what's the story amigos this is kino
with some cool stories for today's story
time
in our first book read by barbara bain
penelope learns how to make her own
story
long long ago whispered and isabel
there was a deep dark cave
in a gloomy forest where nobody lived
except creatures who loved night and
darkness and hid
from the light also is fluffy the right
name for a porcupine
he ate a lot of fluffy marshmallows
he rolled in shaving cream and feathers
he even
tried to become a bunny
but the truth remained fluffy
and marcus redmond reads about the neat
gift morris got for christmas
suddenly he noticed a package that had
been overlooked
he opened it and in it
was a disappearing bag
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[Music]
oh this is terrible just terrible what
am i gonna do
i i was just rollerblades to be here but
they're not
this is bad news i think they're lost
forever come on kids let's go
here's some stories stories yeah that's
a good idea maybe
maybe stories will take my mind off all
this bad news
i really like the books you chose for
today maura and i think the kids are
going to like them too
oh i'm sure they're going to like them
mara mars something
terrible has happened oh
keno aren't you going to say hello to
barbara and me
first oh hi mark hi barbara hi
something terrible terrible has happened
well what's wrong hino
i lost my rollerblades
let's go to the story circle gosh keno
i'm
really sorry to hear that i guess your
friends must have helped you look for
them but no look huh come on
hi they're purple with yellow wheels on
them
in case you see them oh
maybe if i read a story you'll feel
better
maybe which story
well i have a story about how to tell a
story
you do well hmm i don't understand
you will you'll you'll understand it's
called
aunt isabel tells a good one
and the words and the pictures are by
kate
duke
aunt isabel tells a good one
tell me a story said penelope one night
at your supper
what kind of a story asked aunt isabel
a good story said penelope
all right said aunt isabel now a good
story
is the hardest kind to tell you've got
to put together
all the right ingredients let's start
by giving it a win and a where
when does this story begin long
long ago said penelope
and where does it begin ask aunt isabel
think of a place where exciting things
can happen
a cave said penelope
long long ago whispered aunt isabel
there was a deep dark cave
in a gloomy forest where nobody lived
except creatures who loved night
and darkness and hid from the light ooh
that's too scary said penelope
but we'll put something cheerful in our
story too said and isabelle
think of a who who shall be in this
story
how about a handsome prince named
augustus
who lives on a sunny high hill way up
above
the gloomy forest well certainly in a
castle with his mother and father the
king and queen
and isabelle agreed prince augustus is
as
kind as he is good-looking
he likes to have picnics in the garden
and he's always
happy to share his sandwiches well i
like this prince said penelope
me too said ann isabelle now let's add
something else someone else someone
talented
and charming should we name this darling
animal
penelope well lady penelope said
penelope
lady nell for short said aunt isabel
now where does she come from nobody
knows
she travels about wherever she likes and
she's learned many secrets and clever
ways from the creatures she has met she
can fiddle like a cricket
she can sing like a dove and she could
wiggle her
ears as well as any jackrabbit
best of all she has four pet fireflies
that she can juggle like spinning
gold stars one day
her travels take her by the castle
prince augustus hears her singing
what a beautiful voice he says
he offers her a sandwich what a generous
heart
he has pretty soon guess
what happens they
fall in love penelope exclaimed
exactly so now our story has
romance in it too said aunt isabel
oh this story is coming out so nice at
penelope
too much niceness can be dull though
said aunt isabel we'll
we'll add a problem now listen
the king looks out from the castle and
he growls who
is that raggedy girl dreadful
dreadful creature says the queen
can you imagine she wiggles her ears
oh so so
unladylike not the sort of
animal we want our prince to know
thunder is the king
be gone with her and with that
they send lady nell away and forbid
augustus ever
to speak to her again isn't that
sad i said isabelle
well i think we should leave that
problem part out
grumbled penelope well just just wait
wait till you hear what happens nixon
and isabelle because now
we put villains into the story
alone and sad augustus sits in the
garden weeping onto his sandwiches
night comes and still he weeps finally
the queen goes out to scold him
for being foolish but he's gone on the
garden seat
lies a note and it says
the prince has been snatched give up the
throne if you want him back
signed odious mole
and bad egg bet
how the queen weeps how the king
wails and oh what a panic there is in
the kingdom
oh do you small and bad egg bat
those bullies who lurk in dark
places plotting their mischief they're
on the rampage
the townsfolk pack their things and rush
to escape the king and queen ring their
paws
wondering what to do
but when lady nell hears the news she
doesn't run away
oh no she doesn't waste time with
paw ringing she leaves her camping out
place sneaks back to the castle garden
and she finds a clue a trail of
sandwich crumbs leads away from the
castle
and into the gloomy forest at the bottom
of the hill uh oh
uh oh more scary stuff is coming says
penelope
a little danger is very good for a story
says that isabelle
lady nell follows the trail farther and
farther into the forest and at last she
comes
to the mouth of the deep dark cave
should she go
inside no
squeak penelope well
someone's got to save the prince argued
and isabelle
so lady nell marches in there's shadows
all around
the cave twists and whines she turns a
corner and she sees
prince augustus all tied up
nelly he shouts auggie she cries and
leaps to help him
suddenly a voice snarls not so
fast my little friends it out brushes
odious mole
with a sneer he reaches toward them with
his long
sharp claws oh no cried penelope what
are they going to do quick as a flash
aunt isabel replied
lady nell calls her fireflies and begins
to juggle
juggle juggle
she juggles at penelope why
well because you remember she's traveled
far and wide answered and isabelle
she's learned the secrets of creatures
who hide in the darkness of caves
so up go the fireflies and they spin up
spin around and sparkle and they light
up the cave like bright gold stars
spades and shovels yelps odious mole
my eyes my eyes lights hurt my eyes get
them away
from me run augustus cries lady nil
after them that egg cries odious
down from the ceiling sweeps bad egg bat
squealing you can't
stop a bat with your puny fireflies
now i'll eat them up
what a treat
lady nell and augustus scurry into the
shadows to hide but bad egg screeches
a bat can find you in the dark
i can hear where you are run
quietly augustus whispers lightning hill
but their paws goes skittering
scattering on the floor
i hear yous wheels
i'll get you what
will lady nell do
sing augustus she cries
and they both start to sing as loudly as
they can their voices echo and echo and
echo
through the cave soon it sounds like a
hundred princes and a hundred lady nells
what a ragged now bad egg
can't tell which voices are the real
ones
and he doesn't know which ones to follow
burns and bill freeze stop the noise he
screeches stop the noise
around and around he flies banging
against the walls and finally knocks
himself on the head
and he falls down in a heap lady nell
and prince augustus dash out of the cave
they don't stop running until they're
out of the forest and safely back at the
castle
on the hill with shouts of joy the king
and queen rush to greet them when
augustus tells them of lady nails
courage and cleverness
the king hugs her and the queen says
what fools we've been
my dear you will always be welcome here
lady nell wiggles her ears with
delight the king and queen call the
whole kingdom together for a celebration
and everyone dances until dawn while the
fireflies twirl
and they somersault overhead
as for odious and bad egg they slink
back into the depths of the cave and
they stay there they don't dare
to come out because now they know no one
will ever be afraid of them again
is that the end ask penelope well it's a
happy ending every good story should
have
and isabelle replied do prince augustus
and lady nell get married ask penelope
well i wouldn't be surprised would you
ask aunt isabel but first lady nell
becomes a famous musician
and first prince augustus becomes a good
and wise
king all that will have to wait though
until we're ready to make up another
good story
and now my dear penelope it's time for
you
to go to bed
isn't that nice nothing like the story
to help you feel did you think it was a
good story
yeah because it says aunt isabel tells a
good one
did she tell a good one yeah keno what
did you think about this story well
gee it it really was a very good story
but
i still feel a little bit sad oh
barbara do you think you could please
please please read us another story oh
yes
how could i resist in fact i have
another story here and it's
about names and it's about a
porcupine named fluffy
fluffy mm-hmm a porcupine mm-hmm
gee i don't think fluffy when you say
porcupine those two words just don't
seem to go together
now if you say bunny rabbit then i think
fluffy
well at least fluffy is a friendly kind
of name not like
uh what was that odious mole and
old ugly awful egg bat or whatever that
baby from that other store
i want to hear this story okay do you
want to hear it keno
i'm all ears they're huge for my years
but a story will feel good that's
understood
a
a poem now this will cheer you up
a porcupine named fluffy with the
words by helen lester and the pictures
by lynn
munsinger so let's find out about this
porcupine when mr and mrs
porcupine had their first child they
were delighted
now he needed a name
should they call him spike no
spike was too common should they call
him lance
no lance sounded too fierce
should they call him needle rooser
no needle bruiser's too long
prickles pokey quillian then together
they had an idea they said let's call
him
fluffy it's such a pretty name
but soon there came a time when fluffy
began to doubt
that he was fluffy he first became
suspicious when he backed into a door
and he stuck
that was not a fluffy thing to do
he was even more convinced when he
accidentally slept on his back and he
poked holes in his mattress
a very unfluffy-like thing to do
when he tried to carry an umbrella he
knew the truth
without a doubt fluffy definitely
wasn't so he decided to become fluffier
clouds are fluffy he thought i'll be a
cloud
but he couldn't stay up
i know pillows are fluffy said i'll be a
pillow but when his mother sat on him
she was not pleased
he tried soaking in a bubble bath for 45
minutes but he did not become
fluffy he became soggy
yuck he tried whipped cream he put a
little on each
quill and it was not an easy thing to do
and it took more than half a day
but this did not make fluffy fluffy no
they should have named me gooey
he ate a lot of fluffy marshmallows
he rolled in shaving cream and feathers
he even tried
to become a bunny but the truth remained
fluffy was there one day
fluffy set out for a walk trying to
think of ways to become
fluffy and before long he met a
very large rhinoceros
girl i said the rhinoceros i'm going to
give you
a rough time fluffy didn't know what a
rough time was but he didn't like the
sound of it at all
what is your name you small
prickly thing ask the rhinoceros
unkindly
fluffy so fluffy
the rhinoceros smiled he giggled
then he laughed out loud he rolled on
the ground he jiggled he slapped his
knees he roared
with laughter of porcupine
fluffy he said oh
fluffy was embarrassed but he tried to
be polite and he said
and what is your name huh i can't say it
giggle the rhinoceros hubert
suggested fluffy
oh help i just can't say it i am
laughing so hard it's at the rhinoceros
harold or maybe herman ask fluffy no
said the rhinoceros no it's
it's it's hippo
hippo a rhinoceros named hippo
fluffy smiled he giggled and then he
laughed out loud
and then he jiggled and he slapped his
knees and he howled
with laughter a rhinoceros named
hippo fluffy cries a porcupine named
fluffy
a rhinoceros named hippo it was almost
more than they could bear hippo and
fluffy rolled on the ground giggling
and laughing until tears came into their
eyes
and at last they lay exhausted on the
ground
and from that time on they were the best
of friends and fluffy didn't mind being
fluffy anymore even though
he wasn't oh that was a great story
what that story oh at the end of the
story
does fluffy feel better about his name
yes yes
cause he met somebody with an equally
ridiculous name
right keno now what do you think about
calling a porcupine
fluffy well i kind of like it now
it's uh it's uh it's unusual
maybe i just needed to get used to it hi
everybody hi
hi barbara hi marcus hey
keno why are you so sad
everybody's here everybody's reading
stories is your favorite thing to do
what's wrong
well we were trying to help keno forget
about his loss
would you lose kino i can't find my
rollerblades
your rollerblades you left them at my
house yesterday
[Laughter]
i did i left my roller blades at your
house
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes i left my
roller blades at marcus's house
everybody
sorry sorry uh did you bring the marcus
no i didn't think that well let's let's
go get him okay
wait wait wait wait please i i was
wondering if
marcus would read us a story morris's
disappearing bag
yes very interesting i'll read it
oh good let's hear this thanks vanessa
well i changed my mind i'm staying this
one sounds like a really good story
oh good all right this one is called
morris's disappearing bag
that's great and the story is by
rosemary wells
and the pictures are by rosemary wells
and this one
is a christmas story a christmas story
morris's disappearing bag
it was christmas morning wow
said morris morris's brother victor
got a hockey outfit and morris's sister
rose
she got a beauty kit and morris's other
sister betty
she got a chemistry set and morris
morris got a bear all
christmas day victor played hockey
and rose made herself beautiful and
betty mixed acids
and then betty made herself beautiful
and victor sorted test tubes and rose
played hockey
and then victor made himself beautiful
and betty play goalie and rose invented
a new gas
but morris was too young to play with
chemicals betty said
he might blow up the house he was too
little to play hockey
said victor he might get hurt oh yeah
and he was too silly to use the beauty
kit rose said
he'd waste all the lipstick and nobody
wanted to play with mars bear
come say morris's mother let's make a
hat for your bear
no said morris let's take your bear for
a walk suggested morris's father
no said morris
morris wouldn't eat his dinner what's
the matter with morris asked his father
i think he hid himself in the head with
the hockey puck said richter
maybe he ate the lipstick said rose
it was the gas said betty he breathed it
in
morris sat under the christmas tree
suddenly
he noticed a package that had been
overlooked
he opened it and in it
was a disappearing bag
so morris crawled right in
morris said victor right here said
morris
where how's victor where's morris ask
betty and rose
over here said morris
but they couldn't find him maybe he blew
himself up said betty
do you suppose he's so beautiful
we wouldn't recognize him dad
shouted victor morris is skating so fast
we can't see him
morris came out of his bag
where were you a*s victor i was in my
disappearing bag said morris
you want to use a shot of victor me
first said rose
you could play with my chemical said
betty morris held open his bag
everybody disappeared all at once then
he zoomed
and mixed and beautified
until bedtime bedtime said morris
may i use the bag tomorrow a*s rose i
want to sleep in it tonight said betty
maurice said victor i hope you remember
where you put the bag
morris was already fast asleep
oh that was a great story thank you mark
yeah
that was great so did you guys like the
book yeah
yeah what was the best part about it
what
the disappearance disappearing
what would you do if you added this
spring back i would disappear
nobody would find me and you know what
else if you could remember where a
disappearing bag was
you could always keep secret stuff in it
stuff you never wanted
anybody else to know you could put in
your disappearing bag
and people could look for it and look
for it and look for it they never find
it
hey marcus think of all the things we
could do if we had a disappearing bag
keno think about all the things you
could
don't even say that word it makes me
think of almost losing
oops my roller blades oh but thanks to
marcus you found them
yeah by the way marcus thank you for
doing such a great job with that story
and barbara thank you so much for coming
to visit will you two come again
absolutely great now mara
now keno okay okay okay um
my story picks for this week are the
wingding dilly
it's another book about an animal with a
funny name and
an old story with a scary witch called
hecate pig heckety peg hmm
i like your pics this week keno well you
are all invited to visit for our next
story time
until then keep a story in your heart
i'll rivet here cheat pals bye bye bye
[Music]
today's story time books are aunt isabel
tells a good one
by kate duke a porcupine named fluffy
by helen lester illustrated by lynne
munsinger
morse morse's disappearing bag by
rosemary wells
the winding dilly by bill pete and
hecate peg by audrey wood
illustrated by don wood
you can find these and other books at
your local library
major funding for story time is made
possible by a grant from helen and peter
bean
so that families everywhere can share
the joy of reading with their children
[Music]
additional funding is provided by the
corporation for public broadcasting
by the annual financial support from
viewers like you
and by the national endowment for
children's educational television
storytime is production of kcet los
angeles
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01x12 - Marcus Redmond & Barbara Bain
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American children's reading television program which aired on PBS from October 12, 1992 until September 1, 1997.
American children's reading television program which aired on PBS from October 12, 1992 until September 1, 1997.