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Our goal is to make learning ASL fun and inviting for families like you to support their Deaf child’s ASL and English language learning. Our library and tools provide rich opportunities for both languages to be enjoyed and played with against the backdrop of a story. Our - [Login](https://aslrapp.org/member-login/) - You are already logged in! View Library Logout Learn about how our program works Get Started Username or E-mail* Password* Only fill in if you are not human Keep me signed in Register Forgot your password? *Indicates a required field Featured Books Try it Now! Try it Now! Try it Now! Full Library Home - [Getting Started](https://aslrapp.org/getting-started/) - Open the doorway to a selection of children’s stories told by our ASL Storytellers in their first language. Each story is presented in ASL with the English language text for each page in view. There are vocabulary videos to help you with some of the key words from the story. 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When we sing or talk about new animals he learning new words every time.” (son is Deaf and has a cochlear implant) - [Showing more facial expression and emotion](https://aslrapp.org/testimonials/showing-more-facial-expression-and-emotion/) - “Showing more facial expression and emotion with sign definitely helps to better communicate with my son.” - [Really enjoyed this book](https://aslrapp.org/testimonials/really-enjoyed-this-book/) - “I learned new signs and really enjoyed this book in particular.”(Stellaluna) - [Exciting to see him participate](https://aslrapp.org/testimonials/exciting-to-see-him-participate/) - “It was exciting to see him participate in the story!” - [Snowman Art](https://aslrapp.org/testimonials/snowman-art/) - “After the story we made the snowman art and then we read the story again and my son copied some of the signs like, snow, bed and bath that were part of the story.” - [Learned to communicate with my son](https://aslrapp.org/testimonials/learned-to-communicate-with-my-son/) - “I have learned many new signs to communicate with my son.” - [I have learned many new signs](https://aslrapp.org/testimonials/i-have-learned-many-new-signs/) - “I have learned many new signs and enjoyed the book.” - [Extremely good at mentoring me](https://aslrapp.org/testimonials/extremely-good-at-mentoring-me/) - “The ASL RAPP staff have been extremely good at mentoring me. This (program) has been invaluable to me. It has helped me to be more comfortable trying to sign with adults as well as Deaf children.” - [Read with Granddaughter](https://aslrapp.org/testimonials/read-with-granddaughter/) - “I read the book with my Deaf granddaughter. She’s only 4, but she knew a lot of the signs and I found this to be really rewarding.” - [Canadian Winter](https://aslrapp.org/testimonials/canadian-winter/) - “Being in the middle of Canadian winter, this book was very topical and very interesting to my granddaughter. “ (A Snowy Day) - [Enjoyed learning the vocabulary](https://aslrapp.org/testimonials/enjoyed-learning-the-vocabulary/) - “I was more comfortable with the pantomime actions that can be used to help get information across. I enjoyed learning the vocabulary as well.” - [Appreciate the Instructions](https://aslrapp.org/testimonials/appreciate-the-instructions/) - “I really appreciated the instructions for this book. It made me much more comfortable experimenting with ASL…” - [Benefit to Community](https://aslrapp.org/testimonials/benefit-to-community/) - “The ASL RAPP project is highly beneficial to our community as it contributes to family literacy, supporting school readiness for the child and language/literacy development for the family as a whole” ## Storytellers - [Denise DeShaw](https://aslrapp.org/storytellers/denise-deshaw/) - Denise DeShaw lives with her husband and two children in Ottawa. She has worked with hearing parents who have Deaf children for many years. She is currently a professional ASL instructor at Carleton University, and translates various English documents to ASL on video. Prior to teaching ASL, Denise graduated from Gallaudet University with a Bachelor’s - [Mohamed Yusuf](https://aslrapp.org/storytellers/mohamed-yusuf/) - Mohamed Yusuf was born in Mogadishu, Somalia and moved to Canada at age six with his parents. He grew up in Ottawa and loved playing sports, especially basketball and soccer. He joined the basketball team in high school. After graduation from high school, he attended Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., USA. Mohamed was selected to - [Saeeda Tifow](https://aslrapp.org/storytellers/saeeda-tifow/) - Saeeda Tifow is a single mother who is Deaf. She is originally from Somalia but moved to Canada after living in the United Kingdom for 9 years. While in the UK she learned BSL (British Sign Language). Saeeda has an amazing son, named Adam, who was born in Canada. Adam is hearing and uses ASL - [Kathy Holmes](https://aslrapp.org/storytellers/kathy-holmes/) - Kathy Holmes lives with her husband in Ottawa. Her two children are grown up and starting families of their own. Kathy is now a grandma! She has two dogs - one of which is deaf - that keep her very busy! Kathy worked with hearing parents who have Deaf children for many years. She teaches - [Simone Edwards-Forde](https://aslrapp.org/storytellers/simon-edwards-forde/) - Simone Edwards-Forde was born in St. Kitts. She moved to Montreal with her adoptive family when she was three years old. Simone graduated from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, New York. She teaches Deaf adults in the ALSO Deaf Adult Upgrading Program. Simone became an ASL instructor in 2018. She is - [Pasha Levina Angnatuk](https://aslrapp.org/storytellers/pasha-levina-angnatuk/) - [Bjarat Madaparthi](https://aslrapp.org/storytellers/bjarat-madaparthi/) - [Amber Dryden](https://aslrapp.org/storytellers/amber-dryden/) ## Books - [We're Going on a Bear Hunt](https://aslrapp.org/library/were-going-on-a-bear-hunt/) - Come along on a bear hunt in this award-winning classic from Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re going to catch a big one.. Will you come too? For more than twenty-five years readers have been swishy swashing and splash sploshing through this award-winning favorite. Join in the fun! - [Where's My Hockey Sweater](https://aslrapp.org/library/wheres-my-hockey-sweater/) - Nicholas is getting ready for his hockey practice, but he can't find his hockey equipment. His whole family helps search for the lost hockey gear. - [Heckedy Peg](https://aslrapp.org/library/heckedy-peg/) - Heckedy Peg is a 1987 children's picture book by Audrey Wood. It is about seven children, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, who are transformed into food by a witch. The children are then taken to the witch's cave and are eventually rescued by their mother. - [Quick as a Cricket](https://aslrapp.org/library/quiet-as-a-cricket/) - A celebration of a child's growing self awareness, and a prime example of how books can contribute to this. Whether brave or shy, strong or weak, in the end the young boy celebrates all different, apparently contradictory parts of himself. - [Lost in the Woods](https://aslrapp.org/library/lost-in-the-woods/) - When this story begins, a baby deer is alone in the forest and the animals that discover him think he must be lost. The deer isn't lost and comforts himself by remembering what his mother told him. - [A Crowded Ride in the Countryside](https://aslrapp.org/library/a-crowded-ride-in-the-countryside/) - A Crowded Ride in the Countryside is a funny story about increasing numbers of farm animals catching a ride with a farmer going to the county fair. Your child can count the number of animals that squeeze into the farmer's truck. See what happens when they hit a bump in the road! - [Handa's Surprise](https://aslrapp.org/library/handas-surprise/) - Handa is carrying a basket of fruit to her friend Akeyo. She is carrying it on her head and doesn't notice that animals she is passing are taking fruit out of the basket. Eventually the basket becomes empty but an antelope chasing her runs in to a tree as Handa walks beneath it and fills the basket with tangerines. - [Stranger in the Woods](https://aslrapp.org/library/stranger-in-the-woods/) - This charming tale uses wildlife photography to tell the story of animals' reactions to a snowman who appears in the woods after a winter storm. - [The Snowy Day](https://aslrapp.org/library/the-snowy-day/) - This classic story is about a little boy that wakes up to a huge snowfall overnight. He is so excited to go outside and enjoy all ofthe fun things he can do in the snow. - [The Hat](https://aslrapp.org/library/the-hat/) - When Lisa's woolen stocking flies off the clothesline, Hedgie finds it and pokes his nose in. He tries to pull it out, the stocking gets stuck on his prickles -- and the fun begins. And where is Lisa when all of this is going on? She's in the borders, getting ready for winter, until she realizes her stocking is missing and she enters the story to look for it. Jan Brett's luminous paintings of a Scandinavian farm and the forest around it are bathed in northern light, as the snow begins to fall and the story begins, in this delightfully original companion book to The Mitten - [Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site](https://aslrapp.org/library/goodnight-goodnight-construction-site/) - Reaching, stretching, lifting high, your little Crane Truck will touch the sky! Track every step along the way with this appealing growth chart. And when the lights go out, Crane Truck will glow in the dark. Includes feet and meters. - [Big Sarah's Little Boots](https://aslrapp.org/library/big-sarahs-little-boots/) - This story is about a girl named Sarah, who learns she is growing up when her favourite yellow boots don't fit anymore. Sarah feels many different emotions throughout the story. - [The Secret Cave: Discovering Lascaux](https://aslrapp.org/library/the-secret-cave-discovering-lascaux/) - Jacques, Jojo, Simon, and Marcel were looking for buried treasure when they explored a cave in the south of France in 1940. But the treasure inside was not what they expected, and in fact far more valuable: the walls were covered with stunning prehistoric paintings and engravings, preserved within the sealed cave for over 17,000 years. This is the true story of the boys who discovered the cave of Lascaux, bringing to the modern world powerful examples of the very beginning of art. - [And Tango Makes Three](https://aslrapp.org/library/and-tango-makes-three/) - The book tells the story of two male penguins, Roy and Silo, who create a family together. With the help of the zookeeper, Mr. Gramsay, Roy and Silo are given an egg which they help hatch. The female chick, that completes their family, is consequently named "Tango" by the zookeepers. The book was based on the true story of Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins who formed a pair bond in New York's Central Park Zoo. - [Andrew's Loose Tooth](https://aslrapp.org/library/andrews-loose-tooth/) - In this humorous story, a boy named Andrew has a loose tooth. All he wants to do is to eat an apple, but it is too painful. Everyone tries to help him pull it out; his mom, his dad, the dentist and even the tooth fairy. - [GrrrOUCH! Pain is like a grouchy bear](https://aslrapp.org/library/grrrouch-pain-is-like-a-grouchy-bear/) - In GrrrOUCH! Pain is like a grouchy bear, Cathryn Morgan has created a story that a weary parent could read to their suffering, sleepless child anytime, day or night, and that a child would want to read again and again. Told from a child's perspective, the tone of the story is calm and compassionate, yet whimsical too. The rhyming text is paired with vibrant illustrations by artist Crystal Beshara that are designed to echo emotions, to trigger discussion, and to emphasize how other children learn to cope with their pain. Suitable for children ages six to ten, who are coping with physical or emotional pain, the book's message would also be helpful, for any child, in learning to understand the pain or illness of a grandparent or other family member. - [How I Learned Geography](https://aslrapp.org/library/how-i-learned-geography/) - This book is based on the author's own struggles as a young boy when he and his family were forced to flee from their home in Poland during WW11. They escaped to a foreign country where they had very little and knew no one. One day, Uri's father brought home a map from the bazaar instead of food. - [Max Found Two Sticks](https://aslrapp.org/library/max-found-two-sticks/) - In this story a boy takes two sticks that the wind blows into his lap, and he taps on different items in his neighborhood to imitate the sounds he hears. - [Owl Babies](https://aslrapp.org/library/owl-babies/) - Three owlets wake up one night to find their mother gone. The trio worry about her absence but are elated when she returns from her night flight. - [Something From Nothing](https://aslrapp.org/library/something-from-nothing/) - Joseph's grandfather made him a beautiful blanket when he was a baby, but now it's frazzled and worn, and Joseph's mother says it is time to throw it out. Joseph doesn't want to part with his special blanket, and he's sure that his grandfather can fix it. Sure enough, Grandfather miraculously alters the blanket into useful items again and again. But when Joseph loses the final item, even Grandfather can't make something from nothing. But maybe Joseph can? - [Superman, The Story of the Man of Steel](https://aslrapp.org/library/superman-the-story-of-the-man-of-steel/) - It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman! - [The Mitten](https://aslrapp.org/library/the-mitten/) - This story is based on a Ukrainian folktale. Nikki's grandmother knits snow-white mittens that he takes on an adventure. Your child will enjoy the portrayal of the animals who find lost mitten and make room for each other to keep warm. - [Tuesday](https://aslrapp.org/library/tuesday/) - This book encourages you to open your mind to the possibilities of an ordinary day. TUESDAY is nearly wordless. Frogs in a pond life off with their lily pads and begin their amazing journey through a nearby town. - [When Rachel Grows Up...A Montreal Dream Story](https://aslrapp.org/library/when-rachel-grows-up-a-montreal-dream-story/) - This story is written in English, French and Spanish. The story follows a conversation between Rachel and her mother about her dreams for Rachel when she grows up. - [a boy, a dog, and a frog](https://aslrapp.org/library/a-boy-a-dog-and-a-frog/) - Mercer Mayer's detailed drawings will have you and your child turning pages to find out what happens when a boy and his dog go on an adventure to a pond and meet up with a frog. - [A Porcupine in a Pine Tree](https://aslrapp.org/library/a-porcupine-in-a-pine-tree/) - This is a retelling of a traditional Christmas song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", but instead of the usual turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree, there are uniquely Canadian images that may be more familiar to children. - [Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day](https://aslrapp.org/library/alexander-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day/) - When Alexander wakes up with gum in his hair and his brother gets the prize from the cereal box, the bad luck is just beginning. One thing after another just seems to go wrong for him. By the end of the story Alexander learns that we all have 'bad' days even in Australia. - [Am I Big or Little?](https://aslrapp.org/library/am-i-big-or-little/) - How can I be big and little at the same time? This tender conversation between a parent and child is a cheerful reminder that the best things come in all sizes. - [Big Red Barn](https://aslrapp.org/library/big-red-barn/) - In this story we see a day in the life of the animals that live on a farm. - [Franklin in the Dark](https://aslrapp.org/library/franklin-in-the-dark/) - Franklin the turtle meets other animals and learns that he isn't the only one who has fears. He also learns what other animals do to cope with their fears. - [Goodnight Gorilla](https://aslrapp.org/library/goodnight-gorilla/) - It is time for the animals in the zoo to go to bed. The sleepy zookeeper checks on each one its cage and says "good night" before going to bed himself. The mischievous gorilla has other plans for bedtime. - [Goodnight Moon](https://aslrapp.org/library/goodnight-moon/) - Goodnight Moon is a gentle and soothing bedtime story. The pacing of the story is slow and steady. Everyone is getting ready for bed. The day is winding down and night is falling. - [Handa's Hen](https://aslrapp.org/library/handas-hen/) - Handa is looking for her grandmother's missing black hen. Handa and her friend, Akeyo, look all over their village. They keep finding other animals, but not the hen. - [Herbert: The True Story of a Brave Sea Dog](https://aslrapp.org/library/herbert-the-true-story-of-a-brave-sea-dog/) - This book recounts the true story of a dog named Herbert who fell off a boat during a storm off the coast of New Zealand. Herbert swam for 30 hours until a boat came and rescued him. He had to be very brave. - [Houdini the Amazing Caterpillar](https://aslrapp.org/library/houdini-the-amazing-caterpillar/) - This is the story of a caterpillar, named Houdini. And like the famous magician of the same name, Houdini the caterpillar makes his own magic. Houdini, the amazing caterpillar, captures the imagination of the children with his magical transformation into a butterfly. - [Pancakes for Breakfast](https://aslrapp.org/library/pancakes-for-breakfast/) - This story is about making pancakes for breakfast. It follows all the steps for each ingredient and breakfast is prepared. Wordless books encourage you to add your imagination to the story. It allows you to tell the story in your own words and to re-tell it differently every time. - [Red is Best](https://aslrapp.org/library/red-is-best/) - Red is Best is the story of a 3 year old's stubborn preference for the colour red. The illustrations are simple and child centered. - [Sadie and the Snowman](https://aslrapp.org/library/sadie-and-the-snowman/) - Sadie works hard to build a snowman- rolling the snowballs, dressing the snowman and adding the face. When the weather turns warm she tries to save it. This story takes place over a whole year, the weather changes and the seasons change. - [Stellaluna](https://aslrapp.org/library/stellaluna/) - Stellaluna is about a baby bat that gets separated from its mother and lands in a bird's nest. She makes some new friends and learns that they can be both similar and different. - [The Carrot Seed](https://aslrapp.org/library/the-carrot-seed/) - In this story a little boy plants a carrot seed and takes care of it every day even though his family doesn't think it will grow. The little boy isn't bothered by his family's comments; he perseveres in spite of them. - [The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear](https://aslrapp.org/library/the-little-mouse-the-red-ripe-strawberry-and-the-big-hungry-bear/) - This is a lovely story for encouraging together time with your child. Your child will quickly pick up on the pattern and rhythm of the story as the little mouse tries to protect his red, ripe strawberry from the big hungry bear. - [The Little Red Hen](https://aslrapp.org/library/the-little-red-hen/) - This classic fairytale is about a hard working hen. She asks her friends to help plant and harvest wheat on her farm, but none of them want to volunteer. Hen manages to grow the wheat by herself, and to celebrate she makes a fresh loaf of bread for her chicks. - [The Napping House](https://aslrapp.org/library/the-napping-house/) - This rhythmic story about a grandmother, a child, a dog, a cat, a mouse and a flea. The sleepy household congregate on Granny's bed, slowly building a very relaxed pile of bodies. - [Mama, Do You Love Me?](https://aslrapp.org/library/mama-do-you-love-me/) - Mama, Do You Love Me? is a universal story of a child testing the limits of her independence. There is a very special love between a parent and a child. - [I Love My Hair!](https://aslrapp.org/library/i-love-my-hair/) - This is a story about a little girl learning one way that she is special. Her mother combs her hair and it hurts so much that Keyana cries. He mother tells her that she is lucky to have this kind of hair because she can style it in so many different ways. Keyana comes to realize this herself and thinks of some of the ways she likes to wear her hair. - [Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?](https://aslrapp.org/library/brown-bear-brown-bear-what-do-you-see/) - This is a classic for all ages. Babies and toddlers enjoy the bold colours and animals shapes. Beginning readers quickly pick up the pattern and rhythm of the book and are often able to predict what animal comes next. - [Feast for 10](https://aslrapp.org/library/feast-for-10/) - This story shows a family doing everyday activities. Everyone is helping with the routines of bringing home the food from the grocery store, cooking and eating together. - [The New Baby Calf](https://aslrapp.org/library/the-new-baby-calf/) - Buttercup the cow had a new baby calf. She licks him, feeds him, and encourages him until he learns to walk and run and play. ## Book Category - [Animals & Insects](https://aslrapp.org/book-category/animals-insects/) - [Family & Friends](https://aslrapp.org/book-category/family/) - [Picture Books](https://aslrapp.org/book-category/picture-books/) - [Rhythm & Counting](https://aslrapp.org/book-category/rhythm-counting/) - [All About Me](https://aslrapp.org/book-category/all-about-me/) - [Feelings](https://aslrapp.org/book-category/feelings/) - [Seasons](https://aslrapp.org/book-category/seasons/) - [Good Night](https://aslrapp.org/book-category/good-night/) - [Fairy Tales & Superheroes](https://aslrapp.org/book-category/fairy-tales/) - [All Books](https://aslrapp.org/book-category/all-books/)