01x14 - Paula Poundstone & Kim Karnsrithong

[bunniefuu]

what's the story amigos this is kino

with some cool stories for today's story

time

today kim kansatong reads a book about a

girl who wants to get rid

of her pesky little brother i tried

magicking him away but he ate my book of

spells

i tried sending him to the moon but he

got the rocket all wet

yeah then join paula poundstone for a

story about a restaurant with enough

room for a wild crowd

the hyenas walked in and laughed right

out loud

[Laughter]

they never had seen such a wonderful

crowd we've come from afar

for our family meeting there are seven

of

us we do hope you have seating

and a cheerful girl who suddenly thinks

she has a

big problem school is no

place for me said chrysanthemum my name

is too long

it scarcely fits on my name tag and i'm

named after a flower

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bing

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viewers like you

and by the national endowment for

children's educational television

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oh yes kino said you might drop by

did you bring a book yes we brought this

one

it's one of our favorites you think kino

will like it

well i don't know i know he likes most

stories

and he'll be especially glad that you

came by to visit i hope he gets here

soon because we have to go to the

grocery store with my mom

hi amikos hi kino i brought my cousin

with me this time

oh hi cool hey look you guys

i have ten dollars where did you get

them

well you see i did a couple of jobs for

my mom and she paid me three dollars

plus i got a good report card so my dad

gave me three dollars

and and then i there were three dollars

that i was saving so now i have

ten dollars oh you're almost rich

kino hey wait a minute that's nine

dollars

what three plus three plus three is nine

dollars

it is

oh right nine dollars is what i have

nine buckaroos am i still rich almost

lucy

well keno it doesn't really matter how

much money you have it's

it's what you do with it that counts

what are you gonna spend your money on

kino

oh i'm gonna buy something real cool

well

why don't you put at least a little bit

of it away for a rainy day

well why would i need it when it's

raining and not now

no it's it's just a saying kino

rainy days means hard days so if you

save it for a rainy day

then you're saving it for when you

really really need it

oh rainy day huh

i don't know i was thinking maybe i

really really need a new skateboard or

or a model airplane i don't think you

have enough money for those things

but but i'm almost rich well

hmm not enough money huh nope

oh yeah yeah this could turn out to be

harder than i thought

well could we read a story for a while

while i decide what to do with my money

well we brought one it's called my

little brother by debbie gliori

oh what's it about well it's about a

girl like me

and she has a little brother and he's a

pest and then something happens

what what what happened you'll soon find

out this is my little

brother my little brother is

a pest

he wakes me up at dawn with his leaky

teddy

copies everything i do

follows me around like a shadow

and won't let me go to sleep at night

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yuck sometimes i wish my brother

would just disappear i tried

magicking him away but he ate my book of

spells

i tried sending him to the moon but he

got the rocket all wet

yeah oh no i plowed him with my

vanishing cream

but that didn't work i tried feeding him

to a wild beast

but she only yawned and kept searching

for a place to have her kittens

one night something woke me up oh

it was dark the wind was making a

ruin noise i looked to see if my little

brother was awake

but his bed was empty

i got up to go look for him maybe he was

in the kitchen

the little past the kitchen was quiet

he wasn't there

maybe he was watching television the

little menace

i looked in the living room the living

room was empty

he wasn't there either

i began to feel a little worried

maybe the vanishing cream had vanished

him

maybe the magic spell had worked

i was really worried i looked up

the chimney maybe the rocket had really

taken him to the moon

i want my mommy i remember

how nice he was when he wasn't being a

pest

i remembered how small he was

my little brother i had a horrible

thought

maybe the wild animals had really eaten

him

i almost started to cry and

then i heard a noise a strange sort of

noise

the sound came from the linen closet i

peered around the door

and i saw our cat

and five kittens and curled around the

mall was my little brother

not vanished not magic not gone to the

moon

and not eaten by wild animals just

fast asleep and even though

he is a pest i don't ever want my little

brother

to disappear again

the end well how'd you like it

oh yeah i liked it it made me think of

my sister mariana you know the little

shrimp

sometimes she's a pest but sometimes i

like her too

and we both like the same cereal in the

same cartoons do you get along with your

cousin kim

yes we hardly ever fight what do you say

jeffrey do you get along with kim yeah

we don't fight we're just like friends

oh that's good that's nice oh keno did

you decide what you're gonna do with

your money

oh i don't know i'm thinking real hard

and

i just can't decide well why don't you

do what lucy says and save it for a

rainy day

well yeah well huh maybe i will

huh hi everybody got some really good

books

anybody interested hey yeah let's go

come on i'll be over in a minute

see everybody i'm almost rich i got

nine dollars really are you gonna buy a

book

oh book a book yeah i'll buy a book

that's the perfect idea

i thought you were gonna save your money

for a rainy day now there's a thought

save it for a rainy day

yeah i don't know but i just can't

decide

got some picture books oh yeah which

ones

well i've got one here called dinner at

the panda palace have you ever heard of

it

it's by stephanie cominson and

illustrated by

nadine bernard westcott oh gee i i don't

know it but i'd like to know it

well here goes okay

dinner at the panda palace the panda

palace

opened at six one night all the tables

were ready

the room was just right as the diners

arrived

they were graciously greeted mr panda

himself

helped each one get seated

an elephant came first with a trunk that

was gray

he'd been out on the road selling

peanuts all day

i'm enormously hungry my bag weighs a

ton

i would like to sit down have you a

table for one

the lions came next they were dropped

off outside

welcome your highnesses how was your

ride traffic was awful

the bumps were bad too we are so glad to

be here

is there a table for two

along came some pigs who needed to hide

quick mr panda

let us inside there's a wolf on our

trail we must lose him you see we'll

stay here for dinner

have you a table for three

a proud group of peacocks with feathers

fanned wide was a most

splendid sight for the others inside

with heads

held up high they walked through the

door do we need reservations

or can you seat four

and then one by one the monkeys arrived

they went swinging across to their table

for five

the giraffes had just painted the

rooftops in town

if there's a table for six we'd like to

sit down

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the hyenas walked in and laughed right

out loud

they never had seen such a wonderful

crowd we've come

from afar for our family meeting there

are seven of us we do hope you have

seating a party of penguins coming

straight from a ball waddled in through

the door hats

jewels and all this is just the right

place for our

elegant date please mr panda is there a

table for

eight the honey bear all-stars with

gloves ba*ls and bats had played a great

game with the tiger striped cats

we hit three home runs so we're feeling

just fine now it's time for a party is

there room here for

nine here a chick there chick where's

mother hen

oh here she comes now to her table for

ten

the restaurant was humming the waiters

move fast

feeding 55 diners was no easy task

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then through all the noise came a knock

at the door

a tiny mouse asked is there room for

one more mr panda looked left

mr panda looked right all the tables

were filled at the palace that night

did he say i'm sorry we have a full

house we can't fit

one more not even a mouse

[Music]

no not mr panda he found one more seat

in no time the mouse had a fine meal to

eat

[Music]

so if you're ever hungry and going that

way just say mr panda

here's what he'll say no matter how many

no matter how few there'll always be

room at the palace for you

[Music]

oh that was great paula you know what

story time is like the panda palace in

norway

well because see if you can guess okay

do you know why story time is like the

panda palace

can you guys guess tracy or or kim or

jeffrey well story time is like the

panda palace because

it's just like in the story no matter

how many no matter how few

there'll always be room at story time

for you

and i think that's true indeed that's

true

i thank you very much hey did you guys

notice that the pigs were eating corn

well that's what pigs eat corn oh what

do the other animals eat

can you remember what the other animals

were eating you know the monkeys ate

bananas

oh yeah yeah

the bears probably have oh yeah the pigs

had corn

and the hyenas have bones

you're right yeah hyenas have a big old

plate of bones yum

yum the mouse is eating cheese

yeah that's right that's right

the mouse had a piece of cheese i would

have had pizza

yeah we know about that would you like

to hear another story

yeah yeah this is a story of a little

girl

who was very happy until all of a sudden

she thought she had a really big problem

oh just like me what problem do you have

well i can't decide what to do with the

nine buckaroonies that are burning a

hole in my pocket

is that the girl's problem no it's not

that same problem

well what is it then we're just about to

find out

by kevin hinkies oh good i want to hear

that story too

ready yeah

the day she was born was the happiest

day in her parents lives

she's perfect said her mother absolutely

said her father

and she was she was absolutely perfect

her name must be everything she is said

her mother

her name must be absolutely perfect said

her father and it was

chrysanthemum her parents named her

chrysanthemum

chrysanthemum grew and grew and grew

and when she was old enough to

appreciate it chrysanthemum

loved her name

she loved the way it sounded when her

mother woke her up

she loved the way it sounded when her

father called her for dinner

she loved the way it sounded when she

whispered it

to herself in the bathroom mirror

chrysanthemum

chrysanthemum loved the way her name

looked when it was written in ink

on an envelope she loved the way it

looked when it was written with icing on

her birthday cake

and she loved the way it looked when she

wrote it herself with her fat orange

crayon

chrysanthemum chrysanthemum

chrysanthemum

chrysanthemum thought her name was

absolutely perfect

and then she started school

on the first day chrysanthemum wore her

sunniest dress and her brightest smile

she ran all the way hooray said

chrysanthemum

school but when mrs chud took roll call

everyone giggled upon hearing

chrysanthemum's name

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it's so long said joe it scarcely fits

on your name tag said read rita pointing

i'm named after my grandmother said

victoria you're named after a flower

chrysanthemum wilted she did not think

her name was absolutely perfect

she thought it was absolutely dreadful

the rest of the day was not much better

during nap time victoria raised her hand

and informed mrs

chud that chrysanthemum's name was

spelled with

13 letters that's exactly

half as many letters as there are in the

entire alphabet

victoria explained thank you for sharing

that with us victoria said mrs chud

now put your head down

if i had a name like yours i'd change it

victoria said

as the students lined up to go home i

wish i could thought chrysanthemum

miserably

welcome home said her mother welcome

home said her father

school is no place for me said

chrysanthemum

my name is too long it scarcely fits on

my nametag

and i'm named after a flower oh pish

said her mother your name is beautiful

and precious

and priceless and fascinating and

winsome said her father

it's everything you are said her mother

absolutely perfect

said her father chrysanthemum felt much

better after her favorite dinner

macaroni and cheese with ketchup and an

evening filled with hugs

kisses and parcheesi

that night chrysanthemum dreamed that

her name was

jane it was an extremely pleasant dream

the next morning chrysanthemum wore her

most comfortable jumper

she walked to school as slowly as she

could

she dragged her feet in the dirt

chrysanthemum

chrysanthemum chrysanthemum she wrote

she even looks like a flower said

victoria as chrysanthemum to the

playground

let's pick her said rita pointing let

smell her said joe

chrysanthemum wilted she did not think

her name was absolutely perfect

she thought it was absolutely dreadful

the rest of the day was not much better

during nap time victoria raised her hand

and said

a chrysanthemum is a flower it lives in

a garden with worms and other dirty

things

thank you for sharing that with us

victoria said mrs chud

now put your head down i just cannot

believe your

name victoria said as the students lined

up to go home

neither can i thought chrysanthemum

miserably

welcome home said her mother welcome

home said her father

school was no place for me said

chrysanthemum

they said i even look like a flower they

pretended to pick me

and smell me oh pish said her mother

they're just jealous

an envious unbegrudging and discontented

and jaundiced said her father

who wouldn't be jealous of a name like

yours said her mother

after all it's absolutely perfect said

her father

chrysanthemum felt a trifle better after

having her favorite dessert

chocolate cake with buttercream frosting

and another evening filled with hugs

kisses and parcheesi

that night chrysanthemum dreamed that

she really was a chrysanthemum

she sprouted leaves and petals victoria

picked her

and plucked the leaves and petals one by

one until there was nothing

left but a scrawny stem

it was the worst nightmare of

chrysanthemum's life

chrysanthemum wore her outfit with seven

pockets the next morning

she loaded the pockets with her most

prized possessions and her good luck

charms

chrysanthemum took the longest route

possible to school

she stopped and stared at each and every

flower

chrysanthemum chrysanthemum

chrysanthemum

the flowers seem to say

that morning the students were

introduced to mrs twinkle the music

teacher

her voice was like something out of a

dream as was everything else about

her the students were speechless

they thought mrs twinkle was an

indescribable wonder

they went out of their way to make a

nice impression

mrs twinkle led the students in scales

then she assigned roles for the class

musical

victoria was chosen as the dainty fairy

queen

rita was chosen as the spiffy butterfly

princess joe was chosen as the

all-important

pixie messenger and chrysanthemum was

chosen

as a daisy

chris santa mum's a daisy chrysanthemums

and daisy

joe rita and victoria chanted thinking

it was wildly funny

chrysanthemum wilted she did not think

her name was absolutely perfect

she thought it was absolutely dreadful

what's so humorous a*s mrs twinkle

chrysanthemum was the answer

her name is so long said joe it scarcely

fits on her name tag rita said pointing

i'm named after my grandmother said

victoria she's named after a flower

my name is long said mrs twinkle it is

said joe

my name would scarcely fit on a name tag

said mrs twinkle

it would said rita pointing and said mrs

twinkle

i'm named after a flower too you are

said victoria yes said mrs twinkle my

name is

delphinium delphinium

twinkle and if my baby is a girl i'm

considering chrysanthemum as a name

i think it's absolutely perfect

chrysanthemum could scarcely believe her

ears

she blushed she beamed

she bloomed

chrysanthemum chrysanthemum

chrysanthemum

joe rita and victoria looked at

chrysanthemum longingly

call me marigold said joe i'm carnation

said rita

pointing my name is lily

of the valley said victoria

chrysanthemum did not think her name was

absolutely perfect

she knew it

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epilogue overall the class musical was a

huge success

chrysanthemum was absolutely perfect as

a daisy

victoria made the only mistake she

completely forgot her lines as the d

fairy queen

chrysanthemum thought it was wildly

funny and she giggled throughout the

entire dance of the flowers

eventually mrs twinkle gave birth to a

healthy baby girl

and of course she named her

chrysanthemum

oh i used to feel funny about

my real name lucy's a nickname

did have any of you ever felt funny

about your names

no tracy no how about you kim

jeffrey what's the nickname for jeffrey

jeff yeah jeff uh-huh

yeah it's when they shorten it up yeah

and do you have a

a longer name kim that's it i don't like

it when people call me

kimi or kimberly or anything oh yeah

short for kim would be

yeah what's your real name lucy

lucenda it was my grandmother's name oh

i like mrs twinkle she was good to

chrysanthemum and she even gave her baby

the same name

oh i bet i know what the baby's

nickname's gonna be when she grows up

chris might be now

look this is a chrysanthemum

oh hey that's pretty hey it must have

been cool to

have a flower named after you well that

was a great story paul and thanks so

much for reading it to us

now before we go we must do our story

picks

i'd like to recommend train leaves the

station

it's one of those books where the words

sound like music

or or in this case like a train oh

maybe i'll use my money to buy that book

the first time it rains

here's one of my favorites it's called

now everybody really hates me

it's also about a little girl and her

little brother it's a very funny book

oh well maybe i'll bite that one instead

oh it looks like it's raining outside

it's raining really hard i wonder for

how long that rain's gonna come down

only until it hits the ground i'm out of

here this is the rainy day i was waiting

for

oh oops sorry i didn't say goodbye i'm

gonna buy some books and ice cream

well i'm sure glad i waited for a rainy

day i didn't even have to wait that long

hustle away go pals bye keep a story in

your heart

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today's story time books are my little

brother

by debbie gliori dinner at the panda

palace

by stephanie calminson illustrated by

nadine bernard wescott

chrysanthemum by kevin henke train

leaves the station

by eve miriam illustrated by dale

gottlieb

and now everybody really hates me

by jane reed martin and patricia marks

illustrated by roz chast

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

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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angeles