The hundred penny box

Duration: 0:18:57

Genre: Adaptation | Children's | Drama

Year Published: 1979

Creator: Churchill Films: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Presents the Newbery Honor Book by Sharon Bell Mathis about the love of a young boy for his great-great-aunt. Dramatizes a family conflict involving the 10-year-old boy, his mother, and 100-year-old aunt which leads him to intercede when his mother wants to toss out all of the aunt's old things. Uses music and black and white flashbacks to set the tone for sad memories and background information., Presents the Newbery Honor Book by Sharon Bell Mathis about the love of a young boy for his great-great-aunt. Dramatizes a family conflict involving the 10-year-old boy, his mother, and 100-year-old aunt which leads him to intercede when his mother wants to toss out all of the aunt's old things. Uses music and black and white flashbacks to set the tone for sad memories and background information.

Complete Record: , The story of a young Black child named Michael, his hundred-year-old great great Aunt Dew, his mother and the big ugly old box. The box contains a small sack with one hundred pennies, each a memory of a year in Aunt Dew's life. When Michael's mother, burdened by the care of an elderly woman, wants to dispose of the box, Michael is fiercely defiant. , Presents the Newbery Honor Book by Sharon Bell Mathis about the love of a young boy for his great-great-aunt. Dramatizes a family conflict involving the 10-year-old boy, his mother, and 100-year-old aunt which leads him to intercede when his mother wants to toss out all of the aunt's old things. Uses music and black and white flashbacks to set the tone for sad memories and background information.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.