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• Episodic Promos

• Over 4 1/2 hours of the best Sesame Street memories on 2 jam-packed DVDs
• Over 50 minutes of ultra-rare, never-before-seen backstage footage, interviews, and surprises
• Pop-up facts covering the entire history of the show
• Segments from all 40 seasons
• Limited-edition 24-page hardcover book
• Sneak peek at all-new CG animated segment Abby's Flying Fairy School

With this terrific film, Rebecca Miller announces her ascendance into the upper echelon of American directors and sends a message to every author who’s ever lamented Hollywood’s desecration of their book -- if you want it done right, do it yourself. Working from her own novel, Miller beautifully translates literature into cinema, allowing the necessary specificity of film to animate her title character in ways that surprise and delight, while retaining space for the audience’s imagination.

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Filmmaker John Hughes, the director of such teen-centric classics as The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Ferris Beuler’s Day Off, died today at the age of 59. Hughes passes just as a series of celebrity deaths have reminded us how nothing inspires geyserous outpourings of nostalgia like the mortality of our former heroes. But I think it’s fair to say that Hughes’ work has continued to inspire the same steady stream of deeply personal affection from its viewers since day one.

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