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This week's episode is a bit of nonsense verse set to music: "Well, it was nine o'clock at midnight in the early afternoon / And I was picking all...
- Added: Dec 07, 2016
- Length: 01:21
This week's episode is an ever so slightly spooky song about an old growth forest, a crooked beak, and a pair of yellow eyes ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 01:25
Here's a little ditty about how we make the seasons, and why sometimes they get just a tiny bit mixed up ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 01:31
This may be my best poem yet: "Far away, out beyond the Great Desert of Proom, Where the wind sweeps across the sharp sand like a broom ..."
- Added: Sep 07, 2016
- Length: 05:51
Here's a little ditty in honor of county fair season ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 01:30
Good morning everybody, this is Bill Melater, coming to you live from the beautiful city of Upper Case – Capitol of the Kingdom of Wonderstan and t...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 03:09
What kind of bee keeps buzzing all year long? A May bee!
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 01:52
It was summer vacation, and Jessica wanted to be in two places at once ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 06:20
In Upper Tidwell lived a boy Named Jeremiah Crumping / Who couldn't stand for very long without commencing jumping ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 03:34
Marco always dreamed about traveling to faraway places. All his life, he had never been anywhere – unless you counted his grandmother's house, whi...
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 04:42
Here's a little song in honor of the Springtime planting season ...
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 01:40
Here's another little song for the kids: when you think about it, bees are just Nature's miniature flying alarum clocks ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2016
- Length: 01:53
Theophilus Papadopoulos had to write an essay for school. It was supposed to be about a famous philosopher, and it couldn't be about anybody he kn...
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 05:19
Here's a little song about a snowman who rolled into town at the tail end of Winter ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 01:54
Sue Spender was on her way to school one morning when she found a penny lying heads-down on the sidewalk. She wondered how it got there. Could it...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 06:32
Young Brian was always asking questions. He wanted to know how the world worked. He wanted to know why it worked. He wanted to know when it work...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 06:52
Les Claypool never rests. Whether he’s dealing with his most famous band, Primus, leading his Frog Brigade, or jamming with his new friend Sean Le...
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- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 07:10
- Purchases: 4
Another song for the kids: Imagine if you could see yourself in a snowflake! ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 01:22
Jessica worried that someday, somebody might catch her using magic. That would be disastrous! They wouldn't understand that she only used her pow...
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 04:42
Something's in the 'fridgerator, rotten eggs! ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2016
- Length: 01:12
Several short, unrelated poems are (loosely) tied together by a short song ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 01:32
Rose Bush had three pen pals: one black, one blue, and one red ...
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 04:00
Here's another little children's song. It's about trees shedding their leaves while we humans bundle ourselves up ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2015
- Length: 01:37
When Alice was very young, she had only one ambition. There was only one thing that Alice wanted to do more than anything else in the world, and t...
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 03:46
This one is a children's song about autumn ...
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: :59