02x13 - Reginald VelJohnson & Patricia Polacco

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what's the story amigos this is kino

with some cool stories for today's story

time

our first story is a sweet gift to keno

so he'll remember his baby days

the story of babushka's magical doll is

read by the author patricia polacco

in our last story for today read by

reggie val johnson

tamika gets scared when she sees in her

grandpa a face she's

never seen before

major funding for story time is made

possible by

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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

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and by the national endowment for

children's educational television

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lino doesn't know this yet but i

discovered that today is his birthday

so i invited a bunch of his friends over

and they're bringing a gift

we're going to surprise him

hi mara hi did you know that today is my

birthday

uh yes i i did know keno why

well see look see i got all these books

from my folks

wow can you get them out of there huh

yeah hey

you know i haven't forgotten your

birthday

as a matter of fact i have made up a

poem in your honor

you did gosh can i hear it oh sure

it goes like this what is it what is it

on your birthday

you are the brightest star it's your

chance to empty the cookie jar

you may pick dinner stay up late invite

your friends to celebrate

these happy words i whisper in your

ear because we've been together

another year there's one more thing i'd

like to say

i'm really happy you visit every day

oh gee thanks mara

that's really really nice that's

that's the nicest thing anybody's ever

ever

ever done for me well to top it all off

i'd like to read you a short story it's

called

more more more said the baby oh well

that's a baby book

well hold on when you're older this book

will help you remember

the tender love you received when you

were a little guy

well okay i'll give it a chance

good it was written and illustrated by

vera b

williams little guy

this is little guy little guy runs away

so fast little guy's daddy has to run

like

anything just to catch that baby up but

little guy's daddy catches that baby up

all right

he throws that baby high and swings that

baby all around

oh you're a great little guy little

guy's daddy sings to little guy

just look at you with your perfect

belly button right in the middle

right in the middle right in the middle

of your fat

little belly then little guy's daddy

brings that baby right up close

and gives that little guy's belly a kiss

right in the middle of the belly button

more laughs little guy more more

more little pumpkin

now this is little pumpkin

little pumpkin scoots away so fast

little pumpkin's grandma has to run like

anything just to catch that baby up but

little pumpkin's grandma

catches that baby up all right she holds

that baby

nose to nose and swings that baby all

around

oh my best little grand baby little

pumpkin's grandma sings to little

pumpkin

just look at you with your ten little

toes

right on the ends right on the ends

right on the ends of your two little

feet good enough to eat

then the pumpkin's grandma brings that

baby right

up close and tastes each of little

pumpkins toads

more last little pumpkin more more

more little bird

now comes little bird little bird falls

asleep

so fast little bird's mama has to move

like anything just to catch that baby up

my little bird's mama lifts that baby in

her arms all right

she rocks that baby back and forth

and gets that baby ready for bed oh

my best little baby little bird's mama

sings to little bird

just look at you with your two closed

eyes

right on either side right on either

side

right on either side of your neat

little nose

then little bird's mama brings that baby

right up close

she gives that little bird a kiss right

on

each of her little eyes mmm

breathes little bird

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hi make yourselves comfortable

boy this birthday is turning out pretty

good a poem

stories my friends come over and i feel

good

gee it's too bad i only get one birthday

a year

i got kino this birthday cake but he

doesn't know about it yet

so nobody tell him okay okay okay

hey what's going on oh nothing hey as

you can see

your surprise has arrived cool oh manic

let's open it okay let's see what's in

this okay here we go

wow neat great fantastico

awesome what is it keno

it's a stamp with your name and your

picture on it

so you can personalize all of your books

oh wow that is cool let's give it a try

on one of your new ones okay

yeah yeah yeah all you have to do is

dip it in the ink pad oh it's got a pad

and on the book wow hey so that's how it

works huh

i like it hey a million thanks to

everybody

you're welcome that is really neat gee

whiz

hi everybody hey hi patricia

we're celebrating kino's birthday yep

it's my birthday today

well happy birthday kino would you like

to hear a story

sure yeah patricia did you bring one of

the books that you wrote

i certainly did it's called babushka's

doll means

grandmother in russian and this story is

a russian story

babushka also means this

how many of you have seen a scarf like

this

well old ladies in russia or

grandmothers or

babushkas all wear these let me show you

how my grandmother wore

hers she wore it tight against her

forehead like this

she wrapped the edges around and then

tied it not on her neck but on her chin

and she was a farmer so when she went to

work outside she would take this part

and push it out so the sun didn't shine

in her eyes

and you'll notice in this book the old

babushka

also is wearing a babushka scarf

now this story is not only about an old

grandmother but it's also about a little

girl named

natasha can you say that natasha

now natasha wasn't a bad girl really but

natasha did not

like to hear the word no

she didn't like to hear the word wait

either

she'd visit her grandmother almost every

weekend

and she was always so happy to see her

she'd throw out her arms and say oh

babushka babushka i'm so happy to see

you and her grandmother would say

dear come inside

after a while though natasha

got bored and she'd stand on one foot in

the other and say there's nothing to

do she went outside and saw her

grandmother doing the wash and she

tugged on her dress and said

babushka bush do you see the swing

hanging over in the tree

i want you to put me in the swing and i

want to swing

and i want to swing now and her

grandmother says can't you see

i have to do the wash if i don't do it

it won't get done

hmm natasha wrap but i want to swing

bobby can i want to swing

now when her grandmother hung the wash

up

natasha tugged at her skirt again and

said babushka

look over by the fence there's a goat

cart hook the goat up to it and take me

for a ride i want to go

now i want to go now

your grandmother said turn in the bar

shop i have to hang up the clothes

the sun will only be out for a very

short time

but i want to go now natasha said

then when her grandmother went out to

feed the goats

natasha rubbed her tummy and said bob

which guy i'm

hungry i want to eat and i want to eat

now

my grandmother said but i have to feed

the goats they can't feed themselves

do you think natasha is a very nice

little girl

no no i don't think she's very polite is

she

well her grandmother being a good

grandmother took her in the house and

she fixed her some lunch

while they were eating lunch natasha

looked up on the high shelf just above

the table

and she saw a doll and she said to her

grandmother babushka

whose dolly is that and her grandmother

said you know

theater that was my doll when i was a

little girl

just like you

natasha said oh i bet you played with

her all the time

the grandmother thought for a moment and

said you know

i only played with her once

natasha sat up and said once well i want

to play with a doll and i want to play

with her now

do you think the grandmother let her

play no

she did though the grandmother took the

doll down

off from the shelf and she handed the

dolly to natasha

and she said their dear now i have to go

down to the market to get

vegetables you play with the doll while

i'm gone

and natasha grabbed the doll and held it

close

and the babushka walked out the front

door and the moment the door

closed the little doll

got up off from the floor and started to

walk around the room

she was alive

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now at first natasha was scared i would

be if i saw a rag doll get up and walk

around

but the little doll said oh natasha

let's go play

i'll do all the things your grandmother

wouldn't do with you

natasha thought for a moment and thought

okay

they did well they ran a pill

downhill over hell over dale and they

squealed and

laughed and ran suddenly the little doll

stopped

she pointed at the tree where the swing

was hanging

and she said natasha there's a swing

oh put me in the swing and i want you to

push me in the swing

and i want you to swing me for a long

time and i'd like you to do it now

natasha said well all right so she put

the little doll in the swing

and she pushed the doll and pushed the

doll

and pushed and the doll was squealing

higher

higher well natasha said

you know i'm getting tired i'd really

like to stop pushing you now

and the little doll snapped at her and

said i want you to push me

higher and you keep swinging me as long

as i want to swing and i

want to swing now

then the little doll stopped

it pointed over at the fence and it saw

the goat cut and said oh natasha i know

what you want to do for me now

put me in that goat cart hook up the

goat

and take me for a ride and i want to go

now

natasha put the goat on the goat cart

with the little belly in the cart and

she pulled that goat uphill

downhill over hill over dale

and pretty soon natasha was getting

tired because that goat was hard to pull

and she said you know i'd really like to

stop

and the little doll pointed at her and

said you aren't going to stop until

i tell you to stop i want you to keep

pulling that

goat and i want you to do it now

then the little doll stopped

suddenly it rubbed its little belly and

it looked at natasha and said

now i'm hungry and i want to eat and i

want to eat

now do you hear me now

natasha said but i'm just a little girl

i wanna eat

now the doll said

so natasha fixed her some lunch

she had noodles and peas and tea from

the simivar and raisin cake

and the little doll started to eat and

then took her little hands and picked up

the noodles and squeezed them between

her fingers

and then slapped her hand in the middle

of the soup and splattered it everywhere

natasha thought oh dear the little doll

stopped and she looked at her own dress

and said

oh no i got my dress all

dirty natasha i want you to wash my

dress and i want you to wash it now

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so natasha did as she asked

she washed the dress she hung it out to

dry

she even ironed the dress it was hard

work but she got it done

when the little doll put the dress back

on she suddenly

looked at herself and said oh no

you didn't do it right

and then the little doll puffed up full

of

air screwed up her face and

pinched her fist and jumped up and down

and started to scream

she had a tantrum how many of you have

ever

done that i have

well natasha started to cry

she says you know i'm just a little girl

i can't do all of these things no matter

what i do for you you don't

like it and you want everything now now

now

just then the front door opened

and when it opened the little doll

fell limp on the floor and in

locked natasha's babushka she saw

natasha crying and said dear what's the

matter and it does it was saying well

you see that doll

well when you left she came to life and

she made me

work work work and she made me do all

sorts of things and she wanted

everything

now now her grandmother looked at the

doll and said now natasha

she looks just like a plain old doll to

me

she's not moving are you sure you didn't

have a very

bad dream natasha thought for a moment

she said well maybe i did

your grandmother gave her a kiss said

why don't you go out and play

natasha thought she went out to play

as she went outside and the door closed

behind her

the grandmother picked the doll up off

from the floor

and put her back on the shelf

as she did this the grandmother said to

the doll

you've had quite the day with that

little girl haven't you

a little doll came to life again leaned

forward to old babushka

and gave her a wink

and babushka went on being a wonderful

grandmother

the doll went back to being just a plain

old doll

and natasha what do you think happened

to natasha what she wasn't freddie

she wasn't a brat anymore absolutely

right

do you think the grandmother ever played

with this doll when she was a little

girl

she says so in the story just once just

once why do you think grandma

only played once because she wants

everything

the doll did the same thing to her but

why would the doll do

that because she was being so so greedy

she wanted everything her way i want

this

i want that give me this me me me i

i wasn't she was not a good little girl

she wasn't a bad girl

but she forgot her manners for a little

time

gosh thanks for reading that story for

my birthday patricia

hey i have a neat idea why don't we're

going on a picture book visit

that's right all right well i'm ready

let's go hey it's reggie

reading to jamie in brighton i wonder

what story they chose

story is called grandpa's face by eloise

greenfield

illustrated by floyd cooper that sounds

good

mm-hmm i think so too here we go

tamika loved her grandpa she loved the

quiet way he talked

and the surprise of his loud laughter

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she loved the stories he told long

stories that he sang and talked

a little bit each day until he reached

the end

most of all though tamika loved her

grandpa's face

grandpa's face told everything about him

it was always changing from glad

to worried to funny

to sad grandpa could ask a question

without saying one word

and even when he was mad with tamika his

face was a good face

and the look of his mouth and eyes told

her that he loved her

you shouldn't have done that to me

grandpa would say and tamika would tell

him she was sorry

and then she would kiss the sturdy brown

of his face

sometimes tamik and grandpa would go out

together just the two of them

they would leave mom and daddy at home

he'd go

for a long walk a talk walk grandpa

called it

they'd walk through the park or just

around the neighborhood and talk about

things that they saw and felt and

remembered

in the summer grandpa was an actor

and some saturday afternoons he and his

friend miss gladys they would take

tamika to the theater to watch him act

on the stage

if mom and daddy said that the play

wasn't too grown up

the theater was tamika's favorite place

to go

make believe things happened there she

would sit in the front row and watch

grandpa turn into another person

changing his face the way he walked and

talked and sang

and even when he turned into somebody

else's grandpa tamika didn't mind

it looked true and it felt true but she

knew it was just a play

and when it was over and all the actors

came out to bow and bow and wave

she would clap so hard her hands hurt

one day tamika went to grandpa's room to

ask for a story

she stopped at the door because grandpa

was rehearsing

he had his book in his hand and he was

reading his lines aloud

then he stopped reading and he looked

into the mirror

slowly changing his face

to a face that tamika had never seen

before

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it was a cold hard face it had a tight

mouth and

cold cold eyes it was a face that could

never love

her or anyone tamika stood watching

his grandpa changed his face back and

read some more lines from his book

then she went to her room and sat on her

bed her stomach was filled with scared

places that made her want to cry

she had not known that grandpa could

look like that

and now that she did know she couldn't

be sure that he might not someday look

at her with that face

that could not love she got out a jigsaw

puzzle and played with it quietly until

mom and daddy had finished cooking

dinner

then she washed her hands and sat down

at the table

but she didn't feel like eating she felt

like doing bad things

all the things that grandpa didn't like

so she made a hill out of her mashed

potatoes let her green peas roll down

the hill

stop playing in your food tamika mama

said

and eat your dinner tamika looked at

grandpa's face

and it was still the face she knew so

she put a fork full of greens in her

glass and washed her water turn a muddy

green

then she tapped on her plate with her

spoon while the grown-ups were trying to

talk

i think you want to leave the table

daddy said

no daddy tamika wine

i think you'd better to me good daddy

said go to your room now

and you can eat by yourself later tamika

began to cry a little

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she looked at her mother and her father

but when she started to look at grandpa

too

she felt the scared places in her

stomach again

and she was afraid to look then she

cried harder

she stood up crying loud and not

watching what she was doing

and her hand bumped her glass and

knocked it over sending green water

splattering

onto grandpa's shirt and across the

tablecloth

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tamika what in the world grandpa said

tamika turned and looked at him then

expecting to see the face she had seen

in the mirror

but it was grandpa's face she saw

grandpa's mad face

but it was still the one that loved her

mom and daddy look worried tamika mama

said

what's this all about tamika hunger head

and didn't answer

stop crying now daddy said he wiped her

face while grandpa went to change his

shirt

then grandpa came back he took her by

the hand

let's go he said time for a talk walk

tamik and grandpa walked toward the park

holding hands

now tell me what's wrong grandpa said

tamika's hand felt good inside grandpa's

but she wasn't sure she felt like

talking

she watched the lines and the sidewalk

for a little while

then she said you have another face

grandpa

i do grandpa said uh-huh i saw it in the

mirror

tamika said and it's a real mean face

too

they sat down on the grass and tamika

let the words spill out

the mouth is mean and the eyes are mean

and i don't like that face grandpa you

said

but that's just pretending tamika

grandpa

said you know that

but it might not always be pretend

tamika said

grandpa thought for a moment oh

i see he said then he put his

hands around to make his face and made

her look at him

i love you you said i could

never ever look at you like that no

matter what you do

you're here are you sure tamika said

as sure as i am that you love me grandpa

said

tamika knew that she was safe then safe

enough to hug grandpa and

kiss the sturdy brown of his face

grandpa hugged her back

let's go home now he said on the way

home

grandpa stopped to talk to an old friend

but tamika didn't pay any attention to

what they were saying

she was much too busy watching a wave of

laughter

as it spread across her grandpa's face

[Laughter]

nice story wasn't it yeah i liked it

that was a tasty story treat uh mara

even though it's the end of story time

for today can we please keep the party

going please please please

oh of course kino here

is your birthday k kino wow

oh man let's dig in hey thanks for the

surprises everybody

until next time keep a story in your

heart

on you buddies that's goodbye and

russian

okay i gotta make a wish all right

i made my wish ready one two three

oh very good

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today's story time books are more more

more said the baby

by vera b williams babushka's doll

by patricia polacco and grandpa's face

by eloise greenfield illustrated by

floyd cooper 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

b

so that families everywhere can share

the joy of reading with their

children additional funding is provided

by the corporation for public

broadcasting

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by the annual financial support from

viewers like you

and by the national endowment for

children's educational television

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