Combining iconographic animation, overlaid narration, and onscreen text, this collection of five picture books transferred to video opens with the delightful "Who Took the Farmer's Hat?" by Joan L. Nodset, a clever story about perception in which animals see a windblown hat as all kinds of things which might be useful to them. Lyn McClure Butrick's "If This and That, Then What?" uses humorous Socratic syllogisms to introduce youngsters to logic, while Howard Goldsmith's "What Makes a Grumple Smile?" is a fine tale about a grumpbutt who refuses to laugh at anything...until he sees himself in a mirror. The last two stories, Kay D. Oana's "Bobby Bear and the Blizzard" and Ethel and Leonard Kessler's "Two Four Six Eight" (a counting exercise) are not as good as the others. The last story also contains a glaring misspelling ("poeple" for "people"), a rather large goof in a video meant to promote reading. Aside from this, the collection is good overall, and should appeal to kids 4-6. Recommended. (R. Pitman)
Read To Me Storybook Videos, Vol. 1
(1993) 30 min. $24.95. Telematrix. PPR. Color cover. Vol. 9, Issue 2
Read To Me Storybook Videos, Vol. 1
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