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Davy Crockett, Frontier Boy
A boy growing up wild on the frontier, where the woods were the whole world — and the world was big enough to keep surprising him.
This Week · Wonder at Nature · Earth Day
What in nature makes you stop and wonder?
For littler ones: What outside makes you go, 'Wow'?
This week we're wondering about wonder itself — the kind that stops you where you stand. What in nature makes you stop and wonder? The stars coming out one by one, a creek over stones, a hawk riding the wind. It's a good thing to carry around in the car or at the table this week, near Earth Day, because everyone at your house notices a different thing.
This week's stories
Classics
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Walt Whitman's short poem about a man who sits through a lecture full of charts and numbers about the stars, then walks out into the night to look up at the real ones.
Talk about it
- What's something outside that made you stop and look longer than you meant to?
- Davy grew up with the woods all around him; Whitman's man walked out of a room to find the stars. Where do you go when you want to feel that kind of wonder?
- Is wonder something you find on a big trip, or can you find it in your own yard?
A new question every week.
Listen together in the app — short audio stories for kids 4–10, at bedtime, on the drive, in the drop-off line.
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