HBO Storybook Musicals

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.

Episodes

Originally airing as individual, stand-alone TV specials, there are 11 episodes total:

• Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical, narrated by Tony Randall (based on The House on East 88th Street by Bernard Waber)
• The Story of the Dancing Frog by Quentin Blake, narrated by Amanda Plummer
• The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen, narrated by Ossie Davis
• Earthday Birthday, an environmental special celebrating Earth Day, with the voices of Christopher Reeve and Lainie Kazan
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton, narrated by Robert Klein
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
• The Marzipan Pig by Russell Hoban, narrated by Tim Curry
• The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen, narrated by F. Murray Abraham
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, narrated by Carol Burnett
• Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
• A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson