Latest / Children's Hour / 1.10.26 - Part 1
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to real is SHARE's Story Hour. As
- 0:06a reminder, REALI is a reading service intended for people
- 0:10who are blind or have other disabilities that make it
- 0:14difficult to read printed material. Today we will be reading
- 0:18from various books on winter. Your reader is Diane. Our
- 0:26first book is titled William's Winter Nap and it was
- 0:32published by Disney Hypoon, an imprinted Disney Book Group. Has
- 0:37a copyright year of twenty seventeen and the author is
- 0:40Linda Ashman. In a house on a hill that's tall
- 0:45and steep, there's a boy named William who's ready to sleep.
- 0:49He drinks his cocoa, climbs in bed. He fluffs the
- 0:53pillow beneath his head, then burrows down for a nice
- 0:57long nap, but wakes to the sound of.
- 1:00Speaker 2: A tap tap tap. Excuse me, but I've lost my way.
- 1:05Speaker 1: I'm cod and tired. May please stay? Will says, yes,
- 1:10I'll scooch a bit. There's room for two. I'm sure
- 1:13we'll fit.
- 1:15Speaker 2: The two.
- 1:15Speaker 1: Climb in and curl up tight. They yawn and say
- 1:19good night, good night. It's quiet, just the cloths TikTok.
- 1:24Speaker 2: But wait, what's that? A knock? Knock? Knock.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Oh, what a lovely cozy place. Could you spare a
- 1:31smidge of space? Will says, yes, we'll scooch a bit.
- 1:36There's room for three. I'm sure will fit the three.
- 1:40Climb in and curl up tight. They yawn and say
- 1:44good night good night. It's peaceful in the sleepy room
- 1:48until that is.
- 1:50Speaker 2: The boom boom boom.
- 1:52Speaker 1: My toes are non my tail is too okay? If
- 1:55I come in with you, Will says, yes, we'll scooch
- 1:59a bit. There's room for four. I'm sure we'll fit
- 2:03the four. Climb in and curl up tight. They yawn
- 2:06and say good night good night. Ping ping ping, Could
- 2:11that be rained? No pebbles on the window pane? May
- 2:15I come in? I need some rest? I promise I'm
- 2:18a perfect guest. Will says, yes, we'll scooch a bit.
- 2:23There's room for five. I'm sure we'll fit the five.
- 2:26Climb in and curl up tight. They yawn and say
- 2:30good night good night. The sound of snoring soft and low.
- 2:34Then crunch some footsteps in the snow. A notice slipped
- 2:39beneath the door. Do you have room for just one more?
- 2:44I'd rather not too squished? No space there's got to
- 2:48be some other place. We don't have room. Too hard
- 2:51to fit, No way, we can't consider it. Will says,
- 2:57if it's someone small, it might not be so hard
- 2:59at He tucks the door to see who's there.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Oh, oh my, what now a bear?
- 3:07Speaker 1: I saw your light on through the trees. I'm lonely.
- 3:10May I join you? Please? Bear shivers in the falling snow.
- 3:15I see no room. That's fine, I'll go. It's awfully cold,
- 3:19the snow, the ice. He keep us warm. He'd seem
- 3:23quite nice. They all say, wait, well, scooch a bit,
- 3:26there's room for six. Somehow we'll fit the six climbing
- 3:32and curl up tight. They yawn and say good night.
- 3:36Good night, sweet dreams my friends, says Will, sleep tight.
- 3:41I'll see you in the warm spring light. Our next
- 3:45book is titled The Snow Dancer, and it was published
- 3:51by Amazon in two lions. The trademark of Amazon dot
- 3:56Com has a copyright ear of twenty twenty and the author.
- 4:00Speaker 2: Is Eddie Bo's Will.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Sophia was asleep when the snowflakes came all through the night.
- 4:06They fell, frosting the rooftops, fluffing the sidewalks, laying fuzzy
- 4:11hats on the fire hydrants. When she woke, Sofia flew
- 4:16to the window. Snow day, she asked, snow day, she said,
- 4:22snow day.
- 4:23Speaker 2: She cheered. Her voice hung in the still air.
- 4:27Speaker 1: No busses squilled, no cars honked, no neighbors shouted. Her
- 4:31city and all its sounds had disappeared. Sophia bundled out
- 4:36of the sleeping house. She sniffed the cold, clean air
- 4:39and tasted the smart, sparkling snow. She fell down the
- 4:44hidden steps. Oh, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch. She hops scotch
- 4:50down the invisible sidewalk, slish slush, slish slush. She skated
- 4:57across the frozen street. She slid to a stop. At
- 5:01the top of the park. The sun shone like a
- 5:04giant spotlight. The soccer filled gleamed like a giant stage.
- 5:08There wasn't a single set of foot prints, yet Sophia leaped,
- 5:14She twirled, She made patterns with her footprints. Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch.
- 5:20She drew lines with her shuffles. Slush, slish slush. She
- 5:25danced a whole ballet into the silence, until children appeared
- 5:30at the top of the hill.
- 5:31Speaker 2: Look, whispered the little girl a snowfairy. But the other
- 5:36kids didn't hear.
- 5:37Speaker 1: They saw the giant spotlight in the giant stage. They
- 5:41shouted snow day as they ran skelter melter down the hill. Stop.
- 5:48Sophia said, wait, listen, but the kids didn't stop. They
- 5:52were too busy running and jumping, laughing and yelling, pushing
- 5:56and falling, scattering all of Sofia's beautiful silence. A little
- 6:01girl tugged on her scarf. Are you a snowfairy? I'm
- 6:05not a fairy, I'm just a dancer, sniffled Sophia. What
- 6:10does a snow dancer do? Sophia thought for a moment,
- 6:13she stood up a little straighter. A snow dancer can
- 6:16do anything. She reached at her hand. I'll show you.
- 6:21The other kids stomped roads that Chris crossed the stage,
- 6:25crunch crunch, crunch, crunch, and Sophia and her new friend
- 6:29trolled through the blank spaces. The other kids can't involve
- 6:32themselves into the snowdrifts called spoosh, cause sploosh, and Sophia
- 6:38and her new friend leaped over them. On their tippy toes.
- 6:42They skated in squwirled and slid until a snowball landed
- 6:47splat right on Sofia's shoulder. The kid's froze, A silence
- 6:52fell over the park. The snow dancer looked to her sidekick.
- 6:56They shared a secret smile, a secret snow dancer smile.
- 7:01Speaker 2: Snowball fight. Sophia shouted sploosh, sploo.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Sploosh, wish wish, slapomph. Soon the kids were too tired
- 7:10to throw one more snowball. They lay scattered in the
- 7:13snow and listened to the sounds moving closer. Snowplows pulled out, screech, screech, scrape.
- 7:23Busses started their engines, hoff hoff the room, and parents
- 7:27called their kids home to shovel. Sophia spread her arms
- 7:31and gave her new friend a grand curtsy. The girl
- 7:34curtsey back. Then the snow Dancer twirled in the white
- 7:38world once more and turned for home, dancing in her
- 7:42frozen footprints. Crunch crunch, crunch, crunch, slitch, slush slitch slush whoomp.
- 7:50At home, Sofia snuggled up with a mug of cocoa. Sniffle, sniffle,
- 7:56snchh Outside the world sparkled and glistened snow day, Sophia whispered.
- 8:04Her next book is titled Winter Friends, and it was
- 8:08published by Double Day Book for Young Readers, a division
- 8:13of Random House Children Books, has a copyright ear of
- 8:18two thousand and five and the author is Mary Quaddlebaum.
- 8:23After the storm, a kotoe creep to the window to
- 8:27see the covers heaped on each bare tree, piled high
- 8:31and deep on Benin Street. The city's tucked up, fast asleep,
- 8:36sh in violet slippers and pink striped rope. Down peaks
- 8:41at the world and its white night clothes. Smooths the
- 8:45sheets and lets it sleep. Sh but far off burr.
- 8:49Here comes the plow, large and loud. Here comes the plow,
- 8:54crowding the snow, breaking the hush like a clock alarm
- 8:59that won't shush. Fer clean laundry, Oh mountains, steep, sloped metal,
- 9:09sweet snow peaked. I leap and land in a warm heap.
- 9:13My mama's whistle, sweet breeze, twittery tweet. My mama's whistle
- 9:18waltzes me under the table, over the chair, swirling my boots,
- 9:22twirling my hair. Here it fly lullaby with wings. My
- 9:27mama's whistle is a kiss that sings lost and found?
- 9:32What's that splotch against the frost? An ink blue dot?
- 9:36And when mitten lost out there somewhere a cold hand
- 9:40hides a numb thumb seeks what I have spied mitton
- 9:44mitten dropped in snow? Who will I find? Which way
- 9:48should I go? Tracks? Those marks so deep and clear,
- 9:52seem to say follow here, Those prints, all in a line,
- 9:56seemed to spell the mitten's mine winter breath. Ghost tors
- 10:02always be maine and misty, tail and hoof, so fleet
- 10:06and fine. You rise silently before my eyes. Wind seeger
- 10:11quick leaper, fall, gallop away, you fly, ghost horse, You
- 10:16never fall, but slip when I close my mouth into
- 10:19your warm dark stall icickle piano, ting tom, that long
- 10:25instrument glittering under the eaves keeps losing pin keys plip PLoP,
- 10:30They drop softly on mailbox, loudly on rock, plock. Each
- 10:35note rings clear, tinged, fingered by wind, falling on dazzled ear, snow,
- 10:42angel a gown of lace, when crooked halo, two vast wings,
- 10:47who rested in this quiet place with spirit rose only
- 10:51silent snow now knows They lay me down and gently
- 10:54trace each graceful curve, I trace and trace the snowy flight,
- 10:59the absent, how perfectly I fill the space, greeting my
- 11:05high hangs wide, I stop and stare. His shyly waving
- 11:08hand is bear. And when I help him with his sled,
- 11:12four men's pull too blue, two red. Missus Mallie's dog,
- 11:18a tassel topped with eyes, two bows and one black nose.
- 11:21He snuffles the walk and furiously yops as we go
- 11:25sliding past the shops. Does his yip yap?
- 11:28Speaker 2: Ever? Stop?
- 11:29Speaker 1: Missus Malley pops him plumply in her lap, and Mary
- 11:33hops yip yip yap yop, a frantically excited mop. Baby
- 11:39Joe twiggy arms three bottles of snow. We make a
- 11:43doll for baby Joe. She laughs and tries to pat
- 11:46its hair, but she's bundled fat as a polar bear.
- 11:50Still Joe can poke her tongue to take a first
- 11:53time taste of floating flake squirrel, Where.
- 11:58Speaker 2: Did it go? The fat nut tug in the heidi hoe?
- 12:01Speaker 1: Here? Here he digs and darts, his brush tail bristles cheery.
- 12:07He scolds and scolds this mean white stuff that stow
- 12:11is snack and chills his toes cardinal. The bush white
- 12:15spangled and rapt just so, A red flash there the
- 12:19perfect bow sledding starting slow, crouching low, we grip the
- 12:26creaky sled and go down, down, down, whoa slipping, sliding,
- 12:31riding the slope like a wild swan, swooping, speeding, taking
- 12:36the steaming wind and gliding sleek and sure. We are light,
- 12:41We are pure flight. And when it ends, the hill
- 12:44calls out again again. Pigeons twelve plunk clouds touched gently down.
- 12:52They bound, pecked the crumps we threw like tasty rain,
- 12:55and rise again to merge the sky's huge puffs gray blue,
- 13:00see their tracks like scattered stars.
- 13:03Speaker 2: Hear they're far off. Thank you.
- 13:04Speaker 1: Coop yellow crocus spry sprocket up from Earth's dark pocket.
- 13:10You spring one slim sprig petals willing summer bright underpel sun.
- 13:17Recipe for a party, Take one pan shiny as the moon.
- 13:22Stirn milk with a silver spoon, Add some cocoa dark
- 13:26and sweet, blended over gentle heat. Soon steam will rise
- 13:30and quickly send an invitation to each friend who sniffs
- 13:34and smiles when you hear knocks put out mugs serves
- 13:38lots more snow. Listen, the wind is whispering a thousand
- 13:44tiny promises. Our next story is called The Heart of Winter.
- 13:50It was published by Nubiooco and it was translated by
- 14:00Cecilia Rosss and revised by Caroline Dookie and Rebecca Packard.
- 14:07Speaker 2: It has a copyright year.
- 14:08Speaker 1: Of twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five. Originally written
- 14:18by Ellaandro Monteginaia, Chip and his siblings loped to perch
- 14:26on telephone wires during the winter months. From up there,
- 14:30they could watch the snowflakes drifting down, and they could
- 14:33swing back and forth in the breeze. On Christmas Eve,
- 14:38a heavy storm rolle in. All the little robins took
- 14:41to the sky, flying off in search of shelter. But
- 14:44a sudden gust of wind blew Chip backwards and he
- 14:48lost the others. Wait for me, he cried, the wind
- 14:52drowned out his voice. Chip flapped with all his might
- 14:55to catch up, but it was too much for him,
- 14:59and exhausted, he fell. Chip could see no sign of
- 15:03his siblings. He couldn't even guess which way they might
- 15:06have gone. Then he spied a house in the distance.
- 15:09Could they have taken shelter there. At that very same moment,
- 15:14Lula was inside the house looking out her window, and
- 15:17she saw him. Without thinking twice, she hurried outside and
- 15:21invited Chip in. She offered him her friendship. Lula lived alone,
- 15:27and she was very happy to have company. Chip and
- 15:29Lula smith the afternoon, decorating the house and tree with
- 15:33Christmas ornaments. Later, while playing outside, Chip discovered that Lula's
- 15:37nose was the perfect spot for watching snowflakes. The two
- 15:42of them had a lot of fun together. They built
- 15:44a snow fox and a snowbird. They had snowball fights
- 15:48and played outside for hours. It was an unforgettable afternoon.
- 15:54But right before sundown, the young Robin's side wistfully, Lula
- 15:58asked what was wrong. Chip was in fact feeling homesick.
- 16:03Just then they realized someone was watching them. They looked
- 16:07up and saw that they were surrounded by robins. You
- 16:10found me, Chip exclaimed, flying joyfully up to his brothers
- 16:14and sisters. Lula was happy for a friend, but she
- 16:18suddenly felt very lonely. Without saying a word, she slowly
- 16:23walked back to her house. She missed Chip. She would
- 16:27have loved to celebrate Christmas with him. Lula was thinking
- 16:31about the previous Christmases when she heard a sudden knock
- 16:35at the door. It was Chip, He come back to
- 16:39share something very important with her, his and his family's friendship.
- 16:45Now Chip's family was Lula's family too, and in their
- 16:49hearts they knew without a doubt that this would be
- 16:52the best Christmas ever. Our next story is called The
- 16:57Mitten Tree and it.
- 17:01Speaker 3: Was published by Full Crumb Publishing. It has a copyright
- 17:10year of nineteen ninety seven to two thousand and nine
- 17:14and the author of the book is Kendas Christiansen.
- 17:18Speaker 1: At the end of a long lane, in a tidy
- 17:20little house, oh Sarah lived alone. Her children had grown
- 17:25up and moved away, but Sarah still remembered the mornings
- 17:28when she walked with them to the blue spruce tree
- 17:31where they waited for the school bus. Now each morning
- 17:34she opened her shutters and watched for new children to arrive.
- 17:39Every chilly morning, Sarah put on her warm coat and
- 17:43started down the lane. As she walked past the children
- 17:46on her way to the mailbox, she wished they would
- 17:49smile or wave, but they never did. The children didn't
- 17:52even seem to notice her still. When she saw them,
- 17:55she couldn't help but smile. One winter morning, after the
- 18:00first snow had fallen, all the children were making snowmen
- 18:03and throwing snowballs, all except from one little boy in
- 18:06a blue cap and coat. Even his boots were a
- 18:09dark shade of blue. He stood away from the others
- 18:12with his hands sunk deep in his pockets. When the
- 18:15school bus arrived, he lingered behind and was last in line.
- 18:19As Sarah watched the little boy climbing to the bus,
- 18:22she could see one thing. He had no mittens. All
- 18:27that day, Sarah couldn't stop worrying about the little boy
- 18:29with no mittens. Late in the afternoon, as the sky
- 18:33grew dark, Sarah dug through the basket of yarn scraps
- 18:36she had saved for many years. She found her needles
- 18:39and four shades of blue wool. Then Sarah began to knit.
- 18:44Sarah worked late into the night. When the sun began
- 18:47to rise, she hurried to the bus stop and hung
- 18:50the mittens on the old blue spruce tree. From behind
- 18:54the hedge, Sarah watched the little boy was the first
- 18:57to arrive. He saw the mins, He reached up and
- 19:00tried them on they fit. With a big smile, he
- 19:03made a perfect snowball and threw it high into the
- 19:07winter sky. Soon a little girl in a red coat arrived.
- 19:13Her mittens didn't match. That night, Sarah knitted with red yarn.
- 19:18Every day. Now Sarah went to the mailbox. She watched
- 19:21for children without mittens. Then she would hurry home and knit.
- 19:24Early in the morning, she would hang the new mittens
- 19:27on the tree. The children loved the game. Each day
- 19:30they would search under every branch and bow for another
- 19:34pair of mittens. Once or twice, Sarah thought that the
- 19:38boy with the blue mints had seen her, but he
- 19:41always looked away. Not after night, Sarah knitted mittens in
- 19:45every color. Some had stripes, some had hearts, some living
- 19:49had little snowflakes all over them. Somehow, even though she
- 19:53had never spoken to the children, Sarah felt that they
- 19:56had become her new family. On the last before winter vacation,
- 20:01Sarah awakened before dawn. She took the empty basket that
- 20:05had once held her yarn and filled it to the
- 20:07brim with mittens. Out the door and down the steps
- 20:11she headed. When she got to the blue spruce tree,
- 20:14she hung mittens on every branch. The boy with blue
- 20:18mittens was the first to arrive. He stood very still
- 20:21and waited for the others. In fact, all the children
- 20:24stood very still for a few minutes, looking at the mysterious,
- 20:28beautiful mitten tree. When they boarded the bus, each child
- 20:32now wore a new pair of mittens. Sarah watched as
- 20:35one by one their faces appeared in the bus windows. Still,
- 20:39no one looked her way as she started home. But
- 20:43Sara's heart was full. It was as full as when
- 20:46the sounds of her own children had filled her house.
- 20:50As Sarah neared the porch and climbed the steps, she
- 20:53saw something waiting for her. There in the corner was
- 20:56a basket woven with thick brown vines and degory with a.
- 21:00Speaker 2: Large white bow.
- 21:01Speaker 1: In it were balls and balls, a beautiful, colorful yarn.
- 21:06To this day, Sarah knitsmitt's for all the children in
- 21:10her town. Every time her basket is empty, a new
- 21:13full one appears. Sarah doesn't know who the yarn is from.
- 21:18The children still don't know who the mintons are from,
- 21:22but someone must. Her next book is called The Mitten,
- 21:29and it was published by Scholastic Press. An Imprince of
- 21:34Scholastic Incorporated. It has a copyright year of two thousand
- 21:41and nine and it's a retelling by Jim Ellsworth.
- 21:46Speaker 2: The original.
- 21:49Speaker 1: Is Or is a folk tale that was believed to
- 21:52originate it from the Ukraine. Once upon a time, there
- 21:57was a happy little boy who loved to play.
- 21:59Speaker 2: Yeah, yes he did.
- 22:01Speaker 1: In the spring, he loved to climb trees and peek
- 22:04in bait at baby birds. The summer, he loved to
- 22:07chase the golden butterflies. In the autumn he loved to
- 22:10play in piles of golden leaves. And in winter he
- 22:13loved to play in the white, white snow in every winter.
- 22:17Because she loved him, the little boy's grandmother, wouldn't it
- 22:20a great warm woolen hat that he could pull down
- 22:23over his little ears, a long, warm woolen scarf that
- 22:27he could wrap two times around his little neck, and
- 22:30a pair of warm woolen mittens for his little hands.
- 22:33And on the cold cold day of this story, the
- 22:35little boy dressed himself warmly in his hat and a
- 22:38scarf and his mittens, and he went outside to play.
- 22:42He played, and he played, and he played. But when
- 22:46at last he came inside, it was discovered that one
- 22:48of his mittens was lost. Oh no, said the little boy.
- 22:52Don't worry, said the grandmother. We'll find it tomorrow. You've
- 22:56had enough of the code for one day. And because
- 22:59she loved him, she made him a mug of steaming
- 23:02hot chocolate in the meantime. Just while the little boy
- 23:06was sipping his hot chocolate, a squirrel came along and
- 23:09saw the lost mitten lying on the snow burr said
- 23:14the squirrel, My toes are coat as ice. This minton
- 23:17looks so cozy and warm. Toast would feel so nice.
- 23:21So the squirrel crawled into the little boy's mitten to
- 23:24warmest toes. The squirrel found the minten quite warm and
- 23:28very comfortable, and soon he was so nice and toasty
- 23:31in there that he fell sound asleep. But just then
- 23:35along came a rabbit. Bur said the rabbit, let me
- 23:40come in. No room, said the squirrel, go away, please,
- 23:45begged the rabbit. My toes are coat of ice. Your
- 23:48mitten looks so cozy, and warm toes would feel so nice.
- 23:52Oh okay, said the squirrel, You can come in, And
- 23:55the rabbit crawled in. It was a bit tight in
- 23:58there for two nevertheless, with a little budging over, they
- 24:01were able to manage, and very soon they were nice
- 24:04and toasty warm, and they fell sound asleep. But just
- 24:08then along came a fox. Burr said the fox, let
- 24:13me come in. No rooms, said the rabbit. No rooms,
- 24:17said the squirrel, Go away, please, begged the fox. My
- 24:22toes are coat of ice. Your mitten looked so cozy,
- 24:25and warm toes would feel so nice. Oh okay, said
- 24:29the rabbit. Oh okay, said the squirrel. You can come in.
- 24:32And the fox squeezed in. It was really crowding there
- 24:36now with the three. Nevertheless, the mitten stretched, shouting up,
- 24:40and soon they were nice and toasty warm. But just
- 24:44when they had fallen sound asleep, along came a bear.
- 24:47Bur said the bear, let me come in. No rooms,
- 24:52said the fox. No rooms, said the rabbit, No rooms,
- 24:57said the squirrel. Go away, please please, beggd the bear.
- 25:01My toes are coat as ice. Your mint looks so cozy,
- 25:05and warm toes would feel so nice. Oh okay, said
- 25:09the fox. Oh okay, said the rabbit. Oh okay, said
- 25:13the squirrel. You can come in. The bear squeezed and
- 25:16pushed and squeezed and pushed and squeezed and pushed until
- 25:20at last he got himself in. Was very cramped in there,
- 25:24with the four of them all switched together like that.
- 25:27Still they were nice and toasty warm, and soon they
- 25:30all fell sound asleep. But just then along came a
- 25:37little mouse. We will have to continue this story next time.
- 25:42So this concludes our Children's Story hour for today. Please
- 25:47join us next time as we will read more stories,
- 25:49fables and fairy tales. Thank you for listening and please
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