Product Details Directors: BookBox Format: NTSC Number of discs: 1 Studio: Master Communications, Inc. DVD Release Date: October 23, 2007 Run Time: 30 minutes

Product Description

BookBox makes learning fun. Conceived by child literacy expert Dr. Brij Kothari and his team, at Stanford University, BookBox Stories entertain children and improve their reading skills at the same time. Using scientifically tested SLS (same language subtitling), children will improve their listening comprehension, reading skills and foreign language skills by watching these enchanting stories about Christmas and the holiday spirit. BookBox is a new DVD series uses Same Language Subtitling (SLS) synchronizing the text, audio and visual components of a story shown on screen or reading Karaoke style. SLS is the simple idea of subtitling music videos, film, television and DVDs in the same language as the audio. Word for word, what is heard is what will be read on screen. BookBox Enchanting Christmas Stories is a compilation of five short animated films featuring SLS, which has been proven to aid early readers in developing their reading skills.

The stories are also available in numerous different languages on different discs.

English-French
English-German
English-Italian
English-Mandarin Chinese
English-Spanish