Treasury of 25 Storybook Classics: Fairytales, Magic... and More! (Scholastic Storybook Treasures)

Treasury of 25 Storybook Classics: Fairytales, Magic... and More! (Scholastic Storybook Treasures) Review

Treasury of 25 Storybook Classics: Fairytales, Magic... and More! (Scholastic Storybook Treasures) Feature

• 25 magical children's stories are failthfully adapted and brought to life in thie 4-DVD collection.  From James Marshall's zany fairytales toic stories by Hans Christian Andersen to beloved folk tales, parents and children alike are sure to enoy these storybook treasures featuring celebrity narration by John Lithgow, Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart, Christopher Lloyd, and many more! Format:

Skillful narration, faithful adherence to original texts and artwork, read-along text, and the addition of catchy music from a variety of genres has earned Scholastic a stellar reputation for transforming beloved children's books into excellent video programs. This four-disc, 25-story DVD compilation is an absolute treasure of classic and modern tales that explores everything from greed and self-absorption to the search for happiness, connection, and personal fulfillment.

The first disc presents five James Marshall retellings of classic fairy tales, including "Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," "The Three Little Pigs," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," as well as the original story "Space Case," written by Edward Marshall and illustrated by James Marshall. Each of these fairy tales is beautifully illustrated, emphasizes a specific moral lesson, and features the classic extended endings like the hunter cutting open the wolf to save Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother. The second disc features Hans Christian Andersen tales that stress the importance of celebrating differences, being happy with oneself, and appreciating the talents and freedom of fellow people and animals. The delightfully entertaining stories include favorites like "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor's New Clothes," as well as somewhat lesser-known works like "The Swineherd," "Nightingale," and the incredibly moving "Red Shoes" and "The Little Match Girl." Classic fairy tales "Rapunzel," "The Elves and the Shoemaker," "The Talking Eggs," "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," "Lon Po Po: A Riding Hood Story from China," and "Princess Furball" make up the third disc and feature a variety of art styles and meaningful messages about attaining true happiness. The final disc presents five stories about magic, focusing on the misuse of magic in "Strega Nona," ill-considered wishes in "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" and "The Stonecutter," unlikely magical powers in "The Amazing Bone," and the value of cunning in the Turkish tale "Teeny-Tiny and the Witch-Woman." Revisit some classic fairy tales and discover a few new favorites with this great Scholastic set. (Ages 3 to 9) --Tami Horiuchi 25 children's storybook classics on 4 DVDs!

25 magical children's stories are faithfully adapted and brought to life in this 4-DVD collection. From James Marshall's zany fairytales to classic stories by Hans Christian Anderson, to classic folk tales, parents and children alike are sure to enjoy these storybook treasures brought to life and featuring celebrity narration by John Lithgow, Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart, Christopher Lloyd, and many more!

The James Marshall Collection
Includes:
Red Riding Hood
James Marshall's Cinderella
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The Three Little Pigs
Hansel and Gretel
Space Case

The Hans Christian Andersen Collection
Includes:
The Ugly Duckling
The Emperor's New Clothes
Nightingale
The Red Shoes
The Little Match Girl
The Swineherd

Rapunzel ...and more classic fairytales
Includes:
Rapunzel
The Elves and the Shoemaker
The Talking Eggs
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story From China
Princess Furball

Strega Nona ...and more stories about magic
Includes:
Strega Nona
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
The Stonecutter
The Amazing Bone
Teeny-Tiny and the Witch Woman

Baby Pro: Let's Play Ball: Baseball- Basketball- Soccer Sports

Baby Pro: Let's Play Ball: Baseball- Basketball- Soccer Sports Review

Baby Pro: Let's Play Ball: Baseball- Basketball- Soccer Sports Feature

• For children 9 months to 4 years
• Features baseball, basketball, and soccer
• Vivid sports imagery
• Encouraging voice-overs
• Classical music stimulates child

Let's Play Ball! introduces your child to the exhilarating sights and sounds of baseball, basketball and soccer. Thrilling images of balls bouncing, arms throwing and feet running are synchronized with lively classical scores from Mozart, Chopin, Rossini and more! Supportive voice-overs offer gentle encouragement while language skills are reinforced by the repetition of active words and phrases.

Imagination Movers - Stir it Up

Imagination Movers - Stir it Up Review

It's like Mr. Rogers at the controls of the Beastie Boys in this eye-popping collection of music videos and concert performances from the Imagination Movers, a critically acclaimed rock band for kids. The Movers leap, slide, hop, stomp, strum, drum, rap and clap their way through 15 educational rock and hip-hop songs designed for kids and parents to crank up together.

Dressed in their trademark bright blue coveralls, these national award-winning musicians and real-life dads jam on guitars, bang on buckets and teach kids a variety of fun, funky dances and sing-alongs. This DVD features songs from the Movers' groundbreaking CDs "Good Ideas" and "Calling All Movers." Highlighted tracks include the XM Radio #1 hit song "I Want My Mommy" as well as "Clean My Room," "The Medicine Song," "Please and Thank You" and "Playing Catch."

Sesame Street - Kids' Favorite Songs 2

Sesame Street - Kids' Favorite Songs 2 Review

Sesame Street - Kids' Favorite Songs 2 Feature

• Join Elmo and his Sesame Street pals in the second volume of Kids' Favorite Songs, as Elmo travels up and down Sesame Street asking kids to sing their favorite songs! Snuffy, Baby Bear and Zoe help the kids sing and act out nursery rhymes, lullabies and just plain silly songs. Sing along and find out for yourself which song is Elmo's favorite! Also, features the brand new Sesame Street segment, He

Somewhere into the so-so "Itsy Bitsy Spider" segment, the sinking feeling that Kids' Favorite Songs 2 is strictly sequel material sets in. This is a march down Sesame Street on a slow day, when the loopy monster misunderstandings and goofball gags miss a rare beat or two. Still, making merry is what the Sesame crew does best, and they succeed here, if on a less brilliant level than we've come to expect. All the usual favorites, like "If You're Happy and You Know It" and "The Ants Go Marching," get the gang and their real-life kid friends grooving, and a running joke involving a renegade meatball keeps kids 18 months to 5 tuned in to the end. Elmo hosts. --Tammy La Gorce

Join Elmo and his Sesame Street pals in the second volume of Kids' Favorite Songs, as Elmo travels up and down Sesame Street asking kids to sing their favorite songs! Snuffy, Baby Bear, and Zoe help the kids sing and act out nursery rhymes, lullabies, and just plain silly songs. Sing along and find out for yourself which song is Elmo's favorite! Also features the brand-new segment, Hero Guy!

• Product Measures: 0.5 x 5.4 x 7.5 IN
• Recommended Ages: 12 months & up

Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection - 15 Winners, 26 Nominees

Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection - 15 Winners, 26 Nominees Review

Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection - 15 Winners, 26 Nominees Feature

• The Best of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment ? Academy? Award Winning and Nominated theatrical animated shorts. Category: Best Animated Short Subjects. Franchises include Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, MGM, Max Fleischer etc. 41 of the most celebrated cartoons of their time, including 15 award winners.plus over 60 minutes of special features!This collection has something for everyone with characters

The Oscar for Animated Short Film has been a useful if not entirely accurate gauge of the state of American animation, as this three-disc set demonstrates. The Academy created the category in the early '30s to honor Walt Disney's contributions to the art form. But most of the films in the collection date from the '40s and '50s, when Warner Bros. and MGM artists won most of the Oscars for pushing the Hollywood cartoon in a new direction that was fast-paced, violent, and very, very funny. Many of these cartoons remain hilarious, decades after they were released: "Birds Anonymous," "For Scent-imental Reasons," "Blitz Wolf," and "High Note." Others have aged less gracefully. Changes in racial attitudes have reduced Speedy Gonzales and Mammy Two-Shoes in the Tom and Jerry shorts to uncomfortable reminders of a less respectful era in American history. The collection also demonstrates that the Academy voters' taste can be capricious at best. Many of the best Warners shorts--"A Mouse Divided," "What's Opera, Doc?" "Duck Amuck," "Rabbit of Seville" and "One Froggy Evening"--weren't even nominated. Tex Avery, who did more than any other director to move cartoons in that brash, funny direction, is represented only by "Blitz Wolf" and "Little Johnny Jet." Like Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe, Avery never won an Oscar. Most of the transfers were made from first-rate prints, although a few are missing their credits and the framing of the Cinemascope films is problematic. The rarest item in the collection is "So Much for So Little," an animated documentary that earned Chuck Jones his first Academy Award. Extras include commentaries by animators and historians, and the interesting new documentary, Drawn for Glory. (Unrated, suitable for ages 5 and older: cartoon violence, ethnic stereotypes, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon

(1. The Milky Way, 2. Yankee Doodle Mouse, 3. Mouse Trouble, 4. Quiet Please, 5. The Cat Concerto, 6. Tweetie Pie, 7. The Little Orphan, 8. For Scent-Imental Reasons, 9. So Much for So Little, 10. Two Mouseketeers, 11. Johann Mouse, 12. Speedy Gonzales, 13. Birds Anonymous, 14. Knighty-Knight Bugs, 15. The Dot and the Line, 16. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor, 17. Peace on Earth, 18. A Wild Hare, 19. Puss Gets the Boot, 20. Superman, 21. Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt, 22. Rhapsody In Rivets, 23. The Night Before Christmas, 24. Blitz Wolf, 25. Pigs in a Polka, 26. Swooner Crooner, 27. Walky Talky Hawky, 28. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Mouse, 29. Mouse Wreckers, 30. Hatch Up Your Troubles, 31. Jerry's Cousin, 32. Little Johnny Jet, 33. Touché, Pussy Cat! 34. From A to Z-Z-Z-Z, 35. Sandy Claws, 36. Good Will To Men, 37. Tabasco Road, 38. One Droopy Knight, 39. High Note, 40. Nelly's Folly, 41. Now Hear This, 42. "Drawn for Glory: Animation's Triumph At The Oscars®," 43. What's Cookin' Doc?) The Best of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment – Academy® Award Winning and Nominated theatrical animated shorts. Category: Best Animated Short Subjects. Franchises include Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, MGM, Max Fleischer etc. 41 of the most celebrated cartoons of their time, including 15 award winners...plus over 60 minutes of special features! This collection has something for everyone with characters such as the Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Droopy, Superman, Popeye, Dot, Line & Squiggle, Tex Avery’s "Little Johnny Jet", Chuck Jones’ "High Note", and Nelly’s Folly (the singing Giraffe) and Hubie Bertie & Cat Claude.

The Children's Heroes of the Bible

The Children's Heroes of the Bible Review

The Children's Heroes of the Bible Feature

• The Children's Heroes of the Bible, DVDS Like New

This Award Winning series is full of delightfully animated Bible stories for children. 13 stories in all provide a scripturally faithful representation of the Bible. These fascinating short films begin with six Old Testament Heroes: Joseph, Moses, David, Elijah, Esther and Jeremiah. There are seven films on New Testament Heroes, including five films devoted to Jesus and one each for The Apostles and Paul. Recommended for ages 3-8 and grown-up kids who enjoy revisiting the teachings of the Bible in an animated format. This very entertaining and educational series contains stories that your children will always remember. A winner of the "Award for Excellence" from the FILM ADVISORY BOARD. Bonus Features: Hero Story Selection Menu, Bonus Content: "The Very First Easter" animated short for children| Keepcase. Specs: 2-DVD9s; Dolby Digital Mono; 283 minutes; Color; 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1978; SRP - .99.

Kidz Bop Dance Party

Kidz Bop Dance Party Review

Get ready to party, Kidz Bop style! The popular series, which recreates mainstream radio fare by having kids sing the songs with augmented, more age-appropriate lyrics, is back with a new line-up of songs that all have a dance vibe to them. This time around, kids can groove to remakes of "Don't Stop the Music" from Rihanna, "Hot N Cold" from Katy Perry, "Evacuate the Dance Floor" from Cascada, "I Gotta Feeling" from Black-Eyed Peas, and other songs made popular by artists like Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Ke$ha and others. Great for livening up car rides, birthday parties or simply jamming in the living room, KIDZ BOP DANCE PARTY is certain to entertain.