In this collection, you'll find music, written by Joe Hisaishi, accompanying the following Studio Ghibli's films during the years from 1983 to 2004:

• Part 1/4: Kaze no Tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) & Tenkuu no Shiro Rapyuta (Laputa: Castle in the Sky)
  
• Part 2/4: Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) & Majo no Takkyuubin (Kiki's Delivery Service)
  
• Part 3/4: Kurenai no Buta (Porco Rosso) & Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke)
  
• Part 4/4: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away) & Hauru no Ugoku Shiro (Howl's Moving Castle)

In this collection, you'll find music, written by Joe Hisaishi, accompanying the following Studio Ghibli's films during the years from 1983 to 2004:

• Part 1/4: Kaze no Tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) & Tenkuu no Shiro Rapyuta (Laputa: Castle in the Sky)
  
• Part 2/4: Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) & Majo no Takkyuubin (Kiki's Delivery Service)
  
• Part 3/4: Kurenai no Buta (Porco Rosso) & Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke)
  
• Part 4/4: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away) & Hauru no Ugoku Shiro (Howl's Moving Castle)

The film Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an adaptation of a musical of the same name written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The video version was released in 1999, directed by David Mallet and Stephen Pimlott, with Donny Osmond in the title role and Maria Friedman as The Narrator. Richard Attenborough and Joan Collins also appeared.

At the beginning of this film, The Narrator draws a school audience repeatedly into a very 20th century 'Technicolor' production of the Biblical story. Patriarch Jacob lived happily with his dozen sons, but his favoritism for bright Joseph, symbolized by the gift of a spectacular multi-colored coat, makes his brothers so jealous they end up selling him as a slave and staging his death. He rises in the service of wealthy Potifar, though his adulterous wife is falsely accused and incarcerated. His gift of dream-telling however wins him Pharoah's favor, in charge of planning for the 7 years of penury after 7 good ones he prophesied. When his brothers come to beg for food, it's time for reckoning and nobility.

David "Dave" Barry (born July 3, 1947) is an American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comedic novels.

This collection includes his 14 best non-fiction titles during the years from 1983 to 2006.

Sophie Hatter reads a great deal and soon realizes that as the eldest of three daughters she is doomed to an uninteresting future. She resigns herself to making a living as a hatter and helping her younger sisters prepare to make their fortunes. But adventure seeks her out in the shop where she sits alone, dreaming over her hats. The wicked Witch of the Waste, angered by "competition" in the area, turns her into a old woman, so she seeks refuge inside the strange moving castle of the wizard Howl. Howl, advertised by his apprentice as an eater of souls, lives a mad, frantic life trying to escape the curse the witch has placed on him, find the perfect girl of his dreams and end the contract he and his fire demon have entered. Sophie, against her best instincts and at first unaware of her own powers, falls in love. So goes this intricate, humorous and puzzling tale of fantasy and adventure which should both challenge and involve readers. Jones has created an engaging set of characters and found a new use for many of the appurtenances of fairy tales seven league boots and invisible cloaks, among others. At times, the action becomes so complex that readers may have to go back to see what actually happened, and at the end so many loose ends have to be tied up at once that it's dizzying. Yet Jones' inventiveness never fails, and her conclusion is infinitely satisfying.

- School Library Journal.

Joe Hisaishi conducts a full orchestra on the 15th anniversary of the Studio Ghibli's film of the same name.

The first eight tracks consist of Symphonic Suite-like arrangements of the themes, with periodic accompanying dramatic narration discussing the events in the film the music represents. The second eight tracks repeat the same music as before, but this time without narration.