Ernest V. Troost
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Compilation of three video adaptations of Steig's picture books. Pete's a pizza: When Pete is in a bad mood, his parents cheer him up by making a pizza out of Pete. Doctor De Soto: Everyone's favorite mouse dentist helps a fox with a sore tooth who has plans for the dentist after the visit. The Amazing Bone: Pearl, a piglet, befriends a talking bone she finds in the woods.
65) Safety first
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Scaredy Squirrel: Scaredy Squirrel never leaves his nut tree. It's way too dangerous out there! Day after day he watches and waits, and waits and watches, until one day ... his worst nightmare comes true! Scaredy Squirrel suddenly finds himself out of his tree. As he leaps into the unknown, he discovers something really uplifting and surprising about himself.
Officer Buckle & Gloria: Officer Buckle knows more about safety than anyone in the town...
67) Dawn
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Camped for the night by a lake, a boy and his grandfather experience dawn from their rowboat.
68) School stories
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Miss Nelson has a field day: Everyone at the Horace B. Smedley School is down in the dumps, until the arrival of the notorious Viola Swamp who takes it upon herself to whip the football team into shape for the big Thanksgiving Day game.
Miss Nelson is back: When the kids in Room 207 find out that their teacher, Miss Nelson, will be away for a few days, they prepare to act up, despite the likely appearance of Miss Viola Swamp, the meanest substitute...
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When he was growing up, Brad started making funny noises -- all the time. Only Brad and his supportive mother knew he could not control it. He was teased, misunderstood, and punished for disrupting class. By the time he was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome, Brad had learned to hate school. When an understanding school principal offered encouragement, Brad decided to become a teacher. Now he has to find a school where someone with Tourettes can teach...
70) Mother Bruce
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Bruce is a grumpy bear who likes no one and nothing but cooked eggs, but when some eggs he was planning to boil hatch and the goslings believe he is their mother, he must try to make the best of the situation.
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Good night Gorilla: There is someone at the zoo making hilarious mischief you won't want to miss!
Seven blind mice: One by one, on successive days of the week, six different colored blind mice investigate parts of the strange something near their pond and speculate to the group about its identity. Not until the seventh day, when the seventh mouse examines all of it, do they see what it truly is, proving that wisdom comes only from seeing the whole.
Wallace's...
73) The runaway
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Luke Winter and Joshua Monroe grow up as best friends in a rural Georgia town in the 1940's. On one of their youthful adventures they uncover a human bone. Their discovery leads the town's new sheriff to reopen an investigation of the unsolved murders of three black men. As he doggedly pursues the case, however, he learns that most of the townspeople would prefer the truth stay hidden.
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Once upon a time, there was a little old lady who was not afraid of anything...until she went for a walk in the woods one night. Hearing mysterious sounds behind her, clomp, clomp, shake, shake, clap, clap. It wasn't until the old lady heard, BOO, that she turned and ran for her life. Finally safe within her home, the old lady heard a loud KNOCK, KNOCK at the door. Will she open it?
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Chicken Little: "The classic story of Chicken Little and her bird-brained friends who think the sky is falling". The Emperor's new clothes. "A vain emperor who loves new clothes wears a royal robe created especially for him by two swindlers". The three Billy Goats Gruff. "A wicked troll tries in vain to gobble up a family of goats when they go trip-trapping over his bridge."
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Good night, gorilla: The zookeeper makes his nightly rounds but never suspects that someone is making mischief along the way. The napping house: Join the fun with a wakeful flea has an itch. Picnic: A family of mice goes on a picnic, only to lose the tiniest mouse along the way.
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The very fairy princess: Geraldine knows deep down that she is a very fairy princess, but she doesn't mind getting a little messy in order to have the perfect day.
Extra yarn: A modern fairy tale about how a young girl and her magical yarn transform a community.
The amazing bone: A lonely pig named Pearl dawdles long enough in a field of dandelions to meet a bone who speaks to her.
My garden: A girl dreams of creating a garden full of chocolate...