Jane and the Dragon is a CG animated series based on the children's books of Martin Baynton. This DVD contains five episodes: "Tests and Jests," "Tooth Fairy," "Jester Justice," "A Dragon's Tail," and "Shall We Dance." I appreciate the strong feminine role model of Jane who works to become a knight without emphasizing that it's not typically something that girls can't do.

Z, at age four, was concerned that they were a little violent in the sword fighting scenes. "Mama, I don't think this is appropriate," she said to me, "they aren't being very nice." This might just come down to a matter of your family's treatment of cartoon violence, but be sure to censor the Tooth Fairy episode if you have little ones in the house who believe in the tooth fairy - Jane plays the tooth fairy for the dragon and tells the dragon over and over that the tooth fairy doesn't exist. In the end, there's a bit of mystery as to whether the tooth fairy exists but I'm not sure it will override the repetitive claims that she doesn't, and frankly, I was pretty irritated that they dropped that bomb on my daughter before she'd even lost her first tooth.

You can buy the Jane and the Dragon DVD and Jane and the Dragon books on Amazon.com. - Jennifer