Children's Stories
73 title(s) found.A Good Tree - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526862During the Christmas holiday season, three young children discover that their eccentric old...
A Musician in the Family - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521539The young son of a prairie farmer, against considerable opposition, achieves his ambition--a...
A Room Full of Energy - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527518A Room Full of Energy was produced to familiarize children with the concept of energy and to...
Acid Rain - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523697Based on Sean O'Huigan's poem Acid Rain, this animated film painted in soft pastels unveils the...
Anatomy - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520285Animal communities have rules, customs and behaviour patterns that are often similar to those of...
Beyond the Naked Eye - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521217A film of marvels, an amazing view of the living, pulsing universe contained in a single drop of...
Blackberry Subway Jam - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521228This animated version of the popular children's story by Robert Munsch is about a young boy with a...
Christie Harris - Mousewoman and Porcupine Hunter - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524575Christie Harris introduces herself and talks of the West Coast Indigenous culture that she...
Christopher Changes His Name - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527770Christopher hates his name - it's just too common! When Aunt Gail from Trinidad tells him a story...
Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room! - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524324Christopher is a terrific kid. He's cool, he's nice and he's smart. But he has one big problem...
Cornet at Night - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525261Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, this film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s...
Energy and Matter - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520470A look at energy and what it is, designed to encourage understanding and experimentation among...
Everyday Life - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB519829Animal communities have rules, customs and behaviour patterns that are often similar to those of...
Extraordinary Animals - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521123Animal communities have rules, customs and behaviour patterns that are often similar to those of...
Family - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522697Animal communities have rules, customs and behaviour patterns that are often similar to those of...
From Far Away - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522271This touching story tells of Saoussan, a young girl struggling to adjust to a new world after being...
Glasses - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520907Milo is always losing his lunchbox, screwing up in class and humiliating himself on the playground...
Halloween According to Old Weird Harold - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB519911A children's story that presents Halloween as it used to be in rural Ontario - through the...
Has Anybody Seen My Umbrella? - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521661The story of a prince who leaves school after his grade one graduation thinking he knows all there...
How We Kept Mother's Day - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522857When the celebration of Mother's Day was introduced around 1910, Stephen Leacock observed the...
Lights for Gita - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526472Eight-year-old Gita can't wait to celebrate Divali, the Hindu festival of lights, in her new home...
Little Armadillos - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528238Did you know that there are approximately five billion tiny armadillo-like mites and bacteria...
Lucretia - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524744In an animated film sprinkled with magic and stardust, an impish little girl from Hades turns...
Mary of Mile 18 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522687An animated story about a farm girl whose father will not allow her to keep a stray puppy until an...
Matrioska - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523434This is a dance of Russian dolls, as lively in its way as any performance of the Moiseyev Company...
Medoonak the Stormmaker - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526996A Mi’kmaq legend, colourfully interpreted in mime, dance and narration by elaborately garbed and...
Mirrors of Time - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521960How did our calendar come to be? Why do the seasons change? How did the days of the week get their...
Mr. Bear's Song - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524566This charming video reveals the story behind the creation of a unique children's book. Follow Fiona...
Mr. Frog Went A-Courting - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527649An old Scottish song story richly illustrated by film animator Evelyn Lambart and sung by Derek...
No Fish Where to Go - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB565365“Our planet—inhabited by people with different languages and customs.” A friendship...
Paddle to the Sea - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523545For all children and those adults for whom the romance of journeying is still strong. This great...
Raven's Feather Dance - A Creation Legend - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524153When humankind is wiped out by a cosmic disaster, Raven sets out to right this wrong by finding out...
Roses Sing on New Snow - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522801Maylin cooks mouth-watering meals at her father's restaurant in Chinatown, but her father and...
Sea Dream - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526400Children, like adults, have days that go wrong. This film shows how one little girl overcomes the...
Sequence and Story - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527382In this film a group of children manipulates reality using a series of photographs of their own...
Soap-Box Derby - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528279Amusante opposition d'un groupe de gars qui refusent de partager un secret avec des filles...
Summer Legend - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526683Silas Rand and Charles Leland first wrote down the legends of the great spirit Glooscap before the...
Survival - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521646Animal communities have rules, customs and behaviour patterns that are often similar to those of...
The Bear and the Mouse - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522828A variation on a fable by Aesop in which a mouse aids the escape of a bear in return for past...
The Chinese Violin - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525937A young girl and her father leave everything familiar behind when they move to Canada from China...
The Dingles - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521781Created by award-winning animator/director Les Drew, this magical animation film is bound to win...
The Friends of Kwan Ming - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524723Kwan Ming makes three friends on his journey from China to the New World. Once the men arrive, they...
The Huntsman - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523548A film adaptation of a short story by Toronto writer David Lewis Stein about a ten-year-old boy who...
The Legend of the Flying Canoe (La Chasse-galerie) - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525255The time: New Year's Eve, late 1800s. The place: Gatineau Valley, Quebec. A group of loggers...
The Magic of Anansi - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB519855Anansi the spider is tired of being looked down on by all the jungle animals--just because his webs...
The Man Who Stole Dreams - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526486This enchanting and magical animation film, an ode to our dreams during the night, celebrates the...
The Man, the Snake and the Fox - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521613This film is a dramatization of a traditional Ojibwa legend; it is told to a group of children. As...
The Mare's Egg - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525864A pioneer's life may be a hard one, but there's no doubt that a little optimism goes a long way...
The Pony - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520466There is no real place for a horse on a fully mechanized wheat farm, but this is a tale of two...
The Reluctant Deckhand - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528048Tess is ten years old--old enough to join her mother, Sue, for a summer's fishing in the northern...