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what's the story amigos this is kino
with some cool stories for today's story
time
today what happens when you give a mouse
a cookie
so you read to him from one of your
books
and of course he'll ask you to see the
pictures
christopher hewitt reads a book about a
very fancy party given by lady bugatti
and a ginger ale toast for our hostess
lady bugatti and the weintraub family
reads a story about a rooster who thinks
he's the one who makes the sun come up
c*ck-a-doodle-doo
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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boy i am so tired i must have done
100 jobs for my mom
100 jobs well
what kind of jobs keno well maybe
maybe five anyway first
i had to take out the garbage and then i
had to clean my room
and and and um
are you my friend mara well
of course i'm your friend kino
of course yes why do you ask
well since you are my friend
and i am so pooped
will you please please please read me
and my amigos a story
oh keno i would read you and your amigos
a story even if you weren't tired do you
know why
because you like us oh of course i like
you
but you know why else because i actually
enjoy
reading stories it takes me back to when
i was a little girl
when my parents read stories to me and i
remember how much i learned from them
and how happy i was listening to them
so yes i would love to read you a story
okay okay uh could we have some pizza
and ice cream and something to put on it
too
and how about a piece of the moon and a
mountain of chocolate
that'd be great right guys
yeah yeah but but do you really have a
mountain of chocolate
do i really have a mountain of chocolate
no
but you know what i do have i have a
very
popular story one that i'm sure some of
you have heard
if you give a mouse a cookie and you
know what kino
what you remind me a little bit of the
mouse in this
story gee while the mouse must be a
sharp-looking hip-hopping pizza-loving
awesome fellow like me
well you'll all see have you all heard
this story
if you give a mouse a cookie yeah yeah
some of you have
i read that i have you read it at school
well some of you i'm sure will agree
with me that
keno might remind you of this mouse okay
here we go with
if you give a mouse a cookie and it was
written by
laura joffe numeroff and illustrated by
felicia bond
and laura dedicated this book to
florence and william numarov
the two best parents that anyone could
ever possibly want
if you give a mouse a cookie he's going
to ask for a glass of milk
when you give him the milk he'll
probably ask you for
a straw when he's finished
he'll ask you for a napkin then
he'll want to look in the mirror to make
sure he doesn't have a
milk mustache
when he looks in the mirror he might
notice
his hair needs a trim so he'll probably
ask you for a pair of nail scissors
whoa look at him trim his hair
when he's finished giving himself a trim
he'll uh
want a broom to sweep up oh he'll start
sweeping
he might get carried away and sweep
every room in the house and he may even
end up washing the floors as well
and when he's done whoosh you'll
probably want to
take a nap you'll have to fix up a
little box for him with a blanket and a
pillow
he'll crawl in he'll make himself
comfortable
and he'll fluff that pillow a few times
can you see what that pillow is made out
of
what is it it does it looks like a
powder puff to me
big powder puff and an old powder box
and a
handkerchief or a blanket isn't that a
neat bed for a mouse
yeah well after he's uh
fluffed the pillow a few times he'll
probably ask you to
read him a story so
you read to him from one of your books
and
of course he'll ask you to see the
pictures
when he looks at the pictures he'll get
so
excited he'll want to draw one of his
own
so he's going to ask you for what might
he ask you
for a friend crayon
very good he'll draw
a picture when the picture is finished
wow can you see how that mouse can draw
isn't that
wonderful this whole entire family
that's right that's right ralph his
whole entire family
well when the picture is finished he'll
want to sign his name
with a pen
then he'll want to hang his picture on
your refrigerator
which means that he's going to need what
do you think he'll need to hang his
picture
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scotch tape very good molly
he'll hang up his drawing and i'll stand
back and look
at it and you know what
looking at the refrigerator will remind
him that
that's right he's thirsty can you see
his little tongue
hanging out there so
you probably know this line don't you
richard you want to read it with me
he'll ask you for a glass of
milk and chances are if he asks for a
glass of milk what's he gonna
ask for he wants to want a cookie to go
with it
he's gonna want a cookie to go with it
that's just that's just like if he gives
you
a mousse of muffin if you give a moose a
muffin that's right and as a matter of
fact i think that was also written by
by laura isn't this a neat story what
was your favorite thing about this story
anybody
yes stephanie i like
from the beginning you liked from the
beginning okay
yeah i liked it from the beginning too i
found the part where you
had the beautiful picture wasn't this
mouse a good artist
yeah have you ever met a mouse that's
such a good artist no
you have you've met a mouse to a mouse
you've never seen a mouse round not even
me
i have now can you see the mouse right
there
i didn't i came under a beautiful
picture you saw a mousetrap
there you go that's right you saw this
great mouse draw a wonderful picture
i wanna read another story you want
another story
i'm with you christina so do i do too
does everyone want more stories yeah
that's great oh mara mara now i know why
you said that the mouse reminds you of
me
oh why well because he asks the boy to
read a story
and i'm always asking you to read me a
story well that's pretty good
but i was thinking more about the cookie
part
but that's right that's another
similarity
right another what
similarity that means things that are
like each other
there was an old lady who swallowed a
fly
i don't know why she swallowed that lie
perhaps she'll die there was an old lady
who swallowed a spider
it wriggled and jiggled and tickled
inside her
i don't know why she's followed that
spider
i do know why she swallowed that spider
she swallowed that spider to catch that
fly
i don't know why she swallowed that fly
perhaps she'll die
well hello christopher hello mark how
are you
hello how are you all oh we're fine and
we're so glad you came to story time
well thank you i've come well armed with
a with a storybook that is
full of magnificent pictures oh
excellent
another story now i see
some bright eager faces here now can any
of you tell me
what ah beetles bees and ants cold
they are bugs all of them bugs
they're called insects yes
yeah oh yes believe me anyway my story
this afternoon
is about a group of insects and they are
the main characters in the story that
i'm going to read you today
a story about bugs oh sorry insects
insects correct
it's about a group of insects who go to
a
very elegant dinner party and then to
the theater together
can you imagine bugs at a dinner party
huh oh oh
that reminds me that reminds me uh
waiter waiter
what is this fly doing in my soup
oh i believe that fly is swimming sir
oh yes indeed sir he is doing the
backstroke
got you there keena i already thought i
did see the fly
but i didn't see the fly anyway the
story i bought is called
lady bugatti and it is written by joyce
maxner and the pictures are by kevin
hawks
and here we go
lady bugatti is having a party starting
tonight at six o'clock
after we dine she is being so kind as to
give us all tickets
to a show down the block button beetle
dragonia fly anatole aunt madam
flutterby and you and i
are guests of lady bugatti
lady bugatti tinkles a bell do you see
hitting
the bell i don't know what there it is
look she tinkles the bell
that means dinner is served two little
mice
do it beautifully well curving their
very long tails
did you know that mice had very long
tails isn't that a beautiful dining room
now what did they have they had green
turtle soup
yellow corn mash pink radish salad
red flannel hash with blueberry slump
for dessert the last and ginger ale
toast
for our hostess lady bugatti
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lady baguette ruffles her fam
and that means dinner is done two little
mice
with a brush and a pan snuff out the
candles and sweep up the crumbs
very neat household as you can see
beetle dragonia fly hannah and
madame flutterby mom libby
and you and i troop out of the door
in the starry night and then politely
comes
lady bugatti lady bugatti waves her
muff in the air and that means the car
is coming
a bright green frog is the perfect
chauffeur
in we climb with the motor humming
dragonia fly she perches on anatole's
knees
flutterby sits on bumbly bees buck
cheese squeezes between you
and me and we drive down the avenue
with lady bugatti lady bugatti
slips off her gloves the show is about
to begin we are ushered to our seats
by a gray feathered dove
the crowd hushes and the lights dim
bumpy beetle dragonia fly
anatole aunt madame flutterby
bumblybee and you and i stared at the
empty seat on the isle
where she ought to be but no lady
bugatti
the maestro lifts his baton the show
must go on
blows on his trombone rollo rat
tiptoes a high wire piglet pooh
hums on her comb mosey moth
leaps through hoops of fire an owl
crumbs a love poem to a tree
three toads go a tapity tap
shana snake ripples up to high see
rabbit jack pulls a bat from a hat
the theater rings with shouts and chairs
and everyone claps but still
no lady bugatti
the last curtain rises and before our
eyes
there is lady bugatti in her
orange gown with black dots all around
she was in the wings all the time she
was right there watching she
certainly was she doesn't dance
no she doesn't sing
as for hoops of fire or not she
the blue ribbon prize she is giving is
to the owl
in love with a tree how wonderfully wise
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beetle dragonia fly another aunt madam
flutterby
bumbly bee and you and i drive away in
the grandest style
and that means with lady bugatti
and that's the end i love that
isn't that a strange story
yes boy what a cool bug
i mean book no cool indeed
now wasn't that a wonderfully elegant
evening they had
what kind of insect was lady bugatti
ladybug that's right who said ladybug
that's right it was a ladybug did you
all guess that did you guess that
i did they're very lucky bugs and they
are my favorite bugs
now tell me all of you tell me what's
your favorite insect
hmm what's your favorite bag b
ladybug ladybug yes very right what's
yours
ladybug and yours ladybug butterfly
butterfly love butterflies so do i what
color
butterfly do you like best they're all
different colors all different colors
right yes yellow yellow i like the
orange and black do you
oh they're very special yes who collects
butterflies here anybody
you do oh how wonderful have you got a
big collection
now did this story make sense to you
about all the children the insects going
to the theater
you see they go to their own theater and
they do their own tricks
it's like a sort of variety act do you
know what a variety act is
it's when they put a lot of different
sex on the stage and you sit there and
it's wonderful
it doesn't happen very much nowadays but
there you go i'm old-fashioned
and i like it christopher thank you for
such a wonderful reading
will you please come back and read for
us again sometime anytime i'd love to
i hope you want me back yes oh let's
hear it from christopher yay
thank you that's it no no more stories
today
well keno i have a surprise for you i
was talking to carl the other day
and he told me that one of his son's
favorite books
is little peep oh
oh he's he's coming over to read it
right that's the surprise
well no not exactly because well he told
me that his son likes to hear this story
before he goes to bed
so why don't they bring the bed over
well it would be
easier to go there so carl invited
all of us to go to their home would you
like to listen to little peep
little peep big peep all the peeps it
must be good so let's go
c*ck-a-doodle-doo what was that
doo doo doo oh my goodness there it
was again it was the
grandest sound that little peep had ever
heard but
then he hadn't heard very many because
he had only just been hatched
talk a doo-doo-doo the was perched
atop the pump
crowing to the dawn the sun came up the
animals yawned and stretched and began
bustling about the barnyard looking for
breakfast
the strutted back and forth acting
very important
get out of my way horse so the horse got
out of the c*ck's way
stand aside cow the cow stood aside
you're in my path goat and the goat
moved out of the c*ck's path
give that to me pig they gave the
the ear of the corn that he'd been
nibbling on
i only want the colonel said the
pecking at the corn you may have the cob
when i'm through and the pig looked
grateful
a small bit of corn filled one side
little peep ate it
who is this person
demanded the angrily remove him at
once
the animals rushed over and shooed
little peep to the other side of the
barnyard
you must be new here i am said little
peep
i i i was just hatched that's why you
didn't know any better said the goat
you could have gotten us into a lot of
trouble said the cow you must
never never
annoy the said the horse never
never never they all said together
never never never they all said you're
doing it together
why why that's what it is exactly what
little peter said
because he might get huffy and refuse to
crow said the pig
when the grows the sun comes up
said the goat
and if he didn't you know it wouldn't
said the horse
and then it might be night all day said
the cow and there wouldn't be any
tomorrow
tomorrow so never
never never annoy the
they said never never never
all day long the went strutting
about telling everybody what to do and
how to do it
see there little people watched and
thought what fun it must be to be that
sassy and get away with it he wanted to
be like the cop
and why not he said to himself what's so
great about a c*ck-a-doodle-doo
i bet i could do it myself so we decided
to try
that night when all the animals were
asleep little peep went to the pump
it was awfully high but there was a
bucket next to it
little peep hopped up onto the handle of
the bucket
and then onto the rim there he hopped up
to the pump
spout then he hopped onto the lip of the
cup
that was balanced on the spout
and that was as high as little beef
could go that's high enough he decided
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little peep threw back his head and
crowed
peep-a-dee-do peep seem to lack
something
somehow it's a little too tried again
louder this time
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little people couldn't understand it it
sounds all right in my head but it just
comes out all along he said
so he took a deep breath and he tried
again
his voice was changing it's surprised
little peep it made him jump
he lost his balance and he fell head
first into the tin cup
in trying to write himself little peep
jostled the cup and it fell
off the spout little peep in the cup
tumbled into the bucket with a clatter
that made the dog at the farmhouse
wake up henry said the farmer's wife
there's something wrong in the barnyard
the farmer got up and switched on the
floodlight and it lit the barnyard
up bright as day
the animals yawned and they stretched
and they began bustling about the
barnyard looking for breakfast
the was confused how could it be
morning if i hadn't crowed he said to
himself
he packed it there of corn and just
wondered about it the farmer came into
the barnyard he was in his pajamas and
he carried a g*n
but he couldn't find anything wrong
except that all the animals were awake
are you all doing in the middle of the
night what are you doing up in the
middle of the night
the farmer asked the animals go back to
sleep
and he went back to the farmhouse the
middle of the night said the cow and
surprise
why is it daylight in the middle of the
night
all the animals turned and stared at the
don't look at me
said the cop isn't my doing i did it
said the bucket by the pump the cow
looked into the bucket and saw
little peep how could you have done it
she asked tipping the bucket over so
little peep could get out
the is the only one who can make
the sun come up he said so himself
but uh the said he didn't do it
this time
the pig reminded her all the animals
turned and stared at the again
the fidgeted nervously it's true he
admitted
i didn't crow i did it said little peep
my throwing made the sun come up he
sweated over to where the was
get out of my way little peep said
you're in my path
now see here the began just then
the farmer switched off the floodlight
the barnyard was dark again
and all the animals went back to sleep
all except the and little peep
they stayed awake and argued if i
had crowed said the the daylight
would have lasted much longer than that
well it was my very first try says
little people and i'll do better with
practice
and besides says the i wouldn't
have been as so stupid as to make the
sun come up in the middle of the night
well i can't tell time yet little peeps
said i i i can't learn everything all at
once
well they argued and they fussed and
they fussed and they argued and they
were still
arguing when the dawn came the animals
yawned and stretched and began
bustling about the barnyard looking for
breakfast well which one have you made
the sun come up this time asked the cow
the stared at the sun in surprise
i hadn't even noticed it was up he said
neither had eyes a little people i mean
neither of you crawled but the sun
came up anyway said the horse
oh i think i understand said the goat
the sun doesn't come up because the car
crows the crows because the sun
comes up
pooh said the cow anybody can do that
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she grows and giggled oink
a little oink crowed the pig and the
horse and the goat
laughed so hard that they had to hold
each other up
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because they said if they their laugh
was so hard if they if they let go of
each other they fall down on their
they backs over to the and little
peep get out of the way they said
you're standing in our path
you are that's a funny funny one
i really like that oh those poor animals
must have been pretty confused when the
farmer turned off that floodlight
you thought it was the sun yeah you know
i liked little peep
he tried hard to a doodle doo so so
mara should we go out for some pizza now
or ice cream
well can you choose one or the other oh
gee that's a tough choice uh
how about uh i no what
no ice cream no p pizza
pizza pizza yeah pizza wow that sounds
fine
look let's do our story picks first and
then i will
bake some homemade pizza okay homemade
pizza
wow dips on the first slice
okay my my favorite favorite story pick
for today
yes the very quiet grape ah yes
yeah there it is i like it i like it a
lot because it has a surprise in the end
yes and you know which book i like which
is
and it's from italy it's all about pasta
you know lots and lots of spaghetti
okay can we make the pizza now in a
minute hino
i just want to let everyone know that
you're all invited to come back again
for our next story time
and until then keep a story in your
heart that's what i say
keep a story in your heart arrivederci
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ciao
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do
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today's story time books are if you give
a mouse a cookie
lady bugatti little peep
the very quiet cricket
and strega nona
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
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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story time is production of kcet los
angeles
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02x08 - Christopher Hewett, Carl Weintraub & Laurie O'Brian
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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.