Julia Donaldson has already won a huge following with the under-threes for The Gruffalo, and this charming adventure will win her a whole new fan base.
"Moonrise Kingdom," a gravely charming adventure story about kids on the lam, offered a break in the smirking tone; Anderson released what appeared to be a strong current of tenderness.
PAJAMA SAM 3: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT FROM YOUR HEAD TO YOUR FEET -- A funny, utterly charming adventure game for children that is just flat-out fun, even for those who passed their eighth birthday many years ago.
A sequel to the popular "Professor Layton and the Curious Village," this charming adventure has you solve puzzles in order to advance the main story and solve the greater mystery.
But I think it's also possible that these were unconscious choices, filtered and distilled into this charming adventure story through the sieve of implicit cultural norms and gender stereotypes.
For the many fans in attendance who belonged to the pre-MTV generation, the event was pure nostalgic bliss; for the others, it was perhaps a strange and charming adventure into a world in which kitsch was served straight up, without irony or apology.
The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, thought well of the episode, calling it, "A quite charming little adventure in which, in an effort to impress Bart, Homer undertakes a dangerous adventure and comes through successfully.
And "Merlin," a lighthearted, quite charming medieval adventure series made by the BBC, is tailored to the age of Obama.
Charming, charming, charming\" by NPR.
Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.
