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Get on Board with Miss Lou-Lou!

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PreS-Gr 3—Lou-Lou Barbour, a children's librarian from Texas, offers a solid selection of songs, stories, and fingerplays from her repertoire. Often including a Texas-flavored twist, this collection features many traditional songs ( "Froggy Went-a Courtin'," "Get Along Little Dogies," "On Top of Spaghetti"), country standards (Dolly Parton's "Apple Jack," Stan Jones's "Ghost Riders," and Richard and Robert Sherman's "Ugly Bug Ball"), and a piggy-back song ("Get on Board"). Lyrics for fingerplays ("The Engine," "Apples," "Homes," "Caterpillar," and "Giant and the Leprechaun") are included. Barbour tells "Longhorn Lewis," a Texas adaptation of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." Instrumentation is solid. Children add interest to the chorus of Tom Chapin's "Library Song" and "The Green Grass Grew All Around." Several songs and fingerplays with a hollow/reverb/echo quality mixed in cause an unnatural, uneven sound. Useful during story times and for family enjoyment.—Stephanie Bange, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
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 , Sep 01, 2010

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