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Run outside to play in the warm summer sun where the 草 grows tall and sunflowers fill the fields.

Baby bears play just like you.
They grow fat and round on fresh summer 草 and learn to catch their first 鱼 晚餐 down 由 the riverbank.
Summer is time to learn and to grow.

Baby mountain 羊 learn the safest path to summer meadows. 小鹅, gosling, 高斯林 wings grow stronger, their voices louder.

Up in the trees, the songs of spring suddenly soften. 莺 mothers and 莺 fathers, busy feeding their young, have little time to sing. Hummingbirds sip nectar for themselves and catch bugs for their tiny babies.

Baby birds flap their wings to beg for juicy spiders, beetles, and ants.

Then one day, the baby birds finally fly, testing their wings on the warm summer air.

Beneath the cool umbrella of forest leaves, woodpeckers tap for beetles.
Nearby, bluebirds 搜索 for diamond drops of dew in the morning meadow.

In summer heat, coyote’s 涂层, 外套 is sleeker, cooler.
黄鼠狼, 狡猾的人 sneaks from rock to rock wearing a new summer 涂层, 外套 too.
And, 鹧鸪, ptarmigan, 雷鸟 hides in feathers painted like a summer meadow.

Summer is time for baby moose to grow, and grow, and grow. 由 summer’s end it is hard to tell who is mother, who is daughter.

Now that his antlers are fully grown, the 公牛 moose carries a heavy weight.

Caribou grow new summer antlers too. They wander far to the north in the land of all night sun.

Here at the edge of polar ice, great white bears hunt in the longest days of the year.

If 你 flew with the snow 鹅 flocks 或者 with the arctic loon, this would be your summer home.

The far north is where the snowy owl hunts mice and lemmings, as the long days end in summer’s last golden slumber.

Then, 狼 howls ring in the first crisp nights.
A cool wind feels like fall is near.
Another winter will soon be here.
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Zum. Zum buzzz. Zum. Zum. Buzz. Berlioz had been practicing for weeks, and now just when the orchestra was going to play in the village square for a gala ball, a strange buzz was coming from his double bass.
“Why now?” Berlioz 说 to himself.

The musicians arrived with their instruments. As Berlioz watched them climb aboard the bandwagon, all he could think about was his double bass. What if his 低音 buzzed during the ball? What if the dancers stopped dancing and laughed at him?
Zum, zum, buzz. Zum, zum, buzz, he imagined.

Berlioz picked up the reins and clucked to the mule. Off they went...
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Abbie looked out the lighthouse window. Waves washed up on the rocks below. Out at sea, a ship sailed safely by.

“Will 你 sail to town today, Papa?” Abbie asked.
“Yes,” Captain Burgess answered. “Mama needs medicine. The lights need oil. We need food. The weather is good now. So it’s 安全 to go out in Puffin.”
“But what if 你 don’t get back today?” asked Abbie. “Who will take care of the lights?”
Papa smiled. “You will, Abbie.”
“Oh, no, Papa!” 说 Abbie. “I have never done it alone.”

“You have trimmed the wicks before,” 说 Papa. “You have cleaned the...
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(Helen's mother: "I hope that 汤 is gone when I come back in there!")

The 日 Helen gave Martha dog her alphabet soup,


something unusual happened.
The letters in the 汤 went up to Martha’s brain instead of down to her stomach.

That evening, Martha spoke.
(Martha: Isn’t it time for my dinner?)


Martha’s family had many 问题 to ask her. Of course, she had a lot to tell them!
(Helen: Have 你 always understood what we were saying?)
(Martha: 你 bet! Do 你 want to know Benjie is really saying?)
(Helen’s father: Why don’t 你 came when we call?)
(Martha: 你 people are so bossy. Come! Sit!...
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Tanya sat restlessly on her chair 由 the 厨房 window. For several days she had to stay in 床, 床上 with a cold. But now Tanya's cold was almost gone. She was anxious to go outside and enjoy the fresh air and the arrival of spring.
"Mama, when can I go outside?" asked Tanya. Mama pulled the tray of biscuits from the 烤箱 and placed it on the counter.
"In time," she murmured. "All in good time."
Tanya gazed through the window and saw her two brothers, Ted and Jim, and Papa building the new backyard fence.
"I'm gonna talk to Grandma," she said.

Grandma was sitting in her 最喜爱的 spot—the big soft...
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Once there was a farmer who lived in Mexico. He lived in a little village, in a house which had only one room.

The farmer was not happy.
“Nothing ever happens,” he said.
The people in the village thought the farmer was foolish.
“We have everything we need,” they said.

“We have a school, and a market,

and a church with an old 钟, 贝尔 that rings on Sundays. Our village is the best there is.”
“But nothing ever happens,” 说 the farmer.

Every morning, when the farmer woke up, the first thing he saw was the roof of his little house.
Every morning for breakfast he ate two flat cakes of ground...
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On Thursday, when Imogene woke up, she found she had grown antlers.

Getting dressed was difficult,

and going through a door now took some thinking.

Imogene started down for breakfast…

but got hung up.
“OH!!” Imogene’s mother fainted away.

The doctor poked, and prodded, and scratched his chin.
He could find nothing wrong.

The school principal glared at Imogene but had no 建议 to offer.

Her brother Norman, consulted the encyclopedia, and then announced that Imogene had turned into a rare form of miniature elk!

Imogene’s mother fainted again and was carried upstairs to bed.

Imogene went into...
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