Children's AV Recent Picks
May 2009
This page features recently received CDs, DVDs, videos or cassettes for children.
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Everyone's Hero, Children's DVD.
"Yankee Irving is a pipsqueak kid with more heart than talent. He is trying to find his place in the neighbourhood baseball games and dreams of one day batting like his idol, Babe Ruth. Defeated by lack of size and strength, he finds a confidant in Screwie, a hot-tempered taking Baseball who wants to be left in the sand lot where he was found. But things take a turn for the worse when Yankee learns that Babe Ruth's prized bat Darlin' is stolen. He decides to step up to the plate and embarks on a wild cross-country journey to retrieve the bat for his beloved idol." (DVD Cover)
Bob the Builder: On Site - Roads and Bridges, Children's DVD.
"For the first time ever, Bob is going on site! Join Bob and his Can-Do Crew as they explore real life construction sites. See diggers, mixers and trucks work together to build roads and bridges. From the first foundations and at every step along the way, Bob the Builder and some fun new friends show you the exciting world of big machines!" (DVD cover)
Pinocchio, Children's DVD.
"Celebrate the 70th anniversary of Walt Disney's Pinocchio! Join Geppetto's beloved puppet - with Jiminy Cricket as his guide - on a thrilling quest that tests Pinocchio's bravery, loyalty and honesty, virtues he must learn to become a real boy. The one and only Pinocchio will live on forever in the heart of anyone who has wished upon a star." (DVD Cover)
Humpbacks, Children's DVD.
"A whale calf - a humpback wale. She's boisterous, almost carefree. Yet she's been on constant danger from the moment she was born. This is her story, the story of the first year of her life." (DVD Cover)
City of Ember, Children's DVD.
"For centuries, the residents of the underground City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights and quiet contentment. But when the City's massive power generator begins to fail, the street lamps start to fade - along with the hopes and dreams of the townspeople. Now it's up to two courageous teenagers to follow a trail of clues left by the ancient Builders and find a way out of Ember before their world is plunged into darkness forever!" (DVD Cover) Based on the book by Jeanne DuPrau.
Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox, by Eoin Colfer, Children's Book on CD.
"Artemis's Mother has contracted a deadly disease - and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making all the lemurs extinct five years ago. With the aid of Holly Short and his fairy friends, he must travel back in time and save them. He has battled high-tech fairies, power-hungry crime-lords, bloodthirsty trolls and time-travelling demons, but now, Artemis Fowl is facing his deadliest enemy yet. Himself..." (CD Cover)
The Mum-Minder, by Jacqueline Wilson, Children's Book on CD.
"Sadie is nearly nine. She's always surrounded by babies because her mum's a childminder, but Sadie can mind herself, easy-peasy, and her mum doesn't have to bother much with her. But then, at the start of half-term, Sadie's mum gets the flu. She looks so ill that Sadie sends her to bed. Someone must look after the children, and Sadie finds herself spending her holiday not only looking after her mum, but three-year-old Gemma, two-year-old Vincent, and the babies, Clive and Sara... How will Sadie cope with minding the children - and her mum?" (CD Cover)
The Shade of Hettie Daynes, by Robert Swindells, Children's Book on CD.
"'If you expect of see a ghost, you see a ghost.' That's what Bethan tells herself when her brother Harry takes her to see the ghost at the old reservoir. But she really can see it: a pale figure floating over the water, one finger pointing downwards. Local legend says that the ghost is the shade of Hettie Daynes, an ancestor of their family, who vanished over a hundred years ago. If so, what does she want? And why is she appearing now? Harry and Bethan and their friends Rob and Alison are determined to find out?" (CD Cover)
The Bone Magician, by F.E. Higgins, Children's Book on CD.
"Since his father disappeared under a dark cloud of scandal, Pin Carpue has been alone in the world. His work for the local undertaker keeps him busy, but his life is bleak. Then Pin encounters the Bone Magician, a man who can rise corpses and make the dead speak. As Pin is drawn into an intoxicating world of mystery and intrigue, he becomes suspicious of Juno, the Bone Magician's young assistant. A strange darkness haunts her when the Silver Apple Killer stalks the streets at night - and as Pin pieces together the secrets of Bone Magic, his own life becomes fraught with grave danger..." (CD Cover)
The Whispering Knights, by Penelope Lively, Children's Book on CD.
"'I don't know that you have done anything wrong,' said Miss Hepplewhite. 'But you may have done something very unwise.' William and Susie thought they were just playing when they cooked up a witches' brew in the old barn and chanted a spell over it. (Though Martha had never been quite sure). But they found they had woken a dark and hostile force from a time far older than their own - Morgan was its name, and Steeple Hampden was one of the places it had haunted for centuries..." (CD Cover)
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