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6.28.26 - Part 2 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to radioi's Children's Story Hour. As a reminder,
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  Radio E is a reading service intended for people who
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  are blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult
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  to read printed material. Today we're going to be reading
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  several books about a summer holiday called Independence Day, or
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  some people just call it the Fourth of July. Your
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  reader today is Patty. We will start with the book
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  entitled The Night Before the Fourth of July. The author
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  is Natasha Wing. The illustrator is Amy Womer. It's published
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  by Grosset and Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group. In
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  the year twenty fifteen, twas the night before July fourth,
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  and all across the USA, Americans were gearing up for
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  Independence Day. Mom tied up the bunting while I gave
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  Dad a hand. We hung the flag from our porch stand.
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  The illustration here shows a family mom, dad, and two
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  young children decorating their front porch and their white fence
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  that goes around their porch. Bunting, which is striped red,
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  white and blue with stars, is swagged around the fence,
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  and Dad is hanging the American flag on a special
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  pole on the porch. Continuing that night, we both slept
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  sprawled out in our beds while visions of fireworks popped
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  in our heads. The next morning, we dressed up in red,
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  white and blue. I even wore stars, one on each shoe.
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  Here the illustration shows the family dressed in their red,
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  white and blue shirts and shorts and shoes, and the
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  young girl has red shoes on her feet and they
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  each have a star on the toe. Looking on are
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  two little dogs. One has a red bandanna around his
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  neck and the other has a blue one. Continuing, we
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  lined up on main Street. Look here come the parade floats.
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  Hooray for the marching band and the four H Club goats.
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  The illustration here shows people lined up, many many people
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  lined up to watch a parade, and several floats are
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  marching down the And then here's a group of children
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  holding a flag that says four H Club and they
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  several of them have goats, and they're on a leash,
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  and they're walking alongside their child, their children's friends. The
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  mayor tossed candy. I shouted, hear, hear, and Uncle Sam,
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  walking on stilts, brought up the rear. Friends and family
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  came over for a backyard barbecue. Dad fired up the
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  grill as a storm started to brewthe The goodies were
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  set on the picnic table with care, get them while
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  they're hot, hollered Dad, flipping burgers into the air. But
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  just when we sat down, it started to pour. Grab
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  the food, shouted Mom, and we raced through the door.
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  This one illustration and shows the family and several of
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  their friends who have joined them, grabbing up the potato
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  chips and the hot dogs and hamburgers and bowls of
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  potato salad, and lots and lots of yummy food and
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  rushing inside the kitchen while the rain is falling outside.
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  In hot dogs, in salads, in blueberry pie, in melon
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  and corn. Keep those potato chips dry. We gathered in
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  the kitchen and spilled into the hall. Squeeze in, said Mom.
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  There's room for us all as we munched on our food.
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  Grandma turned to Grandpop, there'll be no fireworks show if
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  this rain doesn't stop. What we all shouted, No rockets,
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  red glare Fourth of July without fireworks. That's totally not fair.
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  When what, to our wondering eyes, should appear With the
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  rain suddenly stopping, the sky was now clear. The illustration
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  here shows the family and the two dogs and all
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  their friends who had been in the kitchen eating rushing outside.
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  And at last the rain has stopped and the sun
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  is shining again. We piled in the car and drove
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  to the park. We threw down a blanket. As it
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  began to grow dark. Dad lit the sparklers. We drew
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  circles in the air. We snapped glowsticks on our wrists
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  and glow halos in our hair. The first firework was
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  launched high into the sky and into the night. It
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  bloomed like a flower floating with light. Where's crackled boom woohoo,
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  cheered the crowd. But my brother covered his ears and whimpered,
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  it's that's just too loud. The band played the national anthem,
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  Dad saying, oh say can you see? That's when I
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  covered my ears because he was way out of key.
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  And now the grand finale, Wow, the best I'd seen yet,
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  A sky filled with color, a show I'll never forget.
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  The illustration here shows the family and many many other
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  people who have gathered in the park watching the beautiful
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  fireworks in the night sky. When the last firework fizzled
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  like fairy dust in the sky, we all cheered, and
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  shouted fourth of July. And now I'll share another book
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  with you about more people and how they celebrate the
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  Fourth of July. And this one is simply called On
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  the Fourth of July. The author is Maggie c. Rudd
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  and the illustrator is Eliza Shavari. It was published by
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  Farrar Strauss Jureau in twenty twenty three. On the fourth
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  of July, when the sun sinks low, when the sparklers
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  come out and the fireflies glow, when the cookouts are
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  over and the pool gates are closed, when coolers are
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  emptied and sunburns show. Then we'll walk from our houses.
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  We'll parade into town. We've been waiting all day for
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  the sun to go down. We'll ride high on shoulders.
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  We'll race on our bikes. We'll lift flags above us
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  and wave stars and stripes. The illustration here shows a
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  large group of people gathered on the street and they're
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  watching different people ride their bikes down the street. The
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  illustration shows two young people with wearing bike helmets and
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  they've decorated their bikes with red, white and blue balloons
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  and pinwheels and streamers. Two young children are sitting on
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  the shoulders of their fathers, and each of them is
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  holding an American flag, the red, white, and blue. Continuing.
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  We'll blow horns and fly streamers, let freedom ring, Happy
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  Birthday America. The people will sing, will lay out our quilts,
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  or we'll perch on our cars. We'll set up our
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  lawn chairs and look to the stars. We'll laugh with
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  our neighbors. We'll chat with our friends. Then cannon will
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  boom and the fireworks begin. Here the illustration shows the
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  nighttime sky and many many people sitting out in the park.
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  Some of the people are sitting on the tops of
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  their cars, and many others are sitting in chairs or
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  sprawled out on blankets or quilts on the ground, waiting
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  for the fireworks to begin. A bright silver shower will
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  glitter and glow, and just as it dims, another explodes.
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  Red sends out, sparkles and gold paints the sky. Blue
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  scatters and dances as purple sails by flung from a
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  paintbrush on a canvas of sky, A landscape of color
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  the Art of July. The illustration here shows a young
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  boy with a paintbrush and he's slinging the paint up
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  into the sky. An illustration of what the fireworks might
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  have looked like that night. They pop and they crackle,
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  They echo and pound, They sing and they whistle, They
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  jump and they bound. A pause near the end sends
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  a hush through the streets. The finale begins, and folks
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  leap to their feet like a song full of spirit,
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  like a bird's how they glide. The people will look
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  on with wonder, with pride, and when it's all over,
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  the celebration will end. We'll pack up our blankets and
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  wave goodbye to our friends. We'll take our time leaving.
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  We'll gaze at the sky. We'll crawl into back seats
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  and rub tired eyes. The illustration here shows the nighttime
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  sky with just a few stars twinkling above, and a
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  young boy and girl and their little tiny dog riding
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  in a red wagon as their mother pulls it down
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  the sidewalk heading toward home. In the background, we see
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  another family getting into their car. We'll hold hands with
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  our parents and swing from their arms. We'll head back
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  to our houses, our fields, and our farms. We'll lie
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  on our beds when July fourth is through, and we'll
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  dream of the colors red, white, and blue. And now
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  let's learn a little more about this holiday. This next
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  book I will read is nonfiction, so it's the factual
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  information and the called Celebrate Independence Day. The author is
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  Sally Sally Lee and it's published by Pebble a Capstone
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  Imprint in twenty nineteen. Happy Birthday America Independence Day is
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  the birthday of the United States of America. It celebrates
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  the day the nation declared it's dependence from Great Britain.
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  Americans celebrate it every year on July fourth. At the
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  bottom of the page, there is a definition of independence,
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  which means the state of being free from the control
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  of other people or governments. And the illustration here shows
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  a picture of the Statue of Liberty in New York
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  and then there's fireworks exploding all around the Statue of
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  Liberty in the night sky. The fight for independence. Before
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  there were states, Americans lived in thirteen colonies. They were
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  governed by Great Britain's Parliament and King George the Third.
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  When Great Britain needed money, it raised the colonists taxes.
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  The colonists thought this was unfair. They had no say
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  in Parliament. The bottom of this page there are three
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  words with definitions. Colony which means an area of land
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  ruled by a far away country. Parliament the lawmaking body
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  of British government, and tax money that people or businesses
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  must give to the government to pay for what the
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  government does. On the opposite page, there's a photograph of
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  King George the Third, the British King, and it says
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  a colonist named Daniel Delaney wrote this paper speaking out
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  about the new taxes and their There's a photograph of
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  a paper that says considerations on the propriety of imposing
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  taxes on the British colonies. Continuing, the colonists thought it
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  was unfair that they had no say in British government.
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  They protested the new laws and taxes. King George the
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  Third ignored their complaints. He sent soldiers to the colonies
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  to keep order. Many colonists thought it was time to
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  form their own country. The definition at the bottom of
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  this page is protest to say you think something is
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  wrong and needs to be changed. There's a photograph of
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  the Boston Tea Party and it's where ships are in
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  the harbor and lots of small boats are nearby, and
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  the caption says during the Boston Tea Party, colonists protested
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  the British tax on tea. They threw crates of British
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  tea into the ocean. Continuing, representatives from all thirteen colonies
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  met in seventeen seventy six. They voted to break away
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  from Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson used their ideas to write
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  the Declaration of Independence. It was adopted on July fourth,
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  seventeen seventy six. The two definitions at the bottom of
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  this page are representative which means someone who is chosen
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  to act or speak for others, and declaration this is
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  an official or the document that contains it. The illustration
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  on the opposite page from the text shows colonial leaders
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  signing the Declaration of Independence, and it shows many men
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  gathered in a hall and they are holding some very
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  important papers and several of them are signing it. Here's
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  a fact, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin helped with the declaration.
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  They made changes before it was voted on, continuing, it
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  took more than words to win the freedom. The colonists
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  fought the British soldiers in the Revolutionary War seventeen seventy
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  five through seventeen eighty three. In the end, the colonists won.
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  They no longer lived in colonies. They lived in the
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  United States of America. Fact, George Washington led the Continental Army.
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  He became America's first president. Words at the bottom of
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  this page for your definitions. One is revolution an attempt
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  to overthrow a government and replace it with a new system.
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  And continental, relating to the thirteen colonies that became the
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  United States. The illustration on this opposite page has the
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  Colonists fight the British during the Battle of Bunker Hill,
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  and it's an illustration that shows many soldiers fighting against
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  each other. The British soldiers all had red coats, and
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  the Colonists had all kinds of different clothing on, nothing
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  like the red coats of the British uniforms. Continuing, let's celebrate.
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  Philadelphia held the first Independence Day celebration on July fourth,
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  seventeen seventy seven. The day included speeches, music, and fireworks.
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  Soon other towns began holding celebrations. Congress made Independence Day
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  an official holiday in eighteen seventy. Fact Philadelphia was the
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  capital of the United States from seventeen ninety to eighteen hundred.
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  The word for your definition is Congress, the branch of
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  an national government. That makes laws. The illustration here is
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  Independence Hall in Philadelphia and it shows the large building
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  with a flag flying high above it, which is Independence Hall.
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  Independence Day is a giant birthday celebration. Schools, businesses, and
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  government offices shut down. Cities have big parades with bands
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  and floats. Neighborhoods may have small parades. Kids decorate their
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  bikes with red, white and blue streamers. Friends and families
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  have picnics. Fact all US Major League Baseball teams where red,
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  white and blue uniforms on Independence Day. Photograph here shows
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  a family grilling out. There's a woman and a man
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  who are manning the grill and a young girl who's
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  taking some food onto her plate. In the background you
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  can see decorations that they have outside near their picnic table,
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  American flag, and some of the people are wearing red,
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  white and blue hats. Some songs capture the spirit of
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  Independence Day. Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled banner
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  in eighteen fourteen. Today it is the US national anthem America.
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  The Beautiful and God Bless America are two other patriotic songs.
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  Marching bands play songs such as these in parades. The
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  two words for definition are anthem a song of praise,
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  often for one's country, and patriotic feeling or showing love
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  and pride for one's country. And on the page opposite
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  from the text is a photograph of a marching band
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  marching down the street and many people are gathered to
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  watch them. We see the drummers and the person playing
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  the cymbals, and the caption says John Philip Sousa wrote
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  one hundred and thirty six marches more than one hundred
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  years ago. He was known as the march King. Susa's
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  Stars and Stripes Forever is America's a national march across
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  the country. Independence Day ends with a bang. The night
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  sky lights up as bright fire works burst in the air.
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  The pops and booms sound like that cannons used to
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  win the country's freedom. It is a sparkling reminder of
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  the nation's history. The caption here says true meaning Independence
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  Day is more than flags, fireworks and food. It is
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  a day to remember those who created our country. It
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  is also a day to thank members of the military
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  who work to protect it. Here the photograph is of
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  several people standing outside in the night sky watching beautiful
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  fireworks explode all around them, red, yellow, blue, blue, and
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  white starburst very high up into the sky. And here
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  at the end of the book is our glossary, and
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  will go over the words one more time. Anthem a
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  song of praise for one's country. Colony land ruled by
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  a far away country. Congress the branch of a national
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  government that makes laws continental relating to the thirteen colonies
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  that became the United States. Declaration an official statement or
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  the document that contains it. Independence, the state of being
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  free from the control of other pe people or governments.
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  Parliament the lawmaking body of British government. Patriotic feeling or
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  showing love and pride for one's country. Protest to say
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  you think something is wrong and needs to be changed.
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  Representative someone who is chosen to act or speak for others.
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  Revolution an attempt to overthrow a government and replace it
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  with a new system. Tax money that people or businesses
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  must give to the government to pay for what the
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  government does. And now at the end of the book
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  it says read more. Some other books that you might
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  want to read is If You were a kid during
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  the American Revolution written by Will Mara. Why do we
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  celebrate Independence Day? Celebrating us Holidays written by Jonathan Potter
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  and the founding fathers, Those Horse Ridden Fiddle playan book
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  Reading gun Tote and Gentlemen Who Started America written by
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  Jonah Winter. They also give an internet site that lists
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  more information about Independence Day. It says use fact hound
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  to find internet sites related to this book, visit www
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  dot facthound dot com and that would be www dot
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  fac t ho und dot com. And here at the
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  end of the book are some critical thinking questions. So
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  these are some things that you could think about and
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  know the answers from what you've read and we've read
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  together in this book. Why is Independence Day called the
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  birthday of the United States? Why did the thirteen colonies
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  want to be free from Great Britain? And how do
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  you celebrate Independence Day? Well, this can blues the Children's
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  Story Hour for today. Please join us next time as
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  we will read more stories, fables or fairy tales. And
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  we thank you for listening, and please stay tuned for
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  continued programming on Radio I