01x08 - Gedde Watanabe & Lois Williams

[bunniefuu]

what's the story amigos this is

kino with some cool stories for today's

story time

today the adventures of maxi the taxi

riding dog

read by getty watanabe stop thief

a woman cried out and in a flash i made

a dash

as jim cheered me on with a shout oh

maxie

a man stole her purse and to make

matters worse

all her groceries had spilled on the

ground

and the incredible story of a determined

mouse who learns how to surf

he learned to ride the waves kneeling

and standing

he learned the pull-out the stall the

cut-back

and will there be enough cookies for

everyone find out

as lois williams reads our last story

that's

one each said sam and victoria

they smell as good as your grandma said

joy

and look as good said simon

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 know i don't know where he is he's

usually

very punctual for our story time that's

strange he said for me to be here at

this time and

he said he'd have some books for me here

hmm i wonder where he is

do you think i should call him he lives

close by oh well

yeah i've been here with my friends all

along

and you didn't even see me keno

you are one of a kind yup yup yup yup

i am special oh

well mr special your friend getty has

been waiting here to read some books for

our story time

hey getty what's the story pal well mr

special did you bring those books that

you told me about

oh getty this pizza have cheese on top

do dogs bark do cats have elbows

i got the books right here come on down

getty let's go to the story circle getty

we are ready for some cool stories

yeah this makes me happy all over hi

you going to sit on my lap justin hi

everybody

hi hi daddy uh i left a book there for

you getty

uh oh you're sitting on it

well i guess this is the story seat huh

good one kitty well the book you just

sat on

is about a dog named maxie who rides all

day long

in a taxi with his owner jim the driver

the taxi tough but nice

streetwise maxie it's streetwise maxie

hmm that means he could take good care

of himself in the city yeah

wait a minute that's kind of neat he's

tough

but nice and he likes people you know i

have a dog

and he's nice and he likes people

but i don't know how tough he is yeah i

have a dog

oh you do do i do i have two you have

two

name is dogs tesla well this is

baxty and i'm going to read you

maxie the hero okay and this was written

by

deborah and sal baraka and pictures by

mark

oh good let's hear about maxie

here we go you ready yeah yeah

this is a dog named maxie

jim drives a big taxi and i'm his dog

maxie

each morning we rise with a son we greet

our boss lou have a biscuit or two

then set out to make our first run

the day is just dawning and jim is still

yawning we drive down the street to the

pier

there's no one around and you can't hear

a sound but the tude of a tug that draws

near

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hey can you take us uptown to the hotel

crown

asked two sailors who just come ashore

we sailed in from tahiti

i'm mal he's petey never saw a real

sailor before it does that that's right

this story rhymes doesn't it well

we drive up the street and hear a drum

beat

we see a parade passing by the music's

so

loud there's such a huge crowd watching

giant balloons in the sky

it's already noon lunchtime so soon

we head for joe's frankfurter cart jim

always buys three

two for him one for me

and after a blueberry tart

we heard someone calling ah my meatballs

they are falling

it's a chef with a tray of spaghetti

i'm elate for the wedding across the

town i'm a herding and please try to

keep the campus daddy

then we got quite a shock when we drove

around the block

there were three boys who had the same

face

we triplets they said call us and

ned and fred our ball team just took

second place we dropped off the boys

then

heard a loud noise stop thief a woman

cried out

and in a flash i made a dash as jim

cheered me on with a shout out

a man stole her purse and to make

matters worse

all her groceries had spilled on the

ground

they were rolling tomatoes and bouncing

potatoes and peaches and pears by the

pound

the thief tried to flee it was now

up to me i had to run faster to catch

him

i was close to his heel and he slipped

on a peel

and at last i was able to snatch him

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he gave me a fight but i held on so

tight

the police came along very fast

the crowd yelled hooray as they led him

away

the big chase was over at last

yeah next day in the paper

they told the caper my picture appeared

on page one

jim patted my head your hero he said

i'm proud of you that was well done

next i loved my new fame

people knowing my name what a brave dog

you are they would shout

that's him there goes maxie and look

there's his taxi

as he traveled about as another day

in we made some new friends had lots of

adventures too

tomorrow there's more who knows what's

in store

come along i'll be looking for you

do you like that yeah yeah

good i want to tell you a story about

this book you see the barakas

they're the writers of this book they

once

found an actual cab driver that drove

around with a dog in his car

they were so surprised they ran home and

wrote their first book which was called

the adventures of taxi dog you know that

one don't you justin don't know why

do you alex have any of you ever had

something

so wonderful happen to you that you

wanted to write it down

you know one time i went fishing with my

dad and i put a marshmallow on my line

and i caught a fish that was so

gigantic so huge so stupendous

that he wouldn't even fit in the boat

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uh yeah a giant marshmallow almost

two feet wide oh three feet long

almost yeah come to think of it almost

three weeks

i would be falling asleep oh well this

story yeah

this story is really fun it's about

a surfing mouse if you can believe that

i think i think i seen this story at

london school

[Music]

this book is about a surfing mouse that

almost gets into big trouble with a big

fish

would you read it for us kitty yeah

surfing mouse

huh uh-oh wait a minute i have to get

something just a second

what what's he doing um this start

calls for my shades cool

all right nicely dude yeah yeah

i guess surf's up i guess we better

start reading broderick huh

totally man oh wow well this is

broderick by

edward ormandroid and illustrated by

john loreck

yeah you all ready

ready serves up ready ready ready all

right surf's up

in the broom closet of a house by a lake

there once lived a young mouse named

broderick

he was passionately fond of books

fortunately for him the children of the

house

loved books too they brought armloads of

them from the library

every week the children read the books

during the day

and broderick chewed on the bindings

during the night

he always judged a book by its cover

one night broderick came upon a book

that had been

left open there was a portrait of a

mouse on the title page

he was so fascinated that he read the

book five times in a row and forgot to

chew the cover

hmm amazing he thought

why didn't i know about this before

he became so eager to read that he

couldn't think of anything else

he never chewed on a book now unless it

was about cats

what he particularly loved were stories

about famous mice

he simply could not read too often about

norman who was the doorman at the art

museum

and winner of the sculpture contest amos

who guided ben franklin in almost every

important step of his career

miss bianca niles and bernard who

rescued a norwegian poet from the

dungeon of the black castle

and anatol who became the first vice

president in charge of cheese tasting at

the duval

cheese factory in pervy

project began to take long walks by the

lake

listening to the waves and dreaming

dreams of glory

i too will make my mark in the world he

thought

the other mice in the house they laughed

at his ideas

just being a mouse is a full-time career

in itself they said

what more do you want

i want to do something that no mouse has

ever done

before project answer

but he didn't know what that might be

one night there was a different kind of

book on the floor

as broderick read it his whiskers

twitched and his tail began to tremble

eureka he thought here's my career at

last

he read the book and studied the

pictures for many hours

there was only one thing he needed in

the light of the early dawn he searched

the house for it

from basement to attic finally

he found an old tongue depressor in the

medicine cabinet

since there was nothing better it would

have to do

he used it that's right and he made it

smooth with a scrap of sandpaper and

waxed it with a candle and

then he raced down to the lake carrying

the tongue depressor over his head and

shouting

sears up three minutes later

he had his first wipeout broderick

persisted in spite of hundreds of

wipeouts fatigues

head coals and other discouragements

in order to be close to his work he

built

a small cabana on the beach

he spent almost every daylight hour in

the water

and many moonlight ones as well

and as the weeks and the months went by

he gradually mastered the

art of surfing

well he learned to ride the waves

kneeling

and standing he learned the pull out the

stall the cut-back

he could do the foot to the rear turn

the leaning turn the kick turn

learned to walk the board to ride on one

foot

to do the head dip and to hang ten as a

matter of fact

by using the tip of his tail he could

hang 11.

by the time he could ride away while

doing the handstand

broderick felt that he was ready to make

his name in the world

he packed a few simple belongings and

said goodbye to the other mice

they all shook their heads more

convinced than ever that he was crazy

it was generally thought that he would

come to a bad end

broderick smuggled himself aboard an

eastbound bus

and had an eventful trip to the coast

the passengers were so careless

with their crumbs that he became a

trifle plump and had to go

on a diet

one sparkling afternoon the bus arrived

at the seaside

and broderick hopped off the air smelled

deliciously of salt and hot dogs and

suntan lotion

galls creaked in the sky and the rumble

of surf sounded over the dunes

broderick's tail began to tremble with

excitement

holding his surfboard over his head he

raced up the warm slope of the dunes

he never reached to the top

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suddenly the sunlight was blotted out a

terrible rustling noise was heard just

above overhead

and before he could even twitch a

whisker he was snatched into the air by

an

hungry seagull

the only thing that saved broderick from

being instantly swallowed was his

surfboard

which became stuck crosswise in the

gall's bill

the intrepid mouse quickly recovered his

wits

he lashed out with his tail and in a

voice that

shook with indignation's cried i'm beat

me

villain the gull was so astonished

at the way his lunch was behaving that

he dropped it

and broadway plunged down into the

atlantic

he kept diving under the surface until

the gull became discouraged and flew

away

then he climbed out and sat on the board

the salt water made him blink and sleep

something tickled his tail

he looked down and saw a large fish

sniffing at it he jerked it out of the

water and wrapped it around his neck

he had never dreamed that any waves

anywhere could be

so enormous my doom is sealed

he thought in despair if the gulls don't

get me the fishes or one of these

waves will farewell frame

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a huge swell rose up under him

as he would yes as he went up

the face of his surfboard began to slide

forward

very well project thought doomed i may

be but at least i can go to my doom in

style

he stood up to heaven oh yes

but he didn't he stood up made a smart

kick to the right

and began to sh**t across the face of

the wave

he had never gone so gloriously fast in

his life

his ears rippled and snapped behind him

like flags in a gale

he shouted defiance and shook his fist

at fate

the wave crested behind him glancing

back

he saw to his amazement that a young man

was racing down toward him on a sleek

fiberglass board hold your breath

the young man shouted he knelt

and seized broderick in his cupped hands

just before the collapsing wave wiped

them both out the young

man's name was tim he carefully squeezed

the water out of broadway

gave him artificial respiration and took

him home

while braddock was recovering tim made

him a beautiful surfboard out of balsa

wood and painted it

brilliant red they decided that tim

would be broadway's manager and that

they would go on tour together

after a few weeks spent in polishing

their routines

they flew to southern california

broderick made his professional debut at

malibu beach

he dazzled the crowd with a sun bleach

fur

deeply tantal and superb display of hot

doggy

whenever broderick went he created a

sensation

police had to control the crowds the

cell of binoculars and telescopes sword

when the surf was rough tim rolled the

waves with broderick daringly balanced

on his finger when the waves were small

and smooth

broderick and tim surf side by side with

the grace and precision of a ballet

dancer sometimes broderick rode his

board in the bow wave of tinsborn

on very calm days broderick took to

water skis

he was towed by a battery-powered

motorboat

and when he was going fast enough a kite

fastened to his shoulder carried him

high into the air he'd demonstrate his

steely nerves

by sh**ting between the pilings of

huntington beach pier

broderick and tim went on the round

world tour

hundreds of thousands of fans watched

them in the surf mexico

hawaii australia and africa millions

followed

every move on television wealthy

and loaded with honors broderick

eventually retired from public

life he built a modest chalet on the

shore of the lake where he had first

learned his art

here he spent his declining years

entertaining

writing his memoirs talking to young

aspiring young mice

who flocked from far and wide to hear

his words of encouragement

he also sent a large anonymous donation

to the library

it had always bothered his conscience

that he had chewed up so many bindings

in his heedless youth the

end oh that was great

boy you know what i really like this

story because no matter what

all his friends made fun of him but he

decided to learn how to surf and he did

it isn't that great

yes oh well man if broderick were my

friend

i'd invite him home for dinner and we'd

have lots of pizza

oh well how about for

dessert a cookie oh

well it isn't the other book that you

brought about cookies

yup yup yup i invited a teacher from

school

from my school to read it oh yes i know

and i'm so glad she's with us hello miss

lois how are you

i'm delighted to be here and i

have a special surprise oh

surprise oh i have surprises i love it

me too cookies will you please read this

book for us

live oh my goodness of course

christinely i have that can i say

here miss lois why don't you take the

story seat

and i'll watch your cooking

oh cookies

oh man just make sure they get over here

please

a cookie and a story the perfect

sandwich

all right kino asked me to read

his favorite story for today

and it is called the doorbell

ring pat hutchins she

wrote the story and she drew the

pictures

this is a kind of a short story so it's

really important to look at the pictures

too

at the end i want to see how many things

you saw

happening in these pictures there is a

cat

i think in every single picture so watch

for you

there we are we begin the doorbell ring

you can see it's in the kitchen and you

can see there are

cookies

i've made some cookies for tea said mom

good

said victoria and sam we are starving

share them between yourselves said ma i

made

plenty that's six each said sam and

victoria

they look as good as grandma said

victoria

they smell as good as grandma said sam

no one makes cookies like grandma

said ma as the doorbell rang

it was tom and hannah from next door

come in said ma

you can share the cookies

that's three each said sam and victoria

they smell as good as your grandma said

tom

and look as good said hannah

no one makes cookies like grandma said

ma

as the doorbell ray

again it was peter and his little

brother

come in said ma you can share the

cookies

that's two each said victorian sam

they look as good as your grandma said

peter

and smell is good nobody makes

cookies like grandma said ma as

the doorbell rang

good for you it was joy and

simon and their four

cousins come in said ma

you can share the cookies

that's one each said sam and victoria

they smell as good as your grandma said

joy

and look as good said simon

no one makes cookies like grandma said

ma

as the bill ray

and rang

oh dear said mars the children stared at

the cookies on their plates

perhaps you better eat them before we

open the door

we'll wait said sam

it was grandma

with an enormous tray of cookies oh nice

to have so

many friends to share them with said

grandma it's a

good thing i made a lot oh

and no one makes

cookies like grandma said ma

[Applause]

well that's all the story time we have

for today

you know besides broderick though there

are a lot of other famous mouses

there are yup yup yup yup my favorite

favorite

is anatole by eve titus oh what's yours

mara yeah

oh well i like frederick

and it was written by leo leone

frederick

that reminds me a little bit of

broderick yeah they even sound a little

alike don't they

yeah that's right and that is it for

today's story time

please come again to share books and

stories with us excellent

more exciting stories next time that's

right

goodbye friends and remember keep a

story

in your heart hey wait a minute

what about the cookies

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today's story time books are maxie the

hero

by deborah and sal baraka pictures by

mark buehner broderick by edward

ormendroid

illustrated by john loreck the doorbell

rang

by pat hutchins frederick by leo leone

and anatole by eve titus pictures by

paul galdone

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

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

[Music]

story time is production of kcut los

angeles

[Applause]