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1Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Curriculum Content by EpisodeSeasons 1–9
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Angelina’s Island/ Chinese New Year
#910
The Lions and friends celebrate their heritage, and an unusual visitor to the library introduces them to Chinese New Year.
Angelina’s Island
Features the book Angelina’s Island, by Jeanette Winter
Story
Key word: home
Target sound: h
New vocabulary: building, carnival, celebrate, city, costumes, dream, hiding, home, island, Jamaica, party, sun; Jamaican food (ackee, breadfruit, callaloo, chocho, green bananas, guavas, johnnycake, mangos, papaya, salt fish, star apples, sugarcane); senses (feel, look, sound)
Lin, Grace. Bringing in the New Year
Miller, Elizabeth I. Just Like Home/Como en mi tierra
Waters, Kate. Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan’s Chinese New Year
Winter, Jeanette. Angelina’s Island
Wong, Janet S. This Next New Year
Zephaniah, Benjamin. J Is for Jamaica
Chinese New Year
Features an original video
Nonfiction
Featured vocabulary: celebration, centipede, Chinatown, Chinese food, cymbals, dancing, dumplings, drum, gift, lion, New Year, parade

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Are You a Snail?/ Wonderful Worms
#804
The Information Hen helps some confused creatures determine whether they are snails or slugs, and a missing pet worm leads to an all-out search in the library.
Are You a Snail?
Features the book Are You a Snail?, by Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries
Nonfiction
Featured vocabulary: afraid, damp, dangerous, eat, egg, eyes, foxes, grow, hardens, hatch, hide, horns, hungry, poisonous, safe, slide, slimy, slowly, slug, small, snail, stalks, thrushes
Allen, Judy and Tudor Humphries. Are You a Snail?
Cronin, Doreen. Diary of a Worm
Glaser, Linda. Wonderful Worms
Llewellyn, Claire. Slugs and Snails
Pfeffer, Wendy. Wiggling Worms at Work
Ryder, Joanne. The Snail’s SpellWonderful Worms
Features the book Wonderful Worms, by Linda Glaser
Nonfiction
Key word: worms
Target sound: w
New vocabulary: burrows, cool, dark, damp, dig, earthworms, fat, garden, roots, soil, squeeze, tunnel, wiggly, wiggling, worm
Art Party #401
Can Lionel and Leona make sense of a mysterious painting?
Features three original stories
Story
Key word: party
Word family: -ar (-ark, -arm, -art)
Target sound: r-controlled a
High-frequency sight words: a, and, in, the
New vocabulary: aardvark, depart, gypsy, lute, marshmallow, starfish
Cocca-Leffler, Maryann. Edgar Degas: Paintings that Dance
Hurd, Thacher. Art Dog
Lionni, Leo. Matthew’s Dream
Mayhew, James. Katie and the Mona Lisa
Micklethwait, Lucy. I Spy: An Alphabet in Art

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Be Bop #130
When cool, jazzy shoes come out of a book and dance all over the library, everybody gets in the groove.
Features the book Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, by Chris Raschka
Story
Key word: bop
Word family: -op (-ot, -ock)
Target sound: short o
High-frequency sight words: mom, pop, stop
New vocabulary: be bop, doo-wop, saxophone, xylophone
Isadora, Rachel. Ben’s Trumpet
London, Jonathan. Hip Cat
Pinkney, Andrea. Duke Ellington
Raschka, Chris. Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
Schroeder, Alan. Satchmo’s Blues
Bear Snores On/ Night in the Country
#703
Cleo manages to sleep through a noisy party, and Lionel and Leona learn about the sounds night creatures make.
Bear Snores On
Features the book Bear Snores On, by Karma Wilson
Story
Featured vocabulary: asleep, awake, hibernate, slumbers, snore, tired; locative words (second, last, next to last)
New vocabulary: badger, blustery, dank, flutter, fret, gopher, hare, lair, mole, raven, scuttles, wren
Bancroft, Henrietta. Animals in Winter
Crews, Daniel. Night at the Fair
Hartland, Jesse. Night Shift
Morales, Yuyi. Little Night
Rylant, Cynthia. Night in the Country
Wilson, Karma. Bear Snores OnNight in the Country
Features the book Night in the Country, by Cynthia Rylant
Story
Key word: night
Target sound: n
New vocabulary: nightingale, nuzzles, patter, swoop

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Bein’ with You This Way/ How to Be
#806
The Lions and friends sing about the ways they look alike and different, and describe the many traits that make a person a person.
Bein’ with You This Way
Features a song version of the book Bein’ with You This Way, by W. Nicola-Lisa and Michael Bryant
Story/Song
Key word: you
Target sound: y
New vocabulary: descriptive words (blue, brown, curly, different, fabulous, furry, great, large, long, nice, same, shiny, short, small, straight, terrific, thick, thin); the body (arms, eyes, hair, hands, fingers, nose, skin, toes)
Brown, Lisa. How to Be
Carle, Eric. From Head to Toe
Fox, Mem. Whoever You Are
Jenkins, Steven and Robin Page. What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?
Katz, Karen. The Colors of Us
Nicola-Lisa, W. and Michael Bryant. Bein’ with You This WayHow to Be
Features the book How to Be, by Lisa Brown
Concept Book
Featured vocabulary: animals (bear, dog, monkey, person, snake, spider, turtle); traits (brave, charming, curious, creative, friendly, patient)
New vocabulary: bask, beg, build, catch, copy, creep, dance, eat, fetch, growl, hibernate, hide, move, slither, swing, wait
Bobby the Hopping Robot #208
Why is Bobby the Hopping Robot not hopping?
Features an original story
Instructions
Key word: hop
Word family: -op (-ot)
Target sound: short o
High-frequency sight words: at, now, of, the, to
New vocabulary: defective, operate, propeller, robot
Dewan, Ted. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Hoffman, Todd. Robots Everywhere
Hunter, Ryan Ann. Robots Slither
Pinkney, Brian. Cosmo and the Robot
Williams, Karen Lynn. Galimoto

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
The Boy Who Cried Wolf #108
Lionel and Leona show a shepherd boy from a storybook how to cry “Wolf!” when his sheep are threatened, and then he doesn’t stop!
Features Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”
Fable
Key word: big
Word family: -ig (-iggle, -it, -ick, -in)
Target sound: short i
High-frequency sight words: bad, big, cry, in, is, it, this
New vocabulary: intelligent, jig, jiggle
Bader, Barbara. Aesop and Company
Bloom, Becky. Wolf!
Hartman, Bob. The Wolf Who Cried Boy
Kasza, Keiko. Wolf’s Chicken Stew
Prokofiev, Sergei. Peter and the Wolf (many versions)
Bug Beard #214
A woodcutter and his wife need the lions’ help with a man who has bugs, bugs, bugs in his beard.
Features a version of “Papa Bwa, Greedy Guest,” a Dominican folktale
Folktale
Key word: bug
Word family: -ug (-ud, -un, -up, -unk)
Target sound: short u
High-frequency sight words: he, his, how, in, to
New vocabulary: disinfected, infected, natural, proper
Brown, Marc. Perfect Pigs
Buehner, Caralyn. It’s a Spoon, Not a Shovel
Carle, Eric. The Grouchy Ladybug
Kimmel, Eric. Grizz!
Palatini, Margie. Moosetache

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Bugs/ Beetle Bop
#902
Can Cleo and the cubs cure Theo of his fear of caterpillars? And, get ready for the sensational singing group coming to the library: The Beetles!
Bugs
Features an original video about bugs
Nonfiction
Featured vocabulary: bugs/insects (ant, atlas moth, bee, butterfly, cat flea, caterpillar, flower mantis, fly, grasshopper, green bottle fly, leafcutter ant, mosquito, praying mantis, sphinx moth, spider)
New vocabulary: emotions (afraid, scared, terrified); numbers (one, two, three, four, five, one hundred); temporal words (first, followed by, last, over, second, third)
Barner, Bob. Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!
Fleming, Denise. Beetle Bop
Murphy, Stuart J. The Best Bug Parade
Pallotta, Jerry. The Beetle Alphabet Book
Rabe, Tish. On Beyond Bugs!: All About Insects
Rockwell, Ann. Bugs Are Insects
Beetle Bop
Features the book Beetle Bop by Denise Fleming
Concept Book
Key word: beetles
Target sound: ee
New vocabulary: bugs/insects (antenna, bees, beetle, dung beetle, ladybug, lightning beetle, tiger beetle, titan beetle); descriptive words (big, black, blue, brown, chewing, dotted, glowing, green, growing, humming, round, small, spotted, square, striped, swirling); microscope, music, rock band
But, Mama, But... #219
Cleo is going away for a few days, and Leona thinks she’s too big to miss her mother.
Features the book I Miss You, Stinky Face, by Lisa McCourt
Story
Key word: but
Word family: -ut (-un, -unk, -ust)
Target sound: short u
High-frequency sight words: and, away, but, going, if, I’ll, is, the, what, you
New vocabulary: cheetah, gangplank, perfect, supersonic
Joosse, Barbara M. Mama, Do You Love Me?
McCourt, Lisa. I Miss You, Stinky Face
Numeroff, Laura. What Mommies Do Best
Waddell, Martin. Owl Babies
Wilson, Karma. Mama Always Comes Home

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
The Chap with Caps #112
The Lion family helps a writer fix a story about a chap, a cap, and lots of chattering monkeys.
Features a version of “The Peddler and the Monkeys,” an Indian folktale, and “Monkeys and the Little Red Hats,” an African story
Folktale
Key word: cap
Word family: -ap (-am, -ash, -ad), -ape
Target sound: short a (long a)
High-frequency sight words: the, with
New vocabulary: cha-cha, chap, collapse, scrape, snatched, struggle, thunderclap
Ahlberg, Allan. Monkey Do!
Christelow, Eileen. Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree
Diakité, Baba Wagué. The Hatseller and the Monkey
Rey, H. A. Curious George
Slobodkina, Esphyr. Caps for Sale
The Carrot Seed/ The Empty Pot
#502
A seed that’s planted and watered usually sprouts if you’re patient, but what happens when the flower seed you plant for the Emperor doesn’t grow?
The Carrot Seed
Features the book The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss
Story
Key word: seed
Target sound: s
High-frequency sight words: a, and, come, I’m, it, little, up
New vocabulary: bloom, blossom, flower, plant, seed, soak, soil, sprinkle, sprout, weeds
Bunting, Eve. Flower Garden
Demi. The Empty Pot
Demi. The Greatest Power
Krauss, Ruth. The Carrot Seed
Krauss, Ruth. A Hole Is to Dig
Lin, Grace. The Ugly Vegetables
The Empty Pot
Features the book The Empty Pot, by Demi
Story
Key word: seed
Target sound: d
High-frequency sight words: he, the
New vocabulary: courage, emperor, palace, seated/unseated, successor, throne

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Charlie’s Dinosaur/ Here Come the Aliens
#709
Dinosaurs roamed the earth long ago, but could one be in the library? And could strange creatures from outer space be lurking there, too?
Charlie’s Dinosaur
Features an original story
Story
Featured vocabulary: carnivore, herbivore, extinct, dinosaurs (Apatosaurus, Brontosaurus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor); descriptive words (colossal, enormous, extinct, huge, humongous gargantuan, gigantic, jumbo, massive, monumental, tremendous, stupendous, whopping); locative words (behind, first, last, second)
New vocabulary: clustered, discovered, facts, frill, scientists, sculpture
Aliki. Digging Up Dinosaurs
Anderson, Derek. Romeo and Lou Blast Off
McNaughton, Colin. Here Come the Aliens
Most, Bernard. Four and Twenty Dinosaurs
Whybrow, Ian. Harry and the Dinosaurs Go to School
Yolen, Jane. How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
Here Come the Aliens
Features the book Here Come the Aliens!, by Colin McNaughton
Science fiction
Key word: queen
Target sound: qu
High-frequency sight words: are, coming, some, the, they, this
New vocabulary: admiral, alien, approach, beware, bizarre, bleak, conquer, crew, fleet, galaxy, manners, retreat, science fiction, zillion

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Cheesybreadville/ Stolen Smells
#608
A disaster in the kitchen creates a tasty new treat, and a boy finds himself in trouble for smelling tasty smells without paying for them.
Cheesybreadville
Features the poem “Cheesybreadville,” by Sonia Manzano
Poem
Key word: corn
Target sound: r-controlled o
High-frequency sight words: he, her, him, his, look, see, she, they
New vocabulary: airborne, anonymous, aware, belching, cornmeal, din, doused, fame, hollered, horrible, orphan, popular, renowned, stumbled, tempting, title, trio, wailed
Aylesworth, Jim. The Burger and the Hot Dog
Barrett, Judi. Pickles to Pittsburgh
Manzano, Sonia. “Cheesybreadville,” in Thanks and Giving All Year Long, by Marlo Thomas and Friends
Park, Linda Sue. Bee-bim Bop!
Rosenthal, Amy. Little Pea
Stolen Smells
Features an original story
Story
Key word: boy
Target sound: oy/oi
High-frequency sight words: and, her, the, was
New vocabulary: annoyed, arrested, drifted, genie, greedily, rejoice, rupees, soiled

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
The Chess Mess #224
It’s Alice Day! It’s Alice Day! Callooh! Callay! Hooray!
Features the book Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
Story
Key word: chess
Word family: -ess (-est, -et, -egg, -etch)
Target sound: short e
High-frequency sight words: all, day, it, up, we’re
New vocabulary: bishop, checkmate, chessboard, logic, pawn, rematch, rook, zesty
Carroll, Lewis. Alice Through the Looking Glass (illus. Helen Oxenbury)
Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass (many versions)
Castor, Harriet. Starting Chess
Harper, Piers. Checkmate at Chess City
Wong, Janet. Alex and the Wednesday Chess Club
Click, Clack, Moo/ The Little Red Hen
#506
Farm animals have a lot to teach Lionel and Leona about the power of writing and the value of helping.
Click, Clack, Moo
Features the book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, by Doreen Cronin
Story
Key word: cows
Target sound: c
High-frequency sight words: and, any, big, dear, do, her, I, it
New vocabulary: cape, demand, emergency, exchange, furious, neutral, on strike, sincerely, type, ultimatum
Ada, Alma Flor. With Love, Little Red Hen
Barton, Byron. Little Red Hen
Cronin, Doreen. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
Cronin, Doreen. Giggle, Giggle, Quack
Hort, Lenny. The Seals on the Bus
Sturges, Philemon. The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)
The Little Red Hen
Features a version of “The Little Red Hen”
Folktale
Key word: hen
Target sound: h
High-frequency sight words: little, myself, no, not, said, the, then, there’s, who, will, without
New vocabulary: calf, cattle, gasped, grind/ground, piglet, wheat

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Clickety-clack, Clickety-clack!
#206
Theo borrows a cow’s typewriter and doesn’t want to give it back.
Features the book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, by Doreen Cronin
Story
Key word: click
Word family: -ick (-ing, -ix)
Target sound: short i
High-frequency sight words: dear, nothing
New vocabulary: cape, demand, emergency, exchange, furious, neutral, on strike, pixie, sincerely, type, typewriter, ultimatum
Cronin, Doreen. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
Cronin, Doreen. Giggle, Giggle, Quack
Duffield, Katy. Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows
Harrison, David. When Cows Come Home
Small, David. George Washington’s Cows
Cliff Hanger, the Pheasant, and the Phone/ Terrific
#903
The Cliff Hanger fan club enjoys a long-lost adventure story, and Leona finds out why “terrific” doesn’t always mean terrific.
Cliff Hanger, the Pheasant, and the Phone
Features an original story
Story
Key word: phone
Target sound: ph
New vocabulary: homophones, pheasant, phenomenal, phone, phonebook, phonograph, photo, photograph
Agee, John. Terrific
Donaldson, Julia. The Snail and the Whale
Henkes, Kevin. A Good Day
MacDonald, Alan. Wilfred to the Rescue
Rawson, Katherine. If You Were a Parrot
Steig, William. Amos & BorisTerrific
Features the book Terrific, by Jon Agee
Story
Key word: terrific
Target sound: t
New vocabulary: boat, island, opposite, parrot, pomegranate, rescued, sail, sarcasm, sarcastic, ship, storm, stranded, surprised; synonyms (fabulous, fantastic, good, marvelous, splendid, swell, terrific)

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
The Coyote and the Rabbit/ The Gingerbread Man
#609
A hungry coyote gets tricked by a clever rabbit who claims she can beat him in a race, and a gingerbread man who thinks he can outrun everybody gets tricked by a fox.
The Coyote and the Rabbit
Features an original retelling of “The Coyote and the Rabbit”
Folktale
Key word: circles
Target sound: c (soft)
High-frequency sight words: he, she, the
New vocabulary: cannon, celery, clever, coyote, fragrance, morsel, relative, trapeze
Compestine, Ying Chang. The Runaway Rice Cake
Johnston, Tony. The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote
Kimmel, Eric. The Gingerbread Man
McDermott, Gerald. Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest
Taylor, Harriet Peck. Coyote Places the StarsThe Gingerbread Man
Features a version of “The Gingerbread Man”
Folktale
Key word: gingerbread
Target sound: g (soft)
High-frequency sight words: and, as, can, can’t, he, I, I’m, in, me, said, the, they, you
New vocabulary: contractions, crumble, dipped, gigantic, gingerbread, gymnast, gypsy, lunge, plunge

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Dance in Smarty Pants #405
Lionel tries to teach his parents how to dance in Smarty Pants, the latest dance craze sweeping the library!
Features an original story
Story
Key word: pants
Word family: -ant (-an, -ance, -ack, -at)
Target sound: short a
High-frequency sight words: in, no, the, they
New vocabulary: fantastic, flapjacks, flashback, paddle, slant, tackled, titanic, video
Allen, Debbie. Dancing in the Wings
Havill, Juanita. Brianna, Jamaica, and the Dance of Spring
Lee, Jeanne. Silent Lotus
McKissack, Patricia. Mirandy and Brother Wind
Winthrop, Elizabeth. Dumpy La Rue
Dear Mr. Blueberry/ I Wanna Iguana
#705
Can writing notes help solve the mystery of a whale in a swimming pool, get an iguana as a family pet, and deliver Lionel’s helicopter?
Dear Mr. Blueberry
Features the book Dear Mr. Blueberry, by Simon James
Letters
Key word: whale
Target sound: wh
New vocabulary: blow holes, details, information, mammal, migratory, protecting, spurt, whirl, whisk, whistle, whoosh
Ada, Alma Flor. Dear Peter Rabbit
James, Simon. Dear Mr. Blueberry
Keats, Ezra Jack. A Letter to Amy
Orioff, Karen Kaufman. I Wanna Iguana
Pak, Soyung. Dear Juno
Taback, Simms. I Miss You Every DayI Wanna Iguana
Features the book I Wanna Iguana, by Karen Kaufman Orloff
Written notes
Featured vocabulary: notes, writing, wrote; pets (cats, dogs, iguana); locative words (closest, next to)
New vocabulary: compassionate, financial, helicopter, mature, reptile, responsible, tarantulas, trial basis, trophies

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Dreaming Shakespeare #220
Can Anthony Asbury help a chicken looking for a book about plumbing become a star in a Shakespeare play?
Features a version of the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
Play
Key word: dream
Word family: -eam (-eat, -eak)
Target sound: ea as long e
High-frequency sight words: easy, please, welcome
New vocabulary: chariot, mallard, plumbing, sneak, visions
Aliki. William Shakespeare and the Globe
Davidson, Rebecca. All the World’s a Stage
Hoffman, Mary. Amazing Grace
Millman, Isaac. Moses Sees a Play
Shakespeare, William. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream (illus. James Mayhew)
Earl’s Too Cool/ When I Was Five
#509
Making new friends and keeping old friends is too cool.
Earl’s Too Cool
Features the book Earl’s Too Cool for Me, by Leah Komaiko
Story
Key word: too
Target sound: t
High-frequency sight words: and, are, for, friend, he, her, me
New vocabulary: boars, cool (various meanings), regular
Appelt, Kathi. Bubba and Beau, Best Friends (illus. Arthur Howard)
Howard, Arthur. When I Was Five
Komaiko, Leah. Annie Bananie
Komaiko, Leah. Earl’s Too Cool for Me
Raschka, Chris. Yo! Yes?
Robbins, Jacqui. The New Girl…and MeWhen I Was Five
Features the book When I Was Five, by Arthur Howard
Story
Key word: five
Target sound: f
High-frequency sight words: I, my, this, was, when
New vocabulary: astronaut, beneath, favorite, fidgeting, flee, more, on top of

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Elephants Can Paint Too!/ Jamaica Louise James
#808
If elephants can really paint, can’t Leona’s stuffed animal Lovey paint too? A young girl’s paintings brighten up a subway station, inspiring Leona to decorate the library with her paintings.
Elephants Can Paint Too!
Features the book Elephants Can Paint Too!, by Katya Arnold
Photo Essay
Featured vocabulary: bathe, drink, elephant, grass, leaves, nose, spray, trunk, water
New vocabulary: bright, brush, color, dab, drag, line, paint, painting, paper, picture, spots, strokes, touch, wiggly lines, yellow
Arnold, Katya. Elephants Can Paint Too!
dePaola, Tomie. The Art Lesson
Hest, Amy. Jamaica Louise James
Johnson, Angela. Lily Brown’s Paintings
Rodríguez, Rachel. Through Georgia’s Eyes
Say, Allen. Emma’s RugJamaica Louise James
Features the book Jamaica Louise James, by Amy Hest
Story
Key word: draw
Target sound: aw
High-frequency sight words: I, me, my, they, we
New vocabulary: awfully, blot, dab, layer, mayor, pad, plaque, saw (various meanings), smear, smidge, squiggle, steep, subway, surprise, token, worry

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Farmer Ken’s Puzzle #104
Lionel won’t let Leona play a computer game for ages “seven and up” because she’s “four and down.”
Features a musical brainteaser
Song & CD-ROM
Key word: hen
Word family: -en (-et, -ed, -est)
Target sound: short e (long e)
High-frequency sight words: is, it, up, what, when, you
New vocabulary: clue, enchanting, miracle, vibrant
Havill, Juanita. Jamaica Tag-Along
Henkes, Kevin. Sheila Rae the Brave
Marshall, James & Edward. Fox and His Friends
Polacco, Patricia. My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother
Steptoe, John. Stevie
The Emperor’s New Clothes/ The Hungry Coat
#908
Lionel and Leona discover an emperor running around the library in his underwear, and Click the Mouse helps him find the perfect outfit for a Coat Party.
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Features a retelling of the folktale “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
Folktale
Key word: suit
Target sound: long u
New vocabulary: beautiful, blue, chanted, embarrassed, emperor, flute, fool, fortune, fruit, glue, kingdom, lute, parade, plume, pretended, tailor, trickster, true, tuba, ukulele, unusual
Agee, John. Nothing
Andersen, Hans Christian. The Emperor’s New Clothes (illus. Virginia Lee Burton)
Demi. The Emperor’s New Clothes: A Tale Set in China
Demi. The Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey
Mills, Lauren A. The Rag Coat
Parton, Dolly. Coat of Many ColorsThe Hungry Coat
Features a retelling of the Turkish folktale “The Hungry Coat”
Folktale
Key word: villa
Target sound: v
New vocabulary: buttoned, coat, festivities, invitation, meat, pockets, sad, sleeves, stained, tattered, vacuum cleaner, vanish, vegetables, veterinarian, viceroy, village, violet, violin

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Five, Six, and Thistle Sticks #213
Can Lionel and Lenny still be best friends if they don’t like the same things anymore?
Features the book When I Was Five, by Arthur Howard
Story
Key word: six
Word family: -ix (-ick, -it, -ing)
Target sound: short i
High-frequency sight words: best, is, it, my, this, was, when
New vocabulary: astronaut, favorite, hammock, pixie
Bloom, Suzanne. A Splendid Friend, Indeed
Henkes, Kevin. Chester’s Way
Howard, Arthur. When I Was Five
Katz, Bobbi. Could We Be Friends?
Polacco, Patricia. Mrs. Katz and Tush
The Fox and the Crow #128
Walter and Clay Pigeon want The Fox and the Crow banned from the library because they think the book makes birds look like birdbrains.
Features Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Crow”
Fable
Key word: drop
Word family: -op (-ox, -ot, -oppy)
Target sound: short o
High-frequency sight words: a, and, end, in, is, it, of, that, the, to, very, you (“Ten Small Words” song)
New vocabulary: crow, flatter, humongous
Aesop’s Fables (illus. Jerry Pinkney)
McKissack, Patricia. Flossie and the Fox
Sogabe, Aki. Aesop’s Fox
Spirin, Gennady. Martha
Villaseñor, Victor. Little Crow to the Rescue
Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy? #109
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he? Well, was he?
Features the popular rhyme “Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear”
Rhyme
Key word: fuzzy
Word family: -uzz (-ug, -un, -up, -uck)
Target sound: short u
High-frequency sight words: a, he, no, was, wasn’t
New vocabulary: fuzzy, mutton, unbutton
Carle, Eric. Eric Carle’s Animals, Animals
Guarino, Deborah. Is Your Mama a Llama?
Lyon, George Ella. A Day at Damp Camp
Prelutsky, Jack. Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
Rosen, Michael. Poems for the Very Young

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Giants and Cubs #129
Leona thinks scary giants are coming into the library to clobber lion cubs.
Features an original newspaper sports column
Newspaper article
Key word: cub
Word family: -ub (-ug, -uzz, -up, -uck)
Target sound: short u (long u)
High-frequency sight words: a, and, in, is, it, of, that, the, to, up, you
New vocabulary: chum, clobber, despise, grubby
Burleigh, Robert. Home Run
Golenbock, Peter. Teammates
McCully, Emily. Grandmas at Bat
Parish, Peggy. Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia
Welch, Willy. Playing Right Field
The Goat in the Coat #610
Lionel is upset when his copy of a new and extremely rare Cliff Hanger book vanishes from the library, but his friend Gus surprises him with a one-of-a-kind gift. (This episode introduces a new character, Sierra, a mountain lion who tells some of the story in Spanish.)
Features an original series book
Series book
Key word: coat
Target sound: oa as long o
High-frequency sight words: a, and, in, the
New vocabulary: autograph, croak, enchanted, groan, moat, plastic, protective, rare, soak, terrible, toast, valuable, vest
Adler, David A. Young Cam Jansen and the Library Mystery
Bruss, Deborah. Book! Book! Book!
Conover, Chris. The Lion’s Share
Guy, Ginger Foglesong. Fiesta!
Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Good Books, Good Times!
Sierra, Judy. Wild About Books
The Golden Meaty Awards #505
Lionel is master of ceremonies of this first annual music awards show, featuring favorite tunes from Between the Lions and very tasty awards.
Features songs from the series in an awards-show format
Awards show
Word family: -op, -ing
Target sound: r, w
High-frequency sight words: said
New vocabulary: accompanied, category, competition, delectable, delicious, kazoo, performance, savory, scrumptious, succulent, tasty, yummy
Aliki. Ah, Music
Boynton, Sandra. Rhinoceros Tap
Igus, Toyomi. I See the Rhythm
Katz, Alan. Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs
Moss, Lloyd. Music Is

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Good Night, Knight #223
Orlando Furioso, the brave knight, will save the fair Angelica and lift the curse of Fallerina if he can be put back together again!
Features a version of a play adapted from Orlando Furioso, by Ariosto
Play
Key word: knight
Word family: -ight (-ide, -ime)
Target sound: long i
High-frequency sight words: are, as, for, he, his, I, on, they, was, with (“Ten Little Words” song)
New vocabulary: audience, curse, delightful, lair, nightingale, sorceress
Gibbons, Gail. Knights in Shining Armor
Mayhew, James. The Knight Who Took All Day
O’Brien, Patrick. The Making of a Knight
Peet, Bill. Cowardly Clyde
Thomas, Shelly Moore. Good Night, Good Knight
The Good Seed #203
Hee, hee, hee! Click the Mouse has a computer virus! Hee, hee, hee!
Features the book The Empty Pot, by Demi
Folktale
Key word: seed
Word family: -eed (-ee, -eep, -eet, -eel)
Target sound: ee as long e
High-frequency sight words: be, free, he, his
New vocabulary: antivirus software, courage, deleted, e-mail, emperor, librarian, moral, palace, parakeet, responsibility, successor, throne, virus, weep
Bond, Ruskin. The Cherry Tree
Carle, Eric. The Tiny Seed
Demi. The Empty Pot
Havill, Juanita. Jamaica’s Find
Ye, Ting-xing. Weighing the Elephant
Grow, Mane, Grow! #402
Lionel is still a growing cub, but he’ll do anything to grow a grown-up mane like his dad’s!
Features an infomercial
Advertisement
Key word: mane
Word family: -ane (-ake, -ale, -ase, -ay)
Target sound: ay (long a)
High-frequency sight words: go, is, it, make, the, to, your
New vocabulary: ashamed, assistant, disgrace, guaranteed, scientific, system
Barber, Barbara. Saturday at the New You
Cisneros, Sandra. Hairs/Pelitos
Freeman, Don. Dandelion
Robinson, Claire. Lions
Tarpley, Natasha. I Love My Hair!

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Hay Day #301
Can Lionel, Leona, and Gus help a girl named Fay turn hay into gold in just one day?
Features the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin
Fairy tale
Key word: hay
Word family: -ay (-ade, -ame, -ake)
Target sound: ay (long a)
High-frequency sight words: away, day, don’t, I, if, name, no, say, way, you
New vocabulary: bales, bracelet, dungeon, rhino, spun, troll
Aylesworth, Jim. My Son John
Hamilton, Virginia. The Girl Who Spun Gold
Henkes, Kevin. Chrysanthemum
Martin, Mary Jane. From Anne to Zach
Zelinsky, Paul O. Rumpelstiltskin
Help! #308
The search for a lost book helps Theo and Cleo teach the cubs about responsibility.
Features a version of “The Little Red Hen”
Folktale
Key word: help
Word family: -ell, -elp (-en, -ent, -ess, -est, -et)
Target sound: short e
High-frequency sight words: all, and, any, at, do, give, help, I, it, not, said, the, then, very
New vocabulary: herring, impressive, mill, selfish, smelt, swell, testy, wrench, yelp, zesty
Ada, Alma Flor. With Love, Little Red Hen
Barton, Byron. Little Red Hen
Burningham, John. Mr. Gumpy’s Outing
Falwell, Cathryn. Feast for 10
Sturges, Philemon. The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Here Come the Aliens/Abiyoyo
#606
Strange creatures lurk in outer space, but even stranger creatures dwell right here on earth.
Here Come the Aliens
Features the book Here Come the Aliens!, by Colin McNaughton
Science fiction
Key word: queen
Target sound: qu
High-frequency sight words: are, coming, some, the, they, this
New vocabulary: admiral, alien, approach, beware, bizarre, bleak, conquer, crew, fleet, galaxy, manners, retreat, science fiction, zillion
Deacon, Alexis. Beegu
Elliott, David. Hazel Nutt, Alien Hunter
Keats, Ezra Jack. Regards to the Man on the Moon
Leuck, Laura. My Monster Mama Loves Me So
McNaughton, Colin. Here Come the Aliens!
Seeger, Pete. AbiyoyoAbiyoyo
Features the book Abiyoyo, by Pete Seeger
Folktale
Key word: zoop
Target sound: z
High-frequency sight words: boy, father, look, say, the
New vocabulary: blimp, blizzard, cozy, familiar, magician, ostracized, quiz, slobbery, staggered, ukulele, vanished, wand, zipper
The Hopping Hen #106
Everyone in the library goes crazy after Lionel puts up signs about new rules.
Features an original story
Signs
Key word: hen
Word family: -en (-et, -ell, -ed)
Target sound: short e
High-frequency sight words: no, what, when, where, who, why, yes
New vocabulary: allowed, hen, permitted, saxophone
Brown, Marc. Arthur’s Reading Race
Crews, Donald. Night at the Fair
Hill, Mary. Signs on the Road
Hoban, Tana. I Read Signs
Milch, Zoran. City Signs

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
How to Be a Good Dog/ Not Afraid of Dogs
#704
A cat tries to teach a dog to behave, and a boy learns that dogs aren’t so scary after all.
How to Be a Good Dog
Features the book How to Be a Good Dog, by Gail Page
Story
Key word: good
Word family: -ood, -ook
Target sound: oo (as in good)
New vocabulary: commands, difficult, fabulous, fantastic, fetch, handy, heel, marvelous, practice, strict, splendid, swell, terrific
Allen, Jonathan. “I’m Not Scared!”
Ehlert, Lois. Wag a Tail
Page, Gail. How to Be a Good Dog
Page, Gail. Bobo and the New Neighbor
Pitzer, Susanna. Not Afraid of Dogs
Sturges, Philemon. Waggers
Not Afraid of Dogs
Features the book Not Afraid of Dogs, by Susanna Pitzer
Story
Featured vocabulary: afraid, brave, braver, bravest, petrified, scared, scary, terrified; locative words (above, below, far, near, inside, outside)
New vocabulary: crinkled, elevator, snuggled, thunderstorm
Huff and Puff #306
Whatever happened to the three little pigs? Leona and Lionel want to know…so they write their own sequels to the story!
Features a version of “The Three Little Pigs”
Folktale
Key word: puff
Word family: -uff (-ug, -uck, -ump)
Target sound: short u
High-frequency sight words: come, I’ll, in, me, my, no, of, said, the, you, your
New vocabulary: allergies, comma, period, quotation marks, sequel
Ada, Alma Flor. Dear Peter Rabbit
Galdone, Paul. The Three Little Pigs
Scieszka, John. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Trivizas, Eugene. The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
Wiesner, David. The Three Pigs

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Hug, Hug, Hug! #118
Leona helps a sculptor who falls in love with his statue.
Features the Greek myth “Pygmalion”
Myth
Key word: hug
Word family: -ug (-uck, -un, -ut, -ub)
Target sound: short u
High-frequency sight words: a, in, other, words
New vocabulary: ancient, sculptor, statue
Briggs, Raymond. The Snowman
Clements, Andrew. Workshop
Freeman, Don. Corduroy
James, Betsy. The Mud Family
Williams, Margery. The Velveteen Rabbit
Humph! Humph! Humph! #202
Lionel’s friend Gus gets humphy when Leona asks him to read to her.
Features the story “How the Camel Got His Hump” from Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling
Folktale
Key word: hump
Word family: -ump (-uck, -unk, -ut)
Target sound: short u
High-frequency sight words: all, and, he, new, says, the, with, won’t
New vocabulary: ashamed, designated, grumpy, idle, interrupt, practice
Barber, Barbara. Allie’s Basketball Dream
Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories (illus. Barry Moser)
Mora, Pat. Tomás and the Library Lady
Paul, Ann Whitford. All by Herself
Polacco, Patricia. Thank You, Mr. Falker
Icarus’s Wings #204
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Barnaby B. Busterfield III!
Features the Greek myth “Daedalus and Icarus”
Myth
Key word: wing
Word family: -ing (-ip, -ick, -it)
Target sound: short i
High-frequency sight words: a, be, start, thing, with
New vocabulary: imprisoned, labyrinth, plummet, propeller, thrilling, UFO
Blake, Robert. Fledgling
Brown, Marc. Wings on Things
Myers, Christopher. Wings
Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride
Woodruff, Elvira. The Wing Shop

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
I Don’t Want a Birthday Party/ Knuffle Bunny
#810
Leona can’t understand why Roodles the Clown doesn’t want a birthday party, and Theo, Lionel, and Leona don’t want to wash their favorite things.
I Don’t Want a Birthday Party
Features the original story I Don’t Want a Birthday Party
Original Story
Key word: rooster
Target sound: r
New vocabulary: birthday party, clown, crying, happy, opposite, ran, rattled, realized, relatives, room, rooster, round, running, surprised
Cumpiano, Ina. Quinito, Day and Night/Quinito, día y noche
Klise, Kate. Why Do You Cry? Not a Sob Story
Smalls, Irene. Jonathan and His Mommy
Starr, Meg. Alicia’s Happy Day/El día más feliz de Alicia
Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny
Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
Knuffle Bunny
Features the book Knuffle Bunny, by Mo Willems
Story
Key word: bunny
Target sound: -y (ending)
High-frequency sight words: and, she, the, up
New vocabulary: barrel, comfortable, dawn, dusk, removable, wring

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
I’ll Fix Anthony/ Jamaica Louise James
#604
A big brother and a jack-in- the-box could both use some fixing, and a budding artist draws up a plan for fixing up a dreary subway station.
I’ll Fix Anthony
Features the book I’ll Fix Anthony, by Judith Viorst
Story
Key word: fix
Target sound: x
High-frequency sight words: and, he, him, if, I’ll, I’m, me, my, say, we’ll, when, will, won’t
New vocabulary: checkers, clobber, contest, fix (various meanings), ox, sax, xylophone
Cameron, Ann. The Stories Julian Tells
Hest, Amy. Jamaica Louise James
Reynolds, Peter. Ish
Say, Allen. Emma’s Rug
Viorst, Judith. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Viorst, Judith. I’ll Fix Anthony
Jamaica Louise James
Features the book Jamaica Louise James, by Amy Hest
Story
Key word: draw
Target sound: aw
High-frequency sight words: I, me, my, they, we
New vocabulary: awfully, blot, dab, layer, mayor, pad, plaque, saw (various meanings), smear, smidge, squiggle, steep, subway, surprise, token, worry

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
It’s Red! It’s Green!/ Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
#510
In these folktales, a red hat is really green (or is it red?), and an old overcoat is also a button.
It’s Red! It’s Green!
Features a version of “A Quarrel Between Friends,” an African folktale
Folktale
Key word: red
Target sound: r
High-frequency sight words: friend, is, the, too
New vocabulary: attractive, companion, disagreement, enormous, gigantic, opinion, rubies, wisdom
Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)
Peeke, Merle. Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers
Serfozo, Mary. Who Said Red?
Taback, Simms. Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Taback, Simms. This is the House that Jack BuiltJoseph Had a Little Overcoat
Features the book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, by Simms Taback
Story
Key word: jacket
Target sound: j
High-frequency sight words: a, and, got, had, he, it, little, made, of, out, so
New vocabulary: exactly, fasten, handkerchief, jabber, juggle, necktie, nephew, overcoat, scarf, sneakers, suspenders, worn
A King and His Hawk #125
Leona thinks a book Lionel reads to her is too sad, so she tries to make sure nobody else can read it.
Features a legend about Genghis Khan
Folktale
Key word: king
Word family: -ing (-ip, -ick, -ig, -it)
Target sound: short i
High-frequency sight words: a, and, in, is, it, of, that, the, to, you (“Ten Small Words” song)
New vocabulary: hidden, rage, tragic
Baylor, Byrd. Hawk, I’m Your Brother
Burrowes, Adjoa. Grandma’s Purple Flowers
Milord, Susan. Tales Alive!
Thomas, Jane Resh. Saying Goodbye to Grandma
Viorst, Judith. The Tenth Good Thing About Barney

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
King Midas/ The Dirty Smelly King
#607
King Midas gets what he wished for, then wishes he didn’t, and King Chuck the Mucky Muck wishes he weren’t so smelly.
King Midas
Features the myth “King Midas”
Myth
Key word: king
Word family: -ick
Target sound: k
High-frequency sight words: he, him, his
New vocabulary: dangling, forsake, greedy, kabob, kale, kazoo, keen, kidney, kite, kooky, kumquat, perky
Craft, Charlotte. King Midas and the Golden Touch
Demi. King Midas: The Golden Touch
Smalls, Irene. I Can’t Take a Bath
Wells, Rosemary. Max and Ruby’s Midas
Wood, Audrey. King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub
The Dirty Smelly King
Features a version of “The Dirty Smelly King”
Folktale
Key word: back
Word family: -ick
Target sound: ck
High-frequency sight words: and, at, in, look, out, see
New vocabulary: majesty, muck, peck, popular, preferably, prime minister
The Last Cliff Hanger #210
Lionel is very unhappy because author Livingston Dangerously has written The Last Cliff Hanger.
Features an original story
Story
Key word: last
Word family: -ast (-at, -an, -ant)
Target sound: short a
High-frequency sight words: a, and, by, can’t, of, the
New vocabulary: paddle, stapler, tackle
Aliki. How a Book Is Made
Christelow, Ellen. What Do Authors Do?
Marshall, Pam. From Idea to Book
Medearis, Angela Shelf. Lucy’s Quiet Book
Nixon, Joan Lowery. If You Were a Writer

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Like a Windy Day/ Winter Is the Warmest Season
#909
In this animated special, the Lion family and Click the Mouse try not to let the wind spoil their picnic, and Lionel tries to convince Leona that winter is really warm.
Like a Windy Day
Features the book Like a Windy Day, by Frank Asch & Devin Asch
Story
Key word: windy
Target sound: -y ending
New vocabulary: flowery; seasons (autumn, fall, spring, summer, winter); weather-related (chilly, cloudy, cold, drippy, drizzly, foggy, hot, mizzly, nippy, rainy, showery, slippery, snowy, stormy, sunny, warm, windy)
Asch, Frank and Devin Asch. Like a Windy Day
Cobb, Vicki. I Face the Wind
Glaser, Linda. It’s Winter
Hall Ets, Marie. Gilberto and the Wind
Lin, Grace and Ranida T. McKneally. Our Seasons
Stringer, Lauren. Winter Is the Warmest SeasonWinter Is the Warmest Season
Features the book Winter Is the Warmest Season, by Lauren Stringer
Story
Featured vocabulary: seasonal sports (badminton, basketball, sledding, soccer, swimming); summer-related (heat wave, hot, steamy, warm); winter-related (blankets, cold, cool, cozy, hat, hot chocolate, scarf, snow, snowing, snowman)
New vocabulary: imagine

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Lionel’s Antlers #110
Just like the girl in the book Imogene’s Antlers, Lionel wakes up with antlers on his head.
Features the book Imogene’s Antlers, by David Small
Story
Key word: antlers
Word family: -an (-ant, -am, -amp)
Target sound: short a
High-frequency sight words: an, man, off
New vocabulary: antlers, enchanting, peacock, scram
Geisel, Theodor. If I Ran the Zoo
Jeffers, Susan. My Pony
Kimmel, Eric. The Rooster’s Antlers
Small, David. Imogene’s Antlers
Van Laan, Nancy. Moose Tales
Lionel’s Great Escape Trick #114
Lionel ties himself up with ropes and tries to escape without magic words.
Features the real-life story of Houdini
Web site
Key word: trick
Word family: -ick (-it, -ish, -ig)
Target sound: short i
High-frequency sight words: do, the, words
New vocabulary: applause, escape, famous, flicker, magician, sunken
Brown, Marc. Arthur’s April Fool
Johnson, Crockett. Harold and the Purple Crayon
Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are
Van Allsburg, Chris. Jumanji
Wyler, Rose & Gerald Ames. Magic Secrets
Little Big Mouse #103
Click’s feelings are hurt when Lionel and Leona start a fan club for a heroic storybook mouse.
Features Aesop’s fable “The Lion and the Mouse”
Fable
Key word: little
Word family: -it (-ip, -ick, -in)
Target sound: short i
High-frequency sight words: big, brown, can, it, little
New vocabulary: appetite, approaching, intelligent, unzipped
Alborough, Jez. Watch Out! Big Bro’s Coming
Faustin, Charles. The Selfish Crocodile
Lobel, Arnold. Mouse Soup
Steptoe, John. The Story of Jumping Mouse
Waber, Bernard. The Mouse That Snored

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
The Lost Rock #102
A rock rolls out of his book and then can’t remember which book he belongs in.
Features an original story
Dictionary
Key word: rock
Word family: -ock (-op, -ot, -om)
Target sound: short o (double o)
High-frequency sight words: am, and, mom, not, stop, the
New vocabulary: dictionary, kazoo
Baylor, Byrd. Everybody Needs a Rock
Brown, Marcia. Stone Soup
Christian, Peggy. If You Find a Rock
Kimmel, Eric. Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock
Shields, Carol Diggory. Martian Rock
The Lucky Duck #123
Lionel tries to help a very cute duck from a very cute book stop being so cute.
Features an original story
Story
Key word: duck
Word family: -uck (-ucky, -ug, -ud)
Target sound: short u
High-frequency sight words: a, oh, what
New vocabulary: delighted, leather, rude, scanning
Andersen, Hans Christian. The Ugly Duckling (illus. Jerry Pinkney)
McCloskey, Robert. Make Way for Ducklings
Raffi. Five Little Ducks
Root, Phyllis. One Duck Stuck
Tafuri, Nancy. Have You Seen My Duckling?

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Making Bread/ Cheesybreadville
#710
After Theo’s fails at making bread, a video and a book come to the rescue. Another bread-baking disaster creates a tasty new treat.
Making Bread
Features an original video
Video
Featured vocabulary: foods (bread, butter, cookies, flour, honey, oil, salt, yeast); cooking (bake, bakes, baking, batter, cooked, cooking, oven, knead, raw, rise); descriptive words (burnt, crunchy, long, round, soft, warm, yummy); quantity words (a lot, one, some)
New vocabulary: baguette, fresh, expanded, surprisingly, tastes, tasty, tastier, tastiest
Dooley, Norah. Everybody Bakes Bread
Levenson, George. Bread Comes to Life: A Garden of Wheat and a Loaf to Eat
Manzano, Sonia. “Cheesybreadville,” in Thanks and Giving All Year Long, by Marlo Thomas and Friends
Mora, Pat. The Bakery Lady
Morris, Ann. Bread, Bread, Bread
Pinkney, Jerry. The Little Red Hen
Smalls, Irene. My Pop Pop and Me
Cheesybreadville
Features the poem “Cheesybreadville,” by Sonia Manzano
Poem
Key word: corn
Target sound: r-controlled o
High-frequency sight words: he, her, him, his, look, see, she, they
New vocabulary: airborne, anonymous, aware, belching, cornmeal, din, doused, fame, hollered, horrible, orphan, popular, renowned, stumbled, tempting, title, trio, wailed

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Mole and the Baby Bird/ Owen and Mzee
#802
Lionel and Leona find out why some animals aren’t meant to be pets, and how some animals develop surprising friendships.
Mole and the Baby Bird
Features the book Mole and the Baby Bird, by Marjorie Newman
Story
Key word: fly
Target sound: fl
New vocabulary: feelings and emotions (care, cried, feel, dejected, happy, miserable, sad); animal-related (baby bird, cage, die, feed, food, fluttered, fly, flying, grew, help, mole, nest, pet, wild, wind, wings)
Hatkoff, Isabella, Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu. Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship
Hatkoff, Isabella, Craig Hatkoff, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu. Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
Newman, Marjorie. Mole and the Baby Bird
Torres, Leyla. The Subway Sparrow
Winter, Jeanette. Mama: A True Story
Yee, Wong Herbert. Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole
Owen and Mzee
Features the book Owen & Mzee, told by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu with photographs by Peter Greste
Nonfiction Story
Featured vocabulary: crocodile, hippo, tortoise, turtle
New vocabulary: environment and weather (beach, home, nature park, reef, river, storm, water, wave); friendship (best friend, friends)

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Moon Rope/ Welcome to the Moon
#707
Can you climb up to the moon on a rope? Is there really a fox on the moon? Leona is on a mission to find out.
Moon Rope
Features the book Moon Rope by Lois Ehlert
Folktale
Key word: rope
Target sound: long o (as in o_e)
Word family: -ope (-ose, -ole, -oke)
New vocabulary: appear, braided, creatures, crescent, fuss, glancing, hitch, mole, telescope, tunnel, twirled, unnoticed, upset
Asch, Frank. Moongame
Beifuss, John. Armadillo Ray
Ehlert, Lois. Moon Rope
Gibbons, Gail. The Moon Book
Landry, Leo. Space Boy
Mcnulty, Faith. If You Decide to Go to the Moon
Welcome to the Moon
Features a web site with a video about the moon, presented as a girl’s diary
Web site, video, diary
Featured vocabulary: the moon and outer space (craters, crescent moon, dark moon, earth, full moon, half moon, meteor, planet, revolving, spaceship, spacesuits, solar system, telescope); locative words (across, beneath, closest, nearest, next to)
New vocabulary: diary, enormous, giant, humongous

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash/ Knuffle Bunny
#601
The cubs find some unusual items on Mrs. McNosh’s clothesline, but they’re reluctant to turn over their favorite things for a good washing.
Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash
Features the book Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash, by Sarah Weeks
Rhyming story
Key word: her
Word family: -er, -ir
Target sound: r-controlled e, r-controlled i
High-frequency sight words: and, she, the, up
New vocabulary: barrel, comfortable, dawn, dusk, removable, wring
Clark, Emma Chichester. Where Are You, Blue Kangaroo?
Falconer, Ian. Olivia…and the Missing Toy
Noble, Trinka Hakes. The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash
Weeks, Sarah. Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash
Weeks, Sarah. Oh My Gosh, Mrs. McNosh
Willems, Mo. Knuffle BunnyKnuffle Bunny
Features the book Knuffle Bunny, by Mo Willems
Story
Key word: bunny
Target sound: -y ending
High-frequency sight words: and, daddy, her, look, she, the
New vocabulary: apron, bawled, cautionary, errand, fussy, gown, laundromat, laundry, realized, replied, scurry, shirt, stockings, underwear

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Night Shift/ Under Construction
#901
The Lion family helps out a monkey who sells ice cream in the middle of the night, and tries to figure out how to get rid of the enormous tree branch that fell into the library.
Night Shift
Features the book Night Shift, by Jesse Hartland
Nonfiction
Featured vocabulary: job-related (artist, bridge painter, chef, director, disc jockey, fisherman, freight captain, groom, pilot, plumber, radio DJ, road worker, scoop, security guard, sing, sketch, snip, street sweeper, truck driver, waitress)
New vocabulary: time-related (awake, bed, closed, day, end, late, quiet, start, time)
Banks, Kate. The Night Worker
Caterpillar. C is for Construction: Big Trucks and Diggers from A to Z
Hartland, Jessie. Night Shift
Olson, K.C. Construction Countdown
Sobel, June. B is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC
Zimmerman, Andrea. Digger ManUnder Construction
Features an original song
Nonfiction/Song
Featured vocabulary: construction vehicles (backhoe, bulldozer, cement mixer, concrete mixer, crane, dump truck, forklift, pickup truck, steam shovel, steamroller, vehicles)

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
No One Told the Aardvark/ Sea Horse
#807
Leona pretends to be different animals, and tries the sea horse’s trick of camouflage in the library.
No One Told the Aardvark
Features the book No One Told the Aardvark, by Deborah Eaton and Susan Halter
Concept Book
Featured vocabulary: aardvark, animal, boa constrictor, chimpanzee, crab, elephant, fish, horse, kangaroo, plover, raccoon, snails, snake, termites, whale
New vocabulary: chew, crawl, hurry, swallow, pouches, slow, tongue, zoo
Barrett, Judi. Never Take a Shark to the Dentist: And Other Things Not to Do
Butterworth, Chris. Sea Horse
Carle, Eric. Mister Seahorse
Eaton, Deborah and Susan Halter. No One Told the Aardvark
George, Twig C. Seahorses
Hickman, Pamela. Animal Senses: How Animals See, Hear, Taste, Smell and Feel
Sea Horse
Features the book Sea Horse, by Chris Butterworth
Nonfiction Story
Key word: fish
Target sound: f
New vocabulary: babies, camouflage, coral, coral branch, current, eggs, fish, fins, mate, ocean, pouch, reef, sea, seabed, sea horse, slowly, swims, tail, waves
Oh, Yes, It Can! #212
Can yams, gloves, and hammers talk? Oh, yes, they can!
Features a version of “Talk,” an African folktale
Folktale
Key word: can
Word family: -an (-at, -ant, -am, -ack)
Target sound: short a
High-frequency sight words: can, can’t, has, I, in, it, that, they, yes, you
New vocabulary: Ashanti, commanded, fabric, gasped, yam, yammering
Bruchac, Joseph. Racoon’s Last Race
Kimmel, Eric. Anansi and the Talking Melon
Meddaugh, Susan. Martha Speaks
San Souci, Robert D. The Talking Eggs
Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales from Around the World

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
The Old Man #124
Writer Babs Caplan visits the library to write the world’s scariest story.
Features an original story
Story in progress
Key word: man
Word family: -an (-am, -and, -ack)
Target sound: short a
High-frequency sight words: a, an, and, in, is, it, man, of, old, that, the, this, to, was, you (“Ten Small Words” song)
New vocabulary: enchanting, planet, scram
Brown, Ruth. A Dark, Dark Tale
Martin, Bill, Jr. A Beasty Story
Pulver, Robin. Author Day for Room 3T
Schwartz, Alvin. In a Dark, Dark Room
Yep, Laurence. The Man Who Tricked a Ghost
Out in Outer Space #307
Grandpa Lion visits the library and tells the true story of a friend who traveled out in outer space.
Features an original biography of astronaut Ellen Ochoa
Biography
Key word: out
Word family: -out (-ound, -outh, -ow)
Target sound: ou (spelled ow or ou)
High-frequency sight words: how, in, now, our, out
New vocabulary: astronaut, biography, chowder, comma, homophone, ingredient, outstanding, period, punctuator, space shuttle
Lindbergh, Reeve. Nobody Owns the Sky
Mora, Pat. Tomás and the Library Lady
Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride
Thomas, Frances. One Day, Daddy
Wallace, Karen. Rockets and Spaceships
Pandora’s Box #113
Should Lionel and Leona open a mysterious box that has a “Do Not Open!” sign on it?
Features the Greek myth “Pandora’s Box”
Myth
Key word: box
Word family: -ox (-ot, -op, -oppy)
Target sound: short o (double o)
High-frequency sight words: do, not, open, stop
New vocabulary: curious, exclamation point, hiccups
Stevenson, James. The Mud Flat Mystery
Thompson, Kay. Eloise
Turkle, Brinton. Do Not Open
Waddell, Martin. The Pig in the Pond
Wells, Rosemary. Max and Ruby in Pandora’s Box

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Pebble Trouble #211
Leona is under a table and won’t come out.
Features the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig
Story
Key word: pebble
Word family: -eb (-en, -ent, -est, -ess)
Target sound: short e
High-frequency sight words: and, he, his, no, on, the, was, yes
New vocabulary: agitated, ceased, distressed, pebble, perturbed
Bruchac, Joseph. The First Strawberries
Leaf, Munro. The Story of Ferdinand
Silverman, Erica. Don’t Fidget a Feather!
Steig, William. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Yolen, Jane & Mark Teague. How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?
A Peck of Peppers #120
Lionel thinks he is the king of tongue twisters and nobody can write one that he can’t say.
Features a variety of tongue twisters
Tongue twisters
Key word: peppers
Word family: -ep (-eck, -en, -ess, -et)
Target sound: short e
High-frequency sight words: a, if, is, of, the, where
New vocabulary: gloat, impressive, peck, tenderloin, tongue twister
Artell, Mike. Giggle Fit: Zany Tongue Twisters
Buck, Nola. Creepy Crawly Critters
Geisel, Theodor. Oh Say Can You Say?
Marcus, Hal. Animal Alphabet Album
Schwartz, Alvin. Busy Buzzing Bumblebees
Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West #101
A storybook tornado blows into the library and makes a terrible mess.
Features a version of an American tall tale
Folktale
Key word: west
Word family: -est (-ess, -ell, -et)
Target sound: short e
High-frequency sight words: in, the, was
New vocabulary: fictional, imaginary, lasso, steady, steed, tall tale, tornado, twister, unwelcome
Hopkins, Jackie. The Horned Toad Prince
Isaacs, Anne. Swamp Angel
Keats, Ezra Jack. John Henry
Kellogg, Steven. Pecos Bill
McKissack, Patricia. A Million Fish... More or Less

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Pete’s a Pizza/ Pygmalion
#605
With a little imagination, a father turns his son into a pizza, and some loving hugs bring a statue to life.
Pete’s a Pizza
Features the book Pete’s a Pizza, by William Steig
Story
Key word: father
Target sound: th
High-frequency sight words: father, that, the, then
New vocabulary: capture, contractions, dough, kneading, miserable, mood, mustache, thimble, twirled, whirled
Amery, Heather. Greek Myths for Young Children
Briggs, Raymond. The Snowman
Holub, Joan. The Pizza That We Made
Steig, William. Pete’s a Pizza
Sturges, Philemon. The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)
Pygmalion
Features the Greek myth “Pygmalion”
Myth
Key word: hug
Target sound: g (hard)
High-frequency sight words: he, him, his
New vocabulary: ancient, goggles, masterpiece, pity, pretend, sculptor, statue
Piggyback, Piggyback #127
Leona decides to ride piggyback on her dad’s back forever and ever.
Features a version of “The King with Dirty Feet,” a folktale from India
Folktale
Key word: back
Word family: -ack (-at, -ap, -ab, -ad)
Target sound: short a
High-frequency sight words: and, at, in, out
New vocabulary: acrobat, flapjack, piggyback, racket, unpacked
Goodman, Joan Elizabeth. Bernard’s Bath
Meister, Cari. Tiny’s Bath
Steptoe, Javaka. In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall
Wood, Audrey. King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub
Ziefert, Harriet. Harry Takes a Bath

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Pigs Aplenty #302
When Theo and Cleo leave Marmy in charge of the cubs, she throws a big pig party in the library.
Features the book Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!, by David McPhail
Story
Key word: pig
Word family: -ig (-ick, -in, -ing, -ink, -ip, -it)
Target sound: short i
High-frequency sight words: do, give, we, what
New vocabulary: aplenty, apostrophe, disaster, galore, hippo, jig, snout, sprig, stagger
Child, Lauren. Clarice Bean, Guess Who’s Babysitting?
Day, Alexandra. Good Dog, Carl
McPhail, David. Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!
Miranda, Anne. Pignic
Wardlaw, Lee. Saturday Night Jamboree
Pigs in Hiding/ Stop That Pickle!
#905
The Lion family plays hide-and-seek, then joins a sandwich on the hunt for a runaway pickle in the library.
Pigs in Hiding
Features the book Pigs in Hiding, by Arlene Dubanevich
Story
Featured vocabulary: locative words (above, behind, below, beside, far, far away from, in, in front of, inside, near, next to, on top of, outside, under); quantity words (all, almost all, some); relational words (anybody, everybody, somebody, nobody)
New vocabulary: found, here, hide, hiding, pigs; snacks (donuts, peanuts, popcorn, punch, sandwiches, strawberries); surprise
Ahlberg, Allan. The Runaway Dinner
Armour, Peter. Stop That Pickle!
Dubanevich, Arlene. Pigs in Hiding
Hassett, John. Can’t Catch Me
McPhail, David. Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!
Wong, Janet S. Hide & Seek
Stop That Pickle
Features the book Stop That Pickle!, by Peter Armour
Story
Featured concept: punctuation (contractions, exclamation point, period, question mark)
New vocabulary: food-related (almonds, apple, bake shop, brine, deli, doughnut/donut, food, grape juice, hungry, ice cream cone, jar, pickle, pretzel, raisins, sandwich); actions and movement (caught, chase, collided, fast, rolled, shouted, slowest, stop)

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Pigs, Pigs, Pigs!/ The Three Little Pigs
#501
It’s pigs galore for the Lion family! Pigs run amok in the story Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! then try to escape the wolf in a retelling of a classic folktale.
Pigs, Pigs, Pigs!
Features the book Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!, by David McPhail
Story
Key word: pigs
Word family: -op
Target sound: p
High-frequency sight words: and, her, house, I, is
New vocabulary: galore
Galdone, Paul. The Three Little Pigs
Gibbons, Gail. Pigs
Lowell, Susan. The Three Little Javelinas
McPhail, David. Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!
McPhail, David. Those Can-Do Pigs
Roth, Carol. Ten Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean PigsThe Three Little Pigs
Features a version of “The Three Little Pigs”
Folktale
Key word: house
Word family: -op
Target sound: h
High-frequency sight words: big, in, little, no, the, then
New vocabulary: locative words (behind, in front of, next to, on top of, under)

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Poetry Day #207
Two pigeons named Walter and Clay learn all about poetry on Poetry Day!
Features a poem from A Child’s Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Poetry
Key word: train
Word family: -ain (-aint, -ail, -air)
Target sound: ai as long a
High-frequency sight words: and, has, is, it, on, pull, push, the
New vocabulary: entertainment, pail, poetry, poultry, rhyme, rhythm, spotlight, transport
Bryan, Ashley. Sing to the Sun
Demi. In the Eyes of a Cat: Japanese Poetry
Greenfield, Eloise. Honey, I Love
Prelutsky, Jack. Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child’s Garden of Verses
The Popcorn Popper #116
Lionel and Leona persuade Click to take a magic popcorn popper out of a book and then can’t make it stop popping!
Features a folktale about magical pots
Folktale & Instructions
Key word: pop
Word family: -op (-om, -ot, -ox)
Target sound: short o
High-frequency sight words: it, mom, not, on, pop
New vocabulary: designated, instructions, poplar, popular
Barrett, Judi. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Demi. One Grain of Rice
dePaola, Tomie. The Popcorn Book
Moran, Alex. Popcorn
Riley, Linnea. Mouse Mess

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
The Popcorn Popper/ Oh, Yes, It Can!
#907
Lionel and Leona can’t make a popcorn popper stop popping, then meet a yam that can talk.
The Popcorn Popper
Features a folktale about magical pots
Folktale & Instructions
Key word: popcorn
Word family: -op
Target sound: short o
New vocabulary: designated, instructions, popcorn
dePaola, Tomie. Strega Nona
Galdone, Paul. The Magic Porridge Pot
Kimmel, Eric. Anansi and the Talking Melon
MacDonald, Margaret Read. Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur!: A Palestinian Folktale
Paye, Won-Ldy and Margaret H. Lippert. The Talking Vegetables
Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales from Around the World
Oh, Yes, It Can!
Features a version of “Talk,” an African folktale
Folktale
Key word: can
Word family: -an (-at)
Target sound: short a
New vocabulary: abacus, alligator, alphabet, ant, apple, apricot, Ashanti, avocado, commanded, fabric, gasped, yam, yammering

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Priceless Gifts/ King Midas
#906
Is Lionel going to get his wish—to see Cliff Hanger get off the cliff? King Midas gets what he wished for, then wishes he didn’t.
Priceless Gifts
Features a retelling of the folktale “Priceless Gifts”
Folktale
Key word: sheep
Target sound: sh
New vocabulary: cat, friend, gift, grateful, king, merchant, priceless, sailed, sell, shaking, shapes, shark, sheep, shell, shimmying, shirt, shoes, shovels, shower curtains, shrimps, shrubs
Craft, Charlotte. King Midas and the Golden Touch
Demi. King Midas: The Golden Touch
Hamilton, Martha. Priceless Gifts: A Tale from Italy
Polacco, Patricia. Mrs. Katz and Tush
Wells, Rosemary. Max and Ruby’s Midas
King Midas
Features the myth “King Midas”
Myth
Key word: king
Target sound: k
New vocabulary: dangling, forsake, greedy, kabob, kale, kazoo, keen, kidney, kite, kooky, kumquat, perky

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
The Problem with Chickens/ An Egg Is Quiet
#701
What to do about chickens that don’t lay eggs and eggs that just sit there quietly and don’t hatch?
The Problem with Chickens
Features the book The Problem with Chickens, by Bruce McMillan
Story
Key word: chickens
Target sound: ch
New vocabulary: chess, chilly, chuckling, exercising
Aston, Dianna. A Seed is Sleepy
Aston, Dianna. An Egg is Quiet
McMillan, Bruce. The Problem with Chickens
Seeger, Laura Vaccaro. First the Egg
Sklansky, Amy. Where Do Chicks Come From?
Sykes, Julie. Dora’s Eggs
An Egg Is Quiet
Features the book An Egg Is Quiet, by Dianna Aston
Nonfiction
Featured vocabulary: descriptive words (colorful, loud, noisy, quiet); shapes (circle, oval, rectangle, round, square, triangle)
New vocabulary: albumen, camouflage, hatch, shell, tubular, yolk
Quest, Quest, Quest! #216
Faith Prince stars in an adventure about two knights and a nasty villain, written by Babs Caplan with a little help from the lions.
Features an original story
Story
Key word: quest
Word family: -est (-ess, -et, -en, -ed)
Target sound: short e
High-frequency sight words: best, for, of, the
New vocabulary: armor, dungeon, jester, kettle, quest, siesta, tenderloin, villain
dePaola, Tomie. The Knight and the Dragon
Gibbons, Gail. Knights in Shining Armor
Maynard, Christopher. Days of the Knights
San Souci, Robert D. Young Lancelot
Talbott, Hudson. King Arthur and the Round Table

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
The Ram in the Pepper Patch #119
A rambunctious ram leaves his book, butts everyone and everything in the library, and won’t go back!
Features a version of “The Ram in the Chili Patch,” a Mexican folktale
Folktale
Key word: ram
Word family: -am (-an, -ap, -ad)
Target sound: short a
High-frequency sight words: am, in, no, on, the
New vocabulary: diagram, hamburger, scram, scramble
Christelow, Ellen. Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do
Geisel, Theodor. The Cat in the Hat
McKissack, Patricia & Fredrick. Messy Bessey’s School Desk
Sierra, Judy. Nursery Tales Around the World
Wild, Margaret. Nighty Night!
Rats #221
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can never hurt you. Or can they?
Features an original story
Story
Key word: rat
Word family: -at (-ag, -an, -ant)
Target sound: short a
High-frequency sight words: in, that, they, to
New vocabulary: acrobat, bard, eulogy, fabulous, flatter, insult
Choi, Yang Sook. The Name Jar
dePaola, Tomie. Oliver Button Is a Sissy
Frasier, Debra. Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
Henkes, Kevin. Julius: The Baby of the World
Lovell, Patty. Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
Red Hat, Green Hat #122
Leona’s new hat stirs up trouble in the library.
Features a version of “A Quarrel Between Friends,” an African folktale
Folktale
Key word: red
Word family: -ed (-et, -en, -end), -eep
Target sound: short e (long e)
High-frequency sight words: green, is, red, said
New vocabulary: dove, fowl, hen, information, jealous, peacock, quail
Jones, Rebecca C. Matthew and Tilly
Marshall, James. George and Martha
Morris, Ann. Hats, Hats, Hats
Silverman, Erica. Don’t Fidget a Feather!
Zolotow, Charlotte. The Quarreling Book

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
River Story/ Salmon in Alaska
#904
The cubs take a trip down the river, and the whole family heads to Alaska.
River Story
Features the book River Story, by Meredith Hooper
Nonfiction
Key word: river
Target sound: r
New vocabulary: descriptive words (bubbling, bouncing, bumping, dripping, melting, stronger); imagine; locative words (deeper, over, under, wider); river-related (boulders, deep, fish, moss, mud, pebbles, rowboat, stones, stream, water)
Gonzalez, Maya Christina. I Know the River Loves Me/Yo sé que el río me ama
Hooper, Meredith. River Story
Joosse, Barbara M. Mama, Do You Love Me?
Miller, Debbie S. River of Life
Kalman, Bobbie. The Life Cycle of a Salmon
McMillan, Bruce. Salmon Summer Salmon in Alaska
Features an original story
Nonfiction
Featured vocabulary: fish and fishing (creek, drifting, fish drying rack, hatching, incubator, ocean, pumped, raceway, river, salmon, smokehouse, stream, swim, upstream)
New vocabulary: Alaska; family (adults, cousins, grandchild, grandmother); culture, tradition

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
The Roar That Makes Them Run #126
Leona and Lionel try to get their dad to roar a mighty roar.
Features information about animal life in the wild
CD-ROM
Key word: run
Word family: -un (-ug, -uck, -up, -ut)
Target sound: short u
High-frequency sight words: a, and, but, in, the, up
New vocabulary: mutton, overdue, volume
Aardema, Verna. Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Arnosky, Jim. Little Lions
Freeman, Don. Dandelion
Saign, Geoffrey. The African Cats
Simon, Seymour. Big Cats
Ruby Sings the Blues/ The Camel Dances
#801
A very loud girl learns to sing, and Leona and a camel discover the joy of dancing.
Ruby Sings the Blues
Features the book Ruby Sings the Blues, by Niki Daly
Story
Key word: loud
Target sound: l
New vocabulary: concert, dance, jazz singer, hollered, loud, quiet, quieter, saxophonist, shouted, singing, volume, yelled
Andreae, Giles. Giraffes Can’t Dance
Brown, Monica. My Name is Celia/ My llamo Celia
Daly, Niki. Ruby Sings the Blues
Laguna, Sofie. Too Loud Lily
Lobel, Arnold. Fables
Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Jingle DancerThe Camel Dances
Features a fable “The Camel Dances” from the book Fables, by Arnold Lobel
Fable
Key word: dance
Target sound: d
New vocabulary: applause, arabesques, audience, ballet dancer, camel, critic, dancer, desire, grace, movement, pirouettes, practiced, recital, relevés

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
The Sad Dad #201
Theo reads a story about a sad dad who gets advice from a wise woman and ends up with chickens, goats, cows, and an elk in his house.
Features a version of “It Could Always Be Worse,” a European folktale
Folktale
Key word: bad
Word family: -ad (-an, -ack, -at, -ap)
Target sound: short a
High-frequency sight words: be, could, dad, everyone, from, is, it, that, this, woman, worse
New vocabulary: admiral, advance, adventure, advice, elk, porridge
Forest, Heather. A Big Quiet House
Ginsburg, Mirra. Mushroom in the Rain
Koller, Jackie French. One Monkey Too Many
Leodhas, Sorche Nic. Always Room for One More
Zemach, Margot. It Could Always Be Worse
Sausage Nose #121
Theo, Cleo, Lionel, and Leona watch a video about a husband and wife, three wishes, a sausage, and a nose.
Features a version of “The Three Wishes,” a European folktale
Folktale
Key word: wish
Word family: -ish (-ing, -in, -it, -ip, -ick)
Target sound: short i
High-frequency sight words: in, it, no, three, you
New vocabulary: argue, expression, radish, sausage, subtitles
Addy, Sharon Hart. When Wishes Were Horses
McClintock, Barbara. Molly and the Magic Wishbone
Steig, William. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales from Around the World
Zemach, Margaret. The Three Wishes

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Sheep on a Ship/ Mississippi Skip and His Pirate Ship
#602
Ahoy there, mateys! There’s lots of slipping, sliding, swabbing, and colliding when sheep and pirates take to the high seas.
Sheep on a Ship
Features the book Sheep on a Ship, by Nancy Shaw
Story
Key word: ship
Target sound: sh
High-frequency sight words: a, and, off, on, the, to
New vocabulary: anchor, collide, craft, deck, drift, flap, hail, lap, mast, paddling, port, raft, sagging, slosh
Fox, Mem. Tough Boris
Shaw, Nancy. Sheep in a Jeep
Shaw, Nancy. Sheep on a Ship
Tucker, Kathy. Do Pirates Take Baths?
Wheeler, Lisa. Wool Gathering: A Sheep Family Reunion
Yolen, Jane. Ballad of the Pirate Queens
Mississippi Skip and His Pirate Ship
Features an original pirate story
Story
Key word: skip
Target sound: s blends
High-frequency sight words: and, he, his, on, the, with
New vocabulary: behold, boulder, brim, hippo, jig, scoot, search, skis, steer, stupendous, swab
Shooting Stars #105
The very sleepy Lion family tries to stay up very late at night, so they won’t miss the most spectacular meteor shower of the year.
Features an original poem
Poem
Key word: star (night)
Word family: -ar (-ark, -art), -ight
Target sound: r-controlled a
High-frequency sight words: all, and, at, in, no, of, one, the, to, up
New vocabulary: acrobat, marvelous, meteor, sparkling
Dorros, Arthur. Abuela
Hort, Lenny. How Many Stars in the Sky?
Levinson, Riki. Watch the Stars Come Out
Rylant, Cynthia. Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night
Taylor, Harriet Peck. Coyote Places the Stars

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
A Shower of Stars/ Two Moons and One Lagoon
#504
The Lion family stays up late to watch a beautiful meteor shower, and then reads a story about a queen who wants to touch the moon.
A Shower of Stars
Features an original poem
Poem
Key word: stars
Word family: -ar
Target sound: st blend
High-frequency sight words: and, in, of, sees, the
New vocabulary: clouds, marvelous, meteor, moon, rain, shedding, sparkling, stars
Gibbons, Gail. The Moon Book
Henkes, Kevin. Kitten’s First Full Moon
Levinson, Riki. Watch the Stars Come Out
Mayo, Margaret. Magical Tales from Many Lands
Oughton, Jerrie. How the Stars Fell into the Sky: A Navajo Legend
Thompson, Lauren. Polar Bear NightTwo Moons and One Lagoon
Features a version of “The King Who Wanted to Touch the Moon,” a Caribbean folktale
Folktale
Key word: moon
Word family: -an, -en
Target sound: n
High-frequency sight words: and, in, of, sees, the
New vocabulary: lagoon, loyal, platoon, swayed
Something Fishy #117
When Lionel reads the latest Cliff Hanger book to Leona, it gives her an idea about how to make one of her biggest dreams come true.
Features an original story
Story
Key word: fish
Word family: -ish (-ip, -ig, ix, -ick)
Target sound: short i
High-frequency sight words: in, is, look, not
New vocabulary: disguise, squished, ticklish
Barber, Barbara E. Allie’s Basketball Dream
Gibbons, Gail. Soaring with the Wind: The Bald Eagle
Lindbergh, Reeve. Nobody Owns the Sky
Ringgold, Faith. Tar Beach
Williams, Vera B. A Chair for My Mother

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Spicy Hot Colors/ Yesterday I Had the Blues
#702
A colorful piñata holds a meaty surprise for the Lions, who also experience a dazzling array of colorful feelings.
Spicy Hot Colors
Features the book Spicy Hot Colors, by Sherry Shahan
Concept book
Key word: colors
Target sound: hard c
New vocabulary: cactus, castanets, cilantro, gourds, iguanas, piñatas, sarapes, skeletons, sombreros
Ehlert, Lois. Planting a Rainbow
Frame, Jeron Ashford. Yesterday I Had the Blues
Gonzalez, Maya Christina. My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo
Henkes, Kevin. A Good Day
Shahan, Sherry. Spicy Hot Colors
Thong, Roseanne. Red Is a Dragon: A Book of Colors
Yesterday I Had the Blues
Features the book Yesterday I Had the Blues, by Jeron Ashford Frame
Story
Featured vocabulary: colors (blue, golden, gray, green, indigo, pink, red, silver, yellow); emotions and feelings (the blues, cry, distraught, happy, laugh, miserable, sad, scared, smile)
New vocabulary: fabulous, fantastic, marvelous, splendid, swell, terrific
The Spider and the Lie #217
It’s up to Judge Click the Mouse to find out who’s telling the truth—Leona or a shady monkey named Monkey C. Monkeydew.
Features an original story
Mystery
Key word: spider
Word family: -ide (-ile, -ime, -ipe)
Target sound: long i
High-frequency sight words: her, said, she, was
New vocabulary: chump, genre, temporary, witness
Adler, David. Cam Jansen and the Library Mystery
Clement, Rod. Grandpa’s Teeth
Hurd, Thacher. Art Dog
Wisniewski, David. Tough Cookie
Wright, Betty Ren. Pet Detectives

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Step by Step #404
The lions find a treasure map that belonged to Barnaby B. Busterfield III, and go hunting for library treasure.
Features instructions to a treasure map
Instructions
Key word: step
Word family: -ep (-est, -ed, -et)
Target sound: short e
High-frequency sight words: by, get, hear, here, know, love, no, take, the, then, to
New vocabulary: booklet, directions, entertainment, hammock, homophones, wrench
Cooper, Helen. Tatty Ratty
Freeman, Don. Corduroy
Henkes, Kevin. Owen
Long, Melinda. How I Became a Pirate
Waber, Bernard. Ira Sleeps Over
Stone Soup/ Bee-bim Bop!
#805
Lionel and Leona discover that you can make delicious soup from a stone and enjoy a popular Korean meal called Bee-bim bop.
Stone Soup
Features an original story, based on the Swedish folktale Stone Soup
Folktale
Key word: soup
Target sound: s
New vocabulary: delicious, food, pot, salad, salmon, salsa, salt, satisfied, satsumas, sausage, savory, schnitzel, simmering, slurp, soup, soy sauce, succotash, tasty
Cooper, Helen. Pumpkin Soup
Forest, Heather. Stone Soup
Katzen, Molly and Ann Henderson. Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes
Park, Linda Sue. Bee-bim Bop!
Rattigan, Jama Kin. Dumpling Soup
Soto, Gary. Too Many TamalesBee-bim Bop!
Features the book Bee-bim Bop!, by Linda Sue Park
Story
Key word: bop
Target sound: b
New vocabulary: bubbling, chop, dinner, eggs, flip, hop, hungry, hurry, kitchen, mix, mop, rice, shop, steaming, supper

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Stop That Chicken! #225
It’s poultry in motion when Chicken Jane flies out of her book into the library.
Features an original story
Story
Key word: stop
Word family: -op (-ot, -ox)
Target sound: short o
High-frequency sight words: are, as, for, he, his, I, on, they, was, with (“Ten Little Words” song)
New vocabulary: colonial, illustrated, plop
Braman, Arlette N. Kids Around the World Cook!
Katzen, Molly and Ann Henderson. Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Paul Revere’s Ride (illus. Ted Rand)
Stevens, Janet & Susan Stevens Crummel. Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!
Winnick, Karen B. Sybil’s Night Ride
Stop That Pickle!/ Chicks and Salsa
#803
The Lions and a sandwich chase a runaway pickle in the library, and Cleo’s “Book and a Meal” show leads to a lively fiesta.
Stop That Pickle!
Features the book Stop that Pickle!, by Pete Armour
Story
Featured concept: punctuation (exclamation point, question mark, period, contractions)
New vocabulary: food-related (almonds, apple, bake shop, brine, deli, doughnut/donut, food, grape juice, hungry, ice cream cone, jar, pickle, pretzel, raisins, sandwich); actions and movement (caught, chase, collided, fast, rolled, shouted, slowest, stop)
Armour, Peter. Stop that Pickle!
Aylesworth, Jim. The Gingerbread Man
Compestine, Ying Chang. The Runaway Rice Cake
Kimmel, Eric A. The Runaway Tortilla
Mora, Pat. Yum! Mmmm! Qué Rico!: America’s Sproutings
Reynolds, Aaron. Chicks and Salsa
Chicks and Salsa
Features the book Chicks and Salsa, by Aaron Reynolds
Story
Key word: garden
Target sound: g (hard)
New vocabulary: food (aromas, avocados, beans, chilies, chips, cilantro, dice, garden, garlic, guacamole, lemons, ingredients, nachos, onions, salsa, scallions, peppers, limes, slice, spice, tomatoes); descriptive words (enticing, savory, Southwestern, succulent, sumptuous, spicy)

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble/ I Miss You, Stinky Face
#507
It’s hard to be away from your family, especially when you’ve been turned into a rock, or the cheetah taking you home doesn’t want to leave the jungle.
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Features the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig
Story
Key word: picnic
Target sound: p
High-frequency sight words: an, and, he, if, too
New vocabulary: ceased, dawn, frantic, gradually, inquiring, miserable, panicked, pebble, scene, shiver, startled
Garza, Carmen Lomas. In My Family/ En Mi Familia
McCourt, Lisa. I Miss You, Stinky Face
McCourt, Lisa. I Love You, Stinky Face
Steig, William. Doctor DeSoto
Steig, William. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
I Miss You, Stinky Face
Features the book I Miss You, Stinky Face, by Lisa McCourt
Story
Key word: mama
Target sound: m
High-frequency sight words: but, if, I’ll, the, to, what, you
New vocabulary: astronaut, cheetah, cousin, enormous, gangplank, grandpa, member, moose, probably, steer, supersonic, uncle

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
A Tasty Piece of Cheese/ The Lion and the Mouse
#508
A taste for cheese leads a fox to trick a crow, and lands a mouse in the paws of a hungry lion.
A Tasty Piece of Cheese
Features Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Crow”
Fable
Key word: cheese
Target sound: ch
High-frequency sight words: a, going, is, the, to, very, with
New vocabulary: beak, beware, continued, flatter, gorgeous, unfortunately
Aardema, Verna. Borreguita and the Coyote
Herman, Gail. Lion and the Mouse
Kleven, Elisa. The Lion and the Little Red Bird
Lynch, Tom. Fables from Aesop
Morrison, Toni & Slade. The Lion or the Mouse? (Who’s Got Game?)
The Lion and the Mouse
Features Aesop’s fable “The Lion and the Mouse”
Fable
Key word: little
Target sound: l
High-frequency sight words: are, as, for, he, his, I, love, on, the, they, was, with (“Ten Little Words” song)
New vocabulary: appetite, approaching, broccoli, chop, creatures, lighthouse, moral, scurried, taco
Teacher’s Pet #209
Cleo has the I-can’t-hear- or-tell-or-smell-if-someone’s-sneaking-up-on-me flu.
Features an original story
Newsletter & Journal
Key word: teacher
Word family: -each (-eat, -eam)
Target sound: ea as long e
High-frequency sight words: can’t, he, me, my, on, or, please
New vocabulary: competition, journal, pride, reunion, unbeatable, undefeated
Berger, Melvin. Germs Make Me Sick!
Brown, Marc. Arthur’s Chicken Pox
Flournoy, Valerie. The Patchwork Quilt
Rosa-Casanova, Sylvia. Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice
Slate, Joseph. Miss Bindergarten Stays Home from Kindergarten

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
There’s a Fly in My Soup #115
Everyone reads jokes to Click the Mouse to try to make her laugh.
Features an original joke book
Jokes
Key word: fly
Word family: -y
Target sound: y as long i
High-frequency sight words: a, and, in, is, it, my, of, that, the, to, what, when, where, who, why, you
New vocabulary: backstroke, chuckle, comedy, monitor
Cerf, Bennett. Riddles and More
Cole, Joanna. Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
Hills, Tad. Knock, Knock, Who’s There?
Keller, Charles. Awesome Jokes
Pellowski, Michael. Joke and Riddle Bonanza
Three Goats, No Waiting #403
Lionel writes and directs a play of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” but who can act scary enough to be the hungry troll?
Features the Norwegian folktale “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”
Folktale & Play
Key word: goat
Word family: -oat, (-oast, -oan)
Target sound: oa as long o
High-frequency sight words: a, his, I’m, in, little, me, the, there, they, you
New vocabulary: director, enchanted, gobble, houseboat, pretend, troll
Finch, Mary. The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Miller, Sara Swan. Goats
Polacco, Patricia. G is for Goat
Prelutsky, Jack. Monday’s Troll
Ziefert, Harriet. Pumpkin Pie

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
The Three-Legged Pot/ When Jabo Jammed
#708
Pepe can’t get a pot with three legs to walk, but Leona can make it dance. A boy named Jabo doesn’t dance or sing, but he can really jam.
The Three-Legged Pot
Features an original story, adapted from the popular Puerto Rican Juan Bobo folktales
Folktale
Key word: pot
Target sound: p
New vocabulary: perfect, platter, poke; locative and relational words (after, around, last, next to last, under)
Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. Juan Bobo: Four Folktales from Puerto Rico
Hadithi, Mwenye. Lazy Lion
Montes, Marisa. Juan Bobo Goes to Work
Snyder, Dianne. The Boy of the Three-Year Nap
Uhlberg, Myron. Lemuel the Fool
Weatherford, Carole Boston. Jazz BabyWhen Jabo Jammed
Features an original story
Story
Key word: jam
Target sound: j
New vocabulary: jamboree, jammed, jamming, jiggle, judge
To the Ship! To the Ship! #111
Lionel and Walter Pigeon think all pirates were men, so they won’t let Leona and Clay Pigeon join their pirate game.
Features an original story
Story
Key word: ship
Word family: -ip (-it, -ick, -ickle, -ish)
Target sound: short i
High-frequency sight words: his, in, it, on, the, to
New vocabulary: boulder, courage, hippo, jig, squished, swabbed, treasure
Fox, Mem. Tough Boris
Gibbons, Gail. Pirates
McNaughton, Colin. Captain Abdul’s Pirate School
Tucker, Kathy. Do Pirates Take Baths?
Yolen, Jane. The Ballad of the Pirate Queens

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Too Cool #304
Lionel thinks the new kid at school, Derek Cheetah, is too cool to be on his baseball team.
Features the book Earl’s Too Cool for Me, by Leah Komaiko
Story
Key word: cool
Word family: -ool (-oop)
Target sound: double o
High-frequency sight words: as, be, for, he, me, too
New vocabulary: apostrophe, pooch, pretend, role-playing, tango
Havill, Juanita. Jamaica and Brianna
Hest, Amy. Jamaica Louise James
Komaiko, Leah. Earl’s Too Cool for Me
Parr, Todd. The Best Friends Book
Soto, Gary. Chato’s Kitchen
Touching the Moon #107
Leona keeps the whole family awake because she wants a queen to touch the moon.
Features a version of “The King Who Wanted to Touch the Moon,” a Caribbean folktale
Folktale
Key word: moon
Word family: -oon (-ool, -ooth, -oot, -oo)
Target sound: double o
High-frequency sight words: and, it, soon, the, to, too
New vocabulary: cucumber, galaxy, lagoon, platoon, snooze, toodle-oo
Carle, Eric. Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me
Ehlert, Lois. Moon Rope/Un lazo a la luna
Gibbons, Gail. The Moon Book
Mayo, Margaret. Magical Tales from Many Lands
Yolen, Jane. Owl Moon
Trains and Brains and Rainy Plains #215
Lionel and Leona ride a train into a book called Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain.
Features the book Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain, by Verna Aardema
Folktale
Key word: rain
Word family: -ain (-ail, -aint)
Target sound: ai as long a
High-frequency sight words: all, big, is, no, on, that, the, this, with
New vocabulary: blaze, drought, illustrated, pierce, plain, sacrifice, slender
Aardema, Verna. Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Germein, Katrina. Big Rain Coming
Hesse, Karen. Come On, Rain!
James, Betsy. The Mud Family
Martin, Bill, Jr. Listen to the Rain

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Treats! #310
An advertising Dream Team—creators of one of the Lions’ favorite commercials—is hired to create an ad for the library.
Features an original story about an ad campaign for the library
Advertisement
Key word: treat
Word family: -eat (-eam, -ear)
Target sound: ea as long e
High-frequency sight words: by, don’t, eat, have, it, love, read, to, you’ll
New vocabulary: advertising, comma, commercial, farewell, librarian, period, punctuator, quotation marks, rhinos
Best, Cari. Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me
Bruss, Deborah. Book! Book! Book!
Cummins, Julie. Inside-Outside Book of Libraries
Gibbons, Gail. Check It Out! The Book About Libraries
Stewart, Sarah. The Library
Trosclair and the Alligator/ The Coyote and the Rabbit
#809
A clever boy tricks a hungry alligator, who gives Lionel and his friend Keri a scare, and a hungry coyote gets tricked by a clever rabbit.
Trosclair and the Alligator
Features the book Trosclair and the Alligator, by Peter Huggins
Story
Featured vocabulary: alligator, beehive, bees, cousins, hive, honey, oak tree, rice, swamp, uncle,
New vocabulary: bayou, cypress trees, enormous, gumbo, Louisiana, pirogue, sweet, stung, teeth, tree, turtle eggs
Aardema, Verna. Borreguita and the Coyote
Huggins, Peter. Trosclair and the Alligator
Johnston, Tony. The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote
Hamilton, Virgina. Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl
Kadair, Deborah Ousley. There Was an Ol’ Cajun
Tingle, Tim. When Turtles Grew Feathers: A Tale from the Choctaw Nation
The Coyote and the Rabbit
Features an original retelling of “The Coyote and the Rabbit”
Folktale
Key word: circle
Target sound: c (soft)
High-frequency sight words: he, she, the
New vocabulary: cannon, celery, clever, coyote, fragrance, morsel, relative, trapeze

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Tweet! Tweet! #222
Walter and Clay Pigeon meet face-to-face with Tyrannosaurus rex!
Features a poem from Bone Poems, by Jeff Moss
Poetry & Nonfiction
Key word: tweet
Word family: -eet (-eeze, -ee, -eep)
Target sound: ee as long e
High-frequency sight words: go, little, see, sleep, to
New vocabulary: ancestor, descendant, dinosaur names, eel, extinct, flee, meteorite, parakeet
Mitton, Tony. Dinosaurumpus!
Moss, Jeff. Bone Poems
Prelutsky, Jack. Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast
Ryder, Joanne. Tyrannosaurus Time
Shields, Carol Diggory. Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp
Two Coats, One Goat, and One Boat #309
Lionel’s copy of a very rare Cliff Hanger book is missing! Did some bunny take it?
Features the book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, by Simms Taback
Folktale
Key word: coat
Word family: -oat (-oan, -oad, -oak, -oast)
Target sound: oa as long o
High-frequency sight words: a, had, he, it, little, of, out, so, was
New vocabulary: autograph, chorus, enchanted, handkerchief, private, protective, scarf, suspenders, valuable
Flournoy, Valerie. The Patchwork Quilt
Gilman, Phoebe. Something from Nothing
Sanfield, Steve. Bit by Bit
Taback, Simms. Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Ziefert, Harriet. A New Coat for Anna

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Violet’s Music/ What Instrument Does Alvin Play?
#706
Lionel and Leona discover many wonderful instruments, and that if you keep playing music, you’ll find someone who wants to join your band.
Violet’s Music
Features the book Violet’s Music, by Angela Johnson
Story
Key word: music
Target sound: m
New vocabulary: band, guitar, guitarist, magnificent, maracas, microphone, moccasins, saxophone, tambourine, wail; locative and directional words (beneath, opposite, sideways)
Ancona, George. Mi música/My Music
Cox, Judy. My Family Plays Music
Hayes, Amy. Meet the Orchestra
Johnson, Angela. Violet’s Music
Velasquez, Eric. Grandma’s Records
Weatherford, Carol Boston. Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
What Instrument Does Alvin Play?
Features an original story
Story
Featured vocabulary: musical instruments (bassoon, brass, cello, cymbal, drums, flute, percussion, saxophone, string, triangle, trombone, trumpet, tuba, tympani, wind, violin, xylophone)
New vocabulary: baton, chant, concert, croon, drummer, flutists
What Parakeets Need #303
Theo and Cleo give the cubs a pet parakeet, but will Sweety Tweety talk?
Features the book The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss
Guide
Key word: parakeet
Word family: -eet (-eep)
Target sound: ee as long e
High-frequency sight words: come, didn’t, ever, is, known, my, name, our, she, talked, that, to, up, we’ve, won’t, would, you’ll
New vocabulary: flee, parakeet, peep, responsibility, responsible, screech, sprinkled, weep, wheeze
Ajmera, Maya. A Kid’s Best Friend!
Doyle, Malachy. Sleepy Pendoodle
Krauss, Ruth. The Carrot Seed
Numeroff, Laura. Laura Numeroff’s 10-Step Guide to Living with Your Monster
Piers, Helen. Taking Care of Your Parakeet

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Why the Baboon’s Balloon Went Ka-Boom! #218
A little bug goes ka-choo! and a baboon’s balloon goes ka-boom!
Features the book Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!, by Rosetta Stone
Story
Key word: ka-choo
Word family: -oo (-oom, -oot, -oose)
Target sound: double o
High-frequency sight words: and, because, he, she, that, the
New vocabulary: anchor, baboon, hullabaloo, kazoo, maroon, snagged, taboo, vamoose
Barton, Byron. Buzz, Buzz, Buzz
Numeroff, Laura. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Polacco, Patricia. In Enzo’s Splendid Gardens
Shannon, David. The Rain Came Down
Stone, Rosetta. Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!
Wings/ What’s in the Box?
#503
Watch out! The cubs find out what warnings mean, and why it’s important to pay attention to them.
Wings
Features the Greek myth “Daedalus & Icarus”
Myth
Key word: wings
Target sound: w
High-frequency sight words: a, can, he
New vocabulary: ancient, backwards, brilliant, fierce, imprisoned, labyrinth, plummeted, warning, wheeze, wiggling
Amery, Heather. Greek Myths for Young Children
Myers, Christopher. Wings
Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride
Stevenson, James. The Mud Flat Mystery
Turkle, Brinton. Do Not OpenWhat’s in the Box?
Features the Greek myth “Pandora’s Box”
Myth
Key word: box
Target sound: b
High-frequency sight words: do, not, of, open, out, stop, the
New vocabulary: airplane, cure, hiccups, interesting, kite, released

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Yo! Yes?/ Very Loud, Very Big, Very Metal
#603
Sometimes, making a new friend is as easy as saying yes. And Leona discovers that making her brother happy is as easy as showing him a music video with big, noisy construction vehicles.
Yo! Yes?
Features the book Yo! Yes?, by Chris Raschka
Story
Key word: yes
Target sound: y
High-frequency sight words: me, yes, you
New vocabulary: dandelion, finch, pollen, yak, yodel
Bloom, Suzanne. A Splendid Friend, Indeed
Burton, Virginia Lee. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
McMullen, Kate & Jim. I Stink!
Raschka, Chris. Ring! Yo?
Raschka, Chris. Yo! Yes?
Sobel, June. B is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC
Very Loud, Very Big, Very Metal
Features an original song
Song
Key word: very
Target sound: v
High-frequency sight words: and, it’s, very, we
New vocabulary: clang, construction, metal, thump, tilted, vacuum, vehicle, vines, vulture
You Can’t Catch Me! #305
Lionel gives Leona The Gingerbread Man book for her birthday. Will it spoil her party?
Features a version of “The Gingerbread Man”
Folktale/fairy tale
Key word: catch
Word family: -atch (-at, -an, -and, -ant)
Target sound: short a
High-frequency sight words: a, and, as, can, can’t, couldn’t, he, I, I’m, in, me, said, the, they, you
New vocabulary: character, flabbergasted, gingerbread, streamers
Compestine, Ying Chang. The Runaway Rice Cake
Egielski, Richard. The Gingerbread Boy
Howland, Naomi. The Matzah Man
Kimmel, Eric. The Gingerbread Man
Takayama, Sandi. Musubi Man

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Episode (in alphabetical order) Featured Text Words and Sounds Recommended Books
Titles in boldface indicate book featured on the show.
BeTween The Lions Curriculum Content by episode seasons 1–9
Zoop! Zoop! #205
Leona faces her fear of a scary fictional giant, with the help of her mother and a ukelele.
Features the book Abiyoyo, by Pete Seeger
Folktale/song
Key word: zoop
Word family: -oop (-oon, -oose)
Target sound: double o
High-frequency sight words: boy, father, say, the
New vocabulary: magician, ostracized, slobbery, staggered, ukelele
McKissack, Patricia. Precious and the Boo Hag
Seeger, Pete. Abiyoyo
Seeger, Pete. Abiyoyo Returns
Souhami, Jessica. No Dinner: The Story of the Old Woman and the Pumpkin
Young, Ed. Lon Po Po