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Reviewed on March 15, 2011
In this beautiful, heartrending, yet horrifying film, North Koreans tell their stories of imprisonment, sexual slavery, torture, murder, and escape to China or South Korea during the nearly 50-year regime of Kim Il Sung (1912–94). The interviews are illustrated through the interspersion of dance sequences, archi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2010 | Video/DVD
Gr 6 Up—Originally written by poet Martha Baird as a radio play, The Comma That Didn't Belong Anywhere, this animated video about a comma looking for the right sentence is a literary example of aesthetic realism, the philosophy of the fight going on in every person. A person desires to like the world but also holds contempt toward it. Thomas, a comma, has ambition but doesn't feel that he belongs anywhere. That makes him sad. B...Log In or Sign Up to Read More