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100 Full-text children's magazines for elementary school students covering endangered species, musicians, fitness, space exploration and more.
Includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, and American Heritage Children's Dictionary
Full-text articles are searchable by reading level indicator (Lexile)
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lady, a beautiful cocker spaniel, lives a proper and pampered life with her owners, Jim Dear and Darling. Then she stumbles across Tramp, a sweet-talking rough-and-tumble mutt from "the wrong side of the tracks". Tramp likes to have fun. He's foot-loose and fancy-free. And, as Lady discovers, he's nothing but trouble! But Tramp proves he's more than just a junkyard Romeo when he risks his life to save Jim Dear and Darling's baby ... and wins Lady's...
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the last day of school before the winter holidays and the kids take a trip to Murph's recycling plant. The kids learn how recycling helps the earth in "Holiday special" ; in "All dried up" Phoebe goes on a crusade to save the animals and plants of the desert - and discovers how well they take care of themselves ; in "In the rainforest" kids goes to the rainforest on Earth Day to discover how cocoa pods, mud puddles and bugs all play a part in...
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kids explore the musical mysteries of sound during a spooky trip to the haunted house. In the next episode they learn about nocturnal creatures and finally they discover the ingenious hunting skills of spiders.
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
[Special collector's edition].
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 1,140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Almanzo Wilder comes to Walnut Grove with his siser Eliza-Jane, the new schoolteacher. The Ingalls decide to adopt Albert. Nels Oleson is reunited with his estranged sister. A faith healer convinces the citizens of Walnut Grove to trust him. Caroline's father discovers a talent as a storyteller while grieving after the loss of his wife. Laura and Mary are held captive by escaped convicts until Charles disarmes the criminals. Albert and a friend accidentally...
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Great Spirits send Kenai, along with Nita, a girl who knew Kenai back before he was a bear, on a great big, exciting journey to break a pact they made years ago.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (38 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On Sir Topham Hatt's railway, it is really important for the engines to prove that they are responsible, reliable and really useful. Join Percy as he takes an "up close and personal" tour of Mr. Jolly's Chocolate Factory, help a famous singer make it to a concert on time, and enjoy the sound of Duncan's new whistle.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams. Determined to be human, she strikes a bargain with the devious seawitch, Ursula, and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her best friend Flounder, and her reluctant chaperone Sebastian...
10) The lion king
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simba begins life as an honored prince, son of the powerful King Mufasa. The cub's happy childhood turns tragic when his evil uncle Scar murders Mufasa and drives Simba away from the kingdom. In exile, the young lion befriends the comically bumbling pair of Pumbaa the warthog and Timon the meerkat and lives a carefree jungle life. As he approaches adulthood, however, he is visited by the spirit of his father, who instructs him to defeat the nefarious...
11) The parent trap
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special double trouble edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An updated version of the 1961 Disney classic about separated identical twins. Hallie and Annie meet accidentally at camp and decide to reunite their divorced parents. Bonus features: a gag reel, the making of the movie, visual effects, and commentary.
12) Curious George
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ted, the explorer with a large yellow hat, is good friends with Bloomsberry. Bloomsberry runs a natural history museum. His greedy son, Bloomsberry Junior, wants to tear down his dad's museum and put a parking garage in its place, but the elder Bloomsberry is convinced that a spectacular new exhibit could save the museum from the wrecking ball. Ted heads to Africa on an expedition to find some special artifacts that will keep his friend in business....
13) Snow dogs
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being named in his birth mother's will, Miami dentist Ted Brooks travels to Alaska to claim the inheritance, her team of sled dogs; Now he must learn how to race them or give them up to a mountain man who wants the dogs for himself.
14) Over the hedge
Language
English
Description
A scheming raccoon tricks a family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food by invading the new suburban sprawl that arrived while they were hibernating.
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Peep, Chirp, and Quack as they explore the big wide world of animals. Meet an eager beaver, three shy bunnies, a frisky cat, a colorful butterfly, and Hoot the Owl.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 82 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Barbie as the beautiful Princess Genevieve and her eleven dancing princess sisters as they discover a secret entrance to an amazing, magical world where wishes come true.
Pub. Date
©2002, ©1998.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (35 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For Thomas and his freinds doing good deeds means that you're a "really useful engine". Help Thomas and Gordon build a new playground for some special children. Teaches how making someone happy really cheers us up.
18) The witches
Author
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In an imaginative and lighthearted tale, a young schoolgirl saves the life of a noble cat and is rewarded with a shocking proposal of marriage - to the Cat King's son - and a fateful journey to the extraordinary Kingdom of Cats.
20) Fly away home
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A 13-year old girl and her estranged father learn what family is all about when they adopt an orphaned flock of geese and teach them how to fly.
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