It’s since become one of the longest-running Christmas specials in history, airing on TV nearly every year since its first run. “Rudolph’s” unique animation style and lovable cast made it a hit among critics - the New York Times called it a “charming and tuneful hour of fantasy” - and audiences. The 55-minute special expanded the story to include a crew of misfit toys, a snowman narrator voiced by Burl Ives, a too-skinny Santa and a bizarre mustachioed prospector named Yukon Cornelius. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.After Rankin toured a Tokyo animation studio, he and Bass decided to create a series in stop-motion animation, a technique they’d call “Animagic.” Their first effort was the children’s show “The New Adventures of Pinocchio,” also the first series produced by the company that would become Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment.īut the duo left a permanent mark on TV with the 1964 debut of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” a stop-motion special based on the Christmas story and popular song. Susan Marie Pitard, Weezie Library for Children, Nantucket Atheneum, MAĬopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Lush with growing plants and green grass, the artwork is filled with details that readers will pore over. Herb is the goofiest dragon of all he always seems to be gazing lovingly at some living thing. However, the tone of the text remains light and the cartoon illustrations are humorous, with googly-eyed dragons and people being eaten without apparent pain.
The carnivores agree, and there is a happy ending, as "dragons and people, meat-eaters and vegetarians, live together in peace and harmony." Some of the scenes are a little scary, especially the one in which Herb is tied down in preparation for beheading by a man in a black hood. Using Herb as an example, the king makes a bargain with the rest of the dragons: if they agree to stop eating people, then the knights will stop hunting them. He is about to be wrongly executed for the murders when Nicole steps in (and into his mouth) to prove his innocence. When the knights decide to catch and behead any dragons they can find, poor Herb is easily apprehended and imprisoned. The only vegetarian dragon in a land full of carnivores, Herb peacefully tends his garden while others of his species munch on the castle's inhabitants. Kindergarten-Grade 3-A decidedly moral tale involving a bevy of knights, damsels, and dragons, as well as a brave girl named Nicole.
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