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• Read with Me
• Once Upon a Time: Children's Classics Retold in American Sign Language Collection

Set 1: Sharing the Joy of Storytelling with Your Deaf Toddler

Shows you how to use signs to make books and stories come alive for your child. Watch as skilled signers use signs, facial expression and body language to express ideas in interesting ways. Using popular children's books they show how to make the language of the story clear and exciting and how to share the book in a way that your child will want to watch!

Set 2 : Where the Wild Things Are
More Bunny Trouble.

Once Upon a Time
Children's Classics Retold in American sign Language Collection
Retold by Ben Bahan and Nathie Marbury

Twelve of the most beloved children’s classics from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen are presented on six videos and accompanying storybooks. Renowned Deaf storytellers Ben Bahan and Nathie Marbury team up to present great children’s literature in ASL. With superb skill, they bring these tales to life and captivate children and adults, deaf and hearing alike. Each classic is first presented in ASL on videotape then translated into English in the storybook to make it even easier for emerging readers to follow along and read on their own.

Children will delight in seeing their favorite tales retold through the storytelling videotapes and imaginatively illustrated storybooks, which feature vocabulary words in boldface that can be looked up in a sign glossary.

Highly entertaining videotapes. Easy-to-read storybooks. Plus tips for schoolteachers and parents on how to use them in tandem. Ideal for teaching Deaf children English or honing their receptive skills in ASL!

Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin (The Brothers Grimm)
In Cinderella, one of the best-known Brothers Grimm tales, a young girl who is mistreated by her wicked stepmother and cruel stepsisters longs to go to the ball where she can meet the prince. How she magically makes her way to the palace to win the prince’s heart, only to vanish, leaving behind a mysterious slipper, is shown in this lively adaptation.

In Rumpeltstiltskin, a maiden is locked in a room by a king and ordered to weave gold out of straw. If she succeeds, the king will marry her. But the terrified girl cannot turn straw into gold. To her rescue comes a strange little man wearing jester shoes. In exchange for his favors, she promises him her first-born child. How she handles this dilemma when he returns to demand his reward will captivate anyone watching this tale unfold.

The Emperor's New Clothes and Hans Clodhopper (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Emperor’s New Clothes is Hans Christian Andersen’s sly poke at a vain peacock of an emperor who is duped by two swindlers into paying a fortune for the most marvelous cloth. The cloth, however, has the strange quality of being invisible to anyone who is unfit for his office or unforgivably stupid. One by one, the emperor’s councilors are sent to inspect the loom on which the emperor’s magnificent new costume is being woven, and one by one each man is unable to see anything, for there is nothing to be seen. No one has the courage to speak the truth, until… The moral of this tale—to believe the evidence of your own eyes—is as true today as when Andersen wrote it.

Hans Clodhopper is one of Andersen’s more unlikely and likeable heroes. A seemingly slow-witted lad is dismissed by his father and brothers. Undaunted, he sets out to win the hand of a princess who will accept the marriage proposal of any man in the kingdom who is the most intelligent and able to answer any question. How Hans confounds his doubters will inspire and amuse those who tune in.

The Fisherman and His Wife and Hansel and Gretel (The Brothers Grimm)
The Fisherman and His Wife is an amusing parable about a poor couple living in squalor visited by good fortune in the form of a fish the husband reels in, who is really an enchanted prince. Out of kindness, the fisherman releases him into the sea. The humble fisherman is content with his lot, but his wife, driven by greed, sends him back to the fish to demand first a house, then a huge castle, then…. Each wish is granted, but still the fisherman’s wife is not happy. The inevitable ending will please viewers who enjoy seeing the undeserving get their comeuppance.

Hansel and Gretel tells the story of two courageous children with a cold-hearted stepmother who are abandoned in a forest. Famished, they soon come to a house made of cookies, candies, lollipops, and ice cream. To feed themselves, they break off pieces of the sweets and eat them. The old woman who lives there is actually a wicked witch who built the house to lure children so she could bake them in her oven and enjoy a feast. She traps Hansel and forces Gretel to cook for him to fatten him up. How the children outwit the witch and are reunited with their father is a tribute to the resourcefulness of youngsters and celebrates the triumph of good over evil.

The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Little Mermaid remains one of the most poignant of children’s classics. Deep in the sea lives a mermaid, the youngest of six princesses. Instead of feet, her body ends in a fishtail. While swimming on the surface, she encounters a handsome young prince on a ship, saves him from a shipwreck, and pines for his love. To get close to him and conquer his heart, she makes a pact with a witch to exchange her fishtail for feet and sacrifices her beautiful singing voice. The surprise ending sends the message that love changes us in ways we never expected.

The Musicians of Bremen, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty (The Brothers Grimm)
The Musicians of Bremen is a venerable yarn about a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster whose owners are about to dispose of them. First the donkey runs away and sets out for the town of Bremen, where he hopes to become a musician. He is joined in turn by the dog who can bark, the cat who can meow, and the rooster who can crow. The friendship they form and their adventures on the way to Bremen make for a visually exciting experience on video.

Rapunzel, she of the long, radiant, golden hair, is locked high in a tower by a sorceress. The tower has neither doors nor stairs, only a little window through which Rapunzel can look out wistfully at the world below. When the sorceress wishes to climb up to the tower, she calls out: “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair,” whereupon Rapunzel unpins her impossibly long braids and drops them to the ground like a ladder. Then one day, a handsome prince chances by and falls in love with the beautiful maiden. How Rapunzel escapes her imprisonment to be united with the prince will keep your eyes riveted to the screen.

The Princess and the Pea and Inchelina (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Princess and the Pea is a funny satirical sketch about the difference between mere mortals and princesses. How can you tell whether a woman who claims to be a princess is real? Simple—have the queen put a pea on top of the bare bed, have her put 20 mattresses on top of that, and on top of the mattresses, have her put 20 quilts. Then let the princess sleep there overnight, and in the morning, ask her how she slept! You would have been out like a light, wouldn’t you? But the poor princess, black and blue, didn’t sleep a wink, because she could feel the pea under those 20 mattresses and 20 quilts! And that is what separates royals from the rest of us.

Inchelina chronicles the hair-raising adventures of a girl so tiny that she only measured an inch. Kidnapped by the toad, who decides she would make a lovely wife for her son, poor Inchelina is swept up in one escapade after another. The story of her encounter with the bug and the butterfly, of her engagement to rich Mr. Mole, who hated the sun that she loved, of her friendship with a bird who carried her to freedom and to a man as little as she, is in the best tradition of classic yarns that children remember long after they are told.

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