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elephants can paint too
ladies and gentlemen
cubs and ducks
library patrons of all species cat
around to see this one of a kind
painting conceived and painted entirely
by an elephant
no oh my
did god say that picture was painted by
an elephant why yes young lady i did
young lady on display for one day only
right here at the library
donations accepted for the elephants
well
that can't be true elephants can't paint
she's got a point i mean i've heard of
an elephant playing a banjo but this oh
it's the truth sir why this masterful
piece of artwork was indeed painted by a
gray extremely large extremely talented
elder fan
oh
i am telling you elephants can not pink
can't do can not can't you cannot you
might want to try another angle
all right leona if you don't believe me
well just look at this elephants can
paint too with pictures and text by
katya arnold
i teach in two schools
one is in the city
the other
is in the jungle
some of my students have hands
others
have trunks
the elephant's trunk is both a hand and
a nose
not only can a trunk pick things up
it can smell
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drink
and spray
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some students eat grass and leaves
others eat peanut butter and jelly
but they all
love cookies
and they all like to be with their
friends
time for art class
first i give each student a
brush some elephants learn to hold a
brush right away
others take a week or two
look at how many ways there are to hold
it
some elephants hold the brush by
wrapping their chunks around it
others hold it inside their trunks
let's paint
after the teacher guides the elephant's
trunk to the paper and says
touch
some elephants drag the brush over the
paper
others
dab
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if the teacher points and says
make a line up here they do
when they want a new color they give the
brush to the teacher
some paint for a few minutes
others paint for as long as an hour
if they are tired or bored
they drop the brush and walk away
these students like to paint dots
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each elephant's painting is different
some paint with wiggly lines
some with spots
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some paint only in the middle of the
paper
others put paint everywhere
they like to paint
these students like
bright colors
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wow
these students can paint flowers
most elephants don't paint real things
they paint colored strokes
but some elephants paint trees and
flowers
it takes them about three years to learn
whatever they paint it helps to praise
them
and reward them with a treat
everyone has
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their own style
time to clean up
remember to wash between your toes
elephants bathe every day
like children they love water
using their trunk as a snorkel they can
swim up to 30 miles without resting
art class is over
all of my students can paint and be
proud
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amazing i know you were right elephants
can paint yep told yourself
that's it folks our show's over gotta go
thanks for coming
i guess sometimes you can learn
something from your older brother come
on lovey i feel like painting a picture
of my own how about you huh let's see
maybe we could go over here
hello everybody please welcome my guest
theo lion aloha what's coming up on
between the lions well let's see uh oh
watch for knights painting worms
painting all kinds of art oh and a song
about finding out more in books
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and now it's time for
dwayne's word queen's word
excellent gawain here once again at
blending fields where two brave knights
and armor will charge together head high
speed and make a word
competing today we have sir
and sir end
blend on dudes
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paint excellent that's the way it's word
for today and this is kawaii said don't
you complain
because i'll see you next time on
gwen's word queen's word
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reginald livingston sea girl here with a
colorful poem written by barbara joster
evanson called yellow
yellow sun and yellow sky
a dandelion's yellow eye
yellow pollen dusts the breeze
and yellow
lights the summer trees
a yellow buzzing prints the air
in dappled yellow dreams the pear
and from the finch's yellow throat
one golden
flowing yellow note
all about everything
one thing at a time
and now the information hen
doc oh welcome what thing will we learn
today
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all about
art
art is something we make for others to
experience and enjoy for example
this sculpture is art looking good
music is art
dancing
is also art
oh and a painting or drawing is art too
look here's one of my favorites
love the smile
that's all for
all about everything
one thing at a time you dance divinely
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well i like all kinds of stories and i
like poetry too
but when i need fact not fiction hey i
know just what to do i run to my
favorite bookshelf or encyclopedic stack
for a book that tells it to me straight
from a to z and back if you wanna see
if you want to know
why an earthquake quakes
have a whale blow
or how to make a phone
from a paper cup
here's a deal if you want to get real
look it up
look it up
here's something bout mosquitoes hey
look at his peru
and here's a giant cactus
so much i never knew
you can find the rings of saturn or just
how a zipper zips
plus charts and maps and graphs and
landscape any way you flip if you wanna
see if you wanna
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oh
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it's short story time with artie
smartypants
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hello
and now i'm going to read
this book to you and uh
i know you're going to like it
it's called worm paint written and
illustrated by cathy cable
worm paint a picture
i don't like it says rat
worm paint a picture
i don't like it says turtle
worm paint a picture
ah i don't like it says frog
worm hates a picture
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they all say
see ya
say goodbye wormy goodbye
you're so funny bernie
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hmm
hey leona hey
nice picture of lovey oh i didn't paint
it you didn't
who did
well luffy painted it
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oh that's very funny i love you
what's true
lovey painted this picture didn't you
lovey
yep she says she did
hey hey you know how i know that that
lovey didn't paint this picture
because stuffed animals can't paint
well if elephants can paint who's to say
stuffed animals can't paint huh
oh yeah
oh yeah well well well if stuffed
animals can paint then um
then monkeys can hula dance
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stay tuned cause coming right up are
more lions a really cool grandmother and
a girl with three names
jamaica louise james
watch this i can pop up too
were you scared
leona
we got a new book in the library that i
think you're gonna like
well gee daddy that's uh that's great
but but but i'm playing with my herman
in the box oh
well well i could read the book to you
and herman no daddy herman's very
particular about what he likes to read
oh
well
i'm sure herman would like this book
look look look here herman
it's called jamaica louise james and the
author is amy hest and the illustrations
are by sheila white sampton and
and what let's see here and the story
has something in it honey that i know
herman is gonna like
you see that big word there on the top
of this page
yeah that's the word surprise
surprise herman loves surprises oh read
it daddy read it
okay let's read it okay okay here we go
i was the one with the cool idea
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it happened last winter and the mirror
put my name on a golden plaque
it's down in the subway station at 86th
and main
you can see it if you go there
that's me you better believe it
want to hear my big idea
i'll tell you but you've got to listen
to the whole story not just a part of it
mama says my stories go on and on
whenever i'm just at the beginning of
one she tells me get to the point
jamaica or snap to it baby
but i like lacing up the details this
way and that
this story begins with me
i have a big artist pad with 100 big
pages and five colored pencils with
perfect skinny points
sometimes i set myself up on the top
step of our building where everyone can
see me
everything i see is something i want to
draw
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at night mama and grammy and i cuddle on
the couch while the city quiets down
i show them every picture every night
sometimes i tell a story as i go
sometimes they ask a question like why
does the man's coat have triangle
pockets
other times we don't say a word
now look at me on birthday number eight
grammy and mama dance around my bed open
your present they shout we can't wait
another minute
you know what they did
they bought me a real paint set with
eight little tubes of color and two
paintbrushes
paint sets cost a lot i worry
my they say are you going to spend
birthday number eight worrying when you
can be doing something wonderful such as
painting the world
so that's when i get my big idea
now this part of the story tells about
my granny who leaves for work when it is
still dark
sometimes i wake up halfway when she
slides out of bed
in winter she gets all layered starting
with the long underwear layer
she and mama whisper in the kitchen they
drink that strong black coffee
grammy scoops up her brown lunch bag and
goes outside
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i'm scared in the night
not grammy
at 86th and maine she goes down and down
into the subway station
all day long people line up at grammy's
token booth
they give her a dollar or four quarters
and she slides a token into their hand
then they rush off to catch the train
what's a subway daddy oh it's a it's a
train that runs underground in the city
and what's this what's a token uh a
token looks like money and people use it
to pay for their subway rides and when
are we going to get to the surprise
right away honey
now i like subways because the seats are
hot pink and because they go very fast
but i don't like subway stations
especially the one at 86th and maine
there are too many steep steps 56 and
too many grown-ups who all look mad
the walls are old tile walls without any
color
when grammy comes home she sews and
talks about the people she sees like
green hat lady or gentleman with the red
bow tie
mama reads and humps
but i paint blending all those colors
until they look just right
every day i add a picture to my
collection and every day i think about
my cool idea
at last it's the morning of grammy's
birthday
mama and i get up early we get all
layered and sneak outside
mama holds my hand
i am scared but also very excited
we swish along in our boots in the dark
in the snow
at 86th and main we go down and down 56
steep step
we don't buy a token at the token booth
we don't take a ride on the subway
what we do is hang a painting on the old
tile wall
then another
and another
and one more
before you know it that station is all
filled up with color
surprise reached out when grammy comes
clumping down the steps
she looks all around that station
jamaica louise james she calls
come right here so i can give you a big
hug baby
so now you know the whole story everyone
sure is in love with my subway station
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you'd be surprised people are talking to
each other some even smile
that looks like me
says a lady in a green hat to a
gentleman with a red bow tie
then grammy tells everyone about jamaica
louise james age eight
that's me you better believe it
the
end
oh that was a great story daddy
and it gives me a great idea oh it does
what kind of
honey
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surprise
these are all my drawings
i put them all over the library just
like jamaica louise james
all over the library indeed
wow oh
don't you just love your little sister
lionel
i couldn't hear what you were saying i
have drawings on my ears
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oh
saw
saw
saw
hello reginald livingston seagull here
with a poem for you brush dance written
by robin bernard
hmm
let's watch
a dot
a blot
a smidge a smear
and just a little squiggle here
a dab
a dash
a splish
a splat
that's how patrick paints a cat
a w
aw
draw
liana leona there's a new cliffhanger
book in the library cliffhanger no way
i'm trying a drawing
but it's a cliffhanger book and it's
right over there flying off the shelf
once again it's the continuing daring
and dangling adventures of
cliff
hanger
today's adventure number 7616
cliffhanger and the awfully big
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seesaw excuse me
excuse me
we find cliffhanger where we left him
last
hanging from a cliff
can
hold on much longer
suddenly
clip notices an enormous seesaw on the
lawn below his cliff
gee
that's an awfully big seesaw
quickly cliff reaches into his backpack
and withdraws
his trusty survival manual
using his awe-inspiring decoding skills
cliff begins to read
if you see an awfully big seesaw on the
lawn below your cliff
jump on
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is a new life dawning for cliffhanger a
life beyond his cliff
awesome
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seesaw
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oh shucks
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liana you missed one of the best
cliffhangers ever
well i was busy trying something more
important
what could possibly be more important
than a huh
what yeah
you drew a picture of cliffhanger
why
because i love you
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yo check it out we're going surfing
without a board dudes okay because we're
surfing between the lions website
okay
go to pbskids.org
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be here between
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08x108 - Elephants Can Paint, Too!; Jamaica Louise James
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Follows a family of clumsy anthropomorphic lions operating and living in a large, busy library called "The Barnaby B. Busterfield III Memorial Public Library", starring alongside characters such as Click, an electronic, anthropomorphic computer mouse; the Information Hen, who answers library calls; and Heath, a dinosaur who serves as the library's thesaurus.