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Whether your household celebrates Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or the Winter Solstice, Westlake Porter Public Library has an abundance of picture books for all of the winter holidays. Click on the…
To prepare for the holiday season ahead, I find myself reaching for my family's personal collection of Rankin/Bass movies on VHS and DVD. Watching stop motion films like A Year…
Post-Walt Disney's death in 1966, Disney Studio's Animation Department was steadily declining- Walt Disney was a vital part of the story develop process in the animated films, constantly giving notes,…
September 24th, 2023 would have been Jim Henson's 87th birthday. Jim Henson, the man who brought the cultural zeitgeist of the Muppets to the world of children's television (Sesame Street,…
I've always been fascinated with stories filled with anthropomorphic animals since I was a kid. Anthropomorphism is, according to Dictionary.com, "the attributing of human characteristics... to inanimate objects, animals, plants,…
Comics have been a vital part of my life as long as I can remember, having been passed down my dad's collection of antique comic books at a young age.…