Wrapping up your Christmas shopping? Or just starting? For the kids on your list who can’t get enough animation, here are a few DVDs worth checking out:

‘Wallace & Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures’

DreamWorks, $19.99

If Wallace and Gromit are one of cinema’s great comedy teams, then Gromit is one of its great straight men (OK, straight dogs), peering over his newspaper with a cocked eyebrow as his owner embarks upon yet another misguided scheme. The pair made their big-screen debut this fall in “Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” and this DVD package includes the three short films that made their name – 1989’s “A Grand Day Out,” 1993’s “The Wrong Trousers” and 1995’s “A Close Shave” – as well as a “making of” segment and “Cracking Contraptions,” a collection of even shorter films spotlighting Wallace’s unwieldy inventions. “We don’t mind fingerprints,” creator Nick Park says of the stop-motion animation process. Otherwise, he continues, “you might as well do it on a computer.” Indeed, the engaging handmade feel of Parks’s creations is echoed in the films – like the interior of Wallace’s rocket ship, which has hardwood floors, floral wallpaper and a lamp with a fringed shade.

‘Here Come the ABCs’

Universal Music Video, $12.98

Indie rock duo They Might Be Giants used deadpan pedagogy to comic effect in such songs as “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” long before they got into the kiddie-rock racket. Their second children’s recording, a tuneful collection of songs about the alphabet called “Here Come the ABCs,” takes this gambit and runs with it. (Sample lyric: “Most with cones for seeds / Most with needles for leaves / ‘C’ is for conifers / My kind of tree.”) The DVD features music videos for the songs, most of which are animated in a funky, do-it-yourself style. Others feature puppetry or live-action performances; think of the educational shorts on “Sesame Street” or its brainier spin-off, “The Electric Company.” The images are as catchy as the songs. In “QU,” the letters – two guys in jeans and T-shirts with “Q”- and “U”-shaped boxes on their heads – spend the day together, walking through the park, enjoying the swings and picking up pizza at a by-the-slice joint.

‘Bambi’

Buena Vista Home Video, $29.99

Disney’s 1942 classic differs from contemporary animated films in many ways. The most striking is its relative lack of incident: It delights in small dramas such as a fawn learning to walk on wobbly legs, marveling at the sights and sounds of a forest rainfall or puzzling at his reflection in a pond. Another is the striking beauty of its background art. While “Bambi” seems dated today – the kids voicing the young animals are no less cloying than the non-animated child actors of the era – its themes presage those of later Disney films. It’s easy to see, for instance, why studio staffers referred to “The Lion King” as “Bambi in Africa.” This is one of many factoids contained in the DVD’s extras, which chronicle the film’s conception in exhaustive detail. Those lovely backgrounds, for example, are the work of animator Tyrus Wong, who is credited with bringing “a Chinese aesthetic” to the movie’s landscapes. The award for best anecdote goes to Donnie Dunagan, the voice of Bambi, a battalion commander who kept his involvement in the film a secret during his 25 years in the Marine Corps. His reason: fear of the inevitable nicknames.

‘Toy Story’

Walt Disney Home Video, $29.99

The first computer-animated feature film, “Toy Story” was distinctive in other ways as well. As the filmmakers recall in the bonus material that accompanies this 10th-anniversary package, they embarked on the project with firm ideas about what they didn’t want: no fairy tales, no musicals, no boring main characters with zany sidekicks. What they did want was a buddy picture – albeit with buddies by Mattel. But that description doesn’t do justice to the perversity of the film’s central premise: that existing toys live in constant fear of being rendered obsolete – or, as one puts it, “next month’s garage-sale fodder” – by new ones. This dark undertone may explain some of the film’s appeal to grown-ups. Ascribe the rest to the fact that it’s an unabashed valentine to baby-boomer toys. They’re all here: Hot Wheels, Candy Land, Etch a Sketch. Not a GameBoy in sight. It’s no wonder the collaborators made frequent trips to Toys R Us for “research.”