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Sat. 10/29 9a; This time on The Children's Hour, get spooked out with us as we celebrate kids' favorite holiday: Halloween! The Kids Crew let us know what they're doing for Halloween, and we learn about a"trunk or treat." One Kids Crew member tells us how she uses the opportunity of Halloween to collect clothing for the Albuquerque Public Schools Clothing Bank.

This week on The Children's Hour, Katie and the Crew learn about the Little Free Library network with Shelby King, program director and coordinator of the Impact Library Program. Little Free Library is based in Hudson, Wisconsin, but has over 100,000 Libraries in over 100 countries. More than 200,000,000 books have been shared through Little Free Libraries worldwide.

This time on The Children's Hour, we learn what watersheds are, and how they are impacted by forest fires. All over the world, people rely upon watersheds for drinking water, irrigating farmland, and for ecosystems. We are joined by educators from the New Mexico Watershed and Forest Restoration Institute, Natalia Shaw and Raymundo Melendez, along with educator and ecologist Dr. Krista Bonfantine.

Voting for the 2022 midterms is over and most of the races are decided. What were you watching in this election? Were you surprised by the outcomes? This week on Let’s Talk New Mexico, we gather a group of journalists to discuss how it all went down and what it means for the next two years in New Mexico as we look ahead to the 2024 election.

On this week’s Let's Talk New Mexico, we look at what happens next now that voters approved a constitutional amendment to funnel more money from the Land Grant Permanent Fund into early childhood education and public schools.

This week on The Children’s Hour:CoyotesThis time on The Children's Hour, we learn about a canine that is thriving across North America: coyotes.They may look like wild dogs, but we learn from biologist Zoe Rossman that they are quite different from our friendly house pets.

On this episode we speak with Ramona Emerson. She is a Diné writer and filmmaker originally from Tohatchi New Mexico, who has published her first novel. It features a Diné forensic photographer who must also face the ghosts of victims from the crime scenes she documents.

Coming up on The Children's Hour, we've got a lot of gratitude this year, for our health, well-being, families, food, homes, and so much more. We're celebrating Thanksgiving with a musical special in recognition of how thankful we are. You'll hear from independent children's musicians like Laurie Berkner, Dan Zanes, Aaron Nigel Smith, Pierce Freelon, Lucy Kalantari, Falu, and so many more.

Imagine a world where kindness is a habit. The Kids Crew explore kindness as a practice, science and feeling on this edition of The Children's Hour.We're joined by Lindsay Munroe, a singer-songwriter who specializes in music to build caring communities of children.

This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about climate change from Dr. David Gutzler, professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department with a specialization in climate science.