Critics from Common Sense Media and Rotten Tomatoes praise the series for introducing toddlers to high-brow culture in an accessible, non-intimidating way.
Before , preschool television was dominated by strictly social-emotional learning (like Fred Rogers ) or basic literacy (like Blue’s Clues ). The Baby Einstein Company (then owned by Disney) took a gamble: Could a toddler understand a rondo by Mozart? Could a four-year-old identify a landscape by Van Gogh?