EP 68Ages 4-10
Pushem and the Under Water Forest of Siberia
A screen-free audio story about Pushem, a Goop who pushes others. Set in Russia.
Play the story · 36:11
Read by Maria Calanchini
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The story
Pushem is a champion prankster, but when he gets frustrated he pushes. On a snowy day he leads Ignora onto a frozen lake, tries to push her farther out, slips, and crashes through the ice.
He wakes up frozen in a block of ice on Lake Baikal in Siberia, with a Siberian tiger batting him across the lake. A polar bear and some very unusual frozen bubbles might be his only way out.
The real place: Lake Baikal
Three things to tell your kid after the story.
- 1Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, is the deepest lake in the world and one of the oldest, about 25 million years old.
- 2It holds about one fifth of all the unfrozen fresh water on Earth.
- 3In winter, bubbles of methane gas get trapped in its clear ice, making stacks of frozen white bubbles, just like in the story.
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