9.7.25 - Part 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, and welcome to Radialized Turned Story Hour. As a reminder,
Radioize a reading service intended for people who are blind
or have other disabilities that make it difficult to reaper material. Today,
we will be reading from various books on fall. Your
reader today is Diane. Our first book is titled What

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Happens to Leaves in Fall. It was published by Cherry
Lake Publishing. It has a copyright year of twenty thirteen
and the author of the book is Rebecca Phillix. Signs
of Fall, What do you see in Fall? People and

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animals prepare for winter. Trees prepare for winter too. Some
leaves change color. Leaves are green in summer. Food they
make to live on it's green, whi all has less sunlight.
Weather gets colder, leaves stop making food. Because of this,

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green food goes away. Other colors show.

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Smooth.

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Sumac leaves turn red white, birch leaves turn yellow. Most
leaves cannot live in winter, so they fall. Some leaves
change color but do not fall. Certain oak leaves stay on.
Evergreens do not change. They stay green ey winter. Ever,

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green leaves look like needles. Our next book is titled
Seasons in You Autumn. It was published by kid Haven Publishing.
An imprint of green Haven Publishing has a copyright era

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of twenty twenty one and it was written by Shalini
val Pure. Autumn autumus this season. Most places in the
world have four seasons. Each one has different weather. Spring, summer, autumn,
and winter are the four seasons optimists called fall in

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some countries. Some places around the world do not have
these seasons. Some places only have two seasons, rainy and
dry Autumn weather, the days and nights get a little colder.
In autumn, the leaves on some trees change color and

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fall off. There can be a lot of rain and
wind during autumn.

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Two.

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The days get shorter as the sun sets earlier. Autumn
close as it gets colder. You may need to wear
a coat to stay warm. A hat and a pair
of gloves will also help to keep you warm. Rain
Boots keep your feet dry when it rains. Make sure
you wear them if you go splashing in the puddles.
Don't forget an umbrella too. Plants in autumn. In autumn,

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the leaves change color on some trees. They turn from
green to red, orange, or yellow. The leaves fall off
and cover the ground. Have you ever walked on leaves
on the ground? What did it sound like? You may
not see many flowers or plants during autumn. Flowers and
plants do not grow well in cold weather. The plants

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and flowers grow again when it is warmer in the spring.
Many different fruits and vegetables are harvests during autumn. They
grow over spring and summer and are ready to be
eaten in autumn. A tractor is used for harvesting corn.
Here are a few fruits, vegetables, and grains that are

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harvested during autumn. Rice, carrots, apples, pumpkin in speets. Have
you ever picked a fruit or vegetable before? Animals in autumn.
During autumn, some animals may get ready for winter. Winter
is too cold for some birds, so they fly to
warmer places around the world. Some animals gather lots of

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food during autumn. Squirrels gather lots of nuts and hide them.
This means they have lots to eat.

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In the winter. What animals live in your area?

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Some animals eat lots and lots of food during autumn.
This means they can hibernate or sleep through most of
the winter. Some frogs hibernate during winter bears usually sleep
during winter. This means they spend autumn eating as much
food as they can. They sleep in their den, which
can be made in logs, caves, or trees. Time to celebrate.

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There are lots of festivals around the world in autumn.
Dawali is a du festival of lights that comes from India.
People white fireworks during it. The Moon Festival is celebrating
in China and other countries every autumn when there is
a full moon. During the Moon festival, people spend time
with their families. People eat mooncakes during the moon festival.

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Bonfire Night is celebrating in the UK during autumn. People
set off fireworks or go to see firework shows. They
also build big bonfires. Many countries around the world celebrate Halloween.
People cut faces into pumpkins and dress up in costumes.
They might watch scary movies and tell spooky stories too.

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Do you celebrate any festivals during autumn? The end of autumn.
Autumn happens at different times of the year around the world,
but it's usually a season where it starts.

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To get colder.

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As autumn passes, the days keep getting shorter and it
gets it isn't long before winter arrives. What is your
favorite thing about autumn? Our next book is called Pete
the Cat Falling for Autumn and it was published by
Harper an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, has a copyright

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year of twenty twenty and the authors of the book
are James jan and Kimberly Dean. It is the first
half fall and Pete the Cat is feeling blue. I
like summer better, he says. In summer, I can swim
and surf and play at the beach. Maybe you just
need to remind yourself of all the things you love
about autumn. Mom suggests, hmm. Pete says, I'll try. Pete

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finds Grandma in the kitchen. She's baking delicious pumpkin pies.
The whole house smells sweet and spicy. Pete loves helping
Grandma bake pumpkin pie, but he loves helping eat it
even more. After the baking is done, Pete picks a
squat orange pumpkin from the counter and slips into his

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backpack as a souvenir. Next, Pete heads to the town
corn Maze. Pete and his friends wander through the long,
twisty paths made of tall cornstalks. The best part of
the corn maze is getting lost and having to start
all over again. As he leaves, Pete plucks a golden
corn cop from the maze and places it inside his backpack.

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Then Pete.

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Visits Grandpa, who is knitting on the porch. Grandpa helps
Pete use the knitting needles to knit the yarn into
cool patterns. Together, Pete and Grandpa make a long, cozy
scarf for Pete to where When they're done, Pete chooses
a little bob left over yarn and places it inside
his backpack.

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Next, Pete goes to the hay ride at the park.

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Pete, Bob, Mom, Dad, and Grandpa all pile into a
wagon filled with hey. They go on a bumpy wagon
ride around the park.

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Woo hoo, Pete shouts.

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At the end of the ride, Pete grabs a handful
of sweet smelling hay from the wagon and stuffs it
into his backpack. Pete heads over to the apple orchard,
where he and Calli go apple picking. They eat sweet
apple doughnuts and drink hot apple cider, and fill their
buckets with apples of all different shapes and sizes. Before

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he leaves, Pete chooses a round red apple and drops
it into his backpack. Next, Pete stops by the park.
He plays touch football with Bob and their friends. Pete
scores a touchdown and everyone cheers. After the game, Pete
grabs Bob's football and stuffs it into his backpack.

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It barely fits.

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Bob won't mind if I borrow this, Pete says. Finally,
Pete heads back home, but he stops in his front yard,
which is covered in bright leaves falling from the trees.
Pete helps his dad rake the leaves into big, colorful mounts.
Then Pete runs and jumps into all the leaf piles.
After he's done jumping, Pete picks a bunch of red

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and goat and orange leaves and stuffs them into his backpack.
Pete's backpack is bursting with fallse souvenirs. He can't wait
to show Mom. I love autumn, Pete says. Wonderful, says Mom,
you know these would make great decorations for Thanksgiving. So

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Pete helps Mom fill a basket with all their mementos.
They place the basket at the center of the table.
You did a great job, Pete says, Mom. It's beautiful,
says Dad. Is that my football? Asks Bob. Just then
the doorbell rings. The Thanksgiving guests are here. All of
Pete's family and friends gather around the dining room table.

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They tell stories and laugh at jokes while they eat.
Everyone is having a great time. Pete looks around the
table and smiles. He loves lots of things about him,
but Pete knows what he loves most all year long,
his family and friends. Our next book is called Fall Adventures,

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and it was published by ABDOL Kids Junior, an imprint
of ABDO Kids.

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It has a copyright year.

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Of twenty twenty one and the author is Julie Murray.
Fall Adventures falls here. There are many fun things to do.
Jack picks out a pumpkin it is a big one,
and goes on a hay ride. Sam carves a pumpkin,
his mom and dad help. Ellie picks apples, She fills

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up the basket, roses at a bonfire, She roasts marshmallows
Stella's at a corn maze. She tries to find her
way out. Keavin goes hiking. He sees all the colorful leaves.
What do you do in the fall? Our next book

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is titled What Happens in Fall and it was published
by Gareth Stevens Publishing. It has a copyright year of
twenty fourteen and the author is Alex Applebee. Fall is
a super season. It comes after summer. Fall comes once

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a year. It is also called autumn. The weather starts
to get colder, People pick pumpkins, Leaves start to change colors.
Some turn orange, others turn red or brown. The leaves
then fall off trees. Winter comes after fall. Our next

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story is called When Autumn Falls and published by Albert
Whitman and Company. It has a copy right year of
two thousand and four and it was written by Kelly Niddy.
Leaves on the trees fall red, goat, yellow, brown, and

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orange come down. The temperature falls, bringing cooler weather. Grab
your jacket or your sweater. Ripe apples fall for bobbing
and baking and caramel apple making. Seeds fall from the
last sunflowers and pumpkins come loose from the vines, which
shack o lantern will be mine. Football players fall into

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the end zone whose hand is on the ball. Little
children fall into piles of leaves stacked high as friends
walk by. Footsteps fall on the crunched up leaves. Sunlight
falls through the almost bare trees, and then the rain
drops fall, washing the last leaves away. Evening falls earlier

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in the day, as the day's fall shorter.

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We call its fall.

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Our next book is titled It's Fall, and it was
published by Little Brown and Company, has a copyright year
of twenty twenty three and the author is Renee Corilla. Colors,
bursting shadows tall. There's lots to celebrate. It's fall. Early
morning sun, the skies back to school with news supplies.

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In class, our teacher asks to hear what things we
love this time of year. Fuzzy socks and cozy clothes,
A scarf around like chilly nose, collecting acorns when they drop,
I rag some crunchy leaves and flop scare crows, moms
and wagon rides.

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A corn maze.

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We get lost inside picking apples for a pie. So
many recipes to try, like ghostly cookies, mummy roast and
yummy cider, donut hose, carving pumpkins filled with light. They
flicker on our porch at night. Candy buckets, brooms and bags,

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a cape with ears, a tail that wags, ringing doorbells,
trick or treat, marching down a spooky street. Autumn sounds
like buzzing blowers, honking geese, and humming mowers, floating friends
on our TV Giving thanks with family, stuffing, gravy, cranberries, turkey,

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mashed potatoes, peas, cherry pecan, pumpkin pie, and whipped cream
piled up to the sky. Fall has treasures to be
found in colors, textures, smells, and sounds.

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It's so much fun.

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We love it all. What things do you love about Fall?
Our next book is titled Apples and Pumpkins and it
was published by Aladdin in the imprint of Simon and
Schuster's Children Publishing Division. It has a copyright year of
nineteen eighty nine to two thousand and eleven and the

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author of the book is Anne Rockwell. When red and
yellow leaves are on the trees, we go to the
Comstock farm to pick apples and pumpkins. Mister Comstock gives
us a bushel basket to put our apples in. Geese
and chickens and a big fat turkey walk with us
on our way to the orchard where the apples grow.

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My father picks apples, my mother does too. I climb
into a little apple tree and pick the reddest apples
for of all.

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When our basket is.

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Full of red and shiny apples, we go to the
field where the pumpkins grow. I look and look until
I find the best pumpkin of them all. My father
cuts it from the vine. I carry it back to
the car. At home, we carve a jack o lantern
face on our big orange pumpkin. Who put a candle

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inside and light it. Now our pumpkin looks scary and
funny too. On Halloween night, we put our pumpkin on
the doorstep. My mother gives away lots of our red
and shiny apples for trick or treat when I go
trick or treating up and down our street. Our next

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book is called God's Blessings of Fall and it was
published by Little Lamb Books, has a copyright year of
twenty nineteen and the author is Jeane Matthew Hall Tree Santollican.
The whistling wind woo, Brightly covered leaves rustle, quiver and

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snap with each chili gust. They drift down, down, down
to nestle on the ground. With a woosh of wings,
out lights upon a broken branch She hurries inside the
hollow tree to fluff her nest and hide her huge ice.
Peak out into the light, blink, blink, too bright. Morning

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is her night. Piles of leaves, red, gold and orange
huddle around the roots of trees, then take to the sky.
The rusty, dusty smell of musty leaves floats over fences
and fields.

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A chew a.

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Squirrel steps slightly slightly on crisp leaves, crackle, crunch. He
snatches fallen acorns and nuts and stuffs them into his
chubby cheeks. His little nose twitches, his bushy tail swishes,
His tiny feet leap and scamper to the top of
the tall as tree.

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Hong Kong.

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A bee of anad geese cuts through the code clear sky.
They heard it south to the sunshine. Hurry, hurry, they
seem to say. Flock a, keep flying that away. Black
bear digs for juicy roots and scratches around for crunchy
bugs to eat. He fills his belly with berries and

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grabs apples too. Even grass and leaves will do. It
takes a lot of yummy to fill the hungry bear's hummy.
Mother dear nudges her falls towards a thicket. They munch
on leaves heads down. The fawns find acorns on the ground.
A special false snick indeed mouse scoots out from under

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a house. She spies a bruised apple on the ground. Squeak, squeak.
Mouse pushes and pulls rocks and rolls the apple all
the way home. Raccoon rambles here and there, rummaging under
piles of pine needles. She scratches through leaves into the
heavy soil. Grubs and crikets watch out. A mashed menace

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is on the prow. Crow calls, he's such a noisy thing,
and he thinks he can sing. But his cook caw
only brings rows and rows of other crows together.

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In empty apple trees.

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Baskets sit piled high with apples ready for baking, breads
and pies. Yellow apples, green ones with a sour tang,
blushed ones that crunch with every bite. Some are shiny,
red and sweet, all so good to eat. Pumpkins rest
at a cozy farmstand. Some fat and round and smooth

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as your skin, Some bumpy and wardy, some tall and thin.
Colors bright orange, red, green, yellow, and white. Spider slings,
silver threads from one dried cornstalk to another. Then round
and round she creeps. She'll weave her web while we sleep.
A bundle of fur, black and white, creeps out of sight.

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A young skunk wiggles inside an oat stump bump, bump.
Sister skunk squeezes into huddle. Together they make for sweet company.
Bullfrog swims oh so slowly to the chili pond. He
hunts for just the right spot on the squishy bottom.
When winter's ice covers the pond, that's where he'll dreaming

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the mud till spring. Critters who fly, climb, or creep,
food together, warmness to keep all are getting ready for
a good night's sleep. Fall is full of God's blessings.
Our next book is titled Mouse's First to Fall and
it was published by Simon in Shoster's Books for Young Readers,

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which is imprint of Simon and Schuster's Children's Publishing Division.
It has a copyright year of two thousand and six
and it was written by Lauren Thompson. One cool fall day,
Mouse and Minca come out to play, tumbling and twirling.
Fall leaves fell all around. Look at all the.

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Colors, said Minka.

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Mouse saw red leaves and yellow leaves and orange leaves
and brown leaves.

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Pretty.

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Look at all the shapes, said Minka. Mouse saw round
leaves and skinny leaves and pointy leaves and smooth leaves. Yay,
Let's run through the leaves, said Minka. Mouse rain and
skipped and kicked and swished through all the leaves. Fun,
let's pile them up, said Minka. Miles piled the leaves high,

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one leaf, two leaves, three leaves, lots of leaves. Yip
be pee, what a big pile, said Minka. Let's jump in.
Mouse leaped and jumped and plopped and rolled into the leaves. Hue,
I'm hiding, called Nenka, can you find me? Mouse peeked

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and poked and peered between the leaves. Where could Minka be?
Then out popped Minka.

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Here.

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I am hooray, hooray for Minka, hooray for mouse, hip hip,
hooray for fall. Our next story is called Fall Fun
and it was published by Clavis Publishing has a copyright
year of twenty twenty four and it was written by
Anita Bergesture Bosh fall us Here the rain is coming

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down in big drops. Mouse and raccoon went to sell
a little toy boat in a big puddle. But the
boat doesn't seem to want to move. Shall we help
tilt the book to the right and then turn the page.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Well done.

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The boat is moving very fast now raccoon and mouse
can hardly keep up. Someone is hiding behind a tree. Peekaboo, Fox,
will you play with us? Mouse and rascoon raccoon ask
The boat stops on the other side of the puddle. Mouse,
raccoon and fox see acorns and chestnuts on the ground.

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Raccoon gathers some of the nuts. Be sure to leave
some for the squirrels so they have something to eat,
says mouse. The sun begins to shine, and the acorns
and chestnuts that glisten in the sunlight. A rainbow appears
in the sky. Suddenly it gets very dark. That must
be because of that big cloud. Shall we try to

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blow the cloud away? Go ahead and blow against the cloud?

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Oops? We blew a little too hard.

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Fox, raccoon and mouse have fallen over, But the friends
don't mind, because the dark cloud is gone and the
sun is coming out again. Ol comes flying in with
a big umbrella. Hello, al, who's coming to pick apples
with me?

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He asked?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
The friends would love to, But the apples are hanging
too high up in the tree. Fox, raccoon, mouse, and
owl shake the tree and try to reach the apples
with the umbrella, but the apples won't budge. Shall we
help gently shake the book back and forth and turn
the page. Yay, the apples are falling out of the tree.

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The apples are on the ground now, but so are
the leaves from the tree. Where do the little friends go?
Do you see three tails in a wing? Maybe they're
hiding under the piles of leaves. Let's give them a
little help. Shake the book back and forth a little,
and then turn the page. Well done, there they are again.

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The friends are hungry after their adventure. Let's make apple pie,
shouts mouse happily. Raccoon and mouse make the dough, and
Fox PILs the apples. Ol makes little animal shapes out
of acorns and chestnuts.

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Yum.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
The apple pie smells so good, says al when it
comes out of the oven. The pie is still a
little too hot to eat. Shall we help blow gently
on the cake to cool it down?

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What a tasty treat says Fox?

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After eating the apple pie, Mouse, Fox, raccoon and owl
go outside again.

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Yay.

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They all cry as they throw leaves into the air.
It has been a beautiful fall day. Goodbye, dear friends,
Thank you so much for your help.

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Would you like to.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Make the leaves fall down once more? Then shake the
book back and forth. This concludes our Children's Story Hour
for today. Please join us next time as we will
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