Sesame Street: Elmo's World: Reach for the Sky! (2006)
Genre : Family
Runtime : 50M
Director : Kevin Clash, Ken Diego, Victor DiNapoli, Jim Martin
Synopsis
Join Elmo as he discovers how much fun it can be to go to school, to jump really high, and to reach for the sky. Elmo finds out the importance of going to school.
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