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Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
2) Mr. Pip
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With their after school junk business, best friends Sonny and Sam hope to find treasure in other people's trash. But when cleaning out the old Stine house, they open a locked book that frees a supernatural nightmare. Slappy! Now, with the help of Sonny's sister, Sarah, they're in a race against time to get the sinister dummy and all the creatures he's brought to life back into the pages before he unleashes total pandemonium!
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 116 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
More animal stories! joins the cubs as they turn the library into an art museum, study a chicken, try to blend in, and more, in eight exciting adventures.
Publisher
Nutmeg Media
Pub. Date
c[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (11 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of bats fly into the library through an open window and have all kinds of after-hours fun. The little ones play at the water fountain and copy machine before they settle down for a magical story hour that includes the 'batification' of many children's classics.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2005], c2001
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lionel lion refuses to read "Fuzzy wuzzy" to his little sister Leona because it's a "baby" book, but his parents (who work in the library) become interested in Fuzzy and soon the patrons join in--forming a chanting conga line through the stacks. The young shepherd from "Boy who cried wolf" jumps out of the book, and as a thin paper cutout, follows Lionel as the young lion gets a book on "How to watch sheep." "Chap with caps" is a retelling of the...
8) Hail to mail
Series
Reading rainbow volume 107
Publisher
GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow a letter on its journey through the world to its recipient.
LeVar Burton takes viewers behind the scenes of the postal service; and, a stamp collector talks about his hobby.
Series
Reading rainbow volume 25
Publisher
Distributed by GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Feature book - Perfect the pig by Susan Jeschke ; "Imagine a pig with wings! A tiny pig is granted his wish, which leads to an almost perfect life." ; Happy just being a pig - "Watch pigs on the farm who are "happy just being a pig" ; Let's visit the library - Levar visits the library where he meets Kermit the Frog and they talk about books and pigs ... including Miss Piggy.
Publisher
PBS Kids
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to a library like no other! The doors swing open to reveal a magical place where characters pop off the pages of books, vowels sing, and words take on a life of their own.
11) Fly away home
Series
Reading rainbow volume 116
Publisher
Distributed by GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fly away home is a story of a homeless boy and his father who live in an airport. Other segments include: Views from the street: which features homeless children ; Losing your home: children left homeless from a fire express their feeling about homelessness ; Community help: describes the work of an organization called Common Sense, whose members collect pennies and use them to buy items for homeless shelters. Also features a teenager describing why...
12) Amazing Grace
Series
Reading rainbow volume 91
Publisher
Distributed by GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reading of the book, "Amazing Grace" by author Mary Hoffman and illustrator Caroline Binch leads into a discussion of stereotyping. LeVar interviews Whoppi Goldberg, where the topic of pursuing your own dreams is discussed.
Series
Reading rainbow volume 97
Publisher
Distributed by GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (c. 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reading of the book, "If you give a mouse a cookie" by Laura Joffe Numeroff. Discusses chain reactions from a bowling alley, leading into the reading of the main story. Then it's off to a factory where bowling balls are made and a domino expert demonstrates how he designs chain reactons as he sets up a domino art event. Reviews: "This is the key to the kingdom" by Diane Worfolk Allison, "The house that Jack built" illustrated by Jebby Stow, and...
15) Hotel animal
Series
Reading rainbow volume 123
Publisher
distributed by GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dismayed by the size of Hotel Animal and its guests, a tiny lizard couple struggles to find small pleasures in a big world.
16) Animal cafe
Series
Reading rainbow volume no. 26
Publisher
GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores New York City at night to look at what really happens during the late night hours into the wee hours of the morning. Features the book Animal cafe by John Stadler and reviews other books with related themes.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 260 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arthur and his friends encounter the joys and difficulties that all kids experience. From keeping secrets to going to the hospital, Arthur manages to handle each situation with imagination, kindness and humor.
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