I've written before about the wonderful picture book adaptations made by a company called Weston Woods. Long before big studios began turning books like Where the Wild Things Are into big-budget ...

UPDATE with tribute video: Morton Schindel, founder of Weston Woods Studios which was Oscar-nominated for an animated short children’s film, died August 20 at age 98. Schindel produced more than 300 ...

With children’s DVDs, the offerings are so varied in quality and numerous in quantity that it’s a Herculean task to tell the forest from the trees — which is the good thing about getting lost instead ...

How do you translate beloved children’s books to film? Disney famously, some say infamously, uses them as a springboard to its own flights of fancy. For Weston Woods Studios, little known to the ...

Morton Schindel has distinguished himself as a pioneer in the field of children's literature in the audiovisual media. Schindel, who turned 90 in January, is still active as founder and president of ...

Based on: Brother to the wind / by Mildred Pitts Walter ; pictures by Diane and Leo Dillon. Sound accompaniment compatible for manual and automatic operation. siris_sil_375933 ...