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9.12.26 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radio Eye's Children's Story Hour. As
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  Speaker 1: a reminder, Radio Eye is a reading service intended for
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  Speaker 1: people who are blind or have other disabilities that make
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  Speaker 1: it difficult to read printed material. Today, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be reading from several different children's books. Your reader today
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  Speaker 1: is Patty. You know, we have a new season upon us.
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  Speaker 1: one that actually has two names. Some people call it Autumn,
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  Speaker 1: and some people call the season Fall. Well, the first
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  Speaker 1: book we're going to read is called Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn.
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  Speaker 1: The book was written by Kennard Pack, published by Henry
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  Speaker 1: Holt and Company in 2018. From the Inside Front Cover
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  Speaker 1: As trees sway in the cool breeze, blue jays head
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  Speaker 1: south and leaves change colors. Everyone knows autumn is on
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  Speaker 1: its way. Join a young girl as she takes a
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  Speaker 1: walk through forest and town, greeted all the signs of
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  Speaker 1: the coming season. In a series of conversations with every
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  Speaker 1: flower and creature and gust of wind, she says goodbye
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  Speaker 1: to summer and welcomes autumn. And now we'll begin the book,
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  Speaker 1: Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn. And on this first page, we
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  Speaker 1: see an illustration of a young girl She's wearing a
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  Speaker 1: red scarf around her neck and she's standing on the
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  Speaker 1: front steps of her house. And she says, Hello, late
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  Speaker 1: summer morning. Hello, trees. Now the illustration changes where she's
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  Speaker 1: on the edge of the forest and there's lots of trees.
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  Speaker 1: And the trees are answering back. Hello. Hello. Now that
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  Speaker 1: the cool winds have come, we love how our branches
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  Speaker 1: sway in the sun. Now the girl continues deeper into
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  Speaker 1: the forest. Hello, playful foxes and singing blue jays. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: we are busy looking for food. Some of us are
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  Speaker 1: heading south to our winter homes. The illustration here shows
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  Speaker 1: three bushy-tailed red foxes, two brown squirrels, and three blue
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  Speaker 1: jays flying around in the forest. And they have answered
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  Speaker 1: back to the young girl. Now she says, Hello, walking
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  Speaker 1: stick and butterflies. They answer, Hello, we're surprised you saw us.
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  Speaker 1: We try our best to blend in, and we'll do
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  Speaker 1: the same in warmer places. The illustration here shows orange
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  Speaker 1: butterflies that blend in with the orange leaves of the tree,
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  Speaker 1: and an insect called a walking stick that looks a
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  Speaker 1: bit like a little stick of a tree. Continuing. Hello, beavers. Hello, chipmunks. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: we have no time to play because we're busy making
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  Speaker 1: cozy nests and dens. It will be cold soon and
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  Speaker 1: we want to get ready. Here we see, on this illustration,
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  Speaker 1: two fat beavers carrying sticks along a stream. And we
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  Speaker 1: see three little chipmunks gathering acorns. Hello, flowers. The flowers
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  Speaker 1: answer back. Hello, we are leaning into the sun, enjoying
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  Speaker 1: the last summer rays. Some of us, like asters and phlox,
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  Speaker 1: are late bloomers. We make the end of the season
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  Speaker 1: even more colorful. Hello, thunder. Hello, thunder. You can hear
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  Speaker 1: my low rumble from far away. My clouds loom over
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  Speaker 1: the open fields and quiet hills. The illustration here shows
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  Speaker 1: the young girl continuing on her walk. Now she's holding
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  Speaker 1: some flowers in her hand and Blue Jay is flying overhead.
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  Speaker 1: But the sky has darkened with dark gray clouds. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: breezy wind. Hello, I love to whoosh, drizzle leaves through
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  Speaker 1: the misty street. Hello, chill in the air. Hello, it's
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  Speaker 1: time to bring out your thick sweaters and scarves. Now
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  Speaker 1: the illustration shows the young girl walking through town. She's
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  Speaker 1: on the sidewalk and around her leaves are swirling in
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  Speaker 1: the air. and people are putting on sweaters and scarves
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  Speaker 1: around their necks. Hello puddle! Hello! Now that the wind
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  Speaker 1: has come, I often get covered with fallen leaves. Hello leaves! Hello!
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  Speaker 1: We are changing our colors. Some of us turn red
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  Speaker 1: or brown, while others turn gold or yellow. The dogwood
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  Speaker 1: leaves turned purple. Now the young girl has left the
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  Speaker 1: town and she's back on the edge of the forest.
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  Speaker 1: And she's looking at all of the beautiful leaves that
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  Speaker 1: have fallen onto the ground. And here there are some gold, red, brown,
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  Speaker 1: and even some purple leaves from the dogwood trees. Continuing. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: big orange sun. Hello. I am setting earlier and earlier
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  Speaker 1: now that summer is coming to an end. But I
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  Speaker 1: will see you again tomorrow. Goodbye, summer. And the little girl,
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  Speaker 1: as nighttime falls, walks into her house. Hello, autumn. The
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  Speaker 1: next day, the illustration here shows the next day that
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  Speaker 1: the girl is sitting once again on the steps outside
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  Speaker 1: her house. And she's looking out onto the forest where
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  Speaker 1: the trees are orange and brown and gently swaying in
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  Speaker 1: the breeze. And now we'll read another book. This one
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  Speaker 1: is called Summer Green to Autumn Gold. Uncovering Leaves, Hidden Colors.
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  Speaker 1: The author is Mia Posada. It was published by Millbrook
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  Speaker 1: Press in 2019. What kinds of leaves do you see
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  Speaker 1: in the summer? Here the illustration is a double page
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  Speaker 1: with all sorts of leaves. White oak, silver maple, sweet gum, dogwood, ash, cottonwood, elm,
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  Speaker 1: black walnut, paper birch, sugar maple, ginkgo, linden, honey locust,
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  Speaker 1: red maple, willow, aspen, and burr oak. And all of
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  Speaker 1: these leaves in the summertime are different shades of green.
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  Speaker 1: From emerald to jade and every shade in between, summer
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  Speaker 1: leaves fill the world with green. The secret to their
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  Speaker 1: green color is found deep inside each leaf. Tiny parts
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  Speaker 1: in the leaf called cells hold even tinier parts called chloroplasts.
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  Speaker 1: And inside the chloroplasts is something called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is
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  Speaker 1: a green pigment or color. It is what makes leaves green.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a photograph here of green leaves. Besides making
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  Speaker 1: plants green, chlorophyll has a job to do. It helps
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  Speaker 1: make food for trees and other green plants. When the
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  Speaker 1: sun shines on a plant's leaves, chlorophyll collects some of
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  Speaker 1: its energy. The energy combines with water from the ground
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  Speaker 1: and gas from the air to make food, and the
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  Speaker 1: food helps the plant grow. Slowly summer creeps toward fall.
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  Speaker 1: The air cools and the nights grow longer. These changes
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  Speaker 1: tell trees it's time to get ready for winter. The
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  Speaker 1: growing season for trees is over. The leaves stop making food.
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  Speaker 1: They don't need chlorophyll anymore. The chlorophyll slowly disappears and
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  Speaker 1: the leaves' green color fades away. Now the hidden yellows
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  Speaker 1: and oranges are finally revealed. The illustration here shows lots
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  Speaker 1: and lots of leaves in various shades of orange, yellow,
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  Speaker 1: and very light green. Many leaves have mixtures of yellow, orange, red,
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  Speaker 1: and brown pigments. The world is a rainbow of scarlet
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  Speaker 1: and orange, burgundy, and gold. Soon, the stems of the
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  Speaker 1: leaves change start to separate from the tree. The wind
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  Speaker 1: blows them loose. They drift to the ground, piling up.
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  Speaker 1: Here the photograph shows three big trees, each with different
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  Speaker 1: colored leaves, and many of those leaves have blown off
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  Speaker 1: the trees onto the ground where they are beginning to
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  Speaker 1: pile up. The fallen leaves feed the forest floor. They
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  Speaker 1: break down and become part of the soil. They become
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  Speaker 1: food and shelter for insects, snails, and worms. The illustration
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  Speaker 1: here shows a great big pile of leaves, all different colors,
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. And peeking out from in between these leaves,
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  Speaker 1: there's a snail, a spider, a worm, and some other
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  Speaker 1: tiny little bugs. Continuing. The bear trees sleep through the winter.
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  Speaker 1: This is their resting time. The illustration here shows a
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  Speaker 1: snowy ground and lots and lots of trees and none
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  Speaker 1: of them have any leaves. They're just standing straight and
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  Speaker 1: tall in the snow. And perched up and high on
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  Speaker 1: top one of the trees is a bright red cardinal bird.
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  Speaker 1: But in the spring, fresh leaves sprout from the awakening
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  Speaker 1: buds full of chlorophyll and filling the world with green again.
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  Speaker 1: The illustration here shows a large branch of a tree
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  Speaker 1: and some yellow birds are building a nest right in
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  Speaker 1: its branches, and there are many green buds sprouting along
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  Speaker 1: these tree branches. Different kinds of leaves. The trees in
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  Speaker 1: this book, whose leaves change color and fall off every year,
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  Speaker 1: are called deciduous trees. Their leaves are soft, and too
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  Speaker 1: fragile to survive a freezing winter. The stems of the
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  Speaker 1: leaves seal off to protect the tree from drying out
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  Speaker 1: and from infection. In doing so, the leaves are released.
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  Speaker 1: Some trees, called evergreens, keep most of their leaves all
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  Speaker 1: year long. Evergreens such as pine and spruce trees have
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  Speaker 1: hardy needle-like leaves with a protective waxy coating that helps
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  Speaker 1: them survive the cold of winter. Pigments in nature. The
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  Speaker 1: pigments that give leaves their vibrant orange and yellow fall
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  Speaker 1: colors are called carotenoids. Carotenoids are found all over the
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  Speaker 1: plant world. They are what make carrots and pumpkins orange
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  Speaker 1: and bananas, corn, and daffodils bright yellow. Red and purple
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  Speaker 1: leaf colors are made by anthocyanin, the pigment. Anthocyanins also
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  Speaker 1: make apples red and form the red, pink, purples, and
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  Speaker 1: blues of flower petals. Brown colors in leaves are made
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  Speaker 1: by tannins. In early fall, the tannins interact with the
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  Speaker 1: carotenoid and the anthocyanin pigments to create the golds, burgundies,
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  Speaker 1: and rich coppers in leaves, such as oaks. Later in
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  Speaker 1: the fall, the orange, yellow, and red pigments fade out
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  Speaker 1: of the leaves, leaving only the brown tannins. Some or
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  Speaker 1: all of these pigments may be present in a single leaf.
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  Speaker 1: They combine and interact to form the vibrant spectrum of
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  Speaker 1: fall colors. Fall colors around the world. Fall leaves are
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  Speaker 1: most vibrant in regions of the world that have four
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  Speaker 1: distinct seasons. In areas where the weather doesn't turn cold,
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  Speaker 1: leaves may fall, but usually do not change color. The
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  Speaker 1: type of trees in an area determine the color and
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  Speaker 1: intensity of its fall leaves. For instance, the forests of
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  Speaker 1: northeast United States contain many maple trees that produced vibrant reds.
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  Speaker 1: The aspen trees of the Rocky Mountains produce mainly bright yellows.
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  Speaker 1: From fall to fall, colors can change. The colors and
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  Speaker 1: brilliance of the leaves on a particular tree may vary
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  Speaker 1: from year to year. The brightness of the pigments may
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  Speaker 1: be affected by the weather. Autumn weather with lots of
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  Speaker 1: bright sunny days and cool nights will produce the brightest
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  Speaker 1: fall leaves. The red and purple anthocyanin pigments need sunlight
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  Speaker 1: in order to form, so a cloudy fall will not
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  Speaker 1: produce as many bright reds. A very dry summer may
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  Speaker 1: delay the leaves turning or they may fall off before
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  Speaker 1: they have a chance to turn. Freezing fall temperatures will
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  Speaker 1: destroy the leaves' ability to form red, and purple anthocyanin pigments.
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  Speaker 1: The factors that affect leaf colors can create different colors
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  Speaker 1: even on the same tree. The side of a tree
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  Speaker 1: that gets the most sunlight will have the brightest red leaves.
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  Speaker 1: And now here at the end of the book, there
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  Speaker 1: is a glossary, and we know that's like a little
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  Speaker 1: small dictionary. The first word is anthocyanin. Anthocyanin, these are
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  Speaker 1: pigments that give leaves red or purple colors. Keratinoids, pigments
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  Speaker 1: that give leaves yellow or orange colors. The cell, the
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  Speaker 1: basic unit of any living thing. Chlorophyll, a pigment inside chloroplasts.
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  Speaker 1: that are inside plant cells that make leaves green and
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  Speaker 1: help make food for plants. Chloroplasts, small parts inside plant
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  Speaker 1: cells that contain chlorophyll. Deciduous, trees or other plants that
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  Speaker 1: lose their leaves every year. Evergreen, a tree or plant
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  Speaker 1: with leaves that remain green all year. Gas, a substance
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  Speaker 1: such as air that spreads to any space that holds it.
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  Speaker 1: Leaves take in a gas called carbon dioxide from the
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  Speaker 1: air to make food for plants. Pigments, substances that give
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  Speaker 1: color to animals and plants. And tannins, Substances that give
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  Speaker 1: leaves a brown color. And now they list hands-on experiments
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  Speaker 1: with leaves and pigments. Do you want to do more
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  Speaker 1: with leaves than collect them? Here are a few fun
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  Speaker 1: ideas you can try. Safety note, be sure to ask
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  Speaker 1: an adult to help. You can do a coffee filter
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  Speaker 1: experiment a leaf pigment extraction, or a red cabbage anthocyanin experiment.
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  Speaker 1: These can be found at various websites that you can
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  Speaker 1: search and find these experiments online. And now we have
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  Speaker 1: time for another book. This one is called How Do
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  Speaker 1: You Know It's Fall? This was written by Ruth Owen
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  Speaker 1: with consultants Susie Gasley and Kimberly Brenneman. It was published
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  Speaker 1: by Bearport Publishing in 2012. It's fall. Every year has
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  Speaker 1: four seasons. Spring, summer, fall, and winter. As summer comes
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  Speaker 1: to an end, fall begins. For many farmers, Fall is
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  Speaker 1: harvest time. They gather crops that they've grown, such as
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  Speaker 1: apples and pumpkins. When you spot fat orange pumpkins for sale,
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  Speaker 1: it's a sign that fall is here. In fall, corn, wheat,
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  Speaker 1: and other crops are ready to be eaten. Farmers gather
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  Speaker 1: the crops that they grow in fields so that people
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  Speaker 1: can buy them. The photographs here on this page show
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  Speaker 1: wheat and corn growing in a field and an enormous
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  Speaker 1: pile of pumpkins with a young girl standing beside trying
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  Speaker 1: to select just the best one. Continuing. Shorter days. In summer,
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  Speaker 1: each day has more hours of sunlight than than darkness.
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  Speaker 1: By the time fall arrives, night and day are about
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  Speaker 1: the same length. Then all through the fall, daytime becomes
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  Speaker 1: shorter than nighttime. And it suggests that you might want
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  Speaker 1: to keep a diary that shows how daytime gets shorter
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  Speaker 1: in the fall. Each week in fall, pick a day
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  Speaker 1: and draw a clock that shows what time it got
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  Speaker 1: dark outside. The photograph here shows three young children enjoying
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  Speaker 1: their playtime outside while many fall leaves are falling around them.
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  Speaker 1: Frosty mornings. Fewer hours of daylight are not the only
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  Speaker 1: clue that fall is starting. The weather begins to feel
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  Speaker 1: cooler too. On some mornings, everything outside is covered with frost.
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  Speaker 1: Chilly mornings, windy days, and rain can all be signs
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  Speaker 1: that fall is here. On a chilly fall morning, go
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  Speaker 1: outside on a frost treasure hunt. You can maybe find
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  Speaker 1: a flower, a spider web, or leaves that are covered
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  Speaker 1: with frost. If a person or animal's breath makes a
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  Speaker 1: little cloud when they breathe out. It's a sign that
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  Speaker 1: the weather is cold. The illustration, actually a photograph here
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  Speaker 1: on this page, shows two big brown horses standing out
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  Speaker 1: in a field that is covered with frost. And there's
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  Speaker 1: another smaller photograph of a buffalo outside, and you can
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  Speaker 1: see the cloud from his breath. as he's breathing out
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  Speaker 1: on a cold fall day. Crunchy Leaves Sidewalks and parks
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  Speaker 1: covered with crunchy leaves are clues that it's fall. As
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  Speaker 1: summer comes to an end, the leaves on many trees
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  Speaker 1: change colors. Green leaves turn red, yellow, orange, and brown.
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  Speaker 1: And then the leaves fall from the branches and flutter
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  Speaker 1: to the ground. The leaves that fall to the ground
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  Speaker 1: become food for insects and worms. Become a fall leaf collector.
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  Speaker 1: Find as many different shapes and colors of leaves as
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  Speaker 1: you can and tape them to a notebook or scrapbook.
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  Speaker 1: The photograph here shows a family walking. in a forest
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  Speaker 1: where many fall leaves of all different colors rain down
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  Speaker 1: upon them from the branches above. Apple Time All through summer,
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  Speaker 1: apples on trees grow bigger and fatter. When fall arrives,
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  Speaker 1: the apples are ready to eat. Farmers climb ladders to
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  Speaker 1: pick them. The apples are then loaded onto trucks that
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  Speaker 1: go to supermarkets. There's a photograph here of a farmer
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  Speaker 1: picking apples, and he's way up high into the tree
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  Speaker 1: by standing on a ladder. Look at the seeds inside
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  Speaker 1: an apple. What important jobs do you think the seeds have?
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  Speaker 1: In the fall, people can visit apple farms to pick
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  Speaker 1: the fruit. The photograph here on this page shows three
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  Speaker 1: young girls who are apple picking. They each have apples
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  Speaker 1: in their hands and they're filling a large basket. Time
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  Speaker 1: for seeds. Fall is the season when many plant seeds
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  Speaker 1: fall to the ground. Some seeds, such as those from
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  Speaker 1: apple trees, fall to the ground inside a piece of fruit.
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  Speaker 1: Other seeds, such as the ones from maple trees, whirl
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  Speaker 1: to the ground like tiny helicopters. The seeds from oak
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  Speaker 1: trees fall to the ground inside a tough shell called
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  Speaker 1: an acorn. After the seeds have fallen to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: they wait in the soil where they landed. When the
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  Speaker 1: weather warms up, they will grow into new plants. Acorns
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  Speaker 1: sometimes get buried underground after they fall from a tree.
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  Speaker 1: How do you think this might happen? And there's a
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  Speaker 1: photograph here of someone holding hands full of acorns. Getting
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  Speaker 1: ready for winter. On a frosty fall morning, a busy
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  Speaker 1: squirrel collects acorns and other seeds. It digs little holes
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  Speaker 1: in the ground and buries the food. In winter, when
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to find enough food to eat, the squirrel
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  Speaker 1: will dig up the food. It won't find all the
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  Speaker 1: seeds it's buried, however. The ones it does not find
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  Speaker 1: will grow into new plants and trees. Squirrels bury the
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  Speaker 1: food they collect to hide it from animals such as birds, chipmunks,
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  Speaker 1: and other squirrels. And the photograph here is a squirrel.
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  Speaker 1: burying food by digging into the ground. Honk, honk, it's fall.
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  Speaker 1: One sign of fall is the honk, honk of Canada
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  Speaker 1: geese as they fly south. Canada geese live in many
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  Speaker 1: parts of Canada and the United States. As the weather
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  Speaker 1: gets colder in the fall, the birds fly off to
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  Speaker 1: warm places in the south to spend the winter. In spring,
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  Speaker 1: They fly back north. When Canada geese fly together in
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  Speaker 1: a group, they fly in a V shape. In the fall,
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  Speaker 1: people are busy cleaning up their gardens. They rake up
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  Speaker 1: leaves that fall from the trees and cut down summer
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  Speaker 1: flowers that have died. They also might plant flower bulbs,
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  Speaker 1: which will grow into daffodils and other flowers in the spring.
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  Speaker 1: Fall is the season. when people prepare their gardens for
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  Speaker 1: the long, cold winter. Well, this concludes the Children's Story
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  Speaker 1: Hour for today. Please join us next time when we
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  Speaker 1: will read more stories, fables, or fairy tales. And thank
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