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Expanding upon the four-line nursery rhyme, storyteller David Novak spins an epic tale as young Itsy prepares to attempt what no spider has done before: scale the water spout. A nervous Mother Bitsy prepares her little Itsy as nourishing lunch; a fly salad sandwich, a bag of grasshopper chips, and a bottle of fresh-squeezed moth juice (100% natural). The result is an epic on a child's scale, in which determination, concentration, and grit are championed.

Randy and Oliver Melendy awake one morning full of gloom. Their brothers and sisters are away, the house seems forlorn and empty, and even Cuffy, their adored housekeeper, can't pick up their spirits. Will they have to face a long and lonely winter?

To keep from being eaten, a resourceful inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

The author of the famous Alice books also wrote many poems notably in the humorous and nonsense genres. "The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits)", published in 1876 and possibly his best known and most accomplished verse, is presented here together with another of his longer poems, "Phantasmagoria" and "Melancholetta", "Sea Dirge", "Size and Tears", plus five poems from Alice.

Chirpy Cricket loves to fiddle. He thinks everyone he meets should. However, as Chirpy meets other critters near Farmer Green's house, he learns that not everyone who fiddles sounds the same as he does. Along the way, he meets some strange crickets like the Mole Cricket who never comes above ground. Or the Cricket Frog who chirps like cricket but is really from the frog family. (Did you know there are over 900 species of crickets?) We also learn about some of the predators of crickets and how they hunt. But mostly, this story is about Chirpy.

Das farbenfrohe Hörspiel des Kinderklassikers zum 100. Geburtstag der beliebtesten Biene aller Zeiten. Die kleine Maja darf zum ersten Mal den Bienenstock verlassen. Prompt beschließt sie, nie wieder dorthin zurückzukehren. In vollen Zügen genießt sie ihre Freiheit, erkundet die große Welt und lernt neue Freunde kennen. Doch dann erfährt sie, dass die Hornissen einen Angriff auf den Bienenstock planen. Wird Maja ihr Volk retten können

Have you ever seen a butterfly get married? Join us in the garden as we follow a butterfly as he goes on a journey to find his future wife.

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.

Robert Browning (1812-1889), playwright and poet, is known and admired for his dramatic monologues in blank verse, of which he is a recognized master. He also wrote many lighter poems with a humorous touch. Here is one of his best known, The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Maja fliegt glücklich und beseelt von der schönen Welt durch einen Obstgarten. Als sie am Ende des Gartens durch Brombeerranken hindurchfliegt, um zu den süßlich duftenden Jasminblüten zu gelangen, legt sich plötzlich etwas Eigenartiges über sie. Maja versteht erst nicht, was geschehen ist. Als sie schließlich die Silberfäden entdeckt, die überall an ihrem Körper festkleben, begreift sie, dass sie sich in einem Spinnennetz verfangen hat.

In der Rinde der Kiefer, in der Maja ihre Sommerwohnung hat, wohnt der Borkkäfer Fridolin mit seiner Familie. Durch ihn erfährt Maja vom gefährlichen Specht, der mit seiner langen klebrigen Zunge in den Spalten der Baumrinde sein Futter einfängt. Da kommt plötzlich ein spinnenartiges komisches Tier den Baumstamm hochgeklettert. Maja ist erstaunt und ängstlich zugleich.

M. R. James (1862-1936) was provost of King's College, Cambridge, and Eton College. He was a highly regarded scholar and academic but is today remembered for his ghost stories, which are considered among the finest in the genre. His short novel for children, The Five Jars, is a bewitching fairy tale in the form of a letter to a young friend, telling of the writer's strange experiences after discovering a box containing five jars with labels that indicate the mysterious powers of their contents.

Una classica storia dei Fratelli Grimm per imparare il rispetto e l'amore nei confronti degli animali, presentata in una nuova nuova versione interpretata da Gaetano Marino.