David Hyde Pierce
22) A bug's life
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Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent...
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Help little monsters learn to mind their manners! Can Rosita control her emotions and keep her hands to herself? Will Prairie help Cookie Monster master polite table manners and can Cookie stop himself and not gobble all the cookies when a Cookie Connoisseur visits Sesame Street?
24) Osmosis Jones
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He's a new strain of hero and he's one cell of a guy. He's Osmosis Jones. In the "real" world, Frank ingests a villainous virus named Thrax. Now, deep inside the animated inner realm of the "City of Frank", its up to a maverick white blood cell cop, Jones, and his reluctant sidekick, cold-capsule Drix to thwart Thrax's epidemic of evil.
25) Buttons
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When their father eats so much that he pops the buttons off his britches, each of his three daughters tries a different plan to find replacements.
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What pet should I get? This new book by Dr. Seuss about making up one's mind is the literary equivalent of buried treasure! What happens when a brother and sister visit a pet store to pick a pet? Naturally, they can't choose just one! The tale captures a classic childhood moment--choosing a pet--and uses it to illuminate a life lesson: that it is hard to make up your mind, but sometimes you just have to do it! Told in Dr. Seuss's signature rhyming...
27) The perfect host
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A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary. The two discover just how deceiving appearances can be in this game of cat and mouse.
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"Camp Firewood, 1981. It's the last day of summer camp and everyone is busy. Camp director Beth is trying to keep order while falling in love with astrophysicist Henry. Henry is trying to save the camp from being hit by a piece of SKYLAB hurtling toward Earth. Camp counselor Coop is in love with Katie, who is in love with lifeguard Andy. If that's not enough, there's a waterfall rescue, talking vegetable cans, the misfits, the cool kids ... and more!"--Container....
30) Treasure planet
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"[An] amazing tale of a brave young man's thrilling journey to new frontiers aboard a flying ship"--Container.
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The story of four young men struggling to make it as a swing and standards close harmony group in those pre-Beatles, pre-grassy knoll days of our Perry Como innocence. So what's the problem? They're dead! Wiped out by a bus full of Catholic schoolgirls while the lads were driving in their now iconic cherry red '54 Mercury convertible to their first real gig. The schoolgirls, by the by, were okay. But a second opportunity is now heaven sent to the...
37) Little man Tate
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A seven year old genius is caught in a tug of war between his waitress mom who only wants a regular life for him, and the head of an institute for gifted children who wants to further his development.
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Trace the improbable journey of Robert Shaw's life and career, from his childhood as a preacher's son in rural California through his meteoric rise as a star of popular music during the Great Depression. An early champion of civil rights, his chorales were among the first to break the color barrier in the American South.