May 2019 Recommended Reading/Viewing

[Coír Draoi Ceítien]

Well, it's May already, and the weather is getting warmer. In that spirit, here's a couple of feel-good classics that all ages can enjoy.

Reading: Stuart Little (1945) by E. B. White

The first novel by the acclaimed New Yorker contributor and future author of Charlotte's Web, this book is a children's classic in its own right, told with White's genial sense of humor, setting the absurd against the real in a charming manner. Stuart Little lives an odd life, being the smallest member of his family...as well as looking like a mouse in every way. things seem to take a turn for the better when he befriends a songbird named Margalo over the winter, but when the family cat arranges for Margalo to be eaten and she escapes in advance, Stuart leaves the confines of his home to find his new friend, braving the dangers of the great outside word. It's a short read but a delightful one, and you won't want to miss it.

Hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/Stuart-Little-B-White/dp/0060263954/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1556749399&sr=8-2
Trade: https://www.amazon.com/Stuart-Little-B-White/dp/0064400565/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1556749399&sr=8-2
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Stuart-Little-Harper-Trophy-Book-ebook/dp/B00T3DNKJS/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1556749399&sr=8-2



Viewing: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)

A childhood favorite of many, this influential live action/animated hybrid is set in an alternate 1947 Los Angeles, where cartoon characters are hard-working actors alongside their human counterparts but treated as second-class citizens in public. When a scandal involving the wife of Roger Rabbit, one of the brightest toon stars, leads to a murder of an important figure, and all evidence seems to point to Roger as the culprit, a grizzled police detective with a bad history concerning toons must weed out the details of a conspiracy involving public transportation before the grim superior court judge and his weasel henchmen get ahold of Roger and dispense their dark sense of justice. This film - an adult take on childish concepts - revived interest in the Golden Age of Animation and eventually led to the Disney Renaissance of the 1990s; perhaps it may be too adult for young children, but it remains an all-time classic for moviegoers.

DVD/Blu-Ray: https://www.amazon.com/Who-Framed-Roger-Rabbit-Anniversary/dp/B00AO686MY/ref=tmm_mfc_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1556750693&sr=8-3
Amazon Video: https://www.amazon.com/Framed-Roger-Rabbit-Bonus-Content/dp/B079M12L1S/ref=tmm_aiv_swatch_2?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1556750693&sr=8-3

I hope that satisfies everyone. Have a geat May!