My kids love history and they love this series. It was on Netflix streaming a few years ago and they took it off. I wanted to buy it but these past few months it was about $100 through 3rd party dealers. I see that Amazon has this 6 disc set for $50 again. But I found out today on Amazon that it is being released again on July 16, 2013 as a 4 disc set for about $10! I am pre-ordering!
I was curious too and one review said kids and adults alike will like the videos. I figured for $10, I really couldn’t go wrong – I’ve never watched them before, but it was worth the gamble to me. 🙂
We watched them on youtube this year. They are absolutely great videos, enjoyed by my 8 and 6 year olds. They could tell me all about George Washington, Ben Franklin and Benedict Arnold 🙂
When my first born was 6 years old and they were on Netflix, he was not interested. But he also had not learned much about American history yet. I think they need a bit of a reference to understand the historical figures and what is going on. Since then, we have done module 5 and he loved to watch them at age 8. We had watched one disc at a time through Netflix dvd service. Also his 6 yo sister likes them. I think Amazon said age 7 and up. My husband and I liked to watch them with the children. But they wanted to watch them over and over again whereas I was good with just the one viewing for the time being.
thankyou all! i have an almost 5yo girl and wasnt sure if it would be quite right for her age yet…then i looked around and saw youtube has them and our local library as well so i dont think i will purchase just yet, but they sure look like a great future resource!