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Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories

Young, blonde girl in a blue graphic tee-shirt sits and talks in front of a dark green curtain. Caption. I'll support whatever decisions he makes.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 1
4 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Side view of a young girl with long brown hair sitting in a white wooden chair with a pink pillow behind her at a white desk as she uses a gray Perkins Brailler. Caption. She is a top student with a wildly vivid imagination.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 2
3 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Teenage boy wears a red tee-shirt, blue shorts and baseball cap, tall red-striped socks, and baseball cleats. He kneels with a padded knee on a grassy baseball field as he prepares to throw a yellow softball. Caption. Don't let anyone else tell you what your child can or cannot do.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 3
5 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An adult holds a child's hand while they run together on a concrete pad as other children look on. Caption. Never, ever make a excuse that you can't do something.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 4
5 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man in a black shirt holds a baby in a light pink frilly dress and headband. 2 young girls look at the baby as their mother looks on from behind. Caption. I look at her as, here's my youngest daughter.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 5
5 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man and woman sit on a couch with big red patterned pillows. The man holds a smiling toddler in a bright yellow shirt between his legs. Caption. The Smith-Levins remain positive about Max's future.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 6
6 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Low shot of a person holding a baby resting in a handheld carrier. Caption. Jen as narrator. Look at who is coming home for the first time!
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 7
5 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
A chubby baby wearing a blue long sleeved shirt and white cap lays on a white blanket. Caption. The Horstmeyer's only child requires round the clock care.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 8
58 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Young girl in a white shirt sits behind a large drum with her hands on it. There are other drums and instruments nearby in what appears to be a music classroom. Caption. She is the only student at her school with severe visual impairment.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 9
58 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT

Alma's Way - Series

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Still image from: Alma's Way: No-Go Mofongo / Alma vs. Eddie
Alma's Way
Season 1 / Ep 1
23 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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Still image from: Alma's Way: Alma's Cat-tastrophe / Stickball!
Alma's Way
Season 1 / Ep 26
23 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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Still image from: Alma's Way: Alma Picked a Pepper / The Alma Train
Alma's Way
Season 1 / Ep 25
23 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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Still image from: Alma's Way: Alma's Best Friend / Steggie Gets Lost
Alma's Way
Season 1 / Ep 27
23 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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Still image from: Alma's Way: Chacho Gets a Bath / Frankie's Four Feet
Alma's Way
Season 1 / Ep 28
23 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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Still image from: Alma's Way: All About Alma / Alma’s Playdate
Alma's Way
Season 1 / Ep 29
23 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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Still image from: Alma's Way: Howard Flies the Coop / Supper Surprise
Alma's Way
Season 1 / Ep 30
23 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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Still image from: Alma's Way: Community Campout / Leaf It to Alma
Alma's Way
Season 1 / Ep 31
23 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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Still image from: Alma's Way: Harper's Quick Change / All Rapped Up
Alma's Way
Season 1 / Ep 32
23 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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Still image from: Alma's Way: The Beach Blahs / The Last Sandcastle
Alma's Way
Season 1 / Ep 33
23 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4

Imagination Storybooks

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Storybook excerpt shows four kids, two dogs, and two cats standing in a school hallway. Two kids laugh while the other two discuss something. Text reads, “Archie walked past the children in the hallway who had laughed at him—his head held high with pride. ‘Can we pat your puppies?’ a little girl asked. ‘We'd like to pat your puppies too. They are kind and cute,’ the other children said in agreement.”
16 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
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Storybook shows an illustration of a cute young bunny jumping rope outside and then talks with her mom. Text reads, “Brooklyn made up a hop rope rhyme. ‘Hop, and stop! Hop, and stop!’ The rhyme helped Brooklyn to get better at hop rope. She hopped twice in a row and ran inside to tell Mama Bunny. ‘That’s wonderful!’ said Mama Bunny. ‘I was just signing up Bryson and Brayden for the sack race at the Hippity Hop Games.’”
11 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
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Slide shows white text on a navy-blue background that reads, “We’ll black through the air; layer by layer. Earth is protected by the atmosphere."
6 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Color illustration in picture book. Children gesture to one another as fruit and music notes float in air. In next image, children stand in a circle as girl holds arms out beneath thought bubble with dancing bunnies. Story text appears on screen.
11 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
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Storybook excerpt shows an illustration of a boy with a cochlear implant from behind. Opposite page shows the boy from the front as he tugs on his ears. Text tells us about how Mickey uses cochlear implants.
7 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Storybook excerpt shows an illustration of a gray dog looking with surprise at his reflection in a mirror as a brown dog barks beside him. Texts tell the story of a dog alerting a boy that his wish to become a dog came true.
11 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Storybook excerpt shows an illustration of a girl playing in a kiddie pool full of noodles as a woman dumps a bucket on top. Then the girl poses with her tongue sticking out as a worm slithers in a pile of noodles on the floor. Text tells the story of a girl who loves noodles.
11 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Storybook excerpt shows an illustration of a boy standing by a stream and looking up from a paper as a younger boy carries a rock over to him. Picture bubbles circle a tractor, spider, ant hill, and other things. Texts tells us that the boys are looking for things on a list.
12 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Storybook excerpt shows an illustration of a girl in a tiara looking surprised on one page and an illustration of two girls wearing gowns and sitting on a rock beneath giant feet. Text tells the story of a princess and her friend hiding from giants.
13 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Storybook excerpt shows an illustration of two mice and two hedgehogs wearing leotards as they do gymnastics on bars and mats. A coach calls out to them from the side. Text reads, "Her heart says yes, but her mind says pass.
7 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
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Storybook excerpt shows an illustration of a hedgehog balancing on a branch bent over with a blanket hanging over it to form a tent. It overlooks a path that crosses a stream through a field. Text reads, "My adventures are my own when I create."
6 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
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Storybook excerpt shows illustrations show young women designing clothes, writing at a desk, dressed in a pilot uniform in front of a plane, checking an x-ray, and sailing a ship. Text tells us about many different jobs that girls can do.
15 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Still image from: The ABCs of Inclusion: Paving the Way for Equality and Understanding
19 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3

Weston Woods Studios Animated Childrens Books

Color illustration. 3 mice rest on mats. Caption. A Chrysanthemum is a flower.
14 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Color illustration of a smiling dog with a red collar in front of a textured green background. Title card reads, "Dog Breath, The Horrible Trouble With Hally Tosis."
8 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Painting of a horse leaning over a fence next to an ox, cat and rooster. They appear as if they are gathered together and having a conversation. Caption. But they all said, "Well if he can ride a bike."
10 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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A frog riding on a toy truck being pulled on a string. Caption: [toy piano music]
13 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Color illustration. Gorilla dangles from a tire swing behind a barred fence as a Zookeeper walks by. Caption. Good night, gorilla.
9 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Color illustration of a white dog with black spots laying down outside with head resting on an object. Caption. And buried it in the backyard.
9 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Black and white cartoon of a cat laying out on the pavement outside, looking off towards a butterfly.
8 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Still image from: The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster!
8 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
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Planets with smiley faces and accessories circle around a sun wearing sunglasses in outer space. Text reads, "The Sun Is Kind of a Big Deal."
14 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
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Color illustration of a green caterpillar standing on a rock and glancing upwards at an angle. Tall blades of grass in the background.
8 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Color illustration of a green caterpillar standing on a rock and glancing upwards at an angle. Tall blades of grass in the background.
8 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
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Girl looks out from a sailboat filled with people huddled together. They sail in a turquoise blue sea as stars sparkle around them. Text reads, "Wishes."
7 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
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Color illustration, 2 large, brown fuzzy creatures looking at smaller purple fuzzy creature. Caption. They are just like.
4 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3

Winnie the Pooh

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Stuck inside Rabbit’s hole, Winnie-the-Pooh gives Rabbit a bewildered look.
Winnie-the-Pooh
Season 0 / Ep 2
13 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Close-up of Winnie-the-Pooh’s blue balloon.
Winnie-the-Pooh
Season 0 / Ep 1
20 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Looking curious, Winnie-the-Pooh holds up a paw as Piglet dances beside him.
Winnie-the-Pooh
Season 0 / Ep 3
11 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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In a large tree, Winnie-the-Pooh stands on a branch in front of Owl’s door with his hands behind his back, waiting patiently.
Winnie-the-Pooh
Season 0 / Ep 4
13 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Still image from: Winnie-the-Pooh (Chapter 5)
Winnie-the-Pooh
Season 0 / Ep 5
21 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Still image from: Winnie-the-Pooh (Chapter 6)
Winnie-the-Pooh
Season 0 / Ep 6
22 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Still image from: Winnie-the-Pooh (Chapter 8)
Winnie-the-Pooh
Season 0 / Ep 8
24 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Still image from: Winnie-the-Pooh (Chapter 9)
Winnie-the-Pooh
Season 0 / Ep 9
21 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Still image from: Winnie-the-Pooh (Chapter 7)
Winnie-the-Pooh
Season 0 / Ep 7
22 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Still image from: Winnie-the-Pooh (Chapter 10)
Winnie-the-Pooh
Season 0 / Ep 10
20 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2

Our Special Life Series

Woman with long, medium brown hair and a red sweater sits and talks with a blurred kitchen in the background. Caption. That he had autism.
Our Special Life
Episode 1
5 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a young girl with blonde hair and bangs wearing a pink shirt while looking down. She has a few freckles on her nose.
Our Special Life
Episode 2
5 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a woman with highlighted brown hair and brown eyes in front of a blurred decorative shelf. Caption. That I had envisioned.
Our Special Life
Episode 3
6 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of young boy with a pink baseball cap and red shirt with white polka dots sitting at a table and using his fingers to put food in his mouth. A plate with food is in front of him. Caption. Of kids with D, U, P, 15, Q.
Our Special Life
Episode 4
7 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a woman with blue eyes, brown hair with bangs, and a patterned blue blouse sitting in a wooden chair with a kitchen table in the background. Caption. She wasn't pulling up to standing.
Our Special Life
Episode 5
6 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Young boy wearing glasses and a red tee-shirt leans his elbows on a clipboard on a table while looking over at a woman in a purple shirt and glasses. She touches his back while writing on a paper in front of her. Caption. Say it again.
Our Special Life
Episode 6
4 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Smiling woman with brown hair and a light blue shirt stands behind a young, smiling boy in a blue plaid shirt. Her hands are on his sides to help him stay steady. Caption. It presents as if he has Angelman syndrome.
Our Special Life
Episode 7
5 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of smiling toddler with a pink shirt and light brown hair in pigtails holding a baby in a light pink onesie. The baby has a red rash on her cheeks. Caption. And on her body.
Our Special Life
Episode 8
5 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Young boy with dark hair sticks out his tongue in concentration as a woman with long brown hair helps him get his arm out of his brown tee-shirt. Caption. A stroke when I miscarried the twin.
Our Special Life
Episode
6 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Large family of multiple generations posing for a family photo. They wear shades of red, green, brown, and white, and several babies wear Santa hats. Caption. The kids are Cari, Jonathan, Jacob, Lori, Ozzie.
Our Special Life
Episode 10
4 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12

Read Out Loud Series

Book cover shows an illustrated small red panda sitting on a rooftop talking with a giant panda, who appears to look and listen with care. Text reads, "Ping Meets Pang. A story of otherness, differences, and friendship. Written and illustrated by Mary Jane Begin."
Read Out Loud
Episode 1
3 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Author Matthew Van Fleet holds up his book titled "Tails," which is illustrated with a tiger pawing at another animal's tail. The letters of the title are each made up of different animal tails.
Read Out Loud
Episode 2
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Person holds up a book called "Bubblegum Princess," with an illustration of a brown-haired girl dressed in pink and red and a yellow crown in the foreground.
Read Out Loud
Episode 3
7 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Author Aram Kim holds up her book titled "No Kimchi for Me!" whose cover illustration depicts three cats standing behind a tabletop that holds dishes and chopsticks.
Read Out Loud
Episode 4
10 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Author Robin Newman wears a black sweatshirt with a white spider web illustration on it, with orange text that says "Hildie." She holds up a book called "Hildie Bitterpickles Needs Her Sleep." The cover illustration features a small orange-haired witch reading a book by candlelight.
Read Out Loud
Episode 5
5 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Man holds up a book titled "The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!" The cover design resembles the front page of a newspaper called the Daily Wolf, with the title as the headline, the byline "by A Wolf," and a column of the article's text next to an illustration of a suited-up wolf blowing hard. Text at the bottom, "As told to Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith."
Read Out Loud
Episode 6
7 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Author Kate Hosford holds open her book, "Mama's Belly," to a page showing a young girl running down a grassy hill with a bouquet of flowers, as her mother waits for her at the bottom.
Read Out Loud
Episode 7
3 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Book cover shows an illustrated tabletop with a huge bowl of mac and cheese, a dish of green peas, and a carton of milk. In the background, we see three birds peeking from behind a wall, where a bulletin board has the book's title: "No Peacocks!" Written by Robin Newman and illustrated by Chris Ewald.
Read Out Loud
Episode 8
4 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Book cover shows an illustration of a little girl holding a pink parasol, dressed in a pink cloak and a fluffy skirt, with a little lamb accessory at her waist, who looks excitedly toward us as she stands outside of a shop. Text reads, "Mary Had a Little Glam. By Tammi Sauer, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton."
Read Out Loud
Episode 9
2 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Book cover shows an illustration of a little girl who smiles and waves as she carries a large, colorful, patchwork purse with ribbons of red, yellow, pink, and blue unfurling around it. Text reads, "Grandma's Purse. Vanessa Brantley Newton."
Read Out Loud
Episode 10
3 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5

Marvie - Sesame Studios

Animated puppet, Marvie, looks at camera and smiles in front of Buckingham Palace. Caption. I heard that guards aren't allowed to laugh or smile.
Marvie
Episode 1
3 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Animated puppet, Marvie, smiles with a wide open mouth as she stands in a child's colorful bedroom. Caption. My dad and I were just sharing jokes.
Marvie
Episode 2
1 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: K - 4
Animated puppet, Marvie, smiles as she stands in a child's colorful bedroom. Caption. I learned some jokes and I can't wait.
Marvie
Episode 3
1 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Orange plastic egg. Caption: Lets see what's in this surprise egg.
Marvie
Episode 4
1 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Animated puppet, Marvie, smiles and looks sideways at an easel that displays a drawing of a woman labeled, "Ada Lovelace." Caption. I just learned about mathematician, Ada Lovelace.
Marvie
Episode 5
1 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Animated puppet, Marvie, looks at camera and smiles in front of Buckingham Palace. Caption. I heard that guards aren't allowed to laugh or smile.
Marvie
Episode 6
1 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Cartoon character standing next to a drawing of an African American man. Caption: I was just reading about Garrett Morgan.
Marvie
Episode 7
1 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Small hand rests next to a yellow spiral-bound book titled, "The Alphabet Book." Blue background is scattered with gold star stickers. Caption. Child as narrator. The Alphabet Book.
Marvie
Episode 8
2 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Animated puppet, Marvie smiles in a colorful room with floating bookshelves, a child's easel, and a window seat. Caption. I wanted to show you the window seat in my room.
Marvie
Episode 9
1 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Cartoon of a bright yellow seahorse and a shark swimming in a brightly colored coral reef. Caption: You are so good at hiding in that colorful coral reef!
Marvie
Episode 10
2 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2

Coilbook Animation

Glowing ball representing the sun with a globe representing the earth traveling in orbit around it. Examples of the different hemispheres experiencing opposite seasons in the background. Caption: A season is a division of the year
Shawn and Team
Episode 5
10 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: K - 2
Cartoon of a toy room with Max the Train parked on the tracks and looking at Bill the monster truck nearby. Bill says Hi, Max. Max says, Hi, Blazin' Bill.
Toys
Episode 4
7 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Cartoon of a play room. Robo, J, 5, a pink robot hover next to a machine labeled, "Word Machine." Robot faces towards Blazin' Bill and Jake the Fire Engine parked nearby, appearing to watch the Word Machine. Caption. Today we will learn animal words.
Toys
Episode 3
6 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Cartoon of Max the Train, Jake the Fire Engine, and Blazin' Bill the Monster Truck floating down a river surrounded by dense trees on a log raft. Caption. Look! I see 1 of Bubble's wooden shapes.
Toys
Episode 11
4 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Front view of Florence, a C, G, I white ambulance with headlights that look like eyes and a mouth across the front bumper, parked by the entrance of a hospital. Caption. Hi. I'll be right back.
Real City Heroes
Episode 3
15 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Red locomotive sits in a grassy field next to a wooden rail fence.
Shawn and Team
Episode 6
1 hours 5 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Cartoon of the side of Max the Train driving along the tracks, surrounded by bright purple and green pillars.
Toys
Episode 5
21 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Cartoon of a bright purple convertible raised up on monster truck tires driving across a paved outdoor area surrounded by trees. Nearby, a blue raised truck is partially visible.
Toys
Episode 9
14 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3

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