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Buddy's Spring Song

11 scenes · 22 talking words · 3 language levels

Tap the glowing spots in every scene to hear the words out loud.

About Buddy's Spring Song

Buddy hears rain music on the lane and gathers spring sounds from a bucket, a gate, a washing line, a thimble, a leaf, and a rumbling cart. When hill wind scatters the tune, he brings everyone close so a tiny bird can sing beside her egg.

What happens, scene by scene

  1. 1Rain Starts Musicraincoat · cloud
  2. 2Puddle Drum Beatfrog · bucket
  3. 3Clink at Gategate · branch
  4. 4A Tiny Wishnest · egg
  5. 5Flutter Flap Clickshirt · peg
  6. 6Ting in Orchardthimble · stone
  7. 7Soft Shush Shakesnail · leaf
  8. 8Rumble Through Mudcart · mud
  9. 9Wind on Hillrainbow · hill
  10. 10Close Little Soundswatering can · hose
  11. 11Song for the Eggbird · egg

Words your child will hear and say

Every scene hides two tappable pictures. Tap one and it says its word out loud, then it is your child's turn.

Want to practise a specific sound instead? Open Practice in the story toolbar and pick any of the 26 sound decks — Buddy brings five cards from it into this story, without leaving the page.

How to read it together

Start at the right level

Level 1 is single words for early talkers. Level 2 is short phrases. Level 3 is full storybook sentences. Switch any time, even mid-scene — the art stays put and only the language changes.

Let them find the words

Two glowing spots hide in every scene. Tap one, hear the word, then pause and wait — the wait is where your child's turn happens.

Session-ready

Therapist mode mutes the narration and lays out each scene's target words with their speech-sound tags, so a clinician models and elicits every word live.

More stories in Puddle Weather

Buddy's Spring Song is one of four stories set in Puddle Weather. They share the same illustrated world and none of them tells the same tale twice.

Browse all 141 Buddy stories

Reviewed by a licensed speech-language pathologist.