This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars for classrooms, and it was run by extraordinary man—its founder and headmaster, Sosaku Kobayashi—who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity. In real life, the Totto-chan of…
Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast. Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charimastically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role to gratify such leading actors as David Garrick, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Sher, Ian McKellen and Al Pacino. Since, in real life, political Machiavellianism is never out of date, Richard III rem…
When Bao finds out that her beloved forest is threatened with demolition, she decides to organise a protest. The boys take a bit more persuading than her best friends Tuva and Linnea. But how can she make the adults listen, when she’s old enough to know what needs to be done but too young to be taken seriously?
Headache? Tummy troubles? A patient could not hope for a better doctor than John Dolittle, MD, of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh — not if one searched the entire kingdom — the animal kingdom, that is. Whether curing a horse in need of spectacles or a poodle that has eaten too much cake, Doctor Dolittle knows just the thing to do because he can, in fact, ask them. Creatures come from far and wide …
When Geppetto carves himself a son from an enchanted piece of wood, the mischievous Pinocchio is born — and a fantastical story begins. Along the way, Pinocchio is swindled by a fox and a cat, saved by a fairy, all before he learns what it truly takes to become a real boy… The puppet whose nose grows when he tells a lie has remained an iconic children’s character for over a century…