HBO Storybook Musicals

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HBO Storybook Musicals is a series of television specials first airing on HBO, and now airing on HBO Family, combining animation that is true to the original storybook's illustrations, plus high-spirited songs from musical songwriters.

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Originally airing as individual, stand-alone TV specials, there are 9 episodes total:

• A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
• Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
• Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: the Musical (based on The House on East 88th Street by Bernard Waber)
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
• The Dancing Frog by Quentin Blake
• The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Marzipan Pig by Russell Hoban
• The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Colorful wizard by Garfield Black
• Earthday Birthday, an environmental special celebrating Earth Day