TD SRC 2022 -- Once Upon a Time; Myths & Legends (English)

Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Aski, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek...

A monster tries to scare a girl. But she insists the monster is not scary and gives him a hug.

The story of a family in Taiwan who felt special because they had ten sons who did everything together. They were called dumplings because both sons and dumplings are considered lucky. As it turns out, they also had a sister who grew up in their shadow, but who listened, studied, and learned, and made her own way in the world.

This vibrantly illustrated rhyming poem by Métis author David Bouchard draws on the Seven Sacred Teachings and shares the lessons that can be learned from the sun.

A little boy likes to tell his sister stories but doesn't like when bad things happen, so he leaves those parts out.

When Amy's teacher asks everyone to make their own dragon, Amy finds inspiration from one of her grandmother's stories. She rounds up her family to help her.

A boy and Moshom, his grandpa, take a trip together to visit a place of great meaning to Moshom. Along the way, the boy finds himself imagining what life was like two generations ago -- a life that appears to be both different from and similar to his life now.

Esther the fairy doesn't believe in magic. But fairies are all about magic, despite Esther's best efforts to reveal the science of their world. This time around, though, she's got her fairy pals Clover and Fig, along with trusty sidekick Albert the bird, to help create a more science-oriented entry for their school's "Magic Fair" -- Pixieville's magical answer to a science fair, which has never gone well for Esther before. When the local pond disappears,...

Carmen is at the top of the class at the Red Assassin School. She is an expert with bladed weapons and poisons, and is perfect at riding the giant black swans that assassins use for their missions. But, in a practice sword fight, her twin brother "accidentally" blinds her in one eye. She continues to train but drops to the bottom of her class. Still, she's sure she'll graduate. Then the nearby emperor is killed by an assassin and his replacement declares...

A young girl becomes lost in the woods after wandering too far away from her mother. Scared because she is lost, she encounters a large wolf who reminds her of her own ability to survive and find her mother again.