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Publisher
Lionsgate/LeapFrog
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Deep inside the Storybook Factory, where pictures, words, and imagination bring stories to life, Tad, Lily, Casey, and Dot decide to put a few new twists on a classic tale. The result is a fun-filled adventure that turns reading into a delightful game! Special features include sing-along songs to help little ones learn, complete with a string of read-along words that run across the screen.
2) Goosebumps
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets Hannah, the girl next door, and makes a quick friend in Champ. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah's mysterious dad is in fact R.L. Stine, the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. As Zach starts learning about the strange family next door, he soon discovers that Stine holds a dangerous secret....
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Professor J. Rufus Fears presents his choices of some of the most essential writings in history. These are works that shaped the minds of great individuals and that offer an extraordinary gift of wisdom to those willing to receive it. Focus is on intellectual history and ethics, taking the underlying ideas of each great work and revealing how these ideas can be put to use in a moral and ethical life. From the Aeneid and the Book of Job to Othello...
Publisher
Hooked on Phonics
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Children are encouraged to read by host LeVar Burton through a combination of field trips, music, animation, and live-action that bring stories to life. Contains two episodes focused on the practical applications of science in everyday life.
7) Book buddies
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Inspire a love of reading and enjoy tales featuring favorite PBS KIDS bookworms. Daniel Tiger and O the Owl read together at the library. Then, Alma shares books with her community. Plus, Buster reads to win prizes, Watt and Windy visit the library, Rosie helps Mom set up for story time at the bookstore and much, much more.
Publisher
RIFNet
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Storytelling is a critical tool for encouraging a love of reading. Professional storytellers and other experts demonstrate practical ways that storytelling can support children's language and literacy development. See how folk tales can spark a child's imagination to create his own story"--Container.
Publisher
Reading is fundamental
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The first years of a child's life are critical for developing reading and language skills. Education experts discuss the impact of reading aloud to children and engaging them in conversation at an early age. Early childhood providers in Virginia, New York, and Idaho show how they are opening the doors to literacy.
10) Mr. Pip
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Mr. Watts is the last Englishman remaining in a tropical village in Bougainville during its civil war in the 1990s. He begins to teach the local children by reading them Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. Matilda, an imaginative young girl, is transported into the story of the novel, believing that Dickens' character Pip is her friend. Matilda's "Pip" world is an extraordinary fusion of Dickens' Victorian London with the environment and people...
Language
English
Description
A reading of the book, "Digging up dinosaurs" by author Aliki. Introduces readers to many types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossils. Other segments: The mysteries of dinosaurs: LeVar buries a time capsule and relates this activity to what we find now when we look at dinosaurs from the past ; What makes a dinosaur?: dino-history poem with visuals of present...
Publisher
RIFNet
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Multicultural literature introduces children to the different people and cultures of the world. Authors, educators, and publishers discuss the richness of multicultural literature and offer suggestions for selecting books that celebrate diversity. See how a Michigan high school is introducing multicultural books and authors to its students"--Container.
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When a sickly young girl suddenly becomes obsessed with inventing new things, her family and friends are all puzzled. 'What has gotten into Myne?' they wondered, never dreaming that the answer is not a 'What' but a 'Who': Urano Motosu, a book-loving apprentice librarian who died in an earthquake in Tokyo who somehow found herself in Myne's body! And since Myne's world is still in a medieval stage, where books can only be owned by the elite, the new...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Title includes: Elmo's Animal Adventures: Animals are on the loose on Sesame Street! Elmo invites you to join him and his animal friends as they embark on three fun-filled adventures. Elmo and the Bookaneers: Everyone loves to read - even pirates! The 'Bookaneers,' led by Tina Fey, have come ashore on Sesame Street, and they want to plunder Elmo's bookshelf. Elmo and Friends: The Letter Quest and Other Magical Tales: The Knights of Sesame Street are...
19) The book thief
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
To escape the horrors of World War II Germany, a young girl steals books to read and visits with the Jewish refugee hiding in her house.