Mowgli[The Jungle Book] used to be my favorite serial while growing up Those days we were pretty much at the mercy of Doordarshan. How we would wait for the day and time, prepare, finish up homework. Now, there is on demand tv, almost 24 x 7 sprout, pbs kids, cartoon channels. And if that doesn’t satisfy the apetite, there is always youtube.
My older daughter loves the title song, she got hooked on to it the first time she heard it. Though she does not seem to like the …

There she was, watching Jungle Book’s title song for the zillion’th time. Almost always she watches videos with parent supervison. This one time I stepped out of her visual range for few minutes and she managed to click on this video from the related videos listing, thanks to youtube. I heard the song and it caught my attention too. Something in it, the tune, the girl so chulbuli, full of energy. Just too good, loved it. Only when we reached the end of the song, did we realize it was …

Written By: Eileen Christelow

My daughter loves this book. Probably due to familiarity from hearing the song from age 1. Also the satisfaction she gets as she thinks she can reads it herself. Add to it the stencil colorful pictures on each page. the monkeys bumping their heads, making faces. She likes this book so much that even the front and back of the book is not spared. I have to end it by saying – Written by Eileen Christelow. And after some 50 odd reads so far, she has by-hearted …

We are in the transition phase of moving from one country to another. In the meantime, youtube has been a savior in entertaining kids. While looking for nursery rhymes based videos that my kids are familiar with, I hit upon this site – http://www.supersimplesongs.com/ . There are a handful of their videos available in youtube. Their ABC song, Five little Monkeys and Rain Rain Go Away were an instant hit.
Embedding the videos here –

There are many other videos that play non-stop. Will save them for another post …