Madeline: Dog Show [VHS]

Madeline: Dog Show [VHS]

Genevieve came in to Madeline's life by saving it, so, reasons the Parisian schoolgirl, the brown mutt definitely deserves to win the local dog show. The fact that her pooch can juggle, multiply, and sing simultaneously is just icing on the cake. ("Some scratch. Some lick. But my dog does arithmetic," Madeline and her schoolmates croon.) A couple of entrants object to the unpedigreed mixed breed, the judges are called, and a subtle lesson in prejudice has begun. When Genevieve uses her swimming skills to save the other dogs, even their snooty owners have to agree that character is what counts. Narrator Christopher Plummer's delightfully low-key reading of Ludwig Bemelmans's rhymes gives this enchanting video series its own pedigree of the spirit. --Kimberly Heinrichs

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