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Season 2, Episode 7

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This episode is all about books, words and letters. Steve himself has A Really Great Book, although we never do get to find out the contents of it. To fit with the theme, various objects are labeled such as the Thinking Chair and even Steve himself. By reading off a grocery list, we help Mr. Salt and Mr. Pepper to due their grocery shopping in order to feed a hungry Paprika. Later, we skidoo into a storybook and determine the correct order of words to make complete sentences through visual and contextual clues.moreless

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Koyalee Chanda

Steve's Friend
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Karissa Goncalves

Steve's Friend
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Jessica Greenberg

Steve's Friend

Cheryl Blaylock

Frederica (Blue's Room)
Traci Paige Johnson

Blue
Donovan Patton

Joe Burns (Season 5+)
Jonathan Press

Shovel (Seasons 4-5)
Marshall Claffy

Pail (Seasons 1-3)
Aleisha Allen

Side Table Drawer (Sometimes as Aleisha L. Allen, LaNaé Allen in Season 3+)

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QUOTES (2)
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- Steve: (after Blue places her pawprint on the screen) I know that was coming. We'll play Blue's Clues to figure out what book B-L-U-E, Blue, wants to read. (sings) We are gonna play Blue's Clues because it's really fun, yeah.
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- Steve: (commenting on one of the odd sentences in the skiddoo book) Oh my. That doesn't make any sense.
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- The authors and other staff and companies associated with the books If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Corduroy and The Rainbow Fish all receive "Special Thanks" credits. Corduroy is one of the book shown in the opening sequence for the show.
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- Angela Santomero is credited as Angela C. Santomero and Jenna Marie Castle is credited as Jenna Castle.
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- Mailtime Segment: When Steve sings the "Here's the Mail" song, Blue holds up signs for us to sing along. Mailbox gives Steve letters - A B and C! He then give Steve the actual mail letter and in it, two girls visit a library. There, they read Laura Joffe Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
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- Snail, who is hidden in three places in every episode, is very easy to find one time in this episode because she has a label. The other two times she appears, she is not labeled.
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- Some of the ideas used in this episode come up again in "Words" and "Let's Write!"
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- This episode is the first of two available as a bonus on the DVD "Blue Takes You to School."
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