You remember the story, The Little Engine That Could. “I think I can, I think I can.”
The DVD movie of the same title has been released today and I have been watching it with my three year old for a month. He loves it. In our house it is called “the train movie” and it is requested often.
Little Engine is a young and small engine that believes she is too small to ever pull a load as she is “just a shunter”. Rusty, an older, wiser engine gives her some advice: “If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you can’t. Either way, you’re right”.
Rusty and Little Engine live in Dreamland, where trains deliver wishes and dreams to the real world. They travel through a tunnel and through a portal into the real world and back. One day, Rusty makes a mistake that lets a real boy into dreamland causing the tunnel between the worlds to collapse. This causes all sorts of commotion and a demotion for Rusty.
Little Engine thinks there might be another way to get the real boy back to the real world and save Dreamland. Everyone is too busy to listen to her so she embarks on the journey herself, taking the real boy with her.
On their journey, Little Engine, the real boy and some friends they make along the way, meet the nightmare train. This part can be a little bit scary for younger children and my three year old does not like the “naughty train” at all but it doesn’t ruin his enjoyment of the movie.
This is a beautiful movie. The colours are vibrant and the message familiar and important. I also like that there aren’t too many songs in it. I have seen this movie at least fifteen times now and unlike other kids movies, it hasn’t driven me insane.
I can highly recommend this movie to families with young children under ten.
The Little Engine That Could has an RRP of $24.95
But you could win one of three copies right here.
* Leave a comment here for one entry.
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“Win one of three “The Little Engine That Could” DVDs at Toushkalee.com”
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Winner will be drawn by random.org on Wednesday 13th July
DVD can only be posted to Australia. Sorry.
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Edit: Wednesday 13th July:
DVD can only be posted to Australia. Sorry.
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Edit: Wednesday 13th July:
THE WINNERS ARE:
Marita
Jasmine
Wendy
I have emailed the winners and will get Universal to send out the DVD.
Congratulations.
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