video recordings for children

Young Diego reads a letter from his father, an astronaut, describing the journeys and discoveries of the first explorers to the New World.

Wilbur is a sympathetic pig who becomes enchanted by a bright and literate spider named Charlotte. This remarkable spider saves Wilbur's life with some fancy web work, but she can't save her own. Her legacy is her progeny, a few of who, season after season, remain on the farm with Wilbur.

Describes the differences between maps and globes; introduces their different parts, including latitude and longitude lines, hemispheres, and the poles; discusses their advantages and disadvantages, explaining how flat maps distort size, shape, and distance; and presents strategies for deciding which one to use.

Explains where pumpkins come from and showing how they grow through time-lapse photography and animation.

A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in the great big world.

Teaches children the five dimensions of geography: place, location, human-environment interactions, movement, and regions.

Lionel and Leona ride a train into a book called "Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain," by Verna Aardema. Learn about African tales, the environment, problem solving and transportation. Featuring the "AI" as long "A" sound.

With the help of her mother and a ukelele, Leona faces her fear of a scary fictional giant.

It's Alice Day! It's Alice Day! Callooh! Callay! Hooray! Learn about challenges and determination and self-esteem, read classics. Featuring the short "E" sound.

The two pigeons, Walter and Clay, want "The fox and the crow" banned from the library because they think the book makes birds look like birdbrains. Learn about animal stories and writing stories and poems, read Aesop's fables. Featuring the short "o" sound.