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Here Comes Mr. Bear!

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PreS-K—This pleasant collection of 66 songs, rhymes, and stories from Canadian mother-daugher team, Sally Jaeger and Erika Webster, is divided into eight themes: "Hello Songs and Rhymes," "Who Is Here Today?," "Down on the Farm," "It's Time for a Story," "Mother Goose Bounces," "Gallops and Walking," "Little Stories to Tell," and "It's Sleepytime." Each unit begins with an instrumental song with a folk-bluegrass feel, played by Ken Whitely on guitar, banjo, harmonica, mandolin, drums, and vibraphone. Each section includes between 6 and 12 rhymes, songs, and stories, some with accompaniment, but mostly a cappella. The CD has a nice variety of the familiar and traditional as well as original pieces by Jaeger. The booklet insert contains some notes, but more detailed directions for the action rhymes would have been useful.—Cynthia Grabke, Halifax Elementary School, MA
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, 2010

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