French dvds / books / book+singalong cd

[FeatheredHeart]

Calling all French mums, expats in France or French teachers...

I'm looking for French dvds / books / book+singalong cd for a 2.5 year old. Based on a thread from 2007 and a bit of hunting on amazon.fr I was planning to order dvds of:

T'choupi au zoo
Caillou s'amuse
Droles de petites betes - Leon le bourdon

I'd like something French as opposed to, say, Shrek in French.

We have this which is great - for me , but ds1 doens't understand it, he just asks for the train song, which has a train sound in it. So it needs to be something with visual content - and if it has music too, that's a bonus!

Are my dvd choices any good? Anything else I should consider?

Try "this www.amazon.fr/Mon-Imagier-amusettes-livre-audio/dp/2070546535/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1250077457&sr=8 -5" - may possibly be a tiny bit young for 2.5, thuogh it does say it's up to 3.

For DVDs I cannot recommend Trotro highly enough. "Mila raconte .." is also very good, though the French is possibly very difficult if your child is not a native. Petit Ours Brun and Leo et popi are also winners, though they're both a bit wet.

Can't go wrong with Barbapapa too - or is that too young?

Hope this helps.

I am clearly still no expert on hyperlinks ...

Trotro is fantastic. I babysit several french/English families and all of them watch Trotro to help the kids with french

C'est l'ami qu'il nous faut ...

What about petit ours brun?

I like POB (as does my child) but he IS a bit wimpish and a bit of a sniveller.

Depends on whether you're thinking language models or role models, I guess ...

Well, I agree with you, but both my kids liked him!!

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Just received "La Petite Princesse" on DVD. It IS British originally - but based on books, not a film, and perhaps more importantly not American!

Will let you know how we get on with her ...