Autumn Leaves - Fall Read Aloud Books for Children - Nonfiction for Kids - Trees - Bedtime Stories
Autumn Leaves, by Ken Robbins, is an informative kid's book read aloud for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school ages (and adults still young at heart), about different types of leaves for the Autumn/Fall season.
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Transcript
00:30Autumn Leaves by Ken Robbins
00:37Autumn is a time to look closely at leaves.
00:40In spring and summer, the leaves on most trees are green, but in autumn, those green leaves
00:46turn different colors and fall to the ground.
00:49Some leaves just dry up and turn a dull brown, while others turn colors that are brilliant
00:55and bold—orange, yellow, red, purple, and gold—painting the landscape and changing
01:01the world.
01:04The leaves of most trees are flat and thin.
01:08Most are connected to the tree by a stem.
01:12All leaves have veins.
01:14The veins of some leaves are quite easy to see.
01:20Some leaves are shiny.
01:21Some are dull.
01:26Some have shapes that are simple.
01:29Some have shapes that are not.
01:32Sometimes, lots of leaflets make up a leaf.
01:41Some are big.
01:43Some are small.
01:45Some are narrow.
01:47Some are wide.
01:53Some leaves are not the same on the right and left sides.
01:58Others have edges that are jagged or edges that are smooth.
02:04Leaves are different on each different tree.
02:07Look at them carefully and see what you see.
02:15Smoke Tree
02:16The smoke tree's leaves are shaped like paddles.
02:19The stalks of its flowers are so thin and fine that from a distance they look like smoke.
02:30Birch
02:31The bark of the gray birch is white and smooth, and shines like silver when it catches the
02:37light.
02:38Birch leaves have jagged edges.
02:44Ginkgo
02:45Ginkgo trees grew in prehistoric times.
02:49Dinosaurs once ate their fan-shaped leaves.
02:56Linden
02:57The leaves of the linden tree are rather large and shape like hearts.
03:05Sassafras
03:07Several different shapes of leaves can grow on the branches of one sassafras tree.
03:13Some even look like mittens.
03:18Sweet Gum
03:20The leaves of the sweet gum tree are almost always shaped like stars.
03:28Hickory
03:30There are compound leaves on the hickory tree.
03:33Five leaflets or more make up the leaf.
03:40Red Oak
03:41Red oak trees have pointed leaves.
03:44Oak trees come in many different forms, but they all make acorns in the fall.
03:53Fernleaf Beach
03:55The fernleaf beach has smooth gray bark.
03:58Its leaves, when they're dry, look like question marks.
04:06Cherry
04:07Cherries are the fruit of the cherry tree.
04:10Some are sour, some are sweet.
04:12Cherry tree leaves are shinier on one side than they are on the other.
04:21Dogwood
04:22The dogwood tree has beautiful flowers in the early spring.
04:26The pretty dogwood leaves are like ovals with points.
04:33Yellow Poplar
04:35The yellow poplar is also called the tulip tree.
04:38The leaves look a little like a tulip flower.
04:45Maple
04:46Maple trees often have the brightest and most colorful leaves of all the trees in the fall.
04:55Green leaves make a kind of sugar to help trees grow.
04:59It's made from water and light and a part of the air called carbon dioxide.
05:04There is a proper word for this, photosynthesis.
05:08There are special scientific words for the chemicals that give leaves their color.
05:13It's chlorophyll that makes them green.
05:15The yellow is from xanthophyll.
05:18The orange is keratin.
05:20The reds and purples are anthocyanin, and brown is a result of something called tannin.
05:27When photosynthesis stops in fall, the green part of leaves dries up and dies.
05:32Then we start to see the amazing colors, the yellows and golds, that were there all
05:37the time.
05:39And sometimes a bit of sugar gets left in the leaf when it dies.
05:43That turns the leaf purple or red for a while.
05:46Sooner or later, all those colors fade to brown.
05:50Eventually, the base of the stem, where the leaf is attached to the tree, grows brittle.
05:56Then when the wind blows even a little, the leaf breaks off and flutters through the air
06:00to the ground.
06:01Before you know it, all the leaves are down and the trees are bare.