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September 2007 Releases for Ages 5 - 8

"Bindi: The Jungle Girl"
Bindi introduces us to the wonderful world of wildlife from her cozy tree house set high up in the rainforest. She explains how all animals are worthy of our respect and protection. In this episode, Bindi takes us on a tour of her Tree House, introduces us to her many animal friends, and explains why we need to help animals whose habitats have been threatened or destroyed by human intrusion.

TV Show
22 min.
From Discovery Kids (launch date: 9/1/07)

Eloise: Little Christmas
Eloise and all of her hotel friends are putting on a holiday show like no other. Incorporating traditions from the different religions and cultures of her friends, they learn the true spirit of the season is having the people you love all together and happy. Based on the Best-Selling Books written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight. Voices of Lynn Redgrave, Tim Curry, and Curtis Armstrong.

Available in both English and Spanish.

DVD
66 min.
$14.98
From Starz Home Entertainment

Follow Along: Anastasia
A spellbinding mix of adventure, comedy, romance, and music, this acclaimed animated spectacular tells the thrilling story of the lost Russian princess Anastasia and her quest to find her true identity. When the shadow of revolution falls across Russia, the royal family's youngest daughter barely escapes with her life. Years later, Anastasia and a band of heroic companions must battle the evil Rasputin, his sidekick Bartok the bat, and a host of ghostly minions in a headlong race to reach Paris, reclaim her rightful destiny, and solve the greatest mystery of the 20th century.

DVD
94 min.
$14.98
From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (street date: 9/27/07)

Follow Along: Garfield the Movie
You'll scamper through tons of games like the all-new Garfield Comic Creator and Find Odie Maze Game; catch 17 hilarious deleted scenes, take in "Pick of the Litter," a documentary about bringing Garfield to life; go behind-the-scenes of "Garfield And Friends;" have your very own copy of the Baha Men music video "Holla;" and much more! So grab a pan of lasagna, enjoy the full-length Garfield movie, and get ready for hours of family fun with Garfield!

DVD
80 min.
$19.98
From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (street date: 9/27/07)

Follow Along: Good Boy
Get your paws on this "irresistible" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) family adventure starring Molly Shannon, Liam Aiken, and Kevin Nealon! Featuring a hilarious four-legged cast - with voices by Matthew Broderick, Delta Burke, Donald Faison, Cheech Marin, Brittany Murphy, Vanessa Redgrave, and Carl Reiner - this heartwarming tale is a "furry romp that both kids and parents can laugh at together!" (The Seattle Times) Twelve-year-old Owen (Aiken) has a new dog, Hubble (Broderick), who can not only sit, stay, and roll over - he can also speak - literally! Turns out Hubble is an interplanetary agent from the dog star Sirius. Now Owen is about to discover that Hubble and all his canine buddies are on a mission to rule the world!

DVD
88 min.
$14.96
From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (street date: 9/27/07)

Follow Along: Ice Age
They came... they thawed... they conquered the hearts of audiences everywhere in the coolest animated adventure of all time! Heading south to avoid the bad case of global frostbite, a group of migrating misfit creatures embark on a hilarious quest to reunite a human baby with his tribe. Featuring an all-star voice cast, including Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary, "Ice Age" is "a pure delight" (New York Daily News) for all ages!

DVD
81 min.
$19.98
From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (street date: 9/27/07)

Follow Along: Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids
Now you can laugh, dance, and sing along with Miss Spider and all her friends in their very own adventure! Brooke Shields and Rick Moranis give voice to Miss Spider and her husband Holley in this irresistible tale of friendship and family and eight-legged fun-based on the best-selling children's book series by David Kirk. Spring has arrived with five bundles of joy for Miss Spider and Holley! Now, with Snowdrop, Pansy, Spinner, Wiggle and Squirt, there's never a dull moment around the web. But when Squirt tries to reunite a lost chicken egg with its mother, Miss Spider and Holley must hatch a daring plan to rescue him and his new friends...before they all become chicken feed!

DVD
90 min.
$14.95
From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (street date: 9/27/07)

Follow Along: Robots
Fasten your seat bolts and gear up for a hilarious, heartwarming comedy that's "Fun for the whole family!" (Clay Smith, Access Hollywood) With the help of his misfit mechanical friends, a small-town robot named Rodney embarks on the adventure of a lifetime as he heads for the big city to pursue his dreams - and ultimately proves that anyone can shine no matter what they're made of. Featuring an all-star voice cast and a groundbreaking visual style that pushes the boundaries of animated filmmaking. Robots is a dazzling, fun-filled feast for the eyes and a riveting good time for all ages!

DVD
89 min.
$19.98
From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (street date: 9/27/07)

Follow Along: Stellaluna
Based on the beloved children's book, this fun-filled animated feature follows a spirited young fruit bat who finds friendship, love and acceptance in the most unexpected places! Brimming with music, laughter, warmth, and excitement, Stellaluna is sure to capture your heart! When the adorable fruit bat Stellaluna is separated from her mother, she is adopted by a family of birds, but soon finds that she just can't fit in. Her playmates like to sleep at night; she wants to fly. They whistle and sing; she doesn't even have a beak! But just when it seems like she'll always be an outsider, Stellaluna makes an amazing discovery. Now she'll learn to cherish the things that make her different from everyone else. And she'll see that an open mind and an open heart can lead to the greatest gifts of all.

DVD
41 min.
$14.98
From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (street date: 9/27/07)

Follow Along: The Sandlot
It's the early 1960s and fifth-grader Scotty Smalls (Tom Guiry) has just moved into town with his folks (Karen Allen and Denis Leary). Kids call him a dork - he can't even throw a baseball! But that changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner (James Earl Jones) who live behind the left field fence. Soon nine boys have become best friends, Scotty is part of a team, and their leader has become a local legend in this hilarious and warmhearted comedy.

DVD
101 min.
$14.98
From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (street date: 9/27/07)

Follow Along: Thumbelina
A girl no bigger than her mother's thumb feels all alone in the world knowing she is the only person her size. Her wish for a companion at last comes true when the prince of the fairies arrives at her windowsill. However, the naive Thumbelina's life goes downward from there when a toad kidnaps her. While she tries to find a way home, she begins to grow up and learns about hope with the help of the friends she always wanted.

DVD
86 min.
$14.98
From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (street date: 9/27/07)

"FraggleRock, Season 3"
The adventures of the various inhabitants of an underground civilization. Premiering in January 1983, this wonderfully inventive program was designed to entertain while also encouraging an understanding and embracing of diversity. Through the fun adventures of the Fraggle gang - Red, Gobo, Wembley, Boober, Mokey and Uncle Traveling Matt - the show captured the hearts of children and adults alike while featuring a unique mix of music that ranged a number  of genres, from folk, blues, and gospel to country and rock.

DVD
175 min.
$49.98
From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (street date: 9/11/07)

Goosebumps Wave 5
Includes 6 titles:

Night of the Living Dummy - Amy Kramer's ventriloquist dummy, Dennis, keeps losing his head, literally, and Amy has been pestering her Dad for weeks to get her a new one. Little does she know that when he does, and he does, she will regret it deeply.

Bride Of The Living Dummy - Katie, Harrison, Jillian, and Katie's annoying doll Mary-Ellen were seeing a show put on by the famous ventriloquist Jimmie O' James, who was using his dummy, Slappy. However, as most would know, Slappy is no normal dummy. He's alive. And, while at the show, it would seem that he fell in love with Katie's doll.

It Came From Beneath the Sink - Katrina "Kat" Merton and her brother, Daniel, are just moving into a new house, and all looks like it's going to go well for their family, as they have not had to move far away from their district at all. However, that luck is about to change, when Kat finds a strange sponge under the kitchen sink, a sponge that has eyes and fangs, and bad, unlucky things happen whenever it's around.

Strained Peas - Nicholas is at first optimistic about getting a baby sister, but his friend tells him all the cons. When his parents arrive, he meets his sister Grace. But Grace is no normal baby. She makes a block message that says "Only me." And she pukes on Nicholas when he goes to comfort her when she is crying in the night.

Say Cheese and Die - Greg Banks, and his friends, Doug (Bird), and Shari, decide to sneak into the old Coffman house, just for thrills, since they know that it's forbidden. While exploring the dank, dark house, Greg stumbles onto a hidden cabinet, with a rather large and odd camera inside, and he decides to take a picture.

Say Cheese and Die...Again - Sourball. That's what Greg calls his English teacher, Mr. Saur. He's a real grouch. And now he just gave Greg a big fat "F" on his oral report. He didn't believe Greg's story about the camera Greg found last summer. About the pictures it took. About the evil things that happened. Poor Greg. He just wanted to prove old Sourball wrong.

DVD
132 min.
From Twentieth Century Fox Entertainment (street date: 9/11/07)

Kappa Mikey: Lost in Transportation
After winning a role on Lili-Mu, a hit anime show in Japan, Mikey Simon is catapulted to super-stardom in a country he knows nothing about. He and the rest of the cast must adjust to his newfound fame - and all of the crazy adventures along the way.

DVD
66 min.
$14.98
From Starz Home Entertainment (street date: 9/18/07)

March of the Wooden Soldiers
It's two days before Christmas, and the Toyland Toy Factory has just received its biggest order ever. But the evil Barnaby, who doesn't believe in toys, has plans to shut the factory down and spoil the holiday for everyone. Now it's up to Jack and Jill to stop Barnaby's plot and save Christmas!  Favorite nursery-rhyme characters come magically and musically to life in this delightful animated adventure based on the classic holiday tale, Babes in Toyland featuring the voices of James Belushi, Lacey Chabert, Bronson Pinchot, Christopher Plummer and Charles Nelson Reilly.

DVD
74 min.
From Twentieth Century Fox Entertainment

Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy
Halloween is coming and Scary Godmother is making plans for another spectacular spook house party. Unfortunately, Jimmy still hasn't recovered from last year and has come up with a dastardly plan to put a stop to Halloween for good!  Now it's up to his little cousin Hannah and her monster friends to put the tricks and treats back into Halloween! "Scary Godmother" is based on the acclaimed book "Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular" (Sirius Publications) by the award-winning author and illustrator Jill Thompson.

DVD
48 min
From Starz Home Entertainment (9/11/07)

Wayside School
An outrageous grammar school where one classroom was built on top of another - 30 stories high! The Wayside School is an animated series that captures how kids really see the world in all its preposterous, contradictory glory. Join Benjamin Nushmutt (a.k.a. Mark Miller), Todd, Maurecia, Kathy, and Myron in a world where students are sometimes smarter than their teachers, certain children always get in trouble for no good reason, the substitute teacher has a third ear on the top of her head, and old cafeteria food achieves strange magical powers.

DVD
49 min.
$16.99
From Paramount Home Entertainment (street date: 9/25/07)

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