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K-3
Forced to "get outside and play" when he's about to master his video game, a boy tenaciously waits for the last leaf to fall from a tree, having heard that it is lucky to catch it. Appealing cartoons in rich autumnal colors witness the boy's triumphant appropriation of something from the great outdoors.