video recordings for children

Alvin, Simon, and Theodore celebrate Thanksgiving.

Presents the first season of the television program about a family of lions in a magical library, featuring Cliff Hanger, Monkey Pop-Up Theater, B.B. King of the Beasts, and other highlights.

A young boy experiences grief as president Abraham Lincoln's body is transported from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois, for burial.

Profiles the exploits of seventeenth-century English explorer Henry Hudson, describing his search for a Northwest passage from Europe to Asia, his voyages along North America's eastern coast and the Hudson Bay region.

Explores the people and heritage of the northeastern U.S., including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, discussing Native Americans, early New England, trouble in the colonies, immigration, and population growth.

Two students, looking for an idea for their science project, get lucky when they meet Miss Dallerwag, a store owner who teaches them about atoms and molecules, mass, volume, and density, and the ever-changing states of matter.

Two students go to an equipment rental and repair shop for help with their science fair project on machines, and are given a tour by the owner which includes an introduction to the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, wedge, inclined plane, and screw, as well as compound machines such as a bicycle, a typewriter, and a corkscrew.

Rough-and-tumble alley cat Thomas O'Malley comes to the rescue when Duchess, a high-society cat who inherited a fortune from her millionaire owner in Paris, is ousted from the family mansion, along with her three little kittens, by the bumbling butler, Edgar.

Explains the science behind several types of weather, covering such topics as the water cycle, wind, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, tornadoes, and hurricanes, and discusses weather forecasting.

Presents an introduction to sound, explaining how sounds are produced and heard, featuring a demonstration of vibration, and looking at the various ways sound travels.