Four stories based on the books of award-winning children's author Ezra Jack Keats.

For thousands of years, Homer's ancient epic poem the Iliad has enchanted readers from around the world. When you join Professor Vandiver for this lecture series on the Iliad, you'll come to understand what has enthralled and gripped so many people. Her compelling 12-lecture look at this literary masterpiece - whether it's the work of many authors or the "vision" of a single blind poet - makes it vividly clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Iliad...

Hook: Middle-aged lawyer Peter Banning is convinced by Granny Wendy Darling and Tinkerbell that he is Peter Pan, and must go to Neverland to save his children from Captain Hook ; Indian in the cupboard: A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in an adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.

Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen, on his way to the biggest race of his life, does some damage in Radiator Springs, a small town on old Route 66, and is sentenced to community service through which he makes new friends and learns there is more to life than speed and fame.

Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...

Manfred, Sid, and Diego--a mastodon, sloth, and saber-toothed tiger--on their way south in an effort to escape the Ice Age, embark on a quest to fulfill a dying mother's wish to return a human boy to his migrating tribe.