Blossom Bird Goes South, by Sherry Paul and Bob Miller, is an entertaining kid's book read aloud for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school ages (and adults still young at heart), for the Autumn/Fall season.
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00:00Blossom Bird goes south.
00:29A Bob Miller picture story with words by Sherry Paul.
00:36Morning came as mornings do, all cold and bright and sunny.
00:41But Blossom Bird saw something new.
00:44Something's very funny.
00:49Where green had been, there now was brown, and all the leaves were falling down.
00:59Some were red and some were gold.
01:02The wind, she said, is getting cold.
01:05These must be the winds of fall.
01:07Soon it will be snowing.
01:09I do not like the fall at all.
01:15Young man, where are you going?
01:19Before it snows, said Little Bird, I must learn how to fly.
01:24For when it snows, birds go, I've heard.
01:27When you go, so will I.
01:29But Blossom said, I will not go.
01:32I won't fly south this year.
01:38You must fly south, said Baby Green.
01:41It's warmer there than here.
01:44Mama says, eat this, eat that.
01:47Rice and bread will make us fat, and pulling worms will make us strong.
01:52I must be strong, the trip is long.
01:59Fly south, said Hedgehog.
02:01Fly south right away.
02:03Yes, Blossom, cried Frog.
02:06You should leave today.
02:09You'll be cold, Turtle said, and hungry, and wet.
02:13When the green leaves turn red, it's south you should get.
02:21What are you saying?
02:22I don't want to go.
02:25This year I am staying.
02:27There may not be snow.
02:29But Blossom, said Hedgehog, the south's warm and dry.
02:34So when cold winter comes, that is where you must fly.
02:41And when cold winter ends and warm spring is here, you'll fly back to your friends
02:47for the rest of the year.
02:52Are you going, Hedgehog?
02:54Will you go south too?
02:56And Turtle and Frog, will they go with you?
03:01Hedgehog said, no, and told Blossom why.
03:05We sleep through the snow.
03:07Besides, we can't fly.
03:13I really do not want to go and leave my friends.
03:17But now I know when winter comes, there may be snow.
03:21So it's goodbye.
03:23It's south I go.
03:25But not today.
03:26I won't go yet.
03:28A week I'll stay.
03:29There's time, I'll bet.
03:35While other birds grew fat and strong, Blossom just grew older.
03:40Oh, Blossom Bird, you're doing wrong.
03:43The days are getting colder.
03:48Each day she looked up to the sky.
03:51She saw the others flying by.
03:54But Blossom did not do a thing.
03:56Blossom did not lift a wing.
04:02Off went Hedgehog for a long winter's sleep.
04:05Off went Frog with a long, easy leap.
04:09And Turtle knew that all would be well.
04:11He'd be warm through the winter in his own cozy shell.
04:15But Blossom still had much to do.
04:18I must get fat and stronger too.
04:21Eating this and eating that, Blossom Bird was getting fat.
04:29And then, by flying all day long, that fat bird's wings got very strong.
04:36Blossom flew back to her nest, so tired she was yawning.
04:41I think I need just one night's rest, and I'll fly south.
04:46In the morning.
04:49Brr, I must be getting old.
04:54I never felt a night so cold.
04:56Well, it's all right for one more night.
04:59Tomorrow I'll be warm.
05:01But what a shame, when morning came.
05:08She woke up in a storm.
05:10I can't fly, said Blossom.
05:13Not in this snow.
05:15I'll wait till it stops, and then I will go.
05:22But this storm wasn't stopping.
05:24The trees growled, the wind howled, and the snow kept right on dropping.
05:35The wind blew Blossom's nest away.
05:38Oh, what a terrible storm.
05:41And now it was snowing day after day.
05:44How would poor Blossom stay warm?
05:50A week went by, or was it two?
05:53Or three?
05:54Or even four?
05:56What should she do?
05:57She couldn't fly, but she could take no more.
06:01This was the worst storm in sixty-three years.
06:05I'll walk through this storm, if I can't fly.
06:09I'll go south where it's warm.
06:11At least I'll try.
06:17Slowly Blossom made her way through snow and wind and frost.
06:21But where she was, she could not say.
06:24Blossom Bird was lost.
06:26She asked a rabbit where to go.
06:29The rabbit said he did not know.
06:35But look at those footprints.
06:36Who made them all?
06:38They cannot be Blossom's, they are too small.
06:42Is a bird like Blossom lost in the snow?
06:46It is a bird, Blossom, a bird that you know.
06:53Blossom knew what she must do.
06:55She would look for that bird till the cold turned her blue.
06:59I must find this bird.
07:01I must keep on trying.
07:04Just then she heard a little bird crying.
07:11Upon my word!
07:13It's the same little bird who passed me while trying his flying.
07:18Little bird, I thought you learned to fly.
07:21But you're still here, now tell me why.
07:28I did learn to fly.
07:29I left with the rest, but they all passed me by.
07:33I was too slow, I guess.
07:36Then along came a storm, and the next day another.
07:40Now I just can't get warm, and I want my mother.
07:47Now don't cry, my dear, we will find your mother.
07:51Aunt Blossom is here, and I'll do something or other.
07:59We'll go south, you and I, through this cold winter weather.
08:03And if we can't fly, we will walk south together.
08:10But what do you know?
08:12Out came the sun.
08:14Tomorrow we go, but first we have fun.
08:22In the morning's first light, Blossom looked to the sky.
08:25It was clear, blue, and bright.
08:28A good day to fly.
08:30Okay, little bird, today we fly to the warm, sunny south, just you and I.
08:36You just have to want to.
08:38You just have to try.
08:40Get ready, get set, fly, little bird, fly.
08:48And what do you know?
08:50It soon was warm.
08:52There was no snow.
08:53There was no storm.
08:55This must be the south, said Blossom Bird.
08:58It can't be any other.
09:00But little bird heard not a word, for now he saw his mother.
09:09A happy mom, a happy dad, a happy little bird, too.
09:13All together in warm, sunny weather.
09:17Thanks to you, Blossom Bird.
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