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Imagination Storybooks

Imagination Storybooks by DCMP creates accessible videobooks of existing illustrated children's books to reinforce children’s core values, such as kindness and empowerment, through the creative forces of children’s book authors, illustrators, and narrators.

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Still image from: The Cane Kids
8 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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Still image from: Clea and the Storm
9 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Storybook excerpt shows a nervous child turns around, looking worried. A caterpillar crawls next to him, looking confused. We zoom in on the distressed boy as he breaks out in a sweat. Text reads, “I turned around to make sure that no one else could see.”
7 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Still image from: Clea's Big Surprise
9 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Storybook excerpt shows terrified-looking boy standing frozen in front of a barn. Text reads, “When RJ saw the soldier ants, he met them at the barn.”
9 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Storybook excerpt shows two kids standing in a snowy field and chatting. Above them, a sun, a clock, a snowflake, flowers, and leaves moving through the wind appear as they discuss climate. Text reads, “What’s climate? Climate is the weather over time. A long time… like thirty years! What?! It would never snow for a hundred years? No, no, no. That’s not what climate is. People measure weather over a long time. They keep track of how hot or cold it is, how often it snows or rains, stuff like that. Who measures the weather?”
16 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 4
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Still image from: The Day the Clouds Went Away
12 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
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Still image from: Dogfish Saves the Ocean
10 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Still image from: Dogfish Stands Up to Bullying
11 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Still image from: Dogfish, Just Be You
11 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Still image from: Don't Step on the Spider
22 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Still image from: Dragons Love Tacos
15 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Storybook excerpt shows a cute blue elephant reading a letter as it sits on the floor amongst a pile of envelopes. Text reads, “Ellen received many letters from animals who have a family or friend in need. She invites them on her show, shares the story, and helps them anyway she can. She donates money, school supplies, toys, and so much more!”
11 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Storybook page with an illustration of a zebra holding a painting at the top, an upset purple elephant in the middle, and the painting being ripped down the middle by the elephant and the zebra at the bottom. Story text appears on the page.
11 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Still image from: Ellie and Her Emotional Dragons: Ellie's First Day of School
16 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
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Storybook excerpt shows an illustration of a bee wearing a hat and sneakers looks sad. Text reads, “Flora taps Bee’s finger away, ‘I’m not sticky.’ But Flora’s hands are sticky, and to Flora’s surprise—and to Bee’s dismay—they get stuck.”
20 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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2-page view of a storybook. The left page contains red, blue, yellow, and green stars across the top and bottom, with story in the middle. The right page is a cartoon of a blonde girl using a frog puppet for a brunette girl inside a living room.
10 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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Storybook excerpt shows an illustration of a bear filling up an old-fashioned airplane at a honey filling station that reads “best flying honey." Another bear sits in the cockpit while a third bear waits on the wing of the plane. Text reads, “At last the plane would fly.”
9 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Color illustration of Carrie, a young girl with glasses, looking out of an open bedroom window. Purple angel wings hang down from her shoulders.
Grandma's Closet
Episode 1
14 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
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Color illustration of Carrie holding a magical white lily with a face visible on the outside of the petals. Carrie and the plant look up at a woman bending down towards them.
Grandma's Closet
Episode 3
10 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
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