We want to tell you about highlights storybooks from Bamboo. I'm really excited about this amazing

Alexa skill. When I was Olivia's age, I had a subscription to highlights for children magazine.

My favorite part of the magazine was the Hidden Pictures page. I love doing Hidden Pictures.

The harder it is, the better. I agree. I learned a lot from highlights and I used to read each magazine cover to

cover. You can bring that learning into your home right now by discovering highlights storybooks from bamboo,

a collaboration between highlights for children and bamboo learning. This Alexa skill features 12

free stories, illustrations, and narration at various ability levels.

It was designed by literacy experts to help children develop a strong vocabulary, so you know it's the real deal.

Find out for yourself by going over to your Alexa device and saying,

Alexa, open highlight storybooks.

Easy peasy. It's now time to get curious. Enjoy the show.

Hey everyone. Before we start learning about roller coasters, we have a follow-up to last week's

episode on snakes. In that episode, we said that pythons and anacondas can't be found

in the wild in the United States.

One of our amazing listeners, Kalin, let us know that there are pythons in Florida.

Here is what she told us.

As follow-up to your snakes episode, we loved it, but did you know we actually have pythons here in Florida due to pet releases and are causing ecological problems.

Invasive species concept might be an interesting episode centered around teaching kids why it is

important to never release your pets. We want to thank Kalyn so much for the message. She is

absolutely right. There are lots of pythons in the Everglades of South Florida,

possibly even tens of thousands of them. How did this happen? It is believed that people

bought them into the United States decades ago as exotic pets and then let them go free when they got

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