Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: July 1, 1998
• Run Time: 1 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1881133125
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #363,529 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Classic fairy tales are told in American Sign Language! They show parents how to tell these stories to their deaf children, they allow deaf children to experience the fairy tales in their own language and they show sign language students the beauty and creativity of ASL storytelling. Voice over is provided. This volume includes the following stories - Cinderella, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Frog Prince, and Little Red Riding Hood.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Story telling ASL stories on stage, January 27, 2004

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Teresa Linton "tlinton" (Woodbridge, Va United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fairy Tale Classics in American Sign Language Vol. 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The voice over is well spoken and fun, and the ASL story tellers are wonderfully entertaining (Lou Fant, Freda Norman, Pat Graybill, Mary Beth Miller). The entire story is told by each of these storytellers on a stage decorated with colorful ladders.

The reason my rating lacks a star is that the second Cinderella story makes people who use cued speech seem awful. It promotes a prejudiced opinion that people who know cued speech (can lipread with a little signed help) are stuck-up and mean.

For those of you looking for videos to help you learn ASL or help your child learn, the signing is faster than most "learn this" type videos, and the speech doesn't match up closely with the signs (example: if you are looking at the sign when they say the word "rabbit" you are not going to see that word, it will be a different part of the story).

However, if you already know some sign and want to see the sentence structure, this is perfect.

3.0 out of 5 stars Great idea; not great execution, October 13, 2008

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reader999 "reader999" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fairy Tale Classics in American Sign Language Vol. 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Same as the other volume I reviewed: the English interpreting doesn't line up with the signing, so my kids could not learn any ASL from this tape.