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Calling all parents! Grab your kids and join us LIVE! with host Caren Glasser as we welcome back best selling children's author Madeleine Sherak, PhD on Once Upon A Storytime! 👩👧👦📚 Madeleine will be reading from her book “Superheroes Club 2". Lily and her friends have formed a Superheroes Club dedicated to helping other kids. To help some kids who are feeling unappreciated or left out at school, Lily and her friends come up with a fun way to showcase what makes them great. Whether it's a shy girl at school, a friend in a wheelchair, or the new kids at school, each one of them is celebrated for their talent and uniqueness.
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okay so we're gonna jump in and have
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some fun and in the meantime we'd love
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to hear from you so if you're here live
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or on replay doesn't matter right below
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put your comments today I am excited
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because we are welcoming back children's
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author dr. Madeleine Sherriff's she's
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gonna be reading from her book
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superheroes club to a celebration of
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uniqueness dr. sherek a longtime
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educator in the public school and
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university systems is using her creative
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talents to create and write her
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children's books superheros Club it's a
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book series to help young children
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recognize their unique potential and to
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inspire them to build sharing and caring
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communities in this sometimes confusing
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world in which they are growing up in so
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I am excited to welcome Madeleine into
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the show right now any Madeleine how you
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doing I'm fine thank you and so I'm so
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happy to be back and sharing the stories
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of lily and all the other superheroes I
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couldn't wait to have you back we had so
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much fun the last time and we had
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requests you know when is Madeleine
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coming back well we got you now so
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everyone get comfortable with whoever
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you came with mom dad grandma grandpa
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aunt and uncle brother sister whoever
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that is snuggle in because it's story
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time
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here we go Madeleine well thank you well
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hi boys and girls moms and dads teachers
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and all the special friends so here we
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go superheroes Club to a celebration of
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uniqueness look there are the Wilbur
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mill elementary school superheroes
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shouted some of the kids we see Lily
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with colorful flowers in her hair Alex
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with green headphones and his dog
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meatball Mia with a hair bun and
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gymnastics bag
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Joaquin with his long hockey stick
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they're not wearing any special costumes
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because it's not how you look but what
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you do that makes you a superhero so
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what's their next superhero mission
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surrounding the superheroes our students
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trying to see what all the excitement is
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about on mr. Thomas's class display room
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board is a big new sign
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superheroes help kids along with a
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special box labeled sharing and caring
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Lily and Joaquin give out questionnaires
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and pencils to students as they walk to
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their classes it has one question on it
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how can we the new sharing and caring
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superheroes help you at school me and
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Alex collect the students responses and
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place them in the sharing and caring box
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during lunch the schoolyard buzzes with
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energy boys and girls gump down their
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lunches at picnic tables some play on
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the playground equipment some kick a
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soccer ball around or play basketball
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and some kids just sit chatting in
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little groups but some boys and girls
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quietly sit by themselves looking very
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very lonely after lunch the superheroes
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rush back to mr. Thomas's room to read
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all the comments in the sharing and
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caring box to their surprise it
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overflows with papers my twin brother
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and I are new to the school and we don't
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have any friends that's what million
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miles say I'm really good at basketball
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but because I'm in a wheelchair I don't
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get a chance to place as Jonah and I'm
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very quiet and shy so kids ignore me
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says Missy while Cain and Mia list the
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students problems on the dry erase board
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at the front of the classroom and
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Lillian Alex
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organized all the responses
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there are a lot of unhappy kids here at
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school comments mr. Thomas superheroes
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what do you think we can do to help them
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we need a really good plan to get more
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kids involved says Mia yes says Lilly
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let's try to bring kids together and
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involve them in something but how we can
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get how can we get them to recognize how
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unique we all are I've got it shouts me
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enthusiastically we should have a
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celebration a celebration of uniqueness
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where kids can showcase something
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special they enjoy doing the superhero
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smile at each other and not excitedly in
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agreement challenging plan says mr.
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Thomas you will have to work together as
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a team to organize the program and make
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it happen we are superheroes we can do
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it says Alex meatball let's add a short
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happy Park as if to agree and they all
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laugh the superheroes get started
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immediately me and Joaquim make big
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signs with meatballs help Alex posts
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them all over the school Lilly creates a
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sign-up sheet for the big display board
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and mr. Thomas prints invitations for
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all the parents the morning of the
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celebration of uniqueness arrives and
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the superheroes get ready for the big
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event
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while Kean and Mia help set up the
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chairs in a big semicircle and Lilly
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gives out nametags and organizes the
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students who signed up to perform Alex
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sets up a microphone and video camera
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with the help of Miss Angela a teacher's
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aide because alex has autism spectrum
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disorder crowds and noise sometimes
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bother him
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wearing headphones and having Miss
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Angela and his service dog meatball
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around help him stay calm and focused by
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mid-morning all the seats are filled
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with excited parents students and
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teachers it is so crowded that some
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students have to sit on the grass to
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watch the performances mr. Thomas steps
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up to the microphone first I am proud to
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present to you and thank Lily Joaquin
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Mia and Alex for all their hard work in
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putting together today's program and
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besides Alex meatball lets out a quick
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happy buck yes and thanks to you too
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meatball laughs mr. Thomas everyone
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cheers as the superheroes wave to the
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crowd the program moves like acts in a
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circus in different parts of the field
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boys and girls including the superheroes
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showcase their special talents Alex
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takes photos of the performers and
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directs them to their assigned places
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Mia perform
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the gymnastics floor routine Joaquin
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shoots hockey pucks into a net a million
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miles performant African folk dance and
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Joe no wheels himself onto the
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basketball court and sinks an incredible
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ten three-point shots in a row
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everyone is captivated by the students
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performances we have one final
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performance for you Lily tells the
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audience so pick up your song sheets
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from under your seats and sing along
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with us
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Missy walks up to the microphone with
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her guitar in hand and the superheroes
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step up right beside her giving her
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confidence and support I wrote this song
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especially for today because it explains
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how I feel and how you probably feel
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sometimes too Missy tells the audience
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the song is called I am unique and it is
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sung to the tune of twinkle twinkle
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little star so let's begin I am unique
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in many ways
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I've lots of interests and much to say
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there are so many things I like to do
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which I would like to share with you
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like singing karate and soccer -
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songwriting and math games
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to name a few so come on my journey and
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you will see all the things that we can
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be because you two are unique in many
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ways and we have lots of interests and
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much to say by the end of the song
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everyone is cheering and swaying to the
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final chords of the guitar parents
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students and teachers applaud the
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superheroes and all the performers as if
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one smiles and laughs and talks
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excitedly it is difficult to tell who is
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having more fun the performers or the
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audience having seen each perform the
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new friends have millions of questions
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to ask each other about their unique
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talents want to meet up for lunch
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sometime how did you backflip so high
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says someone else your guitar was
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amazing and as they hang out together
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after the performances they discover
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they all have something in common - they
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all love celebrations oh my gosh you
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know what I love about this it's the
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celebration that we all are unique you
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you did such a beautiful job in this
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book and I all of our viewers that are
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listening in whether you're here live on
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replay you all have unique capabilities
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as well I'd love to hear what they are
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so as you're listening to this again
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whether live or on replay if you want to
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let us know put it in the comments or
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send us an email I'd love to hear your
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unique your how unique you really are
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Madeleine this is awesome one of the
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things that we do every week is after
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the show was we have a free download and
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so I'm going to show everyone what this
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download looks like right now it's one
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of a couple of pages I know that there
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are questions that we can ask our kids
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there's a coloring page this is kind of
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fun right there is no question about it
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and what's exciting also I love for for
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parents and kids to go to my website
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superheroes club comm and become a
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member of the superheroes club because I
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would love for them to share their own
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stories about how unique they are and
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how they're part of a sharing and caring
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community right and as you said there's
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this is the web club website superheroes
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club ebooks calm a lot of wonderful
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wonderful things on the site I really
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encourage you to go over there as well
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as if you happen to play on Facebook you
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can go follow Natalie
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on Facebook superheroes Club and if
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Instagram is your game you can go over
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to Instagram at superheroes club books
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and finally if you like to tweet you can
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go onto twitter and you can follow
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Madeline and the superheroes club at shc
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books so for those of you who are
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interested in hearing a little bit about
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or seeing a little bit about what this
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book is you can see it's beautiful
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superheroes club - a celebration of
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uniqueness you can pick that up
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at once upon a story time dot live you
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can pick up the download there you can
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pick up the book there and again don't
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forget to go and visit Madeline at her
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website this is where all the fun stuff
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is happening all the fun stuff is
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happening we want to thank everyone for
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being here Madeline I want to thank you
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for coming back to the show I can't wait
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for the third book whenever that comes
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out because we want you back on to do
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the third book and we invite everyone
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Tuesday through Thursday to join us
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10:30 a.m. Pacific time 1:30 p.m. Easter
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time for interactive storytelling and
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yoga and tomorrow we have Heather koala
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from Quito kids yoga she's going to be
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back with us doing Once Upon a yoga time
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it's fun for the whole family and I
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can't wait and don't forget to go over
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to Once Upon a story time dot live and
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make sure you sign up for the free kids
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corner because we have a 10 page
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coloring book that you will get once you
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sign up absolutely free doesn't cost
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anything absolutely three Madeline any
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last thoughts you want to share with our
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audience out there I think it's just
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important for all of us to be part of
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sharing and caring communities because
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we all need each other and we all should
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celebrate each other I agree you
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couldn't I could not have said that any
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better I want to thank everyone for
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joining us today we know that you have a
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choice and you chose it to spend it with
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us today we are happy to hear that and
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we'll see you next time
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on the next episode up once upon a story
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