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A poem about being a substitute teacher.

Bought by WBHM


  • Added: Jul 09, 2024
  • Length: 01:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Both Lemony Snicket (the pen name of Daniel Handler) and Kate DiCamillo are authors of children's literature whose work has multigenerational appea...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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A collaborative "Short List" poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Here's a little ditty in honor of county fair season ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 01:30
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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
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What kind of bee keeps buzzing all year long? A May bee!

  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 01:52
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It was summer vacation, and Jessica wanted to be in two places at once ...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
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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
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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
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Here's a little song in honor of the Springtime planting season ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:40
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Another song for the kids: Imagine if you could see yourself in a snowflake! ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:22
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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
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Something's in the 'fridgerator, rotten eggs! ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 01:12
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Several short, unrelated poems are (loosely) tied together by a short song ...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:32
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Rose Bush had three pen pals: one black, one blue, and one red ...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:00
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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