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A place in Aurora's world

Nana Bea's garden

Flowers, strawberries, a big apple tree and the busy beehives: there is always something growing, buzzing or blooming. Inside the cottage, the kitchen smells of baking and an old cuckoo clock ticks in the hall.

Nana Bea's cottage garden with flowers, vegetable beds and beehives

11 adventures happened here

A scene from "The Day Aurora Was Tiny"

Aurora and the Dancing Lights

The Day Aurora Was Tiny

At Nana Bea's garden · with Bizzy

Nana Bea's garden is buzzing, and Aurora is a little scared of the bees. Then her star clip twinkles, and suddenly she is smaller than a ladybug, face to face with a friendly bee called Bizzy.

What Aurora learned

Bees help flowers grow fruit

  • Nature
  • Feelings
A scene from "The Oopsy Rainbow Cake"

Aurora and the Dancing Lights

The Oopsy Rainbow Cake

At Nana Bea's garden · with Red, Yellow and Blue

It's Mama's birthday, and Kai's giant sneeze tips three pots of color all over Nana Bea's white cake. Can Red, Yellow and Blue turn the oops into something wonderful?

What Aurora learned

Red, yellow and blue can mix into new colors

  • How things work
  • Feelings
A scene from "The Thank-You Party"

Aurora and the Dancing Lights

The Thank-You Party

At Nana Bea's garden · with Lumi

Aurora wants to thank every friend from her adventures with a party in Nana Bea's garden. But how do you invite a raindrop, a ribbon of light or a shadow?

What Aurora learned

Saying thank you makes friends feel special

  • Kindness
A scene from "Lights Out for the Fireflies"

Aurora Cares for the Earth

Lights Out for the Fireflies

At Nana Bea's garden · with Flick

Nana Bea's bright new porch light lights up the whole garden, but not one firefly blinks. Then a tiny firefly named Flick lands on Aurora's finger. He can't find his friends.

What Aurora learned

Fireflies talk with light, so they need the dark

  • Nature
  • The sky

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A scene from "A Home for Every Bird"

Aurora Cares for the Earth

A Home for Every Bird

At Nana Bea's garden · with Ruby

A robin named Ruby has built her nest in Nana Bea's favorite straw hat, and she won't give it back. Can Aurora help her find another home, quickly?

What Aurora learned

Every bird builds its own kind of home

  • Nature

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A scene from "The Wobbly Tooth"

Aurora's Big Firsts

The Wobbly Tooth

At Nana Bea's garden · with Chomp

At Nana Bea's barbecue, Aurora bites into corn on the cob, and her front tooth goes wiggle-waggle! Will it hurt? Down by the pond, something goes chomp, chomp, CRUNCH.

What Aurora learned

Baby teeth make room for grown-up teeth

  • Being healthy

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A scene from "Be Kind to Yourself"

Aurora and the Kindness Lights

Be Kind to Yourself

At Nana Bea's garden · with Coral

At family talent night, Aurora's cartwheel ends in a FLUMP, twice. "I'm the worst," she grumbles. Then Nana Bea's big pink seashell begins to glow.

What Aurora learned

Speak kindly to yourself, too

  • Kindness
  • Feelings
A scene from "Two Little Ladybugs"

Counting Under the Stars

Two Little Ladybugs

At Nana Bea's garden · with Polka and Dotty

Aurora races everywhere in Nana Bea's garden, because being first is the best. On a rose leaf, two little ladybugs are having an argument about who is older.

What Aurora learned

Being first isn't the best thing; being together is

  • Counting
  • Kindness

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A scene from "Eight Legs, No Fright"

Counting Under the Stars

Eight Legs, No Fright

At Nana Bea's garden · with Silvie

A big, dewy web hangs across the gap in Nana Bea's fence, with a spider in the middle. "Brush it away!" says Aurora. "Spiders have too many legs."

What Aurora learned

Spiders are garden helpers: look, don't touch

  • Counting
  • Nature

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A scene from "The Cuckoo Who Kept Time"

Aurora Wonders How Things Work

The Cuckoo Who Kept Time

At Nana Bea's garden · with Pendle

Waiting for Mama at Nana Bea's house, Aurora can't keep still. "Is it time NOW?" On the seventh cuckoo of the old clock, her star clip begins to twinkle.

What Aurora learned

A pendulum keeps time with steady swings

  • How things work
A scene from "The Tin-Can Telephone"

Aurora Wonders How Things Work

The Tin-Can Telephone

At Nana Bea's garden · with Tapper

It rains and rains, and Mira says rain spoils everything. Then Nana Bea brings an old box down from the attic, with two tin cans joined by a long string.

What Aurora learned

Sound can travel along a tight string

  • How things work

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