James Marshall’s Cinderella… and More Beloved Fairy Tales
January 8th, 2010 by Al
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Modern and classic children’s fairy tales spring magically to life with this collection of treasured classics and old favorites…with a twist. 63 minutes. CINDERELLA (By Barbara Karlin, Illustrated by James Marshall) A hard-working young girl is turned into a beautiful princess–but only for one magical night. HANSEL AND GRETEL (By James Marshall) Two poor children get lost in the woods and end up someplace they’d rather not be! THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF (By P…. More >>
James Marshall’s Cinderella… and More Beloved Fairy Tales
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January 8th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Shockingly bad. Over-animated, jumpy, too much colloquial speech, cartoonish artwork. In short, the total opposite of everything that makes most of the Scholastic Storybook DVDs so incredibly wonderful.
I have purchased 30 of the Scholastic Storybook DVDs from Amazon (the 27 DVD bundle is a steal), and we borrow the rest from Netflix. We watch them with our 3 year old, and we own many of the books covered by the DVDs. I suppose I am spoiled, because the vast majority of the Scholastic Storybook DVDs are WONDERFUL. They are beautiful, educational, and entertaining.
If you like children’s TV, you might like this DVD. But if you seek out Scholastic Storybook DVDs for their literary quality, their beautiful artwork, their fantastic narration, etc., then just skip this DVD. It’s drivel.
Rating: 1 / 5
January 8th, 2010 at 11:13 am
I disagree with the previous reviewer about this video having no interest or value – I enjoyed the two James Marshall presentations very much; they are certainly on par with other Scholastic Video releases, with good music, good animation and faithful representations of the original Grimm stories. I also showed “The Elves and the Shoemaker” to a class of Kindergarten-age students yesterday, and they were entertained, and said that they all liked the story, even though the animation is only intermittent. The final two stories on the DVD, “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” and “The Fisherman and his Wife” are both twenty-to-thirty years older, and have far less entertainment value, and seem a strange match with the other films here, being stylistically and artistically much more primitive. So three good stories, two not-so-good; three out of five stars.
Rating: 3 / 5