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Did you ever look carefully at a spider's webs? Did you ever wonder what causes thunder and lighting? Why do dogs chase cats? Why does it look like there's a man in the moon? In this delightful recording of tales from around the world, each story explains why an animal, plant, or natural object looks or acts the way it does.

This is a storybook about a friendly bees on the big island of Hawaii and how useful they really are to the island and earth, to help kids lose their fear of them. It talks about the body of the bees, pollination, the queen, female worker bees and the lazy boy bees or drones. It also discusses what honey is and 10 benefits of eating bees honey.

These classic children’s tales are now available for the first time as a digital download, performed by Roger McGough and Juliet Stevenson. Five of Eric Carle’s picture book texts collected together, with music. The stories are: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me...

Forty years after its first publication this much-loved Child's Play classic is as popular as ever.

Una noche, a la luz de la luna llena, de un huevo muy pequeño sale una oruga muy muy muy hambrienta. Atravesará muchas cosas de comer... hasta convertirse en la oruga más gorda que hayas visto.

Get ready to go back to school with this inclusive, empathetic story that will help kids new to the classroom transform from timid caterpillars into beautiful butterflies who love exactly who they are! On Vanessa's first day of school, her parents tell her it will be easy to make friends...

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Bugs (A Day in the Life). "An attractive series for kids intrigued by animals in the wild." —Booklist Set over a 24-hour period, meet busy honeybees, transforming caterpillars, and an army of leafcutter...

Professor Kompressor visits Walter's family, offering a remedy for the dog's digestive disorder: special food that must be mixed in his Kompressatron. Unfortunately, the professor's cure doesn't work, so Father has to take matters into his own hands. Father's combination of ingredients has a...

The insect world is a fascinating place. You may not think so. You may think insects are gross. Or scary. Or dangerous. But there’s so much more to insects than what meets the eye. Told through hilarious prose and packed full of jaw-dropping facts, Brenna Maloney’s first-person narrative presents the big picture on bugs. Insects play a critical role on our planet—as pollinators, garbage collectors, artistic muses, research partners, and even as “dinner.”

In this adaptation of the first chapter of A. A. Milne’s well known classic “Winnie-the-Pooh,” Pooh gets himself into trouble when he tries to take honey from a bee hive.

Martin, the spider chicken, is trying to process what just happened. He and his friends barely escaped from the mad scientist villager and his chimera golems. Now, they are resting in a cave, at least for the moment. But, their rest won't last long because they discover something insane in the cave. And, what can they do about the mad scientist villager?

Sharing and math have never been such a fun challenge! Ralph warns Flora not to pick that thirteenth bean. Everyone knows it’s unlucky! Now that they’re stuck with it, how can they make it disappear? If they each eat half the beans, there’s still one left over. And if they invite a friend...

Celebrate summer with the Very Hungry Caterpillar in this bright and cheerful audiobook! This story is the perfect way to introduce little ones to the changing seasons and identify all that makes summer superb! Hooray, it’s summer! Ready to play? There’s so much to explore On a warm, sunny...

Eleven-year-old Ruby is a Black girl who loves studying insects and would do just about anything to be an entomologist, much to the grossed-out dismay of her Gramma. Ruby knows everything there is to know about insects so when she finds the weirdest bug she’s ever seen in her front yard, she makes sure no one is looking and captures it for further study. But then Ruby realizes that the creature isn't just a regular bug.

Grassland ecosystems can be found on nearly every continent. Countless animals and plants live in them. So what difference could the loss of one animal species make? Follow the chain reaction, and discover how important honey bees are.

Paul Fleischman's Poems for Two Voices make for irresistable listening. Whether funny, sad, boisterous or serene, each poem is a virtuoso performance - skillfully illuminating a unique personality from the natural world.

Stay tuned for a brand-new show coming in winter 2018 to PBS Kids: Pinkalicious & Peterrific! Kids will love to see the magic of metamorphosis with Victoria Kann’s Pinkalicious and the Little Butterfly. Pinkalicious is so excited when Miss Penny brings monarch caterpillars to class. She makes...

Short Stories ideal for bedtime ( Childrens Fiction ) These children's stories make ideal bedtime reading, taking around 10-15 mins each to read. The subject matter of these kids fiction books help to alleviate the fear of spiders by portraying Archie as a non-scary character, and someone who through his adventures encounters and overcomes the same fears and apprehensions, that most children go through in their young lives. This is book 1 in a series of children's short stories, based on the adventures of a friendly Scottish spider called Archie. He is well aware that children are scared of...

Private bug on the case Inspector Hopper is a detective with a feel -- and feelers -- for mysteries. With the help of his partner, McBugg, this tiny supersleuth can crack any case!...

A heartwarming tale of a girl waiting for her beloved Papá to return when the monarchs fly south to their home in Mexico. Lucía loves to watch the monarchs' migration from her home in Mexico with Papá. But this year, the monarchs' journey north holds extra weight; Papá is heading north...