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MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO

Prompted discussions about running away and how to handle fear or ghosts. Kids wanted to know who Totoro was. There was not a child in the group who didn't like it. "Tell them we just love it."

Truly entertaining. Blends cultural and ethnic characteristics to show the similarities between people, but there is no way the characters look Japanese and there are too many stereotypes: an old hag next-door and an imitation "Indian war dance."

Japanese children's classic tells the magic of magical creatures who inhabit a tree trunk and the way they touch a child's life.