The Kid Should See This  • September 23, 2025

🛞 WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK:

Can these RC LEGO vehicles climb a wall that keeps getting taller? ➜

It’s Fat Bear Week! 🐻 Brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park (livestream!) are eating salmon to pack on the pounds for hibernation season, and we get to vote bracket-style on a champion at fatbearweek.org.

Learn more with this video: Why are bulked-up bears a great thing?

2nd, from Slate: 📚 The 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years includes They All Saw A Cat, The Last Stop on Market Street, and Julián Is a Mermaid. (Slate explains how they picked and named more than 25.)

And 3rd: Last week sparked a few valuable conversations in our house about understanding power, taking action, and free speech (video links to each). Related reading: 📘 We the People: The United States Constitution Explored and Explained, an informative non-fiction picture book for ages 8-12.

I’m also happy these overlooked resources are getting attention:

🦉 Library Cards provide FREE access to fantastic services, including Kanopy for films and series (with a TV app), Libby for eBooks and audiobooks, and Hoopla for eBooks, audiobooks, comics, movies, TV, magazines, and music. And, of course, libraries also have physical copies available.

💻 PBS has a FREE livestream that includes your local PBS station, PBS Kids(!), and more, no account required. Nature, NOVA, Weather Hunters, Carl the Collector, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, and Sesame Street. Yay! You can also support your local PBS station to activate PBS Passport, getting access to their large on-demand library.

🐕 Bluey.tv and YouTube's official Bluey channel have FREE videos and activities. Plus, your local library is likely to have Bluey books, videos, and digital content.

📖 Scholastic just launched its new FREE (ad-supported) streaming service on September 17th. What timing! Find Scholastic TV on Roku, Fire TV, and YouTube.

🟡 Pluto TV streams a FREE Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood channel (with commercials). Pluto also offers BBC Earth, PBS Nature, Love Nature, Mythbusters, and a fantastically calm Bob Ross channel, among others.

🏛️ The Internet Archive is also a FREE treasure trove for classic films, government-produced videos, archival news footage, and old cartoons (though some may include outdated material reflecting biases or inappropriate content. Prescreen as needed). It’s easy to cast to the TV (from Safari or computer controls). They have a few old science series I love—The Ring of Truth, Connections, and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos—plus some favorites from when my kids were small, including Charlie and Lola and the 1970s stop-motion Paddington Bear.

🎙️ Finally, don’t forget about kid podcasts! Audio storytelling activates the imagination like nothing else, and both Sound Carrot and Kids Listen have browseable directories to help you find what you’ll love.

If you have any additional suggestions, please reply and let me know.

Enjoy this week’s featured videos. ⤵️ - Rion

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