Stories on a train = The Tale of Georgie Grub ...

Episode of Series “Dorothy Butler’s Video Books”.
A video designed to encourage children to read and enjoy books. Ten different stories, many from well known books, are told by professional storytellers and have been selected for children aged five to eight years old. Introduced by Dorothy Butler. The stories are: “Troublesome pig”, ” The Grand old Duke of York”, “Grandma goes shopping”, “Lucky Hans”, “On Friday something funny happened”, “Wolf! Wolf!”, “The Tale of Georgie Grub”, “Everybody said no!”, “Mr. Biff the boxer” and “The Trouble with Jack”.

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production company

International Video Books

Duration

01:25:00:00

Production places

New Zealand

Production dates

1986

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Group of items

Dorothy Butler's Video Books

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

017306

Language

English

Subject categories

Adaptations

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Reading

Childrens Films

Childrens Films → Children 0-6

Childrens Films → Children 6-12

Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Reading

Educational & Instructional

Educational & Instructional → Instructional

Literature → Children's literature - Film and video adaptations

Literature → Literature

Literature → Reading

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Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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New Zealand, 1986