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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 ABCs of Inclusion: Paving the Way for Equality and Understanding
19 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
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Storybook excerpt shows an illustration of girl sitting with a cat on one side, a dog on the other side, and a bird on her head as she holds a puppy that licks her cheek. Text reads, "L is for Loving."
12 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Storybook page shows a fox in a tutu holding her hand up toward a gold bird in a meadow. Text reads, “‘What a striking bird you are with gold beneath your wing!’ The fox then grinned and asked the finch, ‘Please show us how you sing?’” At the bottom, we see the American Sign Language signs for the letters F-I-N-C-H.
19 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Page from the illustrated story, "Adventures with Darian: A Pirate at (Sea) See," displaying a scene with a girl and a pirate boy examining the contents of a treasure chest. Another picture shows the pirate boy looking warily at a treasure map. Text reads, “Rummaging in his loot, he got out a rag. Carefully he tied it around his head, attached a seashell, and covered his eye. ‘Great idea, Cap’n!’ said Victor the Vicious. Darien’s prosthetic eye was safe. But more disasters came as he tried to read the treasure maps.”
18 minutes
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Illustrated story excerpt shows a toy soldier holding a drum falls forward and curls into a ball. Text reads, “Unbearably slow, and all too quickly, I deflate to the cool February pavement—a melted snowman of fabric. I watch as he uses my outlet to plug in a tool with a slithery black cord hanging from its end. After two years of standing tall, striking my drum with almost no notice or appreciation, the show is over.”
8 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Color illustration in a picture book. Smiling children sit under a blanket fort. In the next image, 1 of the children frowns and snuggles a stuffed animal. Story text appears on screen.
8 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
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Still image from: Alfie Sees Love: A Story About Albinism, Celebrating Differences, and Spreading Love All Around
9 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Color illustration in a picture book. Small brown dog with perky ears sits beneath a pink castle resting in the clouds. In the next image the brown dog floats amid bubbles. Story text appears on screen.
6 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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2-page view of a storybook. The left page contains story text surrounded by a decorative black frame and a picture of a bike at the bottom. The right page is an illustration of a little girl riding a bike in the woods.
6 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Illustration of a smiling little boy raising his arms in a meadow in front of a lake and mountains, with rays of sun shining through some clouds onto the boy.
6 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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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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Still image from: Asleep at Last
10 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
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Color illustration in a picture book. Cup of pastel crayons spills on left while young animals dressed in children's clothes play with a ball, swing on a swing, or dressup in firefighting hat.
6 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Storybook excerpt shows a caterpillar hanging from a twig, wrapping itself into a chrysalis. Text reads, “Then my skin shed off AGAIN!!! I grew another new skin. But … this one looked different than the other ones. Instead of stripes, it was a jade green. It looked like I was rolled into a shiny green burrito. I was in a chrysalis.”
12 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Color illustration in a picture book. Girl stands in tall grass and looks calmly toward tree in front of her. In the next image, tree smiles with eyes closed and holds a hand up to a flushed cheek. Story text appears on screen.
7 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Storybook excerpt portrays a boy holding a skateboard and walking a dog. Behind him is a child riding a bike. Text reads, “So that every person feels safe to walk, jog, run and have fun.”
5 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Storybook excerpt shows an illustration of three bunny-like animals carrying a log as they look across a river at three cat-like animals with wheelbarrows. Text tells us about the animals building boats to cross the river and make friends with one another.
9 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Storybook excerpt shows an illustration of a pink-haired fairy flying behind a bear and looking scared. On the opposite page, the fair sneezes, then looks up with a frightened expression. Story is about a fairy who's fear makes her cough and sneeze.
13 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Illustration of the back of red crab as it uses a stick in its claw to draw a map in the yellow and orange sand. White bubbles flow by colorful plants next to the crab.
6 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Storybook excerpt portrays a squirrel watching as traffic drives by, trying to get across the road to a food cart labeled, “Hot Roasted Peanuts.”
11 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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