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Awards: ALA Notable Video of the Year (selected titles); Small Press for Multicultural Children’s Literature, Willa Cather Literary Award for Best Children’s Book of the Year.

Modern classics, now on DVD, help young learners understand the world around them with stories that explore other cultures, explain the past, examine different environments and encourage compassion.

Includes beautiful, iconographic animation, engaging narrators, original music, and dramatic effects.
 
English & Spanish on one DVD
 
Bebé Goes Shopping and Bebé Goes To The Beach (Susan Middleton)


English Only

A Box Full of Kittens (Sonia Manzano) (ALA Notable Video of the Year)

A Day’s Work (Eve Bunting)

A Mama For Owen (Marion Dane Bauer) (ALA Notable Video of the Year)

A Picnic In October (Eve Bunting)

A Tale of Two Dogs (Steven Kroll)

A Tiger Called Thomas (Charlotte Zolotow)

A. Lincoln and Me (Louise Borden)

An Apple For Harriet Tubman (Glennette Tilley Turner)

Ape (Martin Jenkins)

April Foolishness (Teresa Bateman)

Are You A Horse? (Andy Rash)

Armadilly Chili (Helen Ketteman)

Barkus, Sly and the Golden Egg (Angela McAllister)

Bats At the Ballgame (Brian Lies)

Bats At the Beach (Brian Lies) (ALA Notable Video of the Year)

Bats At The Library (Brian Lies)

Because Your Daddy Loves You (Andrew Clements) (ALA Notable Video of the Year)

bees, snails & peacock tails and birdsongs (Betsy Franco)

Beware of the Frog (William Bee)

Big Brown Bear (Three Stories by David McPhail) (ALA Notable Video of the Year)

Boomer’s Great Adventures- 3 stories (Constance W. McGeorge)

Chameleons Are Cool (Martin Jenkins)

Chowder (Peter Brown)

Counting Crocodiles (Anne Miranda)

Critter Sitter & Lulu's Magic Wand (Chuck Richards)

Don’t Be Silly, Mrs. Millie! (Judy Cox)

Don't Slam The Door (Dori Chacones)

Family Pack (Sandra Markle)

Felix Feels Better & Felix and the Worrier (Rosemary Wells)

Finding Lincoln (Ann Malaspina)

First Day Jitters/Last Day Blues (Julie Danneberg)

Goldilocks & Mother Goose and Friends (Ruth Sanderson)

Growing Frogs (Vivian French)

Halloween Treats: The Runaway Pumpkin (Kevin Lewis) and Pumpkin Heads (Wendell Minor)

Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild (Mem Fox)

Hero Cat (Eileen Spinelli)

Hog-Eye and The Best Place (Susan Meddaugh)

Hooway For Wodney Wat (Helen Lester)

Horace & Morris but Mostly Dolores/Horace & Morris Join the Chorus (James Howe)

How Did That Get In My Lunchbox (Chris Butterworth)

I Hate English (Ellen Levine) (ALA Notable Video of the Year)

I Love You The Purplest (Barbara Joosse)

John Willy and Freddy McGee (Holly Meade)

Just A Minute – A Trickster Tale and Counting Book (Yuji Morales)

Let George Do It! (George Foreman & Fran Manushkin)

Little Beauty & Silly Billy (Anthony Browne)

Little Pea, Little Hoot & Little Oink (Amy Krouse Rosenthal)

Little Quack Stories (Little Quack; Little Quack’s Hide and Seek; Little Quack’s New Friend) (Lauren Thompson)

Little Rooster’s Diamond Button (Margaret Read MacDonald)

Living Sunlight (Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm)

Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken (Kate DiCamillo) (ALA Notable Video of the Year)

Look! Look! Look! (Nancy E Wallace)

Mabela the Clever (Retold by Margaret Read MacDonald) (ALA Notable Video of the Year)

May I Pet Your Dog? The How-to Guide for Kids Meeting Dogs (Stephanie Calmenson) (ALA Notable Video of the Year)

Mim, Gym and June (Denis Roche)

Monarch And Milkweed (Helen Frost)

One Tiny Turtle (Nicola Davies)

Out on the Prarie & Deep in the Swamp (Donna Bateman)

Pig Tales (Davide McPhail & David Hyde Costello)

Ruby The Copycat (Peggy Rathmann)

Ruby’s Wish (Shirin Yim Bridges)

Seeds! Seeds! Seeds! (Elizabeth Wallace)

Serious Farm (Tim Egan)

She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round The Mountain (Philemon Sturges)

Sophie’s Masterpiece (Eileen Spinelli)

Stanley’s Party/Stanley’s Wild Ride (Linda Bailey)

The Apple Pip Princess (Jane Ray)

The Emperor’s Egg (Martin Jenkins) (ALA Notable Video of the Year)

The Firekeeper’s Son (Linda Sue Park)

The Great Race (Kevin O'Malley)

The Honest-to-Goodness Truth (Patricia C. McKissack)

The Hunterman and the Crocodile (Baba Wague’)

The Journey Of Oliver K. Woodman (Darcy Pattison) (Notable Video Award-ALA)

The Lion's Share- A Tale of Halving Cake and Eating It, Too (Mathew McElligott)

The Lizard Man of Crabtree County (Lucy Nolan)

The Luck Of the Loch Ness Monster (A Tale of Picky Eating)

The Memory String (Eve Bunting)

The Secret Shortcut•The Lost & Found (Mark Teague)

The Seven Chinese Sisters/Two Of Everything (Kathy Tucker / Lily Toy Hong)

The Seven Silly Eaters (Mary Ann Hoberman)

The Story of Ruby Bridges (Robert Coles)

The Subway Mouse (Barbara Reid)

Those Shoes (Maribeth Boelts) (ALA Notable Video of the Year)

Two Alphabet Stories (Shiver Me Letters and B Is For Bulldozer (June Sobel)

Two Bobbies: A true Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship and Survival (Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery) (ALA Notable Video of the Year)

When Mama Comes Home Tonight-When Papa Comes Home Tonight (Eileen Spinelli)

We're All In The Same Boat (Zachary Shapiro)

When Dinosaurs Came With Everything (Elise Broach)

While Mama Had A Quick Little Chat (Amy Reichert)

While The World Is Sleeping (Pamela Duncan Edwards)

White Owl, Barn Owl (Nicola Davies)

White Water ((Michael Brandy and Eric Stein)

Whose Garden Is It? (Mary Ann Hoberman)

Wind Flyers (Angela Johnson)

Yucky Worms (Vivian French)