More Happy Holiday Programming for Preschoolers
Adventures From the Book of Virtues Christmas Special: Compassion: A Christmas Carol
In this special holiday program, Charles Dickens’ classic tale is the vehicle for Annie to learn a lesson about compassion during the holiday season, with help along the way from Zach and their animal friends Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and Aurora.
Arthur’s Perfect Christmas
Everybody wants Christmas to be the perfect holiday. Arthur Reed’s family and friends are no exception. What will make Christmas perfect? For D.W. it’s a “Tina, the talking Tabby” toy; for Binky Barnes it’s making a holiday dessert that’s actually edible; for Muffy it’s Francine attending her party (even though she keeps telling Muffy she can’t because of her family’s Chanukah celebration); for Buster it’s his mom not trying so hard to make Christmas “perfect”; and for Arthur, it’s snowfall and giving his mom the perfect gift.
The First Christmas
This clay-animation enactment remains faithful to the “infancy narratives” of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament. It is the traditional Nativity story with a little “artistic license” in the form of the inn-keeper’s daughter and a young shepherd. The show is enhanced by colloquial dialogue and traditional carols such as “Silent Night,“ “We Three Kings,” “Joy to the World” and “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem.” This telling of the traditional story conveys all the awe and wonder of that extraordinary night. Christopher Plummer supplies a marvelous narration.
VeggieTales: The Star of Christmas
This special for the whole family features the colorful characters from the best-selling children’s home-video series VeggieTales. It is the 1880s in London. Cavis Appythart (Bob the Tomato) and Milward Phelps (Larry the Cucumber) lead a cast of VeggieTales characters on their quest to stage a song-filled Christmas spectacular, “The Princess and the Plumber,” which features more electric lights than 19th-century London has ever seen and which they are sure will “teach London to love!” However, the boys discover a small Christmas pageant featuring “The Star of Christmas” (a priceless artifact that hasn’t been seen in 79 years) is scheduled for the same night. The entire family will enjoy following the whimsical exploits of our heroes as the VeggieTales characters take viewers on an adventure to a new understanding of the true meaning of Christmas.
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