Latest / Children's Hour / 10.25.25 - Part 2

Transcript

10.25.25 - Part 2 · Children's Hour

0:01
Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Raio Ice turned Story Hour as
0:04
a reminder of radio ace and reading service intended for
0:07
people who are blinder of other dispilies that make it
0:10
difficult to reprinted material. Today we will be reading from
0:13
various books on Halloween. Your reader today is dying. Our
0:21
first story is Humbug Witch. It was published by Humbug Books.
0:27
Its copyright is nineteen sixty five to nineteen ninety two
0:33
and it was written by Lorna Bay Aileen. There was
0:39
this switch, and all of her was little, except her
0:42
nose that was very big. She had two crooked teeth
0:46
and long, streamy red hair. It was so long she
0:49
kept tripping over it. She wore a slightly squashed, tall
0:53
black pointed hat like witches always wear, orange gloves, a
0:58
handnit black wolfsh y'all, an old plaid apron red and
1:03
white striped stike striped stockings, and funny looking black shoes
1:08
with gold buckles on them. She had a good sturdy
1:11
broom and a black cat named Fred.
1:15
Speaker 2: You can see for yourself. She was truly a frightening looking,
1:19
horrible witchy witch. But when she tried to do things,
1:24
they never worked the way they were supposed to for witches,
1:27
like when she wanted to laugh wickedly and scare everyone,
1:31
and never sounded cockle cackle, cackle. It always sounded giggle, giggle, giggle,
1:38
Or like when she wanted to go to Portugal or
1:41
Chicago or to the next door neighbors. She would climb
1:44
on her good sturdy room room and say all sorts
1:47
of magic words and wait a few minutes, and nothing
1:51
would happen. Then she would juggle her good sturdy broom
1:55
and say more magical magical words, real loud, and wait
2:00
a long time, and still nothing would happen, nothing at all.
2:05
The broom would not move an inch. When she wanted
2:09
to turn Fred into an alligator or a hippopotamus or
2:13
a candy bar, she would get down on her hands
2:15
and knees and look for its square in the eye
2:17
and say all kinds of magic words and wait and wait.
2:22
But Fred estayed a cat. When she wanted to cook
2:26
up a batch of magic potion, she would dump all
2:29
the very best things in her very best kettle, things
2:33
like sour milk, paperrika, molasses, prune picks, eggshells, hair, tonic,
2:40
apple peelings, pickle juice, cinnamon, genuine rainwater, cough syrup and
2:46
peanut butter, and she would stir it and stir it
2:50
and stir it, and sell the magic words she could
2:53
think of, and then she would stir it some more.
2:56
It sizzled a little, but it never got smoky or
2:59
bubbly or exploded like magic potions are supposed to do.
3:04
All it did was make Fred terribly sick to his stomach.
3:09
She finally decided it was just no use. She stood
3:12
her good, sturdy broom in the corner. She took off
3:16
her funny looking black shoes with the gold buckles. She
3:20
took off her plaid apron. She took off her handknit
3:23
black woolshawl. She took off her slightly squashed, tall black
3:28
pointed hat. She took off her orange gloves, and she
3:32
took off her long, streaming red hair. She took off
3:36
her mask and went to bed, So did Fred. Our
3:43
next book is titled Ghostly Towns and it was published
3:47
by Bareport Publishing. It has a copyright year of two
3:55
thoy seventeen and the author is Joyce Mark koe Vics.
4:01
Ghostly Towns you see crumbling buildings, swallowed by weeds, shards
4:07
of glass, just out of empty windows. The wind whips
4:10
up a cloud of dust. There isn't a soul in sight, then,
4:14
why does it feel like someone is watching you? Could
4:17
someone or something be living in this eerie town forgotten
4:20
by time? Get ready to read four haunting tales about
4:24
ghostly towns. Turn the page if you have the nerve.
4:30
Forever in Flames, Cinerella, Pennsylvania. Cinterella was once a busy
4:36
mining town. Now it's silent and deserted. Why a mysterious
4:42
fire has been burning there for fifty years. In nineteen
4:45
sixty two, a fire would start in the town dump
4:49
The blaze silently spread below ground. It caused the coinerby
4:53
underground mines to burst into flames. Over time, the underground
5:01
blaze grew bigger and hotter, toks that gases gush from
5:04
cracks in the earth. Residents were forced to abandon their
5:07
homes and town. The fire caused a huge sinko to
5:12
open in the town and nearly swallowed a small boy. Today,
5:17
the ground is hot to the touch in parts of Cinerella.
5:20
Many trees have shriveled and died. Some believe the town
5:24
is doomed to burn forever. A wicked sheriff. Bannock, Montana.
5:30
A restless spirit is said to haunt the abandoned town
5:33
of Panic could be the ghost of the town's infamous sheriff.
5:37
In eighteen sixty two, go was found your Bannock. The
5:40
discovery drew thousands of people and a wave of crime.
5:44
To fight the crime, the townspeople chose a new sheriff,
5:48
Henry Plumber. Unfortunately had a secret, evil past before he
5:54
became sheriff. Henry Plumber had been in jail for murder.
5:58
After Henry became sheriff, crime only got worse. Hundreds were
6:02
found dead. Henry is thought to be the leader of
6:05
a gang of murderers. In eighteen sixty four, he was
6:08
hanged by an angry mob. Today's ghost is said to
6:12
wonder Bannock's empty streets. The village of Death, Layland, Wales.
6:22
In the sixteen hundreds, a ship sank off the coast
6:25
of Wales. Most of the crew died in the icy waters.
6:29
However a few survived. They were then rescued by the
6:32
villagers of Langland. The villagers tried to nurse the sailors,
6:38
but the men soon died. Then, one by one, all
6:41
the villagers got sick and died too. The sailors had
6:45
given them the plague. After that, the town fell into ruin.
6:50
The plague is a daily disease. It can kill a
6:52
person within twenty four hours. On stormy nights near Leyland,
6:57
a woman in white has been sobbing. Perhaps she is
6:59
cried for all those who died in eerie orb O
7:04
cala Oba, Alabama, oh Kalaba was once the capital of Alabama.
7:09
It's now the most famous ghost town in the South.
7:12
Many people have been have seen strange things, things that
7:16
cannot be explained. On a moonlit nine in eighteen sixty two,
7:22
a young couple went to the home of c See Pigs,
7:25
a colonel who had recently died. They walked through a
7:27
maize in his garden. In the center of the maze,
7:30
they spoiled it a large white ball of light. The
7:33
orb floated and then darted around. When they tried to
7:36
touch it, it flew away. The couple was filled with fear.
7:40
Since that night, many have reported seen the same white orb.
7:43
Could it be the lost spirit of the colonel. The
7:47
town has been struck by lightning hundreds of times. Some
7:50
call it the curse of Caliba. Our next set of
7:57
stories are about national parks. The first one is yellow
8:01
Stone National Park and it was published by Children's Press,
8:05
an imprint of Scholastic Incorporated. Has a copyright year of
8:09
twenty eighteen and the author is Odra Wiless. Welcome to
8:15
Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone was America's first ever national park.
8:21
People visit national parks to explore nature. Yellowstone was established
8:25
in eighteen seventy two. It is mostly in Wyoming. Parts
8:29
of it are also in Idaho and Montana. It has lakes,
8:34
forest and mountains. Millions a week ago volcanoes helped form Yellowstone.
8:43
The volcanoes erupted and lava float out. As the lava cooled,
8:47
it hardened into rocks. This happened over and over. The
8:51
rocks became Yellowstones, mountains, and canyons. Mount Washburn is a
8:57
volcano in Yellowstone. It lasts erupted hundreds of thousands of
9:02
years ago. Chapter one Steaming Spring red hot magma from
9:09
Yellowstone's volcano still boils right below the park surface. It
9:13
creates the hot springs, geysers, and mud pods that make
9:17
the park famous. Hot springs are boiling pools of water.
9:20
They form when water from rain and snow seeps underground.
9:25
Magma heats the water. The hot water bubbles back to
9:28
the surface. It rises through hose in the ground. There
9:33
are thousands of hot springs in yellow Stone. The Mammoth
9:38
Hot Springs area has many pools of water. There are
9:41
a lot of minerals in the water. When the water pools,
9:44
the minerals are left behind. The minerals harden. They build
9:48
up near the pools. They form layers that look like steps.
9:53
The colors of the water come from tiny creatures living
9:57
in it. Two gushing geysers. A geyser is a type
10:03
of hot spring, but with a geyser. At times, the
10:06
water bursts into the sky like a fountain. They're about
10:10
five hundred geysers in Yellowstone. That is more than any
10:13
other place on Earth. Steamboat Geyser is the tallest geyser
10:17
in the park. It is also the tallest in the world.
10:21
Geysers shoot steam and hot water. They shoot. The Steamboat
10:28
Geyser shoots up to three hundred feet in the air.
10:31
That is as high as a stack of thirty school buses.
10:35
Old Faithful is another famous geyser. It erupts about every
10:39
sixty to one hundred minutes. That is how it is
10:42
got its name. The word faithful describes someone or something
10:47
you can depend on. In the late eighteen hundred, soldiers
10:51
watch their dirty clothes in Old Faithful. Chapter three, Mega
10:57
mud puddle puddles. Visit Yellowstone, you may see people holding
11:02
their noses. Why some parts of the park's smell like
11:06
rotten eggs. The smell comes from pools of water called mudpots.
11:10
Mudpots are brown and goofy and very hot. The water
11:14
inside them is mixed with clay gases make the mud
11:19
pots bubble. Do not even think about making mud pie
11:24
with this stuff in the mud in some pots is
11:28
hotter than one hundred and fifty degrees fahrenheit. The mudpots
11:34
have fun names like mud volcano and artists paint pots.
11:39
But watch out. Mud pots can explode. Some shoot hot
11:43
mud up to fifteen feet in the air. One mudpot
11:48
called Black Dragon's Cauldron burst in nineteen forty eight and
11:52
knock down trees and covered a forest in thick mud.
11:55
What a miss. Mudpots are well nuddy because they do
12:00
not contain a lot of water. Chapter four. That's wild.
12:07
Yellowstone is home to many animals and plants, bison, grizzlies,
12:12
and gray wolves are its most famous animals. All of
12:16
them were once in danger of dying out, but they
12:19
have all made big comebacks in the park. Bison are
12:22
the easiest to spot. They are the biggest land animals
12:25
in North America. There are sometimes called buffalo, but bison
12:29
and buffalo are different animals. Grizzly bears were once found
12:35
across the United States. Today, Yellowstone is one of the
12:38
few places where wild grizzlies live. About one hundred gray
12:42
wolves proud of the park. A long time ago, people
12:45
killed all of the gray wolves in Yellowstone. In nineteen
12:48
ninety five, they were brought back to the park. Both
12:54
grizzlies and gray wolves hunt elk. Grizzly search for berries
12:58
to gobble up. Most of the trees in Yellowstone are
13:02
conifers or evergreens in spring, while flowers fill the landscape
13:07
with the rainbow of colors. About four million people go
13:10
to the park each year. They gaze at wall flowers
13:14
and waterfalls. They hide to mountains in mudpots. They wraft
13:19
down the Yellowstone River. No wonder Yellowstone is such a
13:22
hot spot to visit. There's so much to see and
13:27
do in Yellowstone. Imagine you could visit Yellowstone, what would
13:32
you do there? Here are just some of the incredible
13:36
animals that make their home in Yellowstone. Bison, gray wolf,
13:40
prairie dog, grizzly bear, yellowstone cutthroat trout, bald eagle, mountain lion, badger, elk,
13:48
red fox, trumpeter swane. Wild Life by the numbers, The
13:54
park is home to about two hundred eighty five species
13:57
of birds, sixty seven species of mammals, eleven species of
14:02
reptiles and amphibians, sixteen species of fish. Our next book
14:11
is titled Great Smoky Mountains National Park and it was
14:15
published by Children's Press and Imprint of Scholastic. It's a
14:20
copyright year of twenty eighteen and the author is Elisa M. Harrington.
14:27
Welcome to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Great Smoky
14:30
Mountains became a national park in nineteen thirty four. People
14:34
visit parks like this one takes for nature. This park
14:38
is named for the mountains that roll across the land.
14:41
It lies on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee.
14:47
This is the most visited national park in the country.
14:50
It is easy to see why people are drawn to
14:53
its thick forest and gentle streams. They come for its
14:56
sparkling waterfalls, beautiful wallflowers, and a amazing animals. This park
15:04
gets more than ten million visitors a year. Along the
15:08
train passes under Grotto Falls, it is delivering supplies to
15:12
a guest lodge in the park. Chapter one, Misty Mountains.
15:18
Can you guess how the Great Smoky Mountains got their name?
15:22
Look at the fog hanging over the mountain peaks. Millions
15:25
of trees in the era give off water that helps
15:28
form the fog. From a distance, it looks like smoke.
15:32
So the mountains are nicknamed the Smokies. They are a
15:36
part of the Appalachian Mountain range. The Appalachians room from
15:40
Canada to Alabama. Talk about big. This park covers more
15:46
than half a million acres. That is an area almost
15:50
the size of Rhode Island. Some of the oldest mountains
15:53
on Earth are here. Scientists believe the Smokies used to
15:56
be taller, wind water and ice wore down their peaks
16:00
over time. The Smokies have gentler peaks in the mountains
16:03
in the west. The Little River in Tennessee is sixty
16:07
miles long. About one third of it runs through the park.
16:12
Chapter two left six floor. Most people drive through the park.
16:17
It has more than three hundred and eighty miles of
16:19
scenic roads. A popular spot is Clean and Stone. It's
16:24
the highest point in the park. Visitors can climb to
16:27
a tower at the top that's great views on clear days.
16:31
It is six thousand, six hundred and forty three feet high.
16:35
That is as tall as a stack of twenty two
16:38
statues of Liberty. There's a lot took floor on foot
16:42
as well. The park is filled with more than eight
16:44
hundred and fifty miles of hiking trails. In fall, they
16:47
will take you through trees bursting with color and spring.
16:51
In summer, colorful wild flowers bloom. The landscape is dotted
16:56
with more than one thousand, five hundred types of flowering plants.
17:01
The smokers are sometimes called wild Flower National Park. Chapter three.
17:07
From Past to Present. Want to travel back in time?
17:11
You can do that as at Cade's Cove is a
17:14
valley between the mountains. There you will find log cabins,
17:18
o churches and meals. They show what life was like
17:21
for people who lived here long ago. It is a
17:24
great place to watch for wildlife. Today people come to
17:28
enjoy the mountains in many ways Visitors fish, spike and
17:32
right horses that camp under the stars or listen to
17:35
a quiet stream. They also enjoy the park's many wonderful waterfalls.
17:41
Ramsey Casscades is the tallest waterfall in the park. It
17:47
is as tall as a ten story building. The water
17:50
drops one hundred feet into a pool below. Chapter four
17:54
Amazing Animals. A black bear skirris up a tree. Another
17:58
searches for acorns berries to eat. You are in black
18:02
Bear Country. More than one thousand and five hundred live
18:05
in the park. Never approach or try to feed them.
18:09
They usually ignore humans if the humans keep their distance
18:12
and ignore them. Bears are not the only animals found here. Deer, elk,
18:17
and whild turkeys also roam the woods. Perhaps the park's
18:21
most unusual creatures are salamanders. More than thirty kinds live here.
18:26
They include lungless salamanders. This park is known as the
18:30
salamander Capital of the world. Luneless salamanders breathe through their skin.
18:38
Be sure to bring your binoculars. You can scan the
18:41
trees for sparrows, woodpeckers, and other birds. You may even
18:45
know it's an owl perched on a branch in spring
18:48
fireflies put on a dazzling evening display. Thousands flash their
18:53
lights at the same time. It's just one of the
18:55
many stunning sites that will leave you in awe of
18:59
the Great Smoky Mountains. Imagine if you could visit the
19:04
Smoky Mountains, what would you do there? There are just
19:08
some of Here are just some of the incredible animals
19:10
that make their home in the Great Smoky Mountains. Bluebird, beaver,
19:16
brook trout, flying squirrel, woodpecker, salamander, elk, white tailed beer,
19:22
great horned owl, wild turkey, black bear, which is the
19:25
symbol of the Smokies wildlife. By the numbers, the park
19:30
is home to about two hundred and forty types of birds,
19:34
sixty five types of mammals, eighty two types of reptiles
19:38
and amphibians, and sixty seven types of fish. These neack
19:44
set of stories are by an author, Daniel era Co.
19:50
The first one that we will read is When do
19:54
Hippos Play? And it was published by The Orange Ship
20:01
as a copyright ear of two thousand and seven to
20:04
twoenty twenty five and it was written by Daniel Rico.
20:12
When do Hippos Play? By the African river known as
20:17
the Nile, the sun fell away and it rested a while.
20:20
The rhinos had braved all the smoldering heat. They lay
20:23
down to sleep as they wiped off their feet. The
20:26
elephants marched to their elephant beds, and gently they rested
20:29
their elephant heads. The hippoles went bathing in cool, shallow pools,
20:34
thinking the rhinos and elephant's fools. Slowly, the hippos sank
20:39
into the river, the water so pold that it gave
20:42
them a shiver. Hippos can't swim like the pelicans think.
20:45
They also can't float, They could easily sink underwater. They
20:51
fell to the soft river bed on darkish green plants
20:55
with a smidgeon of red. They strolled on the botb
20:59
and bounced up for air. They did it for hours
21:01
without any care. The fish followed closely and woven and
21:05
out under their belly and up to their snout. Each
21:08
of the hipples came up to the shore to feed
21:11
on the grass by the river. Once more, They dried
21:13
off their bodies by shaking and stomping, and took bites
21:16
of grass, chewing and chomping. With night fading fast, they
21:20
were full from the feast. The sun returned back, rising
21:25
up from the east. The hipples crept off to collapse
21:29
for the day, when rhinos and elephants got up to play,
21:32
enjoying the warmth of the sun and its light, never
21:36
knowing the story of hippos at night. Our next story
21:40
is called frog Town. Was published by A Staring Ship
21:44
as copyright years of two thousand and seven to twenty
21:48
twenty five and the author of the story is Daniel
21:52
eric Coe. I once saw frog copping around. I followed
21:58
down to the little frog town. It was built in
22:01
a log by a frog crew of frogs. I saw
22:04
the frog mayre.
22:05
Speaker 1: She wore a large hat.
22:06
Speaker 2: It was silver and gold. Can you believe that the
22:09
frog school of frogs was also inside, and the bus
22:11
driver gave all the young frogs a ride. The frog
22:16
police station was next to the school, and when the
22:19
bell rang, the frogs hopped to the pool. It was
22:23
crowded inside of the public frog pool. Frog stove inside
22:27
off a spotted toadstool. A line of frogs formed. At
22:31
the frog movie plex. A bullfrog was waiting and he
22:35
was up next. A fancy frog restaurant was opened for lunch.
22:41
The signs said their flies had the crunches crunch. The
22:45
post of frog office was sending out mail. The delivery
22:48
frogs work in rain, sleet or hail. I even remember
22:54
frog barber shop, and old frog hopped out with a
22:57
two pay on top. And that's when I saw it,
23:00
a small little frog. He was crying inside of the
23:03
little frog log. I knelt down beside him and asked
23:09
what was wrong. He said, Other frogs and I don't
23:11
get along. That is sad, I replied, with a shake
23:15
of my head. They do. They just do not like me,
23:19
The little frog said. Those poor frogs, I said, don't
23:23
have a clue. What a wonderful friendship they're missing with you.
23:27
You feel bad for them, he asked, drying a tear. Yes,
23:31
and some patience is needed. I fear a frog such
23:35
as you will have friendship's glore, and no other frog
23:37
in the world could want more. Maybe, he said, as
23:41
he gave them a glance, I could keep trying and
23:44
give them a chance. And the kind little frog took
23:48
a hop towards the town, and a tiny frog smile
23:51
was breaking his frown. I saw I once saw some
23:54
frogs hopping around. I followed them down to the little
23:58
frog town. Our next book is titled I Like to
24:03
Go Exploring. It was published by Swaring Ship and it
24:06
has copyright year of two thousand and seven to twenty
24:09
twenty five. The author of our story is Daniel Erico.
24:17
I went up to the article where a metapolar bear.
24:20
You might think she'd be white, that she had purple
24:23
yellow hair. I hopped onto a glacier and wrote it
24:28
out to seat snow. It's great for sledding, but it's
24:30
much too code for me. I like to go exploring
24:33
places that I've never been. Take one step and then another,
24:37
that's how you begin. I made it to the jungle
24:40
where a Tucan said hello. He made a hat from
24:43
branches that he dropped to me. Below high above and
24:46
vines were where the lemurs liked to swing. They jumped
24:51
around and laughed, and that's when they began to sing.
24:55
We like to go exploring places that we've never been.
24:58
Take one swing and then another, that's how we begin.
25:01
I headed to the desert where the camels keeps his humps.
25:05
He takes them off and puts them on his fuzzy
25:07
camel lumps. We stopped in an oasis, such a magic
25:11
mystic spot. As soon as I had to leave for
25:14
it was getting rather hot. I hit it to the
25:17
forest where the trees were made of gum, and if
25:19
I come that way again, I'll chew up everyone. I
25:23
hiked up the mountains where the Bobcad had her band.
25:27
The goats and mountain lions joined the song that they
25:30
had planned. We like to go warning places we have
25:34
never been. Take one step and then another, that's how
25:36
we begin. You don't believe the words I wrote inside
25:40
this song, Take one step and then another, then go
25:43
prove me wrong. This concludes the children's story ere for today.
25:48
Please join us next time as we will bring more stories,
25:51
fables and fairy tales. Thank you for listening and please
25:54
stay tuned for the Lexing Hair Leader on RADIOI