About This Tape
Children’s Circle was a series of animated adaptations of award-winning picture books, produced through the 1980s. CC Studios worked with authors and illustrators to bring the books to screen, which gave the adaptations a different feel than what Disney was doing — closer to the source material, less production sheen.
This volume has three:
Corduroy is Don Freeman’s 1968 story about a teddy bear who lives in a department store and waits for someone to take him home. Still in print, still read. The animated version came out before the book became a permanent fixture on library shelves.
Panama is Janosch’s “Oh, How Beautiful Is Panama” — a German picture book about a bear and a tiger who set off to find Panama. It has a specific European storybook quality that the Children’s Circle production kept intact.
Blueberries for Sal is Robert McCloskey’s 1948 Caldecott Honor book about a girl and a bear cub who get mixed up while picking blueberries with their respective mothers. Simple. Classic. Works.
The tape is in good condition. Some of these Children’s Circle titles were reissued on DVD. This specific volume came in as a bare cassette.
