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Featuring the characteristic animation of HBO Family's Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Classical Baby franchise, Classical Baby "I'm Grown Up Now" The Poetry Show presents timeless treasures from the world of poetry, including classic works by William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Langston Hughes. With an all-star cast including Gwyneth Paltrow, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Wright, Andy Garcia and John Lithgow, this all-new half hour will plant the seeds for a lifelong love of the sound of words!

Set to classical music, this collection includes classic poetry such as "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost, "The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams, "Grass Grass Grass" by Woodie Guthrie, "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" by Edward Lear, and many more. The part I loved most about is were the live action segments of real children expressing their thoughts about the poetry. "I like poetry because it can have a lot of different meanings to it." "It's like music in your head when you read it." A group of elementary-age children candidly talk about how the poetry affects them and their comments ring so true. "Poetry is a pretty way of saying something." "It's like music. It has a beat, a rhythm … just like music. Obviously, these kids have thought about it a bit. "Sometimes you have to read it more than once to really get it." "Maybe you love somebody so much that there are no words for it. You just have to write down what you feel." And, they don't miss a beat in terms of execution. "You don't have to put in a period, a comma, or an exclamation point. You just put it down the way it comes out of your head. That's the way it is." Summary - "It's just beautiful." Try it, you'll love it. At $9.98, it's a great value for introducing your kids to poetry.