01x22 - Madge Sinclair

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what's the story amigos this is kino

with some cool stories for today's story

time

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today mara reads about timothy's first

day

at school madge sinclair tells us about

a young girl who discovers she can do

anything she puts her mind to

and we have more stories so don't go

away

major funding for story time is made

possible by a grant from helen and peter

bing

so that families everywhere can share

the joy of reading with their children

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

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you look worried oh it's nothing it's

just that my little sister mariana is

getting ready to go to school for the

first time

and she's kind of worried about it hey

i've got the perfect book for you to

read to her

it's about little timothy and his first

days at school

oh well gee i don't know i think we

would have to read it

here first i mean i'm extra extra

careful you know about the books that i

read to the little shrimp

all right well that wouldn't be a

problem because i can read it for you

right now

oh go right ahead because i love stories

especially good stories okay here we go

with the story

it's called timothy goes to school and

the words and the pictures

are by rosemary welts ready yeah ready

ready

all right timothy goes to school

timothy's mother made him a brand new

sun suit for the first day of school

hooray

said timothy timothy went to school

in his new sun suit with his new book

and his new pencil good morning said

timothy

good morning said the teacher

timothy said the teacher this is claude

claude this is timothy i'm sure you'll

be the best of friends

hello sir timothy nobody wears a

sun suit on the first day of school said

claude

during playtime timothy hoped

and hoped that claude would fall into a

puddle

but he didn't

when timothy came home his mother asked

how was school today

nobody wears a sun suit on the first day

of school

said timothy i will make you

a beautiful new jacket said timothy's

mother

timothy wore his new jacket the next day

hello said timothy the claude oh you're

not supposed to wear party clothes on

the second day of school said claude

all day timothy wanted and wanted

claude to make a mistake

but he didn't when timothy went home

his mother asked how did it go

you're not supposed to wear party

clothes on the second day of school said

timothy

oh don't worry said timothy's mother

tomorrow you just wear something in

between like everyone else

the next day timothy went to school in

his favorite shirt

oh look said timothy you are wearing the

same shirt i

am no said claude you

are wearing the same shirt that i

am during

lunch timothy wished and wished

that claude would have to eat all alone

but he didn't

after school timothy's mother could not

find timothy

where are you she called i'm never going

back to school

said timothy why not called his mother

because claude is the smartest

and the best at everything and he has

all the

friends said timothy

you'll feel better in your new football

shirt said timothy's mother

timothy did not feel better in his new

football

shirt that morning claude played the

saxophone

i can't stand it anymore said a voice

next to timothy it was violent

you can't stand what timothy asked

violet

race said violet she sings

she dances she counts up to a thousand

and she sits next to me

during playtime timothy and violet stay

together

violet said i can't believe you've been

here all along

will you come home and have cookies with

me after school

timothy asked on the way home

timothy and violet laughed so much about

claude and grace

that they both got the hiccups

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well do you think you'll be reading this

book to little mariana

oh yup yup yup i think it'll help her

not be so worried about starting school

did you have a hard time when you first

started school keno

well sort of i had a little trouble

making friends

but i wanted to go because my cousin

billy had told me kindergarten's a lot

of fun well then i found out it was a

lot of fun

what i liked most was to paint and play

dog i would pretend

i was a beagle a beagle huh

sounds like a neat game hey ashley

what's the story amigo

yeah hi pino hi tino hello hi

hi matt is this your granddaughter

ashley yes this is ashley

hi ashley and she's really excited to be

here she

loves to be read too you do mm-hmm you

know

ashley i have a book about a girl who

goes to school

and just like you she loves stories

maybe you'd like to read it oh will you

please please please

please read it to us of course of course

this story is called amazing grace and

it's written by mary hoffman

and illustrated by caroline bench

now grace was a girl

who loved stories she didn't mind if

they were read to her or

told to her or made up in her own head

she didn't care if they were in books or

movies

or out of nana's long memory

grace just loved stories

and after she heard them and sometimes

while they were still going on

grace would act them out and she always

gave herself the most exciting part

grace went into battle as joan of arc

and wove a wicked web as a nancy the

spider she hid inside the wooden horse

at the gates of troy

she went exploring for lost kingdoms

she sailed the seven seas with a peg leg

and a parrot she was hiawatha

sitting by the shining big sea water

and mowgli in the backyard jungle

most of all grace loved to act out

adventure stories and fairy tales

and when there was no one else around

grace played

all the parts herself she set out to

seek her fortune

with no companion but her trusty cat

and found a city with streets paved in

gold

or she was aladdin rubbing his magic

lamp to make the genie appear

sometimes she could get ma and nana to

join in when they weren't too busy

then she was dr grace

and their lives were in her hands

one day grace's teacher said

they would do the play peter pan now

grace knew who she wanted to be

when she raised her hand raj said

you can't be peter that's a boy's name

but grace kept her hand up you can't be

peter pan

whispered natalie he isn't black

but grace kept her hand up all right

said the teacher lots of you want to be

peter pan

so we'll have auditions next week to

choose the parts

she gave them words to learn when grace

got home

she seemed sad what's the matter

asked mom

reg says i can't be peter pan because

i'm a girl

that just shows you what raj knows said

mom

a girl can be peter pan if she wants to

grace cheered up then later she

remembered something else

natalie says i can't be peter pan

because i'm black

she said ma looked angry

but before she could speak nana said

it seems that natalie is another one who

don't know nothing

you can be anything you want grace if

you put your mind to it

on saturday nana told grace they were

going out

in the afternoon they caught a bus and a

train into town

nana took grace to a grand theater

a sign outside read rosalie

wilkins in romeo and juliet

sparkling lights are we going to the

ballet nana

that's grace we are honey but first i

want you to look at this picture

grace looked up and saw a beautiful

ballerina

in a tutu above the dancer it said

stunning new juliet

that one is little rosalie from back

home in trinidad

said nana her granny and me we grew up

together on the island

she's always asking me do i want tickets

to see her rosalie dance

so this time i said yes

after the ballet grace played the part

of juliet

dancing around her room in her imaginary

tutu

i can be anything i want she thought

on monday the class met for auditions to

choose

who was best for each part when it was

grace's turn to be peter

she knew exactly what to do and all the

words to say

she had been peter pan all weekend

she took a deep breath and imagined

herself

flying when it was time to vote

the class chose raj to be captain hook

and natalie to be wendy and there was

no doubt who would be peter pan

everyone voted for grace you were

fantastic

whispered natalie the play was a

big success and grace was an amazing

peter pan

after it was all over she said i feel as

if i could

fly all the way home you probably

could said ma yeah said nana

if grace put a mind to it she can do

anything she wants wow

well is that what you thought of the

story good

how did you think of it hino well well

i like grace cause she's hip to stories

like me now do you remember what the

girls

told why the girls told grace she

couldn't be peter pan

because she was black yes

well you know i i especially like the

fact that she made up her own mind

whether or not she was going to play

peter pan and she did it

yep yep yep she was a spunky girl huh

oh oh here come my amigos oh would you

read us another book now please please

please

that sounds like a good idea oh good

good

hi everybody how you doing this is

ashley and matt

hello hello everybody and

i want to tell you about a story with a

very strange title

rumpelstiltskin it's a very old story

and it has

a little man and a king and lots of gold

and a queen and a baby have any of you

heard it no

i have i have yes first time i heard

this story i was about your age about

five years old my teacher read it to me

you want to hear it yeah okay

this version of this story so old story

now remember

it's been retold and illustrated by paul

o zielinski that's the name of the man

who retold this story

once there was a poor miller who had a

beautiful daughter

on his way to town one day the miller

encountered the king wanting to impress

him

the miller said i have a daughter

who knows the art of turning straw

into gold now

the king had a real passion for gold

and such an art intrigued him

so he ordered the miller to send his

daughter to the castle

straight away when the girl was brought

before him the king led her to a room

that was filled with straw he gave her

spools and a spinning wheel and said

you may spin all night

but if you have not spun destroy into

gold by morning

you will have to die

with that you locked the door and the

girl was left inside

alone there sat the poor miller's

daughter without the slightest idea

how anyone could spin straw into gold

for the life of her she did not know

what to do

she grew more

and more frightened and then

she began to weep

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suddenly the door sprang open

and a tiny man stepped in

good evening mistress miller why

are you sobbing oh

said the girl i must spend this straw

into gold

but i don't know how what will you

give me if i spin it for you

the little man asked

my necklace answered the girl the little

man took the necklace

and sat down at the spinning wheel he

pulled

three times

and the spoon was wound full of gold

thread he fitted another spool on

and

three pulls and that one two was full

and so it went until morning when all

the straw was spun

and all the spools were full of gold

when the king came at sunrise he was

amazed

and delighted but all the gold

made him greedier so he took the

miller's daughter to a larger room

filled with straw and he ordered her to

spin

this straw too before dawn

if she valued her life

the girl did not know what to do

she began to weep once more the door

opened

and the little man entered

what will you give me if i spin this

straw

into gold for you he asked

oh the ring on my finger

answered the girl and the little man

took her ring

then he set the spinning wheel whirring

and before the night was over

he had spun all the straw into gleaming

gold shortly after sunrise

the king returned piles of

gold and spools glowed in the morning

light the king rejoiced

at the sight of so much gold

but still he was not satisfied

he led the miller's daughter into a

third even

bigger room that was piled

high with straw tonight

you must spin this straw

to order the king

and if you succeed you shall become

my wife because

he thought i could not find a richer

wife

in all the world when the king had left

the little man appeared for the third

time

what will you give me if i spin for you

yet

once more he asked i have nothing else

the girl replied

then promise me that when you become

queen your first child will belong to me

the miller's daughter gasped

how could she promise such a thing then

she thought

but who knows whether that will ever

happen

and as she could think of no other way

to save her life

she promised and the little man once

again

spun all the straw into gold

when the king came in the morning and

found everything as he had wished

he married the miller's daughter and she

became a queen

a year passed and the queen brought a

handful baby boy into the world

she gave scarcely a thought to the

little man

but one day he appeared

suddenly in her room

now give me what you promised me

he demanded the queen pleaded with the

little man

he could take all the treasures in the

kingdom

if he would only let her keep her child

but her pleading was in vain

so then she began to weep so piteously

that at last the little man was moved

i will give you three days he said if by

the end of that time

you know my name you may keep your child

long into the night the queen sat

and through the next day thinking over

all the names she had

ever heard that evening the little man

returned

beginning with casper melchior

and balthazar the queen recited

every name she knew one after another

but to each one the little man replied

that is not my name the second day

the queen had inquiries made in town

searching for new names

and when the little man came that

evening she posed the strangest and most

unusual ones to him she tried

pasty ribs and

pleco ram and

string bones but he would

only reply that is not my name

now the queen grew truly frightened and

she sent her most faithful servants

into the woods to look for the little

man

the servants searched through thickets

and over clearing

deep into the forest and at last

near the top of a high hill she spied

him

he was riding on a cooking spoon around

a great fire

and crying out i brew my beer i

bake my loaves and soon the queen's own

son

i'll claim oh lucky me for no one knows

that rumpelstiltskin is my name

the servant made her way back as fast as

she could manage

and at midday reached the castle you can

imagine

how glad the queen was when she heard

the name

late that evening the little man arrived

now mr scream he said

do you know my name or do i take the

child

so the queen asked him is your name

will no no

is your name phil

in that case is your name

rumplestiltskin

yeah that devil told you that

the devil told you that shrieked

rumplestiltskin

and in a fury he jumped

on his cooking spoon and flew out the

window

and he never was heard from

again

now let me ask you a question do you

know what this story is called this kind

of story

it's called a fairy tale and it's

very very old now people behaved

differently back then in the old days

when they told ferris tales

fairy tales they believed in fairies

they believed in godmothers and

fairy godmothers and dragons and witches

and

and and all kinds of things like that

now

do you know any other fairy tales

cinderella cinderella

sleeping beauty snow white do you think

anything that happens in those fairy

stories

can happen today yeah yeah

like what the ugly dazzling yeah yes

little little children that get teased

when they're young

and then they grow up to be really

beautiful that happens today

well thank you very much madge for a

wonderful reading yeah thanks very much

what do you say we all go on a short

picture book visit

hey it's lucy reading a book to scooter

i wonder which book it is

since you're my neighbor i happen to

know

that you like your mommy a lot yes

yes so i'm gonna read you a book about

another

very nice mom would you like to hear it

yes okay it's called my mom

is excellent by nick butterworth

my mom is excellent

she's a brilliant artist

and she can balance on a tightrope

oh and she can fix

anything and she

tells the most exciting stories

and she's a fantastic gardener

and she can swim like a fish

and she can do amazing tricks on a bike

and she can knit anything

and she contains wild animals

and she throws the best parties in the

world it's great to have a mom like mine

she's excellent

did you enjoy that yeah yeah

thanks lucy excellent story it's so nice

to hear of a kid who likes his mom so

much huh

well what kid oh the one in the story

that lucy read

oh well why didn't lucy come over today

because she had to babysit scooter

well at least we got to see her in a

picture book visit mm-hmm that's right

oh keena we need to do our story picks

oh yeah okay

well one of my favorite favorite books

when i was a little boy

was koala lou it's about a koala who

wants to go to the olympics

hmm a sporting koala very interesting

the book i would like to recommend is mr

rabbit and the lovely present

it's about a girl who's trying to decide

what to get her mom for a present

well keno we need to go now oh too bad

but we'll come back soon with more

stories right oh of course we will

until then keep a story in your eyes

arrived she pals that's goodbye in

italian

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ciao

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today's story time books are timothy

goes to school by rosemary wells

amazing grace by mary hoffman

illustrated by carolyn binch

retold and illustrated by paul ozilinski

my mom is excellent by nick butterworth

koalalu by mem fox illustrated by pamela

lofts

and mr rabbit and the lovely present by

charlotte zalatau

pictures by maurice sendak

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

bing

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

story time is production of kct los

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