
Welcome to Storytelling & Learning with ASDC!
This ASL Stories Directory makes it easy for you to find hundreds of free videos of ASL retellings of your child’s or student’s favorite books. Research shows that reading and signing stories together helps promote essential literacy skills for ALL children: deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing. Use the ASL Stories Directory to quickly find stories by age or by the book’s title. Make the most of signing and reading with your child! Get useful tips here.
Check this page often! We add signed stories & learning resources to the directory each week. If you have a favorite video that’s not listed here, or if you want to add your own video of you and your child signing one of your favorite books, please share it with Cheri at cheri@deafchildren.org. Thank you.
ASL Video of the Week
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Week of March 22, 2023
Wow! Said the Owl – A Book About Colors
Here’s the story of a curious little owl determined to see what the world looks like during the day. And what does she discover? A wow-worthy symphony of colors―from red butterflies to orange flowers, from white clouds to green leaves!
This boisterous and bright book is the perfect ASL Sign-Along to savor with curious little owls everywhere who are exploring the world of colors for the first time.
Written & Illustrated by Time Hopgood | Signed & Edited by Jeni Jackerson, ASL Specialist
Rocky Mountain Deaf School | www.RMDS.co
Language Development
Written by Bruce Simpson | Illustrated by Rae Bates
Signed by Dawn Jani Birley
Produced by Canadian Hearing Services
Paislee and the Talking Tree
An ASL interpretation of the children’s picture book Paislee and the Talking Tree.
Paislee is a little girl who learns that her neighbor’s tree can talk. They develop a relationship of trust, thoughtfulness and love.
This Story is available in both ASL & LSQ! A great way to introduce new sign languages!
ASL: Paislee and the Talking Tree
LSQ:
ASL Song: The Tree Said Hello
See below for a full directory of ASL Storytelling Videos or visit ASDC’s YouTube channel!
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ASL StorySigning Coloring Pages
Storysigning coloring pages designed just for you!
Our fun coloring pages will align with various stories shown in our directory, focus on seasons, holidays, or specific topics, or were created just for fun! Coloring pages can be found in both English and Spanish.
Each coloring page shows a person signing, and how to correctly use the sign. These are great additions to your signing and reading activities with your child! Check back often as we will add new coloring pages monthly, sometimes more!
Enjoy!
ASDC Social Stories & Articles
Social Stories and Social Articles in ASL are compiled and adapted by ASDC to support parents, educators, professionals, and advocates as they teach and share information about social communication or interactions, rules, expectations, or routines. with children who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing.
Social Stories and Social Articles are a safe and supportive way to provide children with information about social changes and expectations.
Social Stories in ASL are also available on ASDC’s YouTube and Kids YouTube Channels and under our Mental Health Resources tab. Companion Social Articles can be downloaded and printed.
ASL Stories Directory by TITLE
Note: When a story is listed twice (or even three times) in the ASL Story Directory, it means that we are linking out to videos of different people telling the same story. Watch each one and compare them! There are so many fun ways to tell the same story in ASL.
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- A Bad Case of Stripes
- A Birthday Basket for Tia
- A Camping Spree With Mr. Magee
- A Creature Was Stirring
- A Dog Needs a Bone
- A Halloween Counting Party
- A is for Activist
- A Letter to Amy
- A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
- All About Farm Animals
- Alphabet Rescue
- Always Hug a Unicorn
- Always in Trouble
- And Tango Makes Three
- A Pocket for Corduroy
- Are You My Mother?
- ASL Rides! (Meanings of the word RIDE in ASL)
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- Bear and Turtle and the Great Lake Race
- Bear Says Thanks
- Bear Says Thank You
- Beast
- Because I Had a Teacher
- Big Mama and Grandma Ghana
- Birthday Presents
- Black is A Rainbow Color
- Blast Off
- Blueberries For Sal
ASL video - Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
- Bubbles, Bubbles
- Butt Out
ASL video
Vocab video
Vocab slides
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- Caps For Sale
ASL Video
Vocab video - Cat in the Hat
- Changes, Changes
- Charlotte’s Web Intro, Characters, Chapter Readings & Discussion (48 videos)
- Chugga Chugga Choo Choo
- Circus Ship
- Click Clack, Splish, Splash
- Clifford the Firehouse Dog
- Colors of a Rainbow (ASL and no text)
- Colors of a Rainbow w/ Adult Signer
- Colors of a Rainbow w/ Child Signer
- Counting Coconuts
- Cowboy Up
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- Dad and Me in the Morning
- David Goes To School
- Deaf Artist Finds Her True Colors
- December ASL Signs
- Dinosaur Roar!
ASL video
Vocab video - Dolores Huerta
- Down the Flower Patch – ASL & LSQ versions
- D.W. Flips!
- Deaf Culture Fairy Tales
- Dear Zoo
- Dinosaur Roar!
- Don’t Touch My Hair
- Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin
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- Get Up, Stand Up
- Giraffes Can’t Dance
- Give (Meanings of GIVE in ASL)
- Giving Tree
- Giving Tree
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Good to Be ME
- Goodnight, Gorilla
- Goodnight, Gorilla
- Goodnight Moon
ASL Video
Vocab video - Goose
Goose ASL Vocabulary - Gossie
- Green Eggs and Ham
- Groovy Joe: Ice Cream & Dinosaurs
- Guri and Gura
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- Hair Love
- Halloween ASL Resources
- Halloween Mice
- Hands Can
- Happy
- Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Happy Easter, Biscuit!
- Happy Thanksgiving Biscuit
- Heckedy Peg
- Hide and Snake
- Hiya Moriah
ASL video
Vocab video - Hooray for Hat!
- How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends?
- How I Became a Pirate
- How the Elephant Got Its Trunk
- How the Fly Saved the River
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- How To Catch the Easter Bunny
- How to make Homemade Paints
- Hug
- Humpty Dumpty
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- I Am a Frog
- I Am Enough
- I Broke My Trunk
- Ice Cream King
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- If You Give a Pig a Party
- If You Give a Pig a Pancake
ASL video - If You Take A Mouse to School
- I’m Gonna Like Me
- “I Have a Dream” – Martin Luther King, Jr
- I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
- I Love My New Toy
- I Need My Monster
- I Spy Under the Sea
- Is Your Mama a Llama?
Is Your Mama a Llama?
Is Your Mama a Llama? (Español)
Is Your Mama a Llama? ASL Vocabulary
Is Your Mama a Llama? ASL Vocabulary (Español) - It’s Not Easy Being A T-Rex
- It’s Okay to Be Different
- It’s Pumpkin Day, Mouse!
- I Went Walking
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- Paislee and the Talking Tree – ASL
- Paislee et l’arbre parlant – LSQ
- Peppa Goes Apple Picking
- Peppa in Space
- Peppa Pig and the Day at Snowy Mountain
- Peter’s Chair
- Pete’s a Pizza
- Pete the Cat: Big Easter Adventure
- Pete the Cat: Great Leprechaun Chase
- Pet Show
- Pinkalicious
- Pinkalicious
- Planting a Rainbow
- Pointy Three
- Polar Bear Island
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- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes – Reading & Discussion (19 videos)
- Salt in His Shoes
- Sesame Street – Songs in ASL (YouTube Channel)
- Shoes for Angela
- Signs of Fall
- Sir Circumference and the Dragon of Pi
- Snowmen at Night
- Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice
- Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails
- Spring is Here!
- Spring Weather!
- Starring Lucille
- Stellaluna
- Stick’s Masterpiece
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Strega Nona
- Summer
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- Taking a Bath with the Dog and Other Things That Make Me Happy
- Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Ten Fat Turkeys
- Ten Fat Turkeys
- Ten Lucky Leprechauns
- Ten On the Sled
- Ten Timid Ghosts
- Thanks for Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks
- That’s Not My Snowman
- The Art Lesson
- The Bad Easter Bunny
- The Bear Ate Your Sandwich
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf
- The Book With No Pictures
- The Busy Little Squirrel
- The Cake That Mack Ate
- The Changing Seasons
- The Cool Bean
- The Day You Begin
- The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?
- The Easter Bunny’s Assistant
- The Family Book
- The Foot Book
- The Legend of Spookly the Square Pumpkin
- The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
- The Mitten
- The Monster at the End of This Book
- The Moonflower
- The New Small Person
- The Night Before Christmas
- The Night Before Christmas (with English and Spanish subtitles)
- The Polar Express
- The Race for the Chinese Zodiac
- The Slant Book
- The Snowy Day
The Snowy Day
The Snowy Day (Español)
The Snowy Day ASL Vocabulary
The Snowy Day ASL Vocabulary (Español) - The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
- The Thank You Book
- The Three Little Pigs
- The Three Little Pigs
- The Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf (Math Edition)
- The Three Little Pigs and The New Neighbor
- The Tree Said Hello – ASL Song
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- The William Hoy Story (2 videos)
- The Wizard of Oz in ASL
- There’s a Bird On Your Head
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell
- Things That Go!
- This Book is Gray
- This Is NOT a Pumpkin
- Three Little Kittens
- Three Stories You Can Read to Your Dog
- Today I Feel Silly
ASL video - Trick or Treat, Little Pumpkin
- Tuck Me In
- Tuesday
- Tuesday
- Turkey Trouble
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- Wacky Wednesday
- Waiting Is Not Easy
- What Is the Weather Today?
- What Will I Do Today?
- When I’m Frustrated (An ASDC Social Story)
- When Sophie Gets Angry – Really, Really Angry…
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Whistle for Willie
- Winter Solstice & the Yule Log
- Wonderstruck – Reading & Discussion (61 videos)
- Wow! Said the Owl – A Book About Colors
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- You, Too! (Enhanced Arts Project Integrated Web Series)
- You Are My I Love You
- You Are (Not) Small
- Zero the Hero
ASL Stories Directory by AGE
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Ages 1 and up
- A Pocket for Corduroy
- Blue Hat, Green Hat
- Bubbles, Bubbles
- Corduroy
- Dear Zoo
- Dear Zoo
- Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin
- Feast for 10
- From Head to Toe
- From Head to Toe
- I Went Walking
- Little Bear’s Little Boat
- Little Blue Truck’s Halloween
- Llama, Llama, Red Pajama
- Lola at the Library
- Nita’s First Signs
- Not a Box
- Not a Box
- Ten On the Sled
- The Snowy Day
The Snowy Day
The Snowy Day (Español)
The Snowy Day ASL Vocabulary
The Snowy Day ASL Vocabulary (Español) - This is NOT a Pumpkin
- Trick or Treat, Little Pumpkin
- Where’s Boo?
- Whistle for Willie
Ages 2 and up
- A Halloween Counting Party
- Always Hug a Unicorn
- And Tango Makes Three
- Blast Off
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
ASL Video
Vocab video
Vocab Silde
Experienc Box - Click Clack, Splish, Splash
- Colors of a Rainbow w/ Child Signer
- Colors of a Rainbow w/ Adult Signer
- Colors of a Rainbow (ASL and no text)
- Dinosaur Roar!
ASL video
Vocab video
Vocab slides
Experiences box - Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
- Goodnight, Gorilla
- Goodnight, Gorilla
- Goodnight Moon
ASL Video
Vocab video - Hands Can
- Hug
- I Spy Under the Sea
- It’s Pumpkin Day, Mouse!
- Lola at the Library
- Love the World
- Millions of Cats
- My First I See You
- Olivia
- Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me
- That’s Not My Snowman
- The Foot Book
- The Legend of Spookly the Square Pumpkin
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
ASL video
Vocab video
Vocab slides
Experience box - Things That Go!
- Tuck Me In
Ages 3 and up
- A Birthday Basket for Tia
- A Camping Spree With Mr. Magee
- A Dog Needs a Bone
- A Letter to Amy
- Alphabet Rescue
- Are You My Mother?
- Banana
- Bear Says Thanks
- Birthday Presents
- Blueberries For Sal
ASL Video
Vocab video
Vocab Silde
Experienc Box - Butt Out
ASL Video
Vocab video
Vocab Silde
Experienc Box - Cat in the Hat
- Changes, Changes
- Chugga Chugga Choo Choo
- Clifford the Firehouse Dog
- Dad and Me in the Morning
- Duck in a Truck
- Elf on the Shelf
- Get Up, Stand Up
- Giraffes Can’t Dance
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Green Eggs and Ham
- Groovy Joe: Ice Cream & Dinosaurs
- Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Hooray for Hat!
- How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends?
- How To Catch the Easter Bunny
- Humpty Dumpty
- Ice Cream King
- I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
- Imogene’s Antlers
- It’s Not Easy Being A Bunny
- It’s Okay to Be Different
- Kevin’s Birthday Party
- Kindness is My Superpower
- Knuffle Bunny
- Ladybug Girl and the Bug Squad
- Last Stop on Market Street
- Little Dump Truck
- Love You Forever
- Math Curse
- Max’s ABC
- My First Halloween
- Night Before Christmas
- Night Before Christmas
- No Probllama!
- Oh, the Things You Can Think!
- One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
- Orange Fish, Green Fish
- Orange Fish, Green Fish
- Otis
- Owly & Wormy, Friends all Aflutter!
- Peppa Goes Apple Picking
- Peppa Pig and the Day at Snowy Mountain
- Peppa in Space
- Peter Rabbit
- Peter’s Chair
- Pete’s a Pizza
- Pet Show
- Pinkalicious
- Pinkalicious
- Pointy Three
- Polar Bear Island
- Rabbits and Raindrops
- Reading Beauty
- Rocky: The Cat Who Barks
- Spring is Here!
- Starring Lucille
- Stick’s Masterpiece
- Ten Fat Turkeys
- Ten Fat Turkeys
- Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks
- The Bear Ate Your Sandwich
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf
- The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?
- The Family Book
- The Mitten
- The Monster at the End of This Book
- The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Three Little Pigs
Three Little Pigs
Three Little Pigs - Very Busy Spider
- Wacky Wednesday
- Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea
- What Is the Weather Today?
- What Will I Do Today?
- What Is the Weather Today?
- You Are My I Love You
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Ages 4 and up
- A Creature Was Stirring
- Always in Trouble
- Bear and Turtle and the Great Lake Race
- Because I Had a Teacher
- Big Mama and Grandma Ghana
- Black is A Rainbow Color
- Caps For Sale
ASL Video
Vocab video
Vocab slides
Experience box - Circus Ship
- Counting Coconuts
- Deaf Culture Fairy Tales
- David Goes To School
- Dinosaur Roar!
- D.W. Flips!
- Ella Sara Gets Dressed
- Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
- Five Little Monkeys Bake a Birthday Cake
- Fluffy Grows a Garden
- From Head to Toe
- Gossie
- Hair Love
- Happy
- Happy Easter, Biscuit!
- Happy Thanksgiving Biscuit
- Heckedy Peg
- Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women
- How the Elephant Got Its Trunk
- I Am Enough
- I Am Perfectly Designed
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- If You Give a Pig a Pancake
ASL video
Vocab slides
Experience box - If You Give a Pig a Party
- I Love My New Toy
- I’m Gonna Like Me
- I Need My Monster
- Inky’s Amazing Escape
- Is Your Mama a Llama?
Is Your Mama a Llama?
Is Your Mama a Llama? (Español)
Is Your Mama a Llama? ASL Vocabulary
Is Your Mama a Llama? ASL Vocabulary (Español) - It’s Not Easy Being a T-Rex
- Move!
- Pete the Cat: Big Easter Adventure
- Pete the Cat: Great Leprechaun Chase
- Planting a Rainbow
- Rainbow Fish
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Run, Turkey, Run
- Salt in His Shoes
- Snowmen at Night
- Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice
- Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails
- Stellaluna
- Taking a Bath with the Dog and Other Things That Make Me Happy
- Thanks for Thanksgiving
- The Bad Easter Bunny
- The Cake That Mack Ate
- The Easter Bunny’s Assistant
- The Greedy Python
- The New Small Person
- The Night Before Christmas
- The Night Before Christmas (with English and Spanish subtitles)
- The Polar Express
- The Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf (Math Edition)
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell
- There’s a Bird On Your Head
- The William Hoy Story (2 videos)
- This Book is Gray
- Three Stories You Can Read to Your Dog
- Today I Feel Silly
ASL video
Vocab video
Vocab slides
Experience box - Tuesday
- Tuesday
- Turkey Trouble
- We’re All Wonders
- When Sophie Gets Angry – Really, Really Angry…
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Where The Wild Things Are
ASL video
Vocab video
Vocab slides
Experience box - Whose Vehicle Is This?
Ages 5, 6, and up
- A Bad Case of Stripes
- A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
- All About Farm Animals
- Amelia’s Fantastic Flight
- Beast
- Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
- Cowboy Up
- Giving Tree
- Giving Tree
- Guri and Gura
- Halloween Mice
- Hiya Moriah
ASL video
Vocab video - How I Became a Pirate
- How the Fly Saved the River
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Knights
- Kwanzaa
- Little Red Hen
Little Red Hen
Little Red Hen ASL Vocabulary - Napping House (3 videos)
- Martin’s Big Words
- Rosa Parks: Bus Ride To Freedom
- Shoes for Angela
- Summer
- The Book With No Pictures
- The Changing Seasons
- The Day You Begin
- The Moonflower
- The Race for the Chinese Zodiac
- The Thank You Book
- The Three Little Pigs and The New Neighbor
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
- Three Little Kittens
- Zero the Hero
Ages 7, 8, and up
- A is for Activist
- Charlotte’s Web Intro, Characters, Chapter Readings & Discussion (48 videos)
- Dolores Huerta
- Extreme Surfing
- Goose
Goose ASL Vocabulary - Kookum’s Red Shoes
- Kondima (Based on Jungle Thorn)
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes – Reading & Discussion (19 videos)
- Sir Circumference and the Dragon of Pi
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- The Slant Book
- Wonderstruck – Reading & Discussion (61 videos)
ASL Stories Directory by HOLIDAY | MONTH
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Video StorySigned by JC Smith
Produced by Gallaudet University
Arguably King’s most iconic speech, “I Have a Dream,” is a must for understanding the Reverend’s legacy and impact.
As we prepare to honor Dr. King next week, we take this moment to recognize his impact. The 1963 March on Washington and Dr. King’s speech led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and forever changed the course of United States history.
This 14 minute video is a full ASL Translation of Dr. King’s speech done by Gallaudet University student JC Smith.
For younger learners, there are abbreviated versions of this speech and other stories available in our MLK ASL Resources.
Black History Month

Every year in February during Black History Month we celebrate the work and legacy of prominent Black leaders who’ve paved a way for racial equity and inclusion in the United States. It’s also a time when people celebrate Black culture and history including music, art, literature, etc.
Within the larger Black American community, there are a plethora of diverse groups and experiences. One of these groups is the Black deaf community, who have their own unique culture and language.
We highlight and celebrate the history of Black Deaf culture in America, Black American Sign Language (BASL), and the importance of its legacy beyond Black History Month.
For ASL Resources for Black History Month – visit us here
For more information about how to find online communities for people who are Deaf and Black, visit this page
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Valentine's Day
Books with the themes of love, gratitude, acceptance, and self-esteem.
- And Tango Makes Three
- Because I Had a Teacher
- Charlotte’s Web
- Giving Tree
- Giving Tree
- How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends?
- Hug
- I Am Enough
- I’m Gonna Like Me
- It’s Not Easy Being A T-Rex
- It’s Okay to Be Different
- Love The World
- Love You Forever
- The Family Book
- We’re All Wonders
- You Are My I Love You
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St. Patrick's Day
Books about St. Patrick’s day and the color green!
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Halloween
- Beast
- Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin
- Halloween Mice
- Heckedy Peg
- How I Became a Pirate
- I Need My Monster
- It’s Pumpkin Day, Mouse
- Little Blue Truck’s Halloween
- Math Curse
- My First Halloween
- Night Out
- Stellaluna
- Ten Timid Ghosts
- The Legend of Spookly the Square Pumpkin
- The Monster at the End of This Book
- This is NOT a Pumpkin
- Trick or Treat, Little Pumpkin
- Where the Wild Things Are
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December Holidays
- A Creature Was Stirring
- Elf on the Shelf
- Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Imogene’s Antlers
- Kwanzaa
- Merry Christmas, Splat
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Snowmen at Night
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- The Mitten
- The Night Before Christmas
- The Night Before Christmas
- The Polar Express
- The Snowy Day
- The Snowy Day (Español)
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