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Wishbone: Tail in Twain [VHS]

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The Wishbone series features a Jack Russel terrier, Wishbone, who takes various roles in classic tales. The classic tales are told in parallel with a modern story involving the dog and his owner, Joe, a young boy living with his librarian mother. This video features Wishbone in the role of Tom Sawyer, a boy with a lot of spirit who is always looking for adventure. Along with his best friend and partner in crime, Huckleberry Finn, Tom finds himself at his own funeral after he is supposed dead from drowning, witnesses a murder in a graveyard, and triumphs when he finds the buried treasure of a local thief. The Wishbone stories are always very true to the classic tales they tell and are a fantastic way to introduce young people to the classics. Catch the show on your local PBS station.

Even though the show is no longer in production, my children love to watch the videos we check out at the library.

This episode tells the story of Tom Sawyer while the parallel story is a mystery about a grave in Oakdale. It's a good plot as usual and both children and adults can enjoy it.

The only problem I have is with the unnecessary political correctness that was so popular at the time the show was made. For some reason the creators felt the need to change the character of Injun Joe into someone called Crazy Joe. I guess they were afraid to offend any Indians. But, of course, they didn't seem to mind offending crazy people.

My students loved this interpretation of classic literature. The format is enchanting and delightful! Wishbone is a wonderful edition to any parent or teacher's video library.

"What's the story Wishbone?" Wishbone is a dog that loves classic literature and has a big imagination. In each episode there is a story in Oakdale with Joe Talbot and his friends and of course his dog Wishbone. And then in the other part of the episode Wishbone plays the roles of different characters in the books he reads. He acts like the character but makes the role he plays in the episodes very funny with his Wishbone style humor.

This was the first episode of Wishbone and the story is about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn always looking for adventure and getting into some trouble when they try to find some. In the other story in this episode Joe and his friends back in Oakdale want to go to the No Name Grave for some excitement because summer is almost over only to find someone digging up the grave!

The cast and crew do a good job at making classic literature fun for kids, and it made me want to check out a few books at my library that I would have never read if it weren't for Wishbone. So get these tapes because they are fun to watch and they get you in the mood to read the books they show in the episode, and if Wishbone can get you to read classic literature, you can read anything! :)