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PreS-Gr 3—The Learning Station team (Laurie Monopoli, Don Monopoli, and Jan Hrkach) have put together another excellent album of 15 favorite childhood songs that will get kids moving and dancing. The accompanying booklet contains the lyrics to each song as well as instructions for movements and dances. The band uses a wide variety of musical styles, including Motown, funky hip-hop, rap, novelty, folk, and rock. The excellent vocals are especially well-performed, as the vocalists adapt their voices with ease to the various musical styles. An enthusiastic children's chorus enhances the songs. The playlist includes "Make New Friends," "Nursery Rhyme Dance," "Boom Chicka Boom" (with various sound effects), "Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends," "Ain't It Great to Be Crazy," "Day O'Time to Go Home" (the group's version of "The Banana Boat Song"), "Baby Shark," "Rockin' My Hips" (adapted from "Rock a' My Soul"), "Stone Soup," and others. This album encourages listeners to move and dance and will be a great resource for librarians, teachers, and parents.—Beverly Wrigglesworth, San Antonio Public Library, TX
In this beautiful, heartrending, yet horrifying film, North Koreans tell their stories of imprisonment, sexual slavery, torture, murder, and escape to China or South Korea during the nearly 50-year regime of Kim Il Sung (1912—94). The interviews are illustrated through the interspersion of dance sequences, archival news footage, and drawings. Particularly interesting are the North Korean propaganda films celebrating Kim Il Sung as God and showing in the face of mass starvation happy workers, elaborate military displays, and the creation of a new flower in 1988 in honor of the 46th birthday of Kim's son and successor, Kim Jong Il. A valuable time line traces 20th-century events in Korea. Bonus features include previously unreleased footage of camp refugees. This mesmerizing film displays excellent production values and is highly recommended for Asia collections.—Kitty Chen Dean, formerly with Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, NY
Reviewed by Kitty Chen Dean , Oct 01, 2011

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