Pete's a Pizza... and More William Steig Stories (Scholastic Video Collection)
by Gary Goldberger, Michael Sporn, Peter Reynolds
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Actor: Chevy Chase, Ian Thompson, Jorge PupoDirector: Gary Goldberger, Michael Sporn, Peter Reynolds
Producer: Gary Goldberger
Producer: Michael Sporn
Editor: Keri Green
Editor: Leigh Corra
Editor: Matt Sullivan
Editor: Paul Gagne
Producer: Paul Gagne
Producer: Dawn Haley
Producer: Linda Lee
Producer: Melissa Reilly
Producer: Morton Schindel
Writer: William Steig
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 54 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Video Group
DVD Reviews of Pete's a Pizza... and More William Steig Stories (Scholastic Video Collection)
DVD Review: Pizza Pizza!
Summary: 5 Stars
William Steig is pure gold, as always! Pete is grumpy because it's raining and he can't play outside. His father has an idea: Maybe Pete would enjoy being made into a pizza! Dad takes Pete over to the table, rolls the dough and throws Pete up in the air like a pizza maker would do; then he sprinkles water for oil, paper bits and talcum powder for cheese, puts him in the "oven" (the sofa) to bake, then cuts him up. There's some unpizza like tickling involved, too. This story is imaginative, fun and tender.
The next two stories are ones which I to my kids many times when they were young. Doctor DeSoto, a mouse dentist of wide repute, works with his wife on animals of all sizes--just not dangerous ones. One day he takes pity on a suffering fox, though, giving him the very best treatment, as always. He and his wife come up with an ingenious way to escape harm to themselves and to out fox the fox. This is a true Steig classic. The good Dr. DeSoto shows up in a later book, too, called, "Dr. DeSoto goes to Africa".
In Amazing Bone, Pearl,a young girl pig dawdles on her way to school, and finds a talking bone in the the lovely spring woods. Pearl encounters other adventures, and the bone ends up saving her life more than once, and also becomes a part of the pig family. I love the part where the bone defeats a fox by conjuring up a magic spell. Narrator John Lithgow hams it up like I always did when I read this book to my boys.
Steig is truly a favorite of ours. Many people know "Shrek", though they don't know Stieg. He wrote several award-winning books, a couple of our favorites being "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble", and the chapter book "Abel's Island". This DVD includes a short appearance by the author in his own environment, which I also enjoyed.
Three other short videos are included. They are good, but rather dated. Each one had a nice message, without being preachy.
William Stieg Rocks! (I've gotten a few of the other Scholastic Videos, and they are also great!)
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Description of Pete's a Pizza... and More William Steig Stories (Scholastic Video Collection)
PETE?S A PIZZA: (Narrated by Chevy Chase, Music by Raul Malo) When Pete is in a bad mood, his parents cheer him up by making a pizza with a very special ingredient -- Pete!DOCTOR DE SOTO: (Music composed by Ernest V. Troost) Doctor De Soto, everyone?s favorite mouse-dentist, helps a fox with a sore tooth. The fox has a mouth-watering scheme to eat him after the job is done. But Dr. De Soto has a plan of his own.
THE AMAZING BONE: (Narrated by John Lithgow) Pearl befriends a talking bone she finds in the woods. A hungry fox captures them and brings them to his home. How will they escape?
(All stories written and illustrated by William Steig)
DVD Features: The Three Robbers; Moon Man; Great White Man-Eating Shark; Getting To Know William Steig; Read Along; Interactive Menus; Story Selection
The excellent Scholastic Video Collection spotlights the author of Shrek, William Steig. The title story is one of his warmest and most uncharacteristic--a simple story about how parents find a fun activity for their bored son by imagining him as a pizza. The other stories, "Doctor De Soto" and "The Amazing Bone," have more typical Steig bite; the former (an Oscar® nominee) is about a mouse-dentist who takes on a risky patient, while the latter tells of Pearl the Pig who finds a talking bone. All three stories are wonderfully illustrated, and Chevy Chase ("Pizza") and John Lithgow ("Bone") supply pitch-perfect narration. As with all the DVDs in this collection, the added content doubles the running time. Three additional stories keep the rambunctious air that made Steig (like Roald Dahl) so popular with kids and adults, although sensitive kids and parents might find the perilous situations unfunny. Tomi Ungerer's "The Three Robbers" and "Moon Man" bookend Margaret Mahy's "The Great White Man-Eating Shark," which follows a boy who pretends to be a shark and scares beachgoers. All in all, another winner for kids ages 4 and older. --Doug Thomas
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