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DVD

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A child's garden of poetry

Call Number

  • DVD CHILDREN/FAMILY (CEN)

Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Poems read by Claire Danes, Carrie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ziggy Marley, Dave Matthews, Natalie Merchant, Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Jeffrey Wright, E. E. Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg.

Publication Information

Burbank, CA : HBO Home Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2011.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 27 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

TV-Y.

Summary

A mix of lyrical animation, poems on screen, and live-action scenes, featuring some of the world's greatest poets, from William Shakespeare to Langston Hughes. It also includes recitations of poems by real-life kids, who offer their own insights on the place that poetry plays in their lives.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on HBO Family in 2011.

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