The Cinnamon Hen's Autumn Day - Fall Read Aloud Books for Children - Bedtime Stories for Kids
The Cinnamon Hen's Autumn Day, by Sandra Dutton, 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
00:00Cinnamon Hens, Autumn Day, by Sandra Dutton.
00:29The Cinnamon Hen decided she would rake some leaves.
00:39She went outside in her old red sweater and black rubber galoshes and began raking the
00:44leaves into a pile.
00:45Oh, Autumn, she said, I do enjoy the crunch and scrunch of the leaves.
00:55But who should come driving by but Mr. Rabbit in his shiny red truck?
01:01What are you doing that for, when I could do it for you? he asked.
01:05The whole yard.
01:06I'll rake it for three-fifty.
01:08That's quite reasonable, said the Cinnamon Hen.
01:12And you could go back inside, said Mr. Rabbit.
01:15You shouldn't be out in this cold weather.
01:18I don't mind, said the Cinnamon Hen.
01:21Don't mind, said Mr. Rabbit.
01:24You should.
01:25A hen delicate as you could catch a terrible cold.
01:29The cold might turn into bronchitis, and the bronchitis might turn into pneumonia.
01:34Oh, said the Cinnamon Hen, she didn't want pneumonia.
01:38Well, for only three-fifty, I suppose.
01:44That's right, said Mr. Rabbit, already taking his equipment out of the truck.
01:49The dust is bad for your lungs, too.
01:51You might start to cough, and then you might get asthma.
01:55I suppose you're right, said the Cinnamon Hen, though she'd never thought much about
01:59asthma before, nor, for that matter, bronchitis or pneumonia.
02:07She went inside, made herself a cup of tea, and sat by the window.
02:12Mr. Rabbit was a professional.
02:14He piled the leaves up with a blower.
02:20Then he brought out bags and packed the leaves in.
02:23He even had a special barrel that held the bags.
02:26He was finished with the yard in thirty minutes flat.
02:31I bet it would have taken you a lot longer, he said when he came up to the door.
02:38Three hours, the Cinnamon Hen confessed, and sometimes more.
02:43Just think, said Mr. Rabbit, you don't have to worry about these leaves now.
02:48No, said the Cinnamon Hen, as she counted out the three fifty.
02:52And you don't have to worry about pneumonia, bronchitis or asthma.
02:57No, I guess not.
02:59And you get to rest.
03:01Yes, said the Cinnamon Hen, though she'd been longing the entire time to get out
03:05and rake leaves with Mr. Rabbit.
03:08I suppose I could make a pie.
03:10Rhubarb, said Mr. Rabbit, leave the raking to me, he added with a salute.
03:20The Cinnamon Hen could see that Mr. Rabbit had lettered exactly those words
03:25on the pocket of his jacket.
03:27Leave the raking to me, Rabbit's yard service.
03:30But as soon as Mr. Rabbit drove off, the Cinnamon Hen looked sadly at her black rubber
03:40galoshes and the red sweater she wore every year when she raked the leaves.
03:48She realized how much she missed the wonderful crackle
03:52and bending over to push the leaves into the bag.
03:56And stomping on them to make room for more.
04:00And carrying the bags to the curb.
04:03Yes, she missed it.
04:08And as for pneumonia, well, she thought, last year I didn't get it.
04:14Why should I get it this year?
04:17Then she looked over at Mabel Squirrel's yard.
04:20It was still filled with leaves.
04:22The Cinnamon Hen put on her red sweater, her black rubber galoshes,
04:26and taking her rake with the two prongs missing, climbed the fence.
04:31Though she'd always, until now, gone around it and walked up to Mabel's door.
04:39I'd be happy to rake your leaves, said the Cinnamon Hen.
04:43Rake my leaves?
04:46said Mabel.
04:46You don't have to do that.
04:48I'll get to it, eventually.
04:51No, no, I'll do it now, said the Cinnamon Hen.
04:54But why?
04:55asked Mabel.
05:00I like the dust, said the Cinnamon Hen, taking a deep breath.
05:04You do?
05:06Mabel Squirrel studied her friend thoughtfully.
05:09She'd never heard of a cinnamon hen before.
05:12Mabel Squirrel studied her friend thoughtfully.
05:15And the crunch, the Cinnamon Hen added, twisting the toe of her galosh.
05:21Yes? said Mabel.
05:23Yes?
05:28And the way the wind scatters the leaves just as soon as I get them into a pile.
05:34You're very strange today, said Mabel Squirrel.
05:37It's autumn, said the Cinnamon Hen, as if that explained everything.
05:42Well, said Mabel, if you insist.
05:45And she sat down on her step and watched.
05:51But the Cinnamon Hen seemed to be having such a good time,
05:55racing along the hedge, laughing at the wind,
05:58and the way another prong sprung off her rake when she hit a tree root,
06:02that Mabel Squirrel stood up and said,
06:04Wait, you can't do all that work by yourself.
06:08Work? said the Cinnamon Hen.
06:10This isn't work.
06:12Whatever it is, said Mabel, I want to do it, too.
06:16Then get your rake, said the Cinnamon Hen.
06:22Mabel Squirrel dug deep into the leaves.
06:25I never thought this could be so much fun, she said.
06:29Good for your lungs, too, said the Cinnamon Hen.
06:32Red and gold leaves swirled around them.
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