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A China-Doll family happily lives in a dollhouse at a toy shop reading books and dancing "The Waltz of the Dolls" with the piano accompaniment of Mrs. Doll. . One day, Henry purchases the dollhouse and the dolls for his niece, Elizabeth, and the dolls are wrapped, put inside a box, and sent to the tropics, where Elizabeth lives.
In 1972, the makers of the long-running children's television series Jackanory started to develop new story-telling format. Whereas Jackanory had been a simple 15-minute reading of a story, designed to encourage children themselves to read, the new Jackanory Playhouse would be a full-cast anthology series dramatizing traditional folk tales.
Richard Weedt Widmark (December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008) was an American film, stage, and television actor and producer.. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the villainous Tommy Udo in his debut film, Kiss of Death (1947), for which he also won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
Children's book(s) Film adaptation(s) Abeltje (1953), Annie M. G. Schmidt: The Flying Liftboy (1998) The Adventurers: Gamba and His Fifteen Companions (冒険者たち ガンバと15ひきの仲間, Boukenshatachi: Ganba to 15-hiki no Nakama) (1972), Atsuo Saitō: The Adventurers: Gamba and His Fifteen Companions (1984)
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Great Books is an hour-long documentary and biography program that aired on The Learning Channel. The series was a project co-created by Walter Cronkite and television producer Jonathan Ward under a deal they had with their company Cronkite Ward, The Discovery Channel , and The Learning Channel.
Janet and John is a series of early reading books for children, originally published in the UK by James Nisbet and Co in four volumes in 1949–50, and one of the first to make use of the "look and say" approach. Further volumes appeared later, and the series became a sales success in the 1950s and 60s, both in the UK and in New Zealand.
"The Pet Goat" (often erroneously called "My Pet Goat") is a grade-school-level reading exercise composed by American educationalist Siegfried "Zig" Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner. It get attention for being read by US President George W. Bush with a class of second-graders on the morning of September 11, 2001.