A Child's Garden of Poetry

This once-lost 1981 holiday special has now become a WPIX holiday tradition!

Rubén tries to describe the color blue as "The color of dreams, of art, of the ocean and of the firmament", thereby unleashing half a century of poetry.

A grandfather tells his grandson the secret story of the garden's insects, a magical memory that will be forgotten in a drawer.

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal Gromit run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods, which turns their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.

Enter Hamlet is a collage of images in cartoon form of a word put in balloon in each jump-cut scene as that word is said by the narrator Maurice Evans during his “To be or not to be…” soliloquy recording.

The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.

A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.

An animated poem about a dog, her human, and the consequences of a nasty habit.

A video collaboration by writer Fanny Howe and artist Maceo Senna.

Two gentlemen battle for the "prize". Things escalate quickly...