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Adapted from the classic Oscar Wilde short story, the Canterville Ghost is the tale of an American family who inherit an English castle, and with it, the castle ghost! The ghost of Simon de Canterville uses his best ghostly scare tactics to get rid of the pesky family. A story complete with scares and laughter, a headless ghost, gypsies and true love. A riotous adventure - with a surprise ending.
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This Academy Award® winning new interpretation of Sergei Prokofiev's classic tale, Peter & the Wolf, is accompanied by a new orchestra recording, stop-frame model animation and state-of-the-art digital technology to create a magical world in which little boys can find the strength and courage to overcome their fears.
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Dive into adventure and fun with Sammy the sea turtle as he swims the oceans of the world searching for the love of his life, Shelly. With his best pal, Ray, Sammy experiences the extraordinary and faces daunting challenges, including hungry sharks and pesky birds. A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures features a rollicking soundtrack and incredible voice talents, including Melanie Griffith, Kathy Griffin, Tim Curry, Anthony Anderson and Stacy Keach....
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On a trip to the city museum three young boys discover a golden bowl - a part of the legendary Aztec treasure. While examining the bowl more closely they set of the secret time-traveling mechanism. Suddenly the world around them disappears, and they find themselves on board of the pirate ship - back in the 18th century. There the adventure begins. They meet the beautiful and dangerous pirate-queen Anne Bonnie, Captain Blackbeard, terrifying and ruthless...
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When Sammy and Ray find themselves trapped in The Tank, an underwater aquarium, they must hatch a plan to escape and reunite with their grandkids, Ricky and Ella, and protect them from the dangers of the ocean. But they'll have to get past Big D and his dopey thugs first. With the help of some unlikely friends, Sammy and Ray find that when you work together, anything is possible!
73) Boom Snot Twitty
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Boom! Snot... Twitty? Three unlikely friends, and three different ways of being in the world. This simplest of stories is a fable for life.
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Chicken Little and his feathered friends get all aflutter when something falls on his head and he thinks it must be the sky falling to bits. Eventually he learns there is nothing to be afraid of, and perhaps it's better not to panic before you find out the whole story.
75) Nothing
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Otis has an antique shop crammed to the gills with stuff. So he's delighted when someone comes in and buys it all. Next day, Suzie Gump arrives, the shop is empty, full of nothing, and Suzy loves it-and takes it all. Suzie has set a trend, and soon everybody is craving nothing-the stores are full of it. It's only when there's not even a towel for drying off after a bath that Suzie realizes she may have gone a bit too far.
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The Thanksgiving feast is over. Leftover turkey and pumpkin pie litter the table. Mouse peeps out of his hidey-hole and spots a small green pea, the perfect feast for one mouse. Yes, one green pea, one red cranberry, one plate of mashed potatoes, and one roasted turkey, that should make a very fine feast for Mouse. But can he get it all back to his hidey-hole?
77) Making a Friend
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Clean, cold, white snow! Snow for sledding. Snow for catching on your tongue. Snow for making a SNOWMAN! Is there anything as wonderful as SNOW? Is there any better friend than a SNOWMAN? Snow isn't forever, though. The wind shifts, the weather warms and snow melts into spring. The Snowman has become something else - the fog, the rain. But, how can this boy forget his good friend? He doesn't…and he doesn't have to.
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Have you ever wished that instead of having to do your chores all by yourself that someone - or something - would help you get them done faster? That's exactly the way the sorcerer's apprentice felt one day when the sorcerer left him all alone to clean the castle - so he tried to do some magic of his own, and ended up in a bubbly mess! Ultimately the young apprentice finds that passion and hard work, tempered with patience and discipline, can make...
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Roland can't wait for Christmas Day, and when the morning finally arrives he races downstairs to see what is waiting for him. What he sees stops him in his tracks. Could that tiny present really be what he had waited all year for? It has to be the smallest gift he had ever seen! So Roland wishes for something bigger...and bigger...and bigger. But he's still convinced there must be a bigger gift somewhere in the universe. Will he know it when he sees...
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Bobo, the youngest dwarf, accidentally pricks the finger of Princess Rose (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) with a cursed needle and sends the kingdom into a century-long slumber! To find Rose's true love, Jack, to save her with a kiss, Bobo and the other six dwarfs must go on a treacherous journey.