You would have preferred he watched The Railway Children or The Wizard Of Oz, you had consented to Star Wars, but when your young son returns from his first sleepover providing a blow-by-blow account of Kill Bill which he's seen on DVD, your problems are only just beginning. Part of Jo Berry's guide to kids' movies is aimed at the concerned parent and provides a sensitive guide to the content of hundreds of kids' films, but the book mainly operates as a source for alternatives; for the parent faced with the long summer holidays and the 33rd viewing of The Lion King, maybe it's time to delve back through the long line of Disney classics, check out the original adaptation of Alice In Wonderland or investigate Ray Harryhausen's Dynarama special effects in 1974's Golden Voyage Of Sinbad.
Arranged in self-explanatory chapters – including Family Movies and Seasonal Stocking Fillers, Fairy Tales, Fantasties and Legends, Sci-Fi and Comic Book Adventures, among others – this is the first comprehensive guide to kids' film. An informative, entertaining and balanced aid for the modern day parent drowning in a sea of DVD releases. Jo Berry's book has since been adapted into the website Movies4Kids.