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The Children’s Hour is Kids Public Radio, broadcasting weekly on public radio stations worldwide. Our theme based shows are entertaining and educational, and feature only the best in music. Excellent for road trips, explore our world and learn with us!

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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. This episode comes with a digital Learn Along guide that meets and cites US national education standards.

Because kids are seeing guns in so many places, The Children's Hour has tips on gun safety that hunting families have taught their kids for generations. We learn from kids who are hunters themselves on what hunting means to them, and we explore gun laws in the US and the world. Gun violence prevention begins with a conversation at home. Join us for this lifesaving episode of The Children's Hour.

This time on Children’s Hour get blown away with us as we learn all about balloons. We begin with the history of hot air balloons, and we end up in the air on a real balloon. Then we explore latex balloon art and clothing with the team at Airigami. Plus, find out what happens when helium balloons get released into nature. And, that mysterious object you might see floating around in the middle of the day in the skies above you? That might be a weather balloon! All of this is mixed with great music!

Learn about fossils in a Kids Crew field trip to a secret fossil quarry in the mountains outside of Albuquerque, as well as in a chat with New Mexico Natural History Museum educator Mike Sanchez. Will we become fossilized too? Fossils teach us about the Ice Age and climate change at the La Brea Tar pits in the heart of Los Angeles. This episode comes with a Learn-Along guide and is mixed with great music.

This time on The Children's Hour we are falling into autumn in the northern hemisphere. We learn about equinox, and hear from 5th graders on learning different perspectives about Labor Day, Mexican Independence Day, and Columbus Day.

This time on The Children’s Hour, it’s a full hour of stories and story-songs with authors Todd Parr and Michelle Adam, and many more. We hear stories from Bill Harley, Joanne Shenandoah, and song stories throughout the program. This episode takes us on adventures to new worlds and ideas. Join us while we tell you stories, this time on The Children’s Hour.

The Kids Crew learn the science, history, and current schedule of vaccination from Newberry Honor author Dr. Rajani Larocca, and from the Center for Disease Control's Dr. Georgina Peacock. Plus we meet Dr. Richard Corsi, a pioneer of the cheap D-I-Y air purifier.

Celebrate The Children's Hour's fifth birthday in a show full of memorable moments from our last five years, and mixed with some of our favorite tunes.

































This time on The Children’s Hour we rock on with Esther Crow. She’s an award winning Kindie rockstar, whose music is full of inspirational lyrics and jamming guitar licks. The kids find out what motivates her to be a children’s musician. Esther Crow is our guest deejay on this episode which is sure to get listeners of all ages rocking and rolling.























Esther Crow is an award winning kindie musician. We learn about her music, and tastes as she visits with our Kids Crew and guest deejays our show.
























We also hear from Kids Crewmember, Isaac Lacerda about his big adventure backpacking in the Gila Wilderness of the Southwestern United States. The Gila Wilderness was the first protected wilderness area in the world, thanks to Aldo Leopold.











Get an introduction to the amazing, and venomous Gila Monster in a piece Isaac wrote to motivate us all to get outside!











This episode was produced by Katie Stone, with many thanks to Esther Crow for guest deejaying and for being with us on the show today. 
© 2023 The Children's Hour Inc.






Playlist: Rock On Esther Crow




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Community Mouth OrchestraEsther CrowListen Lead Love2023 Esther Crow


Start the Discussion (feat. Strawbitty Yops)Esther CrowListen Lead Love2023 Esther Crow


Make It MyselfAnts on a LogMake It Myself2023 Ant Hill


Bees, Beavers and Bats (feat. Lucy Kalantari)Esther CrowAll Together Now2021 Esther Crow


More to the MoonDean Jones & Little Miss AnnMore to the Moon - Single2022 Dean Jones Music


Grammy's Trip to Oregon (feat. Eamon Sefton, Kathleen Parks & Patrick Bowling)Elias Alexander & the Bywater BandBywater (feat. Eamon Sefton, Kathleen Parks & Patrick Bowling)2016 Elias Alexander


QuestionsAlphabet RockersThe Movement2022 School Time Music


Solar PowerEsther CrowListen Lead Love2023 Esther Crow


Peanut Butter Blues JamWendy and DBInto the Little Blue House2022 8 Pound Gorilla Records


Golden RuleThe Oot n' ootsPonderosa Bunchgrass and the Golden Rule2021 Independent


We Should Be Kind (feat. Alastair Moock)SulinhaWe Should Be Kind2022 Sulinha


Highway 430Blue Dot SessionsTruck Stop2019 Blue Dot Sessions


You're SpecialKymberly StewartEverybody Needs A Little Sunshine2023 Kymberly Stewart


SamaraPodington BearCarefree2018 HUSH


This week on The Children’s Hour, it’s the three hundred eighty third anniversary of the Pueblo Revolt on August 10th and we cover the story. Taken from our educational series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids, join us for a dive into 23,000 years of American history.