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Classics a family will enjoy, November 9, 2004
This review is from: Make Way for Ducklings... and More Robert McCloskey Stories (Scholastic Video Collection) (DVD)
What a great compilation! The books are terrific and to have them come to life on screen is magical for our children and us!
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Some of My Favorite Children's Stories, September 18, 2009
This review is from: Make Way for Ducklings... and More Robert McCloskey Stories (Scholastic Video Collection) (DVD)
Robert McCloskey is one of my favorite children's books writers. I loved his books as a child and love them now. I am a teachers and use them often in my ESOL classroom. While they are children's books, they are a bit more complex than many kids books and I often use them with students who are understanding English at an intermediate level rather than a beginning level. The illustrations are great and help quite a bit. They stories are timeless and haven't really aged. Kids enjoy them now as they did when he first wrote them. Highly recommended.
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Intelligent, old-fashioned storytelling for little kids, May 30, 2007
This review is from: Make Way for Ducklings... and More Robert McCloskey Stories (Scholastic Video Collection) (DVD)
As with many Scholastic Books video adaptations, this is a fairly solid offering -- intelligent, well-produced and suitable for smaller children.
This DVD collection gathers video versions of several of Robert McCloskey's classic children's tales, notably "Make Way For Ducklings" and "Blueberries For Sal," which were written in the 1940s and '50s, and adapted into short films in the late '60s. The format is simple, but effective. The films are not animated: the original text is read aloud (nicely, in resonant male voices) as a camera pans across the original artwork. Although the production values are simple, they are well suited to the stories, and the overall effect is rather quaint, but not so much that modern kids won't still get a lot out of them. Bonus material includes short adaptations of "Lentil" and "Burt Dow, Deep Water Man." Wish they'd had time to do "One Morning In Maine" as well.
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