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Analyzed by KidSight
WHAT IT MEANS AT EACH AGE
0–2
A little young
Just over half read as acceptable at this age and the rest fall away. The talking is direct and the pictures are of real things, which is easier to hold at two than a story is. What sits above them is the length and the questions, since a two-year-old is not answering yet. They will watch the digger and miss the point being made about it.
3–5
Good fit
Four is the whole audience. Every episode is a good fit at age three to five, with none falling away. The questions land at exactly this age, where a child will shout an answer at the screen and mean it. The subjects are the ones a four-year-old already asks about, machines and animals and how people do their jobs. It plays better with you sitting there, since most episodes lean on someone answering back.
6–8
A little old
By seven the questions are too easy. Almost every episode reads as acceptable rather than a fit, and only a rare one still lands properly. Nothing in it is wrong at this age. A seven-year-old has known what a digger does for years, so the naming that carries it at four is a slower watch here. The real places still hold some interest.
9–10
Too old
There is nothing here at nine. Almost every episode reads as poor at this age, and that is about fit rather than anything being wrong with it. The whole approach is built on naming things a nine-year-old named years ago. They will not stay, and there is no reason to ask them to.
WHAT IT’S ABOUT
Trucks and diggers
Jobs and helpers
How machines work
WHAT IT TEACHES
How things work
Nature and animals
New words
WHAT TO KNOW
Nothing flagged
SUMMARY
How things work is the strongest thing Blippi builds, coming through on about two thirds of the episodes. Nature and animals and new words sit behind it. What separates it is that it asks. Almost every episode puts a question to your child and leaves room for the answer. Most of them play better with an adult in the room to answer back. That is why it fits so exactly at age four and runs out by age seven. The questions suit a child who is still naming things.
