by a variety of sounds. He listens to the dripping faucet, a rushing stream, and popping popcorn. Especially effective is Steve's silent walk home from the stream--complete with mime! Another fun sequence finds Blue and Steve adding sound effects to a silent movie. Once you've figured out the answer to Blue's Clues, curl up on the porch with the gang and enjoy the sounds of nature. (Ages 2-10) --Tami Horiuchi
Reading with Blue review by Amazon.com
Multisyllabic words and reference volumes pique Blue's interest in this double episode focusing on vocabulary and books. But the inquisitive blue dog and her preschool audience have the effervescent Steve, a talking end table, and silent signing librarian Marlee Matlin to help them through this wordy lesson. In "Words," Steve and his pet plow through their Big Bag of Words, coming up with contrasts like enormous and miniscule. Blue has sorted the pair's books into categories in "Blue's Book Nook," and she generously loans out her tomes to the neighborhood animals. But it takes a trip to the library to figure out which book she wants to read. This 50-minute program is perhaps more aggressively educational than most kids' fare, but it's so entertaining that preschoolers won't notice they're learning. And who doesn't want their 3-year-old using ferocious correctly in a sentence? Ages 2 to 5. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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