I have sat through morphing monkeys, armies of puppets and enough footage ... a discerning eye on the so-called smart baby fare -- such as the “Baby Einstein” and “Brainy Baby” series ...

She shot the first Baby Einstein video in her own basement with a borrowed camcorder, a few puppets, and an $18,000 budget. Five years later, she sold the company to Disney for a reported $25 million.

Taking on Baby Einstein’s DVD empire is a formidable task. But Juno, a precocious puppet with big googly eyes, pigtails and a red dress, is up for the job. Her strategy: Create original ...

the imagination of Baby Einstein founder Julie Aigner-Clark runs wild. She giggles as she winds up toy chicks that hop across a makeshift stage in a warehouse room filled with dolls and puppets.

The child prodigy of puppeteering, Barnaby Dixon, is back with another update to his bug-like hand puppet. This time Dixon ... even for concurrent characters like Baby Yoda and Rey.

In another, Aigner-Clark reads poems that are dubbed over scenes of twirling tops and painting puppets. In a third, characters bob to alphabet chants in several languages. Baby Einstein ...

A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by a hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human handlers.

Intended for babies who are just learning to speak this program introduces them to the formative sounds that will help them build words Ah duh and mm are but a short distance away from speaking ...