Mrs Easter and the Storks
by V.H. Drummond
Age: 4+
Interests: birds, travel, London, adventure, chase, royalty
Mrs. Easter and the Storks
22 May 2013 3 Comments
in Books, books 4+ Tags: adventure, birds, boats, chase, London, royalty, travel
The Wind Blew
10 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 2+ Tags: chase, weather, wind
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER -1974
by Pat Hutchins
Simon & Schuster, 1974
28 pp.
Age: 2+
Interests: wind, weather
Other books by this author: Rosie’s Walk, Don’t Forget the Bacon!, The Doorbell Rang, The Surprise Party, Clocks and More Clocks
Tangled (2010)
16 Aug 2011 Leave a comment
in Movies, movies 5+ Tags: action, chase, Fairy Tale, horses, Magic, Princess, romance
Rated: PG for brief mild violence
Length: 100 min.
Age: 5 and up. Commonsense Media sez: 5 +
Scary Factor: not overly scary, mostly just suspenseful chase scenes; scary-looking thugs in tavern are revealed to be sweethearts; Rapunzel is briefly menaced near the end by villains
Violence: Rapunzel repeatedly knocks Flynn unconscious with a frying pan for comedic effect; Mother Gothel stabs Flynn at the end; Mother Gothel falls to her death – though she disappears before she hits the ground, aged right out of existence
Intense: it appears as though Flynn dies in a very sad scene at the end, but he revives; psychological abuse Mother Gothel inflicts on Rapunzel may trouble some
Bad Behaviour: no bad language; there is beer in the tavern, but this is underplayed
Interests: princesses, fairy tales, magic, romance, horses, action, chases
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WALL-E (2008)
13 Apr 2011 Leave a comment
in Movies, movies 4+ Tags: action, chase, environment, robots, romance, sci fi, space, spaceships
Rated: G
Length: 98 min
Age: 4 + … watchable at 4, better understood by 5 or 6 Commonsense Media sez: 5 +
Scary factor: our main characters are chased about, but nothing very threatening; Eve has a gun in her arm that she shoots at inanimate objects; in one scene she accidentally sets some huge oil tankers ablaze – no danger to characters, but it’s big and fiery, so may be alarming; a bad robot falls a great distance and breaks apart
Intense: some sad moments near the end when Wall-E seems broken-down/dead, but Eve is looking after him and it’s easy to allay concerns (“He’ll get better!”) because he does!
Language: one ‘heck’
Interests: space, robots, spaceships, environment
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Sherlock Jr. (1924)
01 Mar 2011 Leave a comment
in Movies, movies 4+, Old Movies, Silent Movies Tags: action, chase, detective, history, mystery, romance
Black and White, Silent Movie
Rated: unrated
Length: 45 min.
Age: 4 and up.
Scary Factor: nothing to speak of. A little uneasiness perhaps regarding an explosive billiard ball that never quite gets hit… more suspenseful than scary.
Interests: detectives, mysteries, history, silent movies
Next: other silent movies: The Gold Rush, Safety Last! ; more Buster Keaton: Steamboat Bill Jr. (6+), The General (7+), shorts
