Holiday Gift Giving Guide 2011 -- CALDECOTT FAVORITES, a 3-disc set featuring timeless adaptations of some of the 20th Century’s best loved children’s literature (Product Review)

Type:    DVD/3 Discs
Catalog #:  NNVG253921
Running Time:  199 minutes + extras
Genre:  Kids’/Animation
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

Summary:

Highlighted by Caldecott Award winners Robert McCloskey’s “Make Way for Ducklings” (1942) and “The Snowy Day” (1963) by Ezra Jack Keats and Caldecott Honor stories “In the Small, Small Pond” and Jerry Pinkney’s “The Ugly Duckling” -- which are packaged together for the very first time in CALDECOTT FAVORITES -- the set also features modern classics such as “Bear Snores On”, “Bark George”, “The Story About Ping”, “Antarctic Antics” and more!  Featuring 20 beloved and entertaining tales across the three delightful DVD volumes – THE EZRA JACK KEATS COLLECTION, MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS…AND MORE DELIGHTFUL DUCK TALES and ANTARTIC ANTICS…AND MORE HILARIOUS ANIMAL STORIES -- the adaptations in this set were hand-picked to beautifully uphold the integrity and prestige of the storybooks awarded the Caldecott medal!

BONUS FEATURES

• Innovative Read Along Function
• Bonus Stories
• Spanish versions of “The Snowy Day”, “Whistle for Wille” and “Make Way for Ducklings”.

My Thoughts:

As a little girl, I remember receiving Make Way for Ducklings, The Ugly Duckling and The Snowy Day for Christmas one year, and how I fell in love with these books.  These books became favorites that I had my mother read to me over and over again at bedtime, until I was able to read them myself.  Then, when I could read them, I would read them to my teddy bears, and then eventually shared with children I babysat when I got older.  These classics have followed me through my childhood, and now have become favorite books that I love to read with my daughters at bedtime.  It is nice to see classics like this lasting over the years and being passed down from family to family, as they are in my household.  So, as you can imagine, I was excited to find out that Scholastic was releasing this collection on DVD, and had to get a copy to share with my daughter.  Scholastic kindly sent me a review copy, and in addition to the Mo Willems DVD they also sent me, we watched this 3-disc DVD set over the weekend.  What was so great was that my parents were here for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, so I was able to share my memories of bedtime reading with my mother, while watching my daughter enjoy the stories I enjoyed as a kid.  This DVD set will definitely be watched over and over again in my house, and I can't wait until my daughters' get a little older, so that they can truly appreciate the storyline of each of these classics, and I can share with them my love for these stories.  Maybe, they too, will fall in love with Make Way for Ducklings, The Ugly Duckling and the other Caldecott classics featured in this DVD collection, and want to carry on the tradition as they grow up.

With 23 great classics brought to life in this DVD collection, both you and your child are bound to find a favorite story.  And, who knows, you may sit there with your child and reminisce about your childhood and how these books impacted you growing up.  

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Head on over to Scholastic to buy this DVD set for only $24.95, as well as other DVDs and books that will be enjoyed by children of all ages.

Disclosure:  I was sent a copy of this DVD from Scholastic in order to write up an honest review. The views above are mine and mine alone.