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1) Goosebumps
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets Hannah, the girl next door, and makes a quick friend in Champ. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah's mysterious dad is in fact R.L. Stine, the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. As Zach starts learning about the strange family next door, he soon discovers that Stine holds a dangerous secret....
Publisher
Lionsgate/LeapFrog
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Deep inside the Storybook Factory, where pictures, words, and imagination bring stories to life, Tad, Lily, Casey, and Dot decide to put a few new twists on a classic tale. The result is a fun-filled adventure that turns reading into a delightful game! Special features include sing-along songs to help little ones learn, complete with a string of read-along words that run across the screen.
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!
7) Book buddies
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Inspire a love of reading and enjoy tales featuring favorite PBS KIDS bookworms. Daniel Tiger and O the Owl read together at the library. Then, Alma shares books with her community. Plus, Buster reads to win prizes, Watt and Windy visit the library, Rosie helps Mom set up for story time at the bookstore and much, much more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Professor J. Rufus Fears presents his choices of some of the most essential writings in history. These are works that shaped the minds of great individuals and that offer an extraordinary gift of wisdom to those willing to receive it. Focus is on intellectual history and ethics, taking the underlying ideas of each great work and revealing how these ideas can be put to use in a moral and ethical life. From the Aeneid and the Book of Job to Othello...
10) Mr. Pip
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
12) Shooting stars
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Reading lessons and incentive, featuring a variety of letters and sounds.
14) The pagemaster
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Richard is scared of just about everything but through magic, he takes on the toughest characters in some of the world's favorite books.
Language
English
Description
A reading of the book, "Digging up dinosaurs" by author Aliki. Introduces readers to many types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossils. Other segments: The mysteries of dinosaurs: LeVar buries a time capsule and relates this activity to what we find now when we look at dinosaurs from the past ; What makes a dinosaur?: dino-history poem with visuals of present...
17) How's that made?
Publisher
Hooked on Phonics
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Children are encouraged to read by host LeVar Burton through a combination of field trips, music, animation, and live-action that bring stories to life. Contains two episodes focused on the practical applications of science in everyday life.
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Lionel and Leona persuade Click to take a magic popcorn popper out of a book and then can't make it stop! Key word: pop. Word family: -op. Target vowel: short o. Target consonant: p. Genre:toys, games, jokes. Themes: follow directions, problem solving.
19) Bugs
Publisher
GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Bugs includes general information, jokes and descriptions of the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of common insects. Other segments include: LeVar visits Insect world: with the assistance of an entomologist LeVar discovers the uniqueness of a wide variety of bugs and insects at Cincinnati Zoo's Insect World ; See the migration of Monarch Butterflies: take a trip to the mountains in Mexico to find out where monarch...
Publisher
RIFNet
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Storytelling is a critical tool for encouraging a love of reading. Professional storytellers and other experts demonstrate practical ways that storytelling can support children's language and literacy development. See how folk tales can spark a child's imagination to create his own story"--Container.