This time on The Children’s Hour, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving in a musical special dedicated to gratitude, family, and appreciation of each other and the Earth. We’re finding the joy in every moment, in this Thanksgiving musical Children’s Hour.

We’re learning about dendrochronology on The Children’s Hour this week with Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research. They keep a catalog of the world’s oldest living trees.

Join our Kids Crew in a conversation with the beloved children’s authors, Goosebump’s R.L. Stine and Marc Brown, the author and illustrator of the Arthur books and TV show. We discover their secrets to creating some of the most widely read kids’ books of all time. Get reading with The Children’s Hour!

This time on The Children’s Hour meet Falu. She’s an 11th generation performer of sacred Raga music, she’s bringing a new genre to her homeland of India: Children’s Music. She also won the 2021 Grammy for Best Children’s release, and we have her for the whole hour.

This Halloween special explores the traditions of Halloween, from carving pumpkins to trick-or-treating, and what the history is to explain trick-or-treating. Mixed with great music, and comes with a hands-on Learn-Along guide which meets and cites US National education content standards for use in the classroom.

Learn all about sloths with author Georgeanne Irvine from the San Diego Zoo, and biologist Sam Trull from the Sloth Institute in Manuel Antonio Costa Rica. Find out how we can all help protect sloths.

Coming up on The Children’s Hour get blown away with us as we learn all about balloons.

Get into the world groove with The Children’s Hour as we explore global music for kids. We hear some radio debuts of songs that teach, inspire, and entertain, performed by musicians from around the world. Join us for a musical exploration of world music for kids!

Learn about fossils in this action packed episode of The Children's Hour that comes with a Learn-Along guide that meets and cites National (US) Education Standards.

 The Kids Crew took a summer field trip to a secret fossil dig site located in an active mining quarry in the mountains of New Mexico. They spoke with the paleontologists working to extract 350 million year old fossilized marine creatures and plants. 



It’s fall in the northern hemisphere and we explore the science behind autumn. Equinoxes happen in the spring and fall, and each year those special days give our planet exactly 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night at the equator. At the Chichén Itzá pyramid in Yucatán, Mexico, a snake is visible climbing down the steps only on spring and fall equinox.