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Studying Black Poets and the Essential Elements of Poetry...

Wonderscape Entertainment WE0133

Learn all about the five essential elements of poetry, while studying Black poets like Amanda...

Summer Legend - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526683

Silas Rand and Charles Leland first wrote down the legends of the great spirit Glooscap before the...

Swamp Angel

Weston Woods WW567

by Anne Isaacs According to this original tall tale, Angelica Longstrider, better known as...

Tales from the Neverending Story Series

MUSE Entertainment MUSE50

Twelve-year-old Bastian Balthazar Bux had lost the wonderful imagination he had as a child...

Tales of Sand and Snow - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB534463

Having recently immigrated to Montreal, Burkinabe director Hyacinthe Combary explores his roots in...

Talking Translation: Sheila Fischman Roch Carrier - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528348

Literary translation opens doorways to the literature of the world. This video focuses on...

The Abenaki – People of the Dawn (Graphic Novel)

MacLeod 9 Productions 300151GN

Identity is often revealed in the most periloussituations. In The Abenaki—People of the Dawn,it...

The Ant and the Grasshopper: Aesop's Fables Series

Educational Voice 992003

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out...

The Ant and The Grasshopper: Let's Play a Story

Kondololé Films Inc. KON053

Mixing both live-action & animation, The Ant and the Grasshopper casts a different light on the...

The Author of These Words: Harold Horwood - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528257

Newfoundland writer Harold Horwood has been called many things, but his own opinion of himself is...

The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520198

Based on the Stephen Leacock short story, this amusing film, animated and set to toe-tapping...

The Bear and the Mouse - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522828

A variation on a fable by Aesop in which a mouse aids the escape of a bear in return for past...

The Black Squirrel - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525159

You may think you know Ottawa, until you see it transfigured under the loving but provocative gaze...

The Boy who Cried Wolf

Weston Woods WW808

Retold by B.G. Hennessy, ill. by Boris Kulikov (Simon and Schuster) A retelling of a timeless...

The Cap - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526122

During autograph day at a Montréal Expos baseball game, young Steve meets his idol who...

The Cat and the Hens: Aesop's Fables Series

Educational Voice 992004

The Cat hears that the Hen is unwell and decides to pay her a visit. She asks the Hen if there is...

The Chinese Violin - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525937

A young girl and her father leave everything familiar behind when they move to Canada from China...

The Cremation of Sam McGee - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525576

Every child's favourite adventure story comes to life in a lavishly illustrated poem by Robert W...

The Crow and the Pitcher: Aesop's Fables Series

Educational Voice 992005

In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a...

The Dingles - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521781

Created by award-winning animator/director Les Drew, this magical animation film is bound to win...

The Dog and the Meat: Aesop's Fables Series

Educational Voice 992006

A dog found a piece of meat one day and while walking with it in his mouth near a stream, he saw...

The Dream and the Triumph - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521336

A drama based on a short story by Ernest Buckler. A young man named Paul moves in with his...

The English Alphabet - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB537607

A is for apple, that grows on a tree. How many apples do you see? One apple, two apples, three...

The Fairy Faith - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524351

A fairy couple tries to steal a man's shadow. Another takes a man's wife. And yet another, claims a...

The Family That Dwelt Apart - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522683

Cartoon animation of a story by E.B. White, first published in the New Yorker magazine. This is a...

The Fantasy Makers: Tolkien, Lewis and MacDonald

Refuge 31 Films R31001

This feature documentary examines the profound impact that fantasy pioneers C.S. Lewis, J.R.R...

The Farmer and the Snake: Aesop's Fables Series

Educational Voice 992007

Farmer walked through his field one cold winter morning. On the ground lay a Snake, stiff and...

The Fox and the Crow: Aesop's Fables Series

Educational Voice 992008

In this fable, a crow has found a piece of cheese and sits on a branch to eat it. A fox, wanting it...

The French Canadian (Graphic Novel)

MacLeod 9 Productions 300154GN

This graphic novel is based on Mike Burns’ book of stories entitled The Water of Life (Chemin...

The Friends of Kwan Ming - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524723

Kwan Ming makes three friends on his journey from China to the New World. Once the men arrive, they...

The Frozen Goose

MLH Productions MLH000

Based on the short story, The Frozen Goose from award-winning Canadian author, artist and...

The Gift of the Name: Tales from the Neverending Story Series...

MUSE Entertainment MUSE55

Bastian wants to earn money so he can buy his dad a present for his birthday , he gets a job at the...

The Golden Axe and Silver Axe: Aesop's Fables Series

Educational Voice 992009

In this animated fable, the water spirit is very impressed with the woodcutter's honesty so he...

The Great Toy Robbery - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520398

A cartoon starring the world's most-wanted good guy, Santa Claus. As in all Westerns, good wins...

The Hemingway Monologues: Life and Death in Key West

Gee Whiz Entertainment GWE000

This drama is based on the play "Death in the Afternoon', Part 3 of "The Hemingway Monologues" by...

The Horns and Legs of the Deer: Aesop's Fables Series

Educational Voice 992010

The Deer admires his powerful antlers in his reflection in a stream but he does not like his slim...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

MUSE Entertainment MUSE06

The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed...

The Huntsman - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523548

A film adaptation of a short story by Toronto writer David Lewis Stein about a ten-year-old boy who...

The Last of the Franco-Ontarians - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527793

In his native village of Fauquier, in northern Ontario, the poet Pierre Albert is organizing an...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Jim Ormond JO0000

First written in 1820 as part of author Washington Irving's The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon...

The Legend of the Flying Canoe (La Chasse-galerie) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525255

The time: New Year's Eve, late 1800s. The place: Gatineau Valley, Quebec. A group of loggers...

The Luck Stops Here: Tales from the Neverending Story Series

MUSE Entertainment MUSE58

Bastian is worried about a girl in his class - Fallon. His concern grows when he sees her wearing...

The Luckdragon: Tales from the Neverending Story Series, Ep. 3

MUSE Entertainment MUSE53

Bastian reaches a part of the story that he cannot bring himself to read, but Coreander encourages...

The Magic of Anansi - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB519855

Anansi the spider is tired of being looked down on by all the jungle animals--just because his webs...

The Man and the Giant: An Eskimo Legend - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526304

A hunter is pursued, bound up and carried to a cave in this legend of a river and of how fog came...

The Man Who Stole Dreams - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526486

This 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 NFB521613

This 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 NFB525864

A pioneer's life may be a hard one, but there's no doubt that a little optimism goes a long way...

The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527399

An engaging illustration, by animation artist Rhoda Leyer, of the fable in which the warm sun...

The Northern Lights - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524645

Since the beginning of time, people have gazed into the polar skies, spellbound by dancing beams...

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