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Pipkin's Seed Home

9 scenes · 18 talking words · 3 language levels

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

About Pipkin's Seed Home

On the first bright spring day, Pipkin the squirrel finds a rain-washed seed on the lane. He carries it past puddles, bridge stones, a bird's nest, and a dripping washing line, then spies a sunny flowerpot by the gate. By morning, a brave green leaf appears.

What happens, scene by scene

  1. 1Seed on the Laneraincoat · seed
  2. 2Plop at the Bendpuddle · frog
  3. 3Bridge Place to Thinkstone · branch
  4. 4Hedge Family Homehedge · nest
  5. 5Drips by the Linewashing line · peg
  6. 6Rainbow Ideahill · rainbow
  7. 7Pot by the Gategate · flowerpot
  8. 8A Sunny Drinkwatering can · sun
  9. 9Morning Leaftulip · leaf

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

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

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Reviewed by a licensed speech-language pathologist.