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Pocket Snails.


Pocket Snails

Soaring Star Productions

Andrea Blain blain
n.
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 (publicity)

PO Box 8538, Surprise, AZ 85374

#00149 $15.95 soaringstar.com

Enthusiastically recommended for parents and teachers working to introduce the alphabet to preschoolers and kindergarten students, Pocket Snails: Aquaphonic Adventure is an animated adventure in which three clever mollusks work as a team to help their friend Jake (whose pocket they live in) learn the sounds of the letters of the alphabet. Using distinctive and engaging mixes of vibrant colors, original upbeat music, and lively animation, young viewers ages 3 through 5 will enjoy learning the alphabet right along with Jake and his pocket snail snail, name commonly used for a gastropod mollusk with a shell. Included in the thousands of species are terrestrial, freshwater, and marine forms. Some eat both plant and animal matter; others eat only one type of food.  buddies. Pocket Snails: Aquaphonic Adventure is also available in a VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier.  format ($12.95), but the DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 edition also includes interactive "Phonic phon·ic
adj.
Of, relating to, or having the nature of sound, especially speech sounds.



phonic

pertaining to the voice.
 Pics" Activity to challenge young viewers on what they've learned; a Bonus Scene helping to reinforce the vowel sounds Noun 1. vowel sound - a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
vowel

speech sound, phone, sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
; a Music Player (which includes the Pocket Snails Theme and other fun songs from the 25 minute program); "Meet the Snails" (fun facts about each snail including special features of each snail, their favorite foods, favorite colors, and favorite phrases); useful information about Soaring Stars Productions and a Pocket Snails catalog of other titles in this outstanding series such as the "Pocket Snails & Other Snaily Songs" music CD.

Young minds must be fed with the same care that good parents take in feeding young bodies.
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Title Annotation:Pocket Snails: Aquaphonic Adventure
Publication:Children's Bookwatch
Article Type:Video Recording Review
Date:Feb 1, 2006
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