HBO Family’s: A Child’s Garden Of Poetry DVD – Giveaway

From the producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Classical Baby series, A Child’s Garden of Poetry ingeniously introduces the whole family to masterpieces of poetry through a creative mix of beautiful recordings and colorful animation.  Featuring poems from some of the world’s greatest writers voiced by today’s most respected entertainment performers, this captivating all-new HBO Family special is available in stores for the suggest retail price of $9.97.

Notable artists lending their voices to readings include Claire Danes, Carrie Fisher, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, Ziggy Marley, Liam Neeson, Natalie Merchant, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dave Matthews and Jeffrey Wright.  Also included are archival recordings by renowned poets E.E. Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Carl Sandburg as well as heartfelt recitations by real-life children who offer their own insights on what poetry means to them.

More than a dozen short segments featuring works by celebrated poets Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, Matsuo Basho, Li Bai, Claude McKay, William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes, Edward Lear, William Shakespeare, Mary Ann Hoberman, Emily Dickinson and William Wadsworth are included.

Magical and lyrical, A Child’s Garden of Poetry will give you a new insight into some classic poetry and remind your children (and you!) how powerful words can be.

We actually chose to watch A Child’s Garden of Poetry as part of our home school English lessons.  The children featured on this DVD are incredibly insightful on what poetry is and how it should move you.  They make the DVD just as interesting as the poetry itself.  The animations help everyone watching dig deeper into the words and intent of the poets.  Not only did we have much to talk about after watching the DVD, I fondly remembered many of the poems read as ones I took in school as well.  I would recommend this as an affordable resource for your home school as well as just a good DVD for children to watch.

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