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Title Author
Call Number
Resource Type: Books
All Around the Busy Town
Breakstone, Beth E.
600.390
Suitable for early readers, students with limited language skills or augmentative communicators.
This is a very interactive and easy to use storybook featuring Picture Communication Symbols.
Adapted for special needs use, this book provides colorful,
laminated pages, cut-outs and Velcro page turners.
The colorful pictures are very stimulating for children and the adaptations make
them easy for children to use. Includes the Mayer-Johnson Picture Communication Symbols.
Focus on urban jobs
All dogs go to heaven : Charlie's friends Bluth, Don. / Milt Neil Productions FIC .060 BLU
In 1939 New Orleans, Charlie B. Barkin is a lovable and incessantly charming German Shepherd working at a
casino with his business partner Carface Malone. Carface, however, has Charlie locked away at the pound in
order to avoid having to share their joint earnings. Charlie is broken free from jail by his friend Itchiford "Itchy"
Dachschund and proceeds to return to their business with big changes and dreams in mind. Carface decides to
get Charlie drunk and kill him with the pretext of taking him out for a celebratory drink. Charlie is taken to Mardi
Gras, and when he is sufficiently drunk, blindfolded and violently run over by a car and forced off a pier into a
river.
Having died, Charlie goes to Heaven, as all dogs do, because "unlike people, dogs are naturally good and loyal
and kind." But Charlie is dissatisfied with the predictability of heaven and rewinds the clock of his life, returning
himself to earth. Unfortunately this now means that Charlie cannot return to heaven because he has forsaken his
place. While he is on Earth, he cannot die as long as his life clock continues ticking.
Back on earth Charlie reunites with his friend Itchy and shares with him his plans for revenge against Carface.
Rather than get revenge, Charlie decides to set up a rival business 'Charlie's Place' and steal Carface's
customers. Charlie discovers a young orphan named Anne-Marie that Carface has been harbouring because of
her gift to communicate with animals, and from this knows which of the animals will win the races that Carface's
customers bet on.
Charlie decides that this girl and her gift could be valuable to him and takes her with him, buying her dresses,
promising her a family and telling her that all the money they earn from her gift will go towards helping the poor.
When Anne-Marie learns of Charlie's true intentions, she runs away. Carface, disgusted by Charlie's success,
storms into Charlie's Place with his thugs and assaults Itchy, leaving him for dead. He then torches the rival
casino and abducts Anne-Marie. She becomes very sick and Charlie discovers that Itchy has been beaten up and
their place has been destroyed. He then discovers that Anne Marie has been snatched by Carface. Charlie sets
off to get his revenge and save Anne Marie.
All Dogs Go to HeavenCharlie confronts Carface in his casino, and the two dogs fight. Carface attempts to drown
Anne-Marie as he knocks her into the river. Charlie leaves Carface and rushes to save his friend. Charlie
succeeds in saving the girl and gets her to safety, then goes after Carface. Charlie returns to the platform in
which the previous fight took place but Carface is nowhere to be seen. Carface jumps from a higher platform onto
Charlie, attacking him. However as Carface attacks his foe, he slips from the high platform and falls into the water
and is eaten by a large King Gator. Charlie goes to fetch Anne-Marie but she has fallen back into the water.
Charlie dives down and saves her, but in doing so he loses his watch. Charlie places Anne-Marie on a block of
wood and sets her on her way out of the casino. Anne-Marie is saved and Charlie dives down to find his watch.
The watch stops, ending Charlie's life. Despite Charlie's eternal fate in Hell, his spirit is allowed to visit
Anne-Marie (who is now living with a caring family, with Itchy as her dog) to say goodbye and apologize for using
her. Just as it seems like the end of the story for Charlie, the demon-dog of Hell calling his name, Annabelle
(voiced by Melba Moore), descends from Heaven, casting out the demon-dog and once again returns Charlie's
spirit to Heaven, because he earned it by giving his life to save Anne-Marie.
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