"Once upon a time the lion and the leopard were fighting"

Stories have a long tradition in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions—oral stories shared by the teachers during circle time, during mealtime, outside in the woods or at the playgrounds. The importance of also encouraging the children to be active and create their own stories is highlighted in several national early childhood education curricula, for example, in the Norwegian Framework Plan for Kindergartens (Utdanningsdirektoratet, 2017). In this article I focus on animated stories as a way to enrich children’s literacy experiences and give the children a chance to be creators of content meaningful to them. The analysis and the findings draw on an article by Trude Hoel and I (see Undheim & Hoel, 2021), but I also include some new perspectives.