My granddaughter & I love this! We read the book first, with me making up a melody (since I'm not real good at reading music) and talking about the pictures. Then we played the DVD and thoroughly enjoyed the real music & the action. The story line in the book perfectly describes what we could see happening--which means this set would also be appropriate for blind children. We danced to the intro music. We checked out the DVD extras, learned a lot in Making of the Movie. I think Sock Puppet Screen Test & Director profile cracked me up more than this 3 yr old could understand. Really: the "artist's vision" is about "loss and redemption...and sock puppets". We could expand our interaction by seeing what DVD images were also in the book and how they changed, or counting shoes, or talking about some of the old-fashioned household items shown. We could talk about BB King being blind, just like her uncle, and how could he keep track of things he couldn't see.
I can't wait for Boynton to come out with another short film/ book set. ( )

Might be fun to read/perform for storytime. Especially with sock puppets. ( )