Leaf Trouble - Kids Books Read Aloud - Fall Read Aloud Books for Autumn - Bedtime Stories for Kids
Leaf Trouble, by Jonathan Emmett, is an engaging 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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Transcript
00:00Leif Treble by Jonathan Emmett
00:29Illustrated by Caroline Jane Church
00:35A fresh breeze blew across the woodland, tickling the grass and trembling the trees.
00:41Summer had left and autumn had arrived.
00:44Pip's squirrel stuck his head out of the nest and sniffed the air.
00:47Something's changed, he decided, and he scampered off to find out what it was.
00:57Pip's nest was in an old oak tree.
01:00Pip loved the old tree, and he knew every bit of it, from twig to trunk.
01:05But something was happening to the tree.
01:08It was happening so slowly that Pip hadn't noticed, until now.
01:13He skittered to a stop and stared at the leaves beside him.
01:20He was so surprised that he let go of the trunk.
01:25Waaah! squealed Pip as he tumbled down through the branches and landed, oof, on the woodland
01:34floor.
01:39Pip lay there for a moment, staring up at the leaves.
01:43They've changed color, he gasped.
01:46And he was right.
01:47The last time Pip had looked closely at the leaves, they had all been green.
01:51But now there were lots of colors, yellow and orange and even red.
02:01As Pip watched, one of the leaves dropped off and drifted down toward the ground.
02:08He jumped up and ran after it and caught it in his paws.
02:12But even as he reached it, another leaf began to fall.
02:16Pip ran after the second leaf and just managed to catch it before it touched the woodland
02:21floor.
02:22Not again, gasped Pip as a third leaf began to fall.
02:30Pip was still racing around, trying to catch the fallen leaves when his sister, Blossom,
02:35scurried up.
02:36Good, panted Pip, you're just in time.
02:40Just in time for what? asked Blossom.
02:43To help save the tree, puffed Pip.
02:46It's falling to pieces.
02:48But that's been happening for days, said Blossom, pointing to the leaf-covered ground.
02:53Then we've got to stop it now, insisted Pip.
03:00Pip and Blossom collected all the fallen leaves into a big pile.
03:05Now what? asked Blossom.
03:08We put them back, said Pip.
03:14So Blossom carried the leaves up into the tree, where Pip tried to stick them back onto
03:19the branches.
03:20But it didn't work very well.
03:26Then all of a sudden, there was a huge gust of wind and hundreds of leaves began to fall.
03:33Pip and Blossom were scrambling around frantically, trying to gather them, when Mom Squirrel arrived.
03:40What are you two up to? she asked.
03:46When Mom found out what Pip and Blossom had been doing, she couldn't help smiling.
03:52But Pip, she said, the tree has to lose its leaves.
03:56And she explained that taking care of the leaves was hard work for the tree, and that
04:01after keeping them all summer, it needed to rest for a while.
04:09But I love this tree, said Pip sadly.
04:13It's our home, and I want it back the way it was.
04:17It will be, said Mom.
04:19When spring comes, the leaves will all come back again.
04:23They've only gone away for a while.
04:26Like when the sun sets and then comes back again, said Pip.
04:30Like when the sun sets, agreed Mom.
04:33Except the leaves will just take a little longer to come back.
04:40Pip, Blossom, and Mom played beneath the old oak tree until sunset.
04:45Before they left, they collected some leaves to take back to their nest.
04:54They're such beautiful colors, said Pip, smiling.
04:58And now I understand why.
05:00He held up a pawful of leaves to show Blossom and Mom.
05:04They're the colors of the sunset, said Pip.
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