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Wapos Bay, a stop-animation DVD series from National Film Board of Canada, provides a realistic view of modern Cree life with touches of humor and a strong cultural undertone. Be sure to check out the starred review.

"One of the students said to me, 'You know IWitness is kind of like a cross between a library and YouTube.'"

Steve Pierson and his Los Angeles-based band Jambo rock as they perform 14 original feel-good songs on their second album for kids, Hootenanny. Be sure to read the starred review.

"It was purposeful that the IWitness platform was built with media literacy and school standards around digital education right at the center of its architecture."

Schindler’s List is a film that really doesn’t need much of an introduction from me. If you’ve seen it, you’ve seen it. If you haven’t, you probably should. Perhaps more than any other piece of moving-image media it has contributed to the “media construction” of the Holocaust for contemporary audiences, taking its place alongside Night [...]

The starred DVD version of Peter H. Reynold’s picture book, Sky Color , celebrates art and the power of creative thinking and is a wonderful prelude to a class art project.

Check out SLJ's Stars list. From Julia Donaldson's "The Highway Rat" to Gail Carriger's "Etiquette & Espionage." There's something for everyone.

What do Dav Pilkey's 'Captain Underpants" and the London's Philharmonia Orchestra have in common? They're both featured in this month's column.

There's just enough on Josh Groban's new release, All That Echoes, to keep his groupies happy, though he may be stretching it. Fans of Mumford and Sons and The Lumineers can add the "breakout rock band of 2012" Imagine Dragons to this sound canon. The popular Japanese role-playing game (RPG) Emblem: Awakening makes an impressive debut here in the States, with our reviewer promising "countless hours of serious entertainment."