The Rainbow Fish and the Little Blue Fish

Newcomer Yoo's sepia-toned pen-and-inks and watercolor wash, rich with shadows and spidery figures, provide a haunting obligato for her story of a boy's adventure alone in a deserted library. The cloth-covered, jacketless book and handsewn pages suggest the attention to detail and craft found within. Falling asleep among the shelves after his grandfather, the librarian, leaves the room, young JeJe wakes in the moonlight to find that his beloved red fish (which he carries about in a goldfish bowl...

The Waner brothers, Paul and Lloyd -- also known as "Big Poison" and "Little Poison" -- played together for fourteen seasons in the same Pittsburgh outfield in the 1920s and 1930s. They still rank as the best-hitting brothers in major league history with a combined 5,611 hits, and both Waners are in the Hall of Fame, the only playing brothers so honored. This dual biography tells the story of the Waner brothers from their early lives on Oklahoma through their long playing careers and later years...

November 28, 2006: The characters looked lovable, the setting fun, and the classic story revisited--all promising, but very disappointing. I could not attach myself to the characters at all and found the movie boring. The concept was there, but never reached its full potential. When compared to other 3-d animated movies like Toy Story and Monsters Inc, which both had such driven plots and characters, Chicken Little falls very short.