Caillou - Dr. Caillou [VHS]

Description

.com Caillou visits the dentist, nurses his father back to health, and gets a scratchy throat from playing in the rain in the two episodes that make up this installment of the PBS series. Caillou (pronounced KY-yoo) is an animated, in all respects, 4-year-old whose "adventures" are the stuff of everyday preschool life. Meanwhile his stuffed animals have their own lives, and their own segments in puppetry form. Here, Teddy gets the flu--and assistance from his fellow stuffed animals--and Rexy helps Squirrel find something lost. The variety-show format of this 39-minute video is augmented by documentary segments in which real kids practice good health by swimming, eating fruit, and brushing their teeth. A song and dance troupe of kids further enhances each episode, here donning Western gear and singing about lost teddy bears. (It'll make sense to your youngsters.) (Ages 2 to 6) --Kimberly Heinrichs