New Halloween DVDs for Kids and Families - 2008

This DVD is a compilation of four Go Diego Go! episodes, including one Halloween episode, "Freddie the Fruit Bat Saves Halloween!" In this new episode, Freddie has to help out when the llamas can't cross the bridge and bring the Halloween candy to Diego's party. The DVD also contains the following episodes: "Diego and Dora Help Baby Monarch Get to the Festival", "Alicia Saves the Crocodile!", and "Manatee's Mermaid Rescue!" (Release date: August 26, 2008)

Perfect Pumpkin is filled with four episodes of Max & Ruby, containing three stories each. Only a few of the stories are Halloween related and include the stories: "Max and Ruby's Perfect Pumpkin", "Max's Jack 'O' Lantern", "Max's Big Boo!", and "Max's Candy Apple". (Release date: August 26, 2008)

This DVD contains a medly of Halloween/fall episodes from some of preschoolers favorite HIT TV shows: Barney: "Sweet Treats"; Bob the Builder: "Dizzy's Sleepover"; Angelina Ballerina: "Midnight Muddle"; Fireman Sam: "Mummy's Little Pumpkin"; and Thomas & Friends: "Halloween". Also included are two bonus episodes: Kipper: "The Costume Party" and Fifi and the Flowertots: "Fifi's Scarecrow". These medly DVDs are great because kids can enjoy spooky fun from several shows without having to buy several DVDs! (Release date: Sept. 9, 2008)

Hundred Acre Wood Haunt contains the following three episodes of My Friends Tigger & Pooh: "Super-Sized Darby/Piglet's Lightning Frightening, "Eeyore's Trip to the Moon/The Incredible Shrinking Roo," and "Eeyore's Home Sweet Home/Rabbit's Prized Pumpkin." The DVD also contains a bonus Handy Manny Halloween Episode. (Release Date: September 2, 2008)

The ghostly Diamond Jim Johnson is haunting the Plaza and making trouble, but can Eloise convince everyone that there really is a spook? She intends to find proof of the supernatural occurrences and prove her story is true. (Release Date: September 2, 2008)

In this new, feature-length Halloween mystery, a maniacal magician is turning people into monsters, and in order to stop him Scooby and Shaggy will have to venture into the spooky depths of Halloween land. Awaiting the hapless pair are an assortment of storybook bogeymen and of course the object of their quest--the Goblin King! Featuring the voices of Jay Leno, Tim Curry, Jim Belushi, Lauren Bacall, and Hayden Panettiere. NR. Parents can watch a clip Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King to check out the spooks before purchasing the DVD for kids.

After a night filled with more tricking than treating, Rudy and his friend, Devery, plan one last prank for spooky Mrs. Bakewell. But when two of the kids disappear into the old widow’s house, Fat Albert and the crew set out to find their missing friends. Will Halloween fun turn into a fright for the Cosby Kids? Fat Albert, a live-action and animated show from the '70s, seeks to teach valuable lessons as well as entertain with stories about Fat Albert and the Cosby gang. NR

Created in dark and eerie stop-motion animation, The Nightmare Before Christmas tells the story of one Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town. Bored with responsibility of haunting and scaring and preparing for the climactic Halloween celebration year after year, Jack wanders sad and lonely into the forest and happens upon the door to Christmas Town. Filled with wonder and awe, Jack determines to take over Santa's job and bring Christmas Town a holiday they will never forget. Rated PG. (Release Date: August 26, 2008)

Based on the young adult novels by R.L. Stine, Goosebumps DVDs contain scary stories for kids ages 9-14 who can stand the fright. A Night in Terror Tower tells the story of a time when Sue and her brother experience some scares while taking a tour of a medieval prison and torture chamber. Also on the DVD, "Stay Out of the Basement" is a story about a girl who discovers that her dad's experiments have gone awry and there is some creepy plant life in the basement. (Release date: September 16, 2008)

Based on the young adult novels by R.L. Stine, Goosebumps DVDs contain scary stories for kids ages 9-14 who can stand the fright. Monster Blood contains the following Goosebumps stories: "Monster Blood," "More Monster Blood," "How to Kill a Monster," and "The Girl Who Cried Monster." These monstrous stories are live-action with real people, and the monsters are pretty gross looking, so some kids may find them very frightening. (Release date: September 16, 2008)

Based on the young adult novels by R.L. Stine, Goosebumps DVDs contain scary stories for kids ages 9-14 who can stand the fright. The stories "One Day at Horrorland" and "Welcome to Camp Nightmare" serve up some scary summer fun in this DVD. Kids will be freaked out by a theme park called Horrorland and a summer camp where the campers seem to be disappearing. (Release date: September 16, 2008)