01x03 - Sharon Lawrence & Tina Majorino

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what's the story amigos this is kino

with some cool stories for today's story

time

today sharon lawrence reads about a girl

in her grandmother's cat

he hides i seek

he scoots i peek

then the story of a friendship between

an old woman and a brown puppy

go home she called to the puppy

the puppy wagged its tail when it saw

her

go home she called again but the puppy

just

kept wagging and finally tina maegerino

reads about flag

a dog lost in the desert and his owner a

girl who doesn't lose hope

dad please flag's still out there

waiting for us to come find him i know

he is

story time is made possible by the grant

from holland and

so that families everywhere can share

the joy of reading with their children

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speak

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whoa that is great that's the smartest

dog i've ever seen

who taught the dog those tricks my uncle

johnny

he's an animal trainer i asked him if i

could keep chat for a day or two

oh that's cool being with chat makes me

wish i had a pet

come come

should i ask my mom for a pet oh you

want a pet

you have to take care of them you know i

do want one

and of course i'll take care of it i'm

just not sure what kind i should get

what kind do you think i should ask for

i think you should get a dog

then you can teach it tricks like this

see

good boy kino oh that's nothing watch

this

throw that ball over this way ruff-ruff

oh kino what on earth are you doing

he's a dog doing tricks

good boy kino here's a peanut

see well this is sharon and she's

brought a wonderful book

hi sharon hi sharon hi everyone

this is a book about a cat would you

like to hear it

sure oh yeah sure it's called grandma's

cat

and it's written by helen ketamin and

illustrated by marsha lynn winbourne

grandma's cat is round and fat

oh who's my sweet little fuzz ball van

he hides i seek

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he scoots i peek

he climbs a tree i

scrape my knee he's up the stair

i chase him there i pounce

but mess he gives a

he's on the rail

i grab his tail

he claws my nose

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he goes

just be very gentle and sweet to him

and he will like you

he's near the gate i stop

then wait i stoop down low

he starts to go

i speak he hears

he turns his ears kitty kitty kitty

kitty

i bring a treat and he likes to eat

he tastes he stays

i stroke he

plays

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i sit i clap where is everybody

he tries my lap

his tail has burrs i pick

he

nighty night my dearies

that night in bed i scratch his head

he purrs again

i've made a friend

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the end what do you think now christy

i think that an animal can be your

friend but you have to treat it right

that's right well that's what the little

girl learned huh

that you can't treat a pet the way you

treat your

stuffed animals i'm good with animals

because

i can pretend i'm an animal see i can

think like an animal just like this see

i was thinking like a cat so i purred

because i like the story

maybe you can be my pet kino oh no

i'm nobody's pet except my mom's and

that's the way we want to keep it

come on kino be my pet no

i'm very busy just being keno let's just

be

friends oh lucy i think christy should

hear the story of the old lady

and the puppy with no name oh good idea

i'll get it are you sure

won't be your pet no way see

one good thing about getting a pet is

that you make a new friend

the pet and i'm already your friend

but you make such a cute little pet you

know

thanks but it's no just the same

sharon would you like to read this story

oh i'd love to

this one's called the old woman who

named things

it's by cynthia ryland and illustrated

by katherine brown

once there was an old woman who loved to

name things

she named the old car she drove betsy

she named the old chair she sat in fred

she named the old bed she slept on

roxanne

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and she named her old house franklin

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every morning she would get out of

roxanne have a cup of cocoa

infrared lock up franklin and drive to

the post office in betsy

she always hoped for a letter from

someone

but all she ever got was bill's the

reason the old woman never got

any letters was because she had outlived

every single one of her friends

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this worried her she didn't like the

idea of being a lonely old woman without

any friends

without anyone whom she could call by

name

so she began to name things

she named only those things that she

knew she could never out live

her car betsy had more get up and go

than anything around

her chair fred had never said

a day in his life not one creek or moan

had she ever heard out of her old bed

roxanne

and her house franklin had been standing

straight

for over a hundred years and still

didn't look a day past wendy

the old woman never worried about

outliving any of them

and her days were happy

one day when the old woman was out

soaping some mud off betsy

telling her that franklin wouldn't want

to be seen with a car that didn't keep

its bumpers a little cleaner

a shy brown puppy came to the old

woman's gate

the old woman had not named the gate

because two of its hinges had rusted off

and

she could tell the gate wasn't long for

this world

the shy brown puppy wagged its tail

it looked a little hungry the old woman

stood beside

betsy and watched the puppy for a while

hmm she said

then she walked into franklin and got a

chunk of ham from her refrigerator and

came back outside

the old woman gave the ham to the hungry

puppy

and told it to go home

she told it that betsy always made

puppies sick

and fred never allowed puppies to sit on

him and roxanne wasn't

wide enough for a puppy and an old woman

to fit on

and besides all of this franklin

couldn't tolerate dog hair

so the puppy went away

but the next day the puppy was back

the old woman was sitting in fred

reading a book on everlasting flowers

when she saw the puppy through her

window

go home she called to the puppy the

puppy wagged its tail when it saw her

go home she called again but the puppy

just

kept wagging the old woman noticed

that it still looked a little hungry

so she went to her refrigerator

she gave the puppy a hunk of cheese and

two biscuits

then she told it to go

home the puff

ran away that night as the old woman

plumped up the pillows on rock's hand

she thought about the puppy it was a

very nice puppy she thought

it was a very pretty puppy she thought

but it couldn't stay if it stayed

she'd have to give it a name and it

could never

last as long as franklin or fred or

betsy

or roxanne

might outlive it and she didn't want to

risk that

no she did not want to outlive any more

friends

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she would just keep telling it to go

home

every day the shy brown puppy came to

the old woman's gate

every day she fed it and told it to go

home

and always it went away and always it

came back

the next day this went on for many

months

the puppy got bigger and bigger until

soon it wasn't a puppy anymore it was a

dog

and it was still a dog with no name

in all this time the old woman had

gotten a new dresser that she had named

bill

a new wheelbarrow that she had named

francine and a new concrete pig for her

garden that she had named

bud but the dog

she faithfully fed at her gate every day

still had no name since it had no name

the old woman didn't have to worry about

outliving it

and she thought herself pretty clever in

this

then one day the shy brown dog

did not come to the old woman's house

she sat in fred and watched the gate all

day long

but the dog never came the old woman

felt sad

the next day again the dog did not come

the old woman drove betsy around town

looking for the dog

but she did not find it

the old woman felt even sadder

the following day when still the dog did

not come the old woman knew she had to

do something

she picked up her telephone and she

called the dog catcher

have you caught any shy brown dogs the

old woman asked the dog catcher

we got a whole kettle full of shy brown

dogs ma'am

said the dog catcher was yours wearing a

collar with its name on it

no said the old woman sadly

and she hung up the telephone the old

woman sat

and thought about the shy brown dog

who had no collar with a name

wherever it was no one would know that

it was supposed to come

to the old woman's gate every day

that she was supposed to feed it and

tell it to go home

every day that things were always

supposed to be this way

the shy brown dog had no collar and no

name

and no one would ever be able to know

these things about it

the old woman made a decision she locked

up

franklin and drove betsy to the dog

catcher's kennel

she said to the dog catcher i've come to

find my dog

he asked her what color it was it's

brown

she said he asked her how old it was

about a year old

she said then he asked her

what its name was the old woman thought

a moment

she thought of all the old dear friends

with names

whom she had outlived

saw their smiling faces and remembered

their lovely names and she thought how

lucky she had been to have known these

friends

she thought what a lucky old woman she

was

my dog's name is lucky

she told the dog catcher he led her to a

big yard full of white dogs and black

dogs and brown dogs

the old woman looked and looked and

looked

and finally she saw her own

shy brown dog sitting beside a gate

the dog was looking at betsy parked in

the driveway

the old woman called out here lucky

and at the sound of her voice the shy

brown dog came running

from that day on lucky lived with the

old woman

and he always came when his name was

called

it turned out that betsy didn't make all

dogs

sick and fred was happy to allow a dog

to sit on him

franklin didn't really mind a little dog

hair

and every night roxanne was sure to make

herself plenty wide enough

for a shy brown lucky dog

and the old woman who named him

why didn't you want me to listen to the

story keno

well so you'll pick a dog for a pet

dogs are great see even the old lady

thought so

oh she was afraid of making friends with

a dog

because she didn't want to be hurt she'd

had people friends but they got old and

died and

she knew she'd be hurt if the dog died

that's true

how did she make friends with the dog oh

well she gave him treats

that's why he kept coming back that

happens you know

if you're nice to animals they'll like

you

i guess that's the sad part of having

pets so they can get sick or die

or they can get lost i have a book about

a girl who loses her dog now

where is that book you're right

it can be sad when something happens to

pets you love but that's how life is

but you can still be happy to be able to

spend some time with them even if it's

just for a short while

it's too high i can't reach it

why don't i go help him i've got to go

anyway oh

i'll give this to you okay bye bye

sharon

bye thanks for the stories

so have you decided what kind of pet you

want no

not yet here it is

and i found somebody who will read it to

us too hi

tina hi how are you

come and sit down okay this is lost by

paul

johnson and celeste lewis illustrated by

paul johnson

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so

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the day flag got lost in the desert dad

and i searched for him till sundown

we found some dog tracks at a watering

hole and some other tracks too

big scary ones but we didn't find

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flag

monday morning i made a lost dog poster

it said reward 8.48

that's how much i had in my piggy bank i

hoped it would be enough

dad took my poster to work and made

copies

after school we drove out into the

desert again tacking them up along the

way

finally three days later someone called

a lady had found a lost beagle i

couldn't wait till we got to her house

flag was going to be so happy but it

wasn't flag

i sat beside the strange dog and stroked

his head

i gave him the biscuit i had brought

before bed i got out my photos of flag

i couldn't help crying but i laughed

some too

the picture of flag catching lima beans

was my favorite

that was flag's best trick i hate lima

beans so flag got mine

every time i threw one in the air he

would catch it

once he caught 16 in a row

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the next day dad came home with a big

map

it had a million squiggly lines that

showed every ridge

and gully dad thought cave creek canyon

would be a good place to look for flag

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the canyon was rough going we had to

crawl on all fours over huge rocks

and through prickly underbrush

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suddenly there was a howl that sounded

just like flag

we started yelling his name flag

flag we kept on calling and listening

but all we heard was our own voices

echoing back at us

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at school i couldn't concentrate even

though we were studying astronomy which

i really like

there was a big cactus just outside the

window

it made me think of the desert and flag

where was he i missed him so much

friday came at last dad had promised we

could look for flag again

but the whole weekend turned out to be a

big fat zero

all we saw was a pack of javelinas

dad said they could be mean so we

steered clear

i hated the desert

next time out we climbed a fire tower

i knew flag was somewhere below looking

for me

just as hard as i was looking for him

but where

there was so much ground still to cover

please flag please don't give up

later we met an old prospector

he said he once had a dog that got lost

in the desert

but he never found him he said it didn't

look good for flag

i told him if any dog could make it flag

could

we gave him our address and phone number

just in case

friday night there was a knock on my

door

dad came into the room and sat beside me

on the bed

he took my hand he said we had to talk

i knew then we wouldn't be packing up

and heading out to the desert

anymore flag had been lost almost a

month

dad please flag's still out there

waiting for us to come

find him i know he is

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at breakfast dad said maybe we should go

to the animal shelter and look for

another beagle

but i didn't want another beagle i

wanted flag

dad was just trying to cheer us both up

i guess

i marked another x on the calendar i

hoped flag didn't think i had forgotten

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him

monday when i got home from school there

was a truck in the driveway

i recognized the old man we had met in

the desert

i began to run flag was all scratched up

and he was down to skin and bones

i hated to think what he must have gone

through

he was bad off the prospector said but

he would be

fine

i took flag in my arms he wriggled a

little

and tried to lick my face i reached in

my pocket

and showed him what i had been keeping a

dried

lima bean for good luck i whispered i

never gave up hope

you changed your mind you'll be my pet

no i was just thinking of the picture on

the cover of the book

just think what flag is feeling think

for a minute

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can you imagine

i think he's feeling pretty sun lonely

he's howling

calling for the girl you know what i

like

is that she didn't give up she kept

looking for her dog

well what do you think christy do you

think you'll want a dog for a pet

if you give me some more treats i just

might be willing to be your pet for a

little bit

i'll give you some treats if you can do

some tricks

treats for tricks all right hmm

what is this halloween rub your nose

cover your ears show me your story picks

oh okay but you helped me story pick

number

one it's about a boy who would rather be

a dog

read about derek chasing the cat in

derek's

dog days and my story pick for today

is the pet person about a dog who wants

a

person to be his pet and it's so funny

you'll want to roll over

hey when do i get my treat one more

trick

keep a story in your hearts

good voice

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thank you hey let's do some more

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good pop like a rabbit

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today's story time books are grandma's

cat by helen ketamin

illustrated by marsha lynn winbourne

the old woman who named things by

cynthia ryland illustrated by katherine

brown

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lost by paul brett johnson and celeste

lewis

illustrated by paul brett johnson

derek's dog days by nancy lee charlton

illustrated by chris l demerist and

pet person by gene willis pictures by

tony ross

you can find these and other books at

your local library

story time is made possible by the grant

from holland and peter b

so that families everywhere can share

the joy of reading with their children

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