Teaching Spanish with Scholastic Storybook Treasure DVD Collections

Early Learning Teaching Your Child - Signing, Speaking, Languages
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Alex is really focusing much more on languages these days, and I have been looking for larger collections of children’s literature, especially in Spanish and French.
I came across the Scholastic Storybook Collection DVD sets, and they are fantastic! There are two sets that have ONE HUNDRED classic children’s stories included in each. They all come subtitled in English, and are a great way to let the kids read and engage in great children’s books for those times parents are occupied.
If you are not in the US and are looking for ways to give your child access to all of these books, definitely check out this series. Many use just the illustrations from the books and would be a great way for your kids to hear books, see written language, and experience proper pronunciation.

Anyway, I was thrilled when I realized that many of the stories have a Spanish play option, and a few have a French option as well! It is working Amazingly well, as these are stories Alex is well-familiar with. I purchased one of the sets of 100, and can’t wait to get the second. There are also smaller sets done by theme, such as a set of 25 Fairy Tale-style books.
Just wanted to share:)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002PTBSE6/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

http://www.amazon.com/Scholastic-Storybook-Treasures-Treasury-Classics/dp/B003X2P9BM/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_img_y

http://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Storybook-Classics-Fairytales-Scholastic/dp/B001NKWLC6/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_img_z

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Wow this looks great! Didn’t even know it existed. Never heard of scholastic book DVDs. It a lovely collection of stories too.

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Thanks for sharing this, Keri!! I am familiar with the Scholastic books on DVD, but I didn’t know that some offered other language options. That is great. I hope my library has these. I am checking on it now.

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Wow - Five star information, many thanks, Keri! Have you seen Jennifer Bogart’s extensive review?
I copy the info:

Remarkable Value, Eclectic Collection
By Jennifer Bogart - December 3, 2009
Scholastic’s collection of 100 Storybook Classics is like no other DVD set we’ve ever owned. Crammed full of animated renditions of well-loved modern children’s classics and a wide range of animation styles that match the feel of the original picture-books, there’s no better bang for your DVD dollar.

Parents will be thrilled to find well-respected works of literature that have endured the test of time ’ Robert McCloskey’s Make Way for Ducklings, Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, and H.A. Rey’s Curious George Rides a Bike are only a very small sampling of well-loved tales that are found in this collection.

Newer inclusions in the set include Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr., Max’s Words by Kate Banks (a new family treasure), andDiary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin. This is such an eclectic collection of animated stories that there is something here for everyone. Animation ranges from pans over the original picture book pages in The Five Chinese Brothers by Clare Huchet Bishop, to full-blown modern animation in Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson, to live-action shorts in Frog Goes to Dinner based on Mercer Mayer’s book of the same title. Likewise the production age of the shorts range from the '70s through to recent years.

Divided into sixteen separate DVDs, each represents a thematic collection of stories. For example, the Diary of a Spider DVD also includes other ‘critter stories’, one about a mouse, another about a ‘tadpole’, one about a frog, and the other, a termite. Other DVDs include the work of specific authors, the Where the Wild Things AreDVD includes six animated shorts from Maurice Mendak, and the Ezra Jack Keats Collection includes seven stories from ’ you guessed it- Ezra Jack Keats.

Each DVD features four featured titles that play with optional ‘read-along’ text that displays along the bottom of the screen and changes color as each word is narrated. As a bonus, two to three additional animated shorts are included that don’t have the ‘read-along’ feature. The stories that are the most well known also feature foreign-language narrations and ‘read-along’ text in the target language. Some of the titles include Spanish versions of Make Way for Ducklings, The Snowy Day, Where the Wild Things Are (also available in French), Click, Clack, Moo and more.

Professional narrations are provided by a huge array of voice artists, some notables include: James Earl Jones, Patrick Stewart, Meryl Streep, Pete Seeger, Sarah Jessica Parker, and many others. The stories are wonderfully read, with great matches between the narrators and the stories they’ve been assigned.

With over 19 hours of viewing, and 100 ‘picture book inspired’ animations included in this sixteen-disc set, you just can’t go wrong! Of course there will be some that aren’t your favorites; for instance, I’m not a fan of Maurice Sendak, and the jiggly little-boy-bits of In the Night Kitchen have turned me off of that DVD. On the other hand, there are absolutely wonderful new treasures that we’ve discovered -Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes, and The Foolish Frog by Pete Seeger, are great additions to our digital library.

A very handy guide for checking off which Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVDs you own in your collection is included, along with a small activity book that corresponds with several of the stories in the DVD collection.

I’ve never seen such a comprehensive collection of animated storybooks, and I highly recommend it ’ the cost is less than $1 per animated story, and these treasures will be enjoyed for your children for many years to come.

Alphabetical Title Listing:

Alligators All Around
The Amazing Bone
Angus and the Ducks
Angus Lost
Apt. 3
Arnie the Doughnut
The Beast of Monsieur Racine
Blueberries for Sal
Cat & Canary
The Caterpillar and the Polliwog
Chicka Chicka 1,2,3
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Chicken Little
Chicken Soup with Rice
Chrysanthemum
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
The Cow Who Fell in the Canal
Curious George Rides a Bike
Danny and the Dinosaur
Diary of a Spider
Dinosaur Bones
Dot the Fire Dog
Drummer Hoff
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Emily’s First 100 Days of School
Five Chinese Brothers
Five Creatures
The Foolish Frog
Fourteen Rats and a Rat-Catcher
Frog Goes to Dinner
The Great White Man-Eating Shark
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Harold’s Fairy Tale
Harry the Dirty Dog
Here Comes the Cat
Hondo & Fabian
Hot Hippo
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?
How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
How Much is a Million?
I Stink!
I Want a Dog!
I, Crocodile
If You Made a Million
In the Night Kitchen
Inch by Inch
The Island of the Skog
Let’s Give Kitty a Bath!
A Letter to Amy
Lon Po Po
Make Way for Ducklings
Max’s Words
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Millions of Cats
Moon Man
Mouse Around
The Mysterious Tadpole
No Roses for Harry
Norman the Doorman
Officer Buckle and Gloria
One Was Johnny
Owen
Pet Show!
Peter’s Chair
Pete’s a Pizza
A Picture for Harold’s Room
Pierre
Princess Furball
Rapunzel
The Remarkable Riderless Runaway Tricycle
Roberto the Insect Architect
The Snowy Day
Stanley and the Dinosaurs
Stars! Stars! Stars!
The Stonecutter
A Story ’ A Story
The Story About Ping
The Story of the Dancing Frog
Strega Nona
The Swineherd
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
T is for Terrible
The Talking Eggs
Teeny-Tiny and the Witch-Woman
Time of Wonder
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Trashy TownThe Trip
The Ugly Duckling
Waiting for Wings
Wallace’s Lists
A Weekend with Wendell!
What’s Under My Bed?
Where the Wild Things are
Whistle for Willie
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
Wild About Books
Wings: A Tale of Two Chickens
The Wizard

Spanish Versions of:

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
Curious George Rides a Bike
Danny and the Dinosaur
Harry the Dirty Dog
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
Make Way for Ducklings
Moon Man
Owen
Strega Nona
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
The Caterpillar and the Polliwog
The Snowy Day
Where the Wild Things Are
Whistle for Willie
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears

And:

Where the Wild Things Are (French)
Interview with Maurice Sendak

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Thank you! That was a very helpful and extensive review. I requested a few from my library, but they don’t have the whole collection. :frowning: