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In your part of the world, what is spring? Like, do the flowers and trees burst into bloom? Can you hear the twittering of birds and the buzzing of bees? In some places, springtime is when certain animals emerge from the long

winter's nap known as hibernation, including most bears. In today's story,

we'll learn how the bears wintertime snooze came to be.

I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called The Snow Eater.

It's based on tales from The Blackfoot,

indigenous peoples who traditionally lived in present-day Alberta, Canada and the

U.S. State of Montana.

Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this legend including Cree Summer, who's lent her voice to such

animated movies and TV shows as the Patrick Star Show, The Loud House, Rugrats,

Muppet Babies, D.C. superhero girls.

Atlantis, The Lost Empire, Clifford, the Big Red Dog,

and Good Times, which she also voice directed.

You grownups can check out Cree this season

on the ABC comedy Abbott Elementary. So circle around everyone for

the Snow Eater. Long ago, a young woman named Apani lived with her grandmother. One year, in the middle of a cold bleak winter,

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