The holidays are great, but the days between Christmas and New Year’s Day can be problematic. I have a suggestion: sit down with the kids and grandkids and relax!

The children’s departments at the eight branches of the Springfield-Greene County Library District specialize in family-friendly movies. Hundreds of CDs and videos can be checked out to be viewed by your family, but here’s the trick: how do you find movies that are entertaining and enjoyable for all age groups?

Tracy Biggers, manager of the children’s department at the Library Center and mother of a preschooler, has some suggestions—movies, as she says, “that the kids love and the adults don’t find annoying!”

Many of her suggestions are vintage—movies that many of us remember from our childhood. “The Parent Trap,” an updated version of the 1961 classic about separated identical twins, stars Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson and Lindsay Lohan. A series of Benji movies, the first released as a motion picture in 1973, tells the story of how a dog finds a family of his own and then almost loses them in a kidnapping plot.

Some parents will remember “The Love Bug.” Released in 1968, the movie is about the adventures of Herbie, the magical, almost-human Volkswagen with a mind of its own.

You can’t go wrong with these two classics. “Anne of Green Gables” is a 1987 movie filmed on the original location, Prince Edward Island in Canada, of the novel by L.M. Montgomery. “Heidi” stars Shirley Temple as a young girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Swiss Alps.

You can’t stay in the house all week; too much closeness can be ruinous to your health, so when your crew is ready, bring them to the auditorium at the Library Center Saturday [December 29] at 4 p.m. for a viewing of “The Tigger Movie.”

Based on the Pooh stories written by A. A. Milne, this 2000 animated film from Walt Disney Studios is the first feature-length Pooh film since 1977’s “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.” This one is about Pooh’s friend, Tigger, who searches for his family tree and other Tiggers like himself.

Jeanne C. Duffey, community relations director for the Springfield-Greene County Library District, can be reached at jeanned@thelibrary.org.