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Achoo! Stop the Flu

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K-Gr 6—Flu season is here and germs abound. How can you stay healthy? The Kingston Trio, Grammy award-winning folk group, along with Julie Thompson and Brownie Macintosh (The Julie and Brownie Show) offer good suggestions via skits and five catchy sing-along tunes. Urging both prevention and treatment, they encourage washing hands, staying hydrated, getting adequate rest, exercising, and eating a healthy diet. Sneezing into your elbow is demonstrated many times during the title song. Viewers are encouraged to read labels, and the new MyPlate nutritional guidelines are introduced. There's even a short video comparing soda to water. Links to the sheet music for all the songs are provided. The production features a diverse group of children. The songs are easy to learn, fun to sing and filled with lots of important information to help kids stay healthy. This is a terrific way to teach basic health concepts with humor and music.—Teresa Bateman, Brigadoon Elementary, Federal Way, WA
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, archival news footage, and drawings. Particularly interesting are the North Korean propaganda films celebrating Kim Il Sung as God and showing in the face of mass starvation happy workers, elaborate military displays, and the creation of a new flower in 1988 in honor of the 46th birthday of Kim's son and successor, Kim Jong Il. A valuable time line traces 20th-century events in Korea. Bonus features include previously unreleased footage of camp refugees. This mesmerizing film displays excellent production values and is highly recommended for Asia collections.—Kitty Chen Dean, formerly with Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, NY
Reviewed by Kitty Chen Dean , Dec 01, 2011

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