My kids and I have lots of Caldecott honor book favorites, so I was very excited to discover that Scholastic was releasing a new Caldecott DVD. The Scholastic Storybook Treasures Caldecott Favorites DVD collection is full of some fantastic award winning stories from authors such as Ezra Jack Keats, Hans Christian Andersen and Marjorie Flack.
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, and it is awarded annually by the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. This is a prestigious award that is given only to the best of the best, and in my experience you can never go wrong with picking up a Caldecott Medal book.
The Scholastic Storybook Treasures Caldecott Favorites DVD collection consists of three separate DVDs with a total of 20 stories. The stories are timeless adaptations of some of the 20th Century’s most loved children’s classics. This collection will be released in stores on November 22nd, but you can already purchase this collection online at the Scholastic Storybook Treasures website.
The collection includes three DVDS with a total of 3 hours and 19 minutes of stories.
The Ezra Jack Keats Collection:
The Snowy Day
Peter’s Chair
Whistle for Willie
Pet Show!
Bonus:
A Letter to Amy, The Trip and Apt. 3
Spanish versions of The Snowy Day and Whistle for Willie
Make Way For Ducklings:
Make Way For Ducklings by Rovert McCloskey
The Ugly Duckling by Hans Crhistian Andersen
The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
Angus and the Ducks by Marjorie Flack
Bonus:
Cat and Canary by Michael Foreman
Wings: A Tale of Two Chickens by James Marshall
Spanish version of Make Way for Ducklings
Antarctic Antics:
Antactic Antics by Judy Sierra
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
In the Small, Small Poind by Denise Fleming
Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
Bonus:
Caps for Sale by Esphy Slobodkina
The Hat by Tomi Ungerer
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde H. Swift
Scholastic never ceases to amaze me, because somehow the Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVDs are always able to bring my kids’ favorite books to life without compromising on the integrity of the storyline or the nature of the original illustrations.
The Snowy Day is a children’s book from 1962 that broke the color barrier in children’s publishing, with the story of the young African American boy Peter, and the pure joy he experiences on a snowy day. The Scholastic Storybook Treasures Caldecott Favorites dvd collection also includes a bonus version of A Snowy Day in Spanish.
- The DVD collection features classic favorites and transform them into animated film
- The Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVDs stay true to the character of the original books.
- The Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVD include an innovative read-along captioning, which is great for early readers.
- The graphics stay true to the original version of the books featured.
- The Scholastic Storybook Treasures dvds are a different way of reading a book, and it gives children a different look at their favorite books.
The Scholastic Storybook Treasures
The Scholastic Storybook Treasures
