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Jun 2024
25m 57s

Encore: The Bright Yellow Hat

Wbur
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Jona Xiao (Raya and the Last Dragon, Hightown) plays a flower peddler who makes gardens and goodness grow in this story with Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, Moroccan, French, Canadian and Peruvian roots. Sign up for our monthly newsletter, "The Lion's Roar", here.
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