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A HEART FULL OF LOVE
An Animated Story for TV
for Children of Divorce
Ages 5 to 9
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| DVD FRONT COVER |
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| Louise, Allison, Mom, Chuck |
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| Dad, Delia, Allison, Louise |
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| The book |
This animated story is based on an award-winning book by
writer/ educator Bette S. Margolis, hailed
as a "new perspective on the developmental process of creating
peace within oneself, with family, stepfamily and extended family."
A Heart Full of Love is the tale of Allison,
an eight-year-old cocker spaniel pup-child of divorce, who relates her conflicting feelings concerning her parents' divorce,
their significant others, and their eventual remarriages. Torn between sadness, grief, and fear of the changes in her
life, Allison ultimately makes peace with herself, her family and stepfamily of dogs, with the compassionate guidance, patience
and loving understanding that they offer her.
It is a wonderfully delightful story which heals as it amuses, and is
sure to draw a large audience of children, parents, and educators.
It was animated by the Los Angeles animation studio Psychic Bunny.
Production wrapped November 1, 2008. DVDs of this wonderful story are
available for $24.95, $3.95 S&H.
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HEDDY
and ME
A FILM
WINNER: CHRISTINA STEAD AWARD
"The front rank of autobiographical writing in Australia."
"I notice, and not for the first time, that Mother glows when she talks of the war years, whereas her face fades
and strains when we get to the present. Back then, the stage was large, and irrational forces dictated events...."
When Adolph Eichman enters Hungary behind eight German divisions in March of 1944, the lives of all Hungarian
Jews become hostages to fate.
For the next year, Heddy fights fiercely with everything at her command to save the lives of
her two small daughters. Fleeing from one part of Hungary to another, losing her husband,
father and favorite brother, she escapes the clutches of the Nazis, the Russians and the Hungarian Fascists, and finally
overcomes the obstacles of trauma, separation, disease and death.
She reconstructs her life in Sydney, Australia with a new husband, but now her daughters, Susan and Judith,
must come to terms with having been traumatized, uprooted, and replanted in strange soil.
This is the story of two generations caught in the web of conflict, and how each learned to cope with the inner
legacies of World War II and with each other.
'In awarding the Christina Stead Award, the judges were looking for a story which was inventive in its evocations
of period, person and place; which touched major themes without being narrowly parochial or allowing the factual basis of
the story to be obtrusive; and which could be expected to engage wide readership. The field was strong, but the judges decided
that Susan Varga's Heddy and Me met all these criteria.
'Heddy and Me is a thoroughly compelling narrative, both autobiographical and biographical. The author, whose
father died in the Holocaust when she was still a baby, left Hungary for Australia
in 1948 with her mother, Heddy, her new father, Gyuszi, and her sister, Judith. The long
painful discovery of her Jewish Hungarian past, the life that her mother led before and during the War, and the meticulous
and clear-sighted piecing to- gether of the terrible inhumanities that collectively
form the Holocaust, give this story a rare urgency and moral seriousness. The book is an engrossing meditation upon troubled
relationships, troubled memories and profoundly troubled times.
'The author dissects life in Budapest with rare skill.... Heddy and
Me is a disturbing, powerfully moving. and wonderfully accomplished work. It steps straight into the front rank of autobiographical
writing in Australia.'
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