02x05 - Raven-Symoné & Jamie Farr

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what's the story amigos this is kino

with some cool stories for today's story

time

today we'll hear about a duck who has to

do all the work

on a farm how goes the work called the

farmer

the duck answered quack

join raven simone for a story about a

boy who hears a strange noise

i hear a noise then jamie farr reads

about a carpenter who receives

good news will i be famous too

no question about it said the fortune

teller

once you become well known

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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do

my car is very special and teeny is the

driver

he's really tired you see that's why i

call him tini

and he's driving oh we're gonna take a

trip

to the country and we're gonna read some

stories

and also we're gonna visit old macdonald

hmm oh old macdonald had an

arm e-i-e-i-o a farm

what a a farm oh

old macdonald had an arm e-i-e-i-o

a farm oh right yeah old macdonald had a

farm

e-i-e-i-o and on his arm he had a

freckle

e-i-e-i-o with an armpit here and an

elbow here

there a knuckle here a freckle

everywhere a freckle freckle old

macdonald had a farm

e-i-e-i-o with a quack quack here and a

quack quack there

here a quack there a quack everywhere a

quack quack old macdonald had a farm

e-i-e-i-o

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did you know i have a book about a duck

who's a farmer

no ducks aren't farmers huh i'm not

falling for that one

this duck has to do all the work on the

farm by himself you know why

why well you'll see when we read the

book

farmer duck written by martin waddell

and

illustrated by helen oxenbury hmm

a working duck huh i want to see this

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there once was a duck who had the bad

luck to live with a lazy old farmer

the duck did the work the farmer stayed

all day

in bed

the duck fetched the cow from the field

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how goes the work called the farmer

the duck answered quack

the duck brought the sheep from the hill

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how goes the work called the farmer

the duck answered quack

the duck put the hens in their house how

cow's the work

called the farmer the duck answered

quack the farmer got fat

through staying in bed and the poor

duck got fed up with working all day

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how does it work quack

how goes the work quack

how does the work quack

how goes the work quack

how good is the work quack

how goes the work

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soon the poor duck grew sleepy

and weepy and tired

the hens and the cow and the sheep got

very

upset they loved the duck

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so they held a meeting under the moon

and they made a plan

for the morning

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said the hens and that

was the plan it was

just before dawn and the farm yard was

still

through the back door and into the house

crept the cow

and the sheep and the hens

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they stole down the hall they creaked

up the stairs

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they squeezed under the bed of the

farmer

and wriggled about the bed started to

rock

and the farmer woke up and he called hi

guys the work

and

they lifted his bed and he started to

shout and they banged and they bounced

the old farmer about and about and about

right out of bed

and he fled with the cow and the sheep

and the hens

mooing and buying and clucking after him

down the lane

through the fields over the hill

and he never came back

the duck awoke and he waddled wearily

into the yard expecting to hear

how goes the work but

nobody spoke

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then the cow and the sheep and the hens

came back quack

asked the duck moo

said the cow

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said the sheep cluck

said the hens which told the duck

the whole story

then mooing and buying and clucking

and quacking they all set to work

on their farm

oh boy what a bum the farmer stayed in

bed eating candies while the duck did

all the work

not fair well but the uh

duck's friends did come in they stepped

in and gave a hand and they helped chase

the farmer away

yeah but some help the farmer ran away

but the duck and the other animals still

had to do the work

how goes the work well

somebody has to do the work on a farm i

lived on a farm when i was a little girl

and there's always lots of work well at

least the other animals gave the duck a

hand with all the work

do you think that animals can really

talk to each other that's a good

question

and what would a german shepherd dog

speak german

or just plain dog well i have an english

sheepdog and

i talk to her in english and does she

understand you

i hope so because if not i've been

talking to myself for years

hey where are you going come on over and

read with us

we can't we're going to the library to

turn this book well at least come sit

down with us for a minute

okay maybe i can convince them to stay

and read with us

hi can you stay with us for a little bit

well we have to go to the library to

return this book

oh what book do you have there oh it's a

scary one it's called i hear a noise

it's pretty good

oh can you read it to us well i have to

go to the library to return it

oh come on pretty please i never heard

that story

oh okay but it's kind of scary

oh well um uh lucy if raven reads this

scary book do you think you can handle

it

i think i can all right then but if it

gets too scary for you

you just tell me and i'll ask raven to

stop

thank you for your concern okay

compadres

buckle your seat belts cause here we go

with a scary one

this story is i hear a noise the story

and pictures are by

diane good

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mother i hear a noise

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it's only the wind now go to sleep good

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night

it's just the branch against the window

sleep tight

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mother

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oh my

we're home

what do you have there none of your

business

mother what's going on here

you should all be ashamed

i want you to take them right back where

you got them and

don't ever touch them again

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good night

sleep tight

wow that was great well what did you

think were you scared

no no well i don't think the story was

that scary are you kidding

well what about the part when the dragon

takes the kid and the mom away huh

well yeah that's a little bit scary but

in the pictures they don't look that

scared well lucy who are those other

dragons in the story you know the ones

that teased the dragon that took the boy

and his mom

i don't know those teasing dragons

remind me of this big kid who used to

live down the street from my house

who was always teasing my friends oh oh

where do dragons live um

1700 bellevue lane apartment

eight you know dragons make me think of

dinosaurs

are they the same thing kino

dragons live only in your imagination

they exist

only in stories but dinosaurs

really lived a long long time ago before

there were any people

oh so maybe dragons live at 1700

imagination lane apartment eight huh

right you know what i liked about that

book

it has quite a lot of pictures oh you're

right

the pictures tell the story yeah

it is fun but i have to go now i want to

go to the library before it closes

oh hey thanks for dropping by raven that

really was a cool book

yes it was maybe your friends would like

to stay a bit longer would you like to

stay

oh say yes say yes okay okay

and i'll come back when i have more time

and i i'll read more stories

oh great okay goodbye everybody bye-bye

bye-bye raven boy that raven she sure

knows how to pick good books don't you

think

here i come here i come i'm here to read

a story

it's not too long and it's not too short

and nobody thinks it's boring

would anyone be interested in this book

that i brought

ah oh yeah i would i would

all right then let's read it you know i

never understand how people arrive here

with books

just when we're ready for another story

hmm that's

weird huh but hey i'm not complaining

cause i just

love stories see i brought this book

called the fortune tellers

oh i love this

i'm glad i have a question yes

what's a fortune teller well some people

believe

that uh a fortune teller if he if he

looks into a crystal ball

he can tell the future see like right

here on this cover

and in this story the fortune teller is

the prophet

oh what's a prophet well a prophet is

someone who makes predictions about the

future

what's a prediction well uh

making predictions is saying that uh

something will will happen uh tomorrow

for instance

and that something is something that

nobody else knows about

do you mind if i ask so many questions

uh no no because i believe that it will

it will help you to understand the story

better see some stories are a little

harder to understand than others

well is this one hard to understand well

uh why don't you ask me that after i

read it okey-dokey artie chokie

all right now the fortune tellers

by lloyd alexander illustrated by trina

shark hyman you ready yeah ready ready

okay here we go

a young carpenter was unhappy in his

trade

will i be hammering and sawing the rest

of my days

he asked himself without wife or

sweetheart

and nothing but long labor for little

pay

he kept wondering if the future held

anything better

hearing that a fortune teller had come

to the neighboring town

he set off eagerly to learn the answers

to his questions

and he found the prophet living in a

room above a cloth merchant shot

my uh my first prediction is this

the fortune teller said before the

carpenter could begin

you're going to pay me a nice fee

but that's a mere trifle to someone

destined for wealth

do you see me rich then exclaim the

carpenter

gladly handing over the coins the

fortune teller demanded

oh rich you will surely be

answered the fortune teller setting his

magic cap on his head

and gazing into the crystal ball on the

table

on one condition that you earn

large sums of money

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marvelous pride the carpenter things

look brighter already

and with so much wealth will i be famous

too

no question about it said the fortune

teller

one shall become well known amazing said

the carpenter

but now tell me will i marry and be

happy ever after

you shall wed your true love said the

fortune teller

if you find her and she agrees

and you should be happy as any in the

world if you can avoid being miserable

oh better and better said the carpenter

and shall we have a long life together

the longest

replied the fortune teller again peering

into the crystal

ball one thing only one thing

might cut it short an early demise

oh wonderful said the carpenter thank

you master seer

thank you and with that he left the

fortune teller

and he hurried homeward impatient for

all those good things to happen

now he had scarcely gone halfway when he

thought of a dozen more question he was

burning to ask

so he turned around and he ran back as

fast as he could

to his surprise and disappointment he

found the room

empty the fortune tellers cap and

crystal ball

were on the table now puzzling over what

had become of their owner

the carpenter ventured to pick up the

objects eyeing them

with fear and fascination and as he did

the door flew open and in stormed the

cloth merchant's wife

she stopped in her tracks and her eyes

popped

in astonishment a miracle she burst out

only this morning you were a scruffy old

codger

you've changed yourself into a handsome

young man

what powers you have she went on

to think i took you for a fraud and was

coming to throw

you out of the house oh honored guest

stay

as long as you like and i'll never ask a

penny's rent

if you'll tell our fortunes

well the carpenter he he tried to

explain but the cloth merchant's wife

would hear

none of it and she called in her husband

and daughter

and they all insisted so firmly that the

carpenter at last

had to put on the cap and he sat down at

the table

and he peered into the crystal ball

tell me straight off said the cloth

merchant's wife

are we to be rich with flying clothes

horses and herds of cattle

though he stared and he squinted the

bewildered carpenter saw

nothing whatever and at a loss for what

else to do

he recalled what the fortune teller had

told him

oh yes uh enormously rich said the

carpenter

as soon as you gain a lot of money

you'll have all those good things once

you can afford to buy them

well shall we live long and happy

said the cloth merchant or indeed

replied the carpenter you need only stay

healthy and keep breathing

and i asked the cloth merchant's

daughter

shall i find my true love

ah as for that said the carpenter

blushing a little i can assure you it

will happen

in fact it's happened already

hearing of this marvelous prophet the

neighbors

came clamoring to know their futures

pressing coins into the hands of the

carpenter

who told the same to each in turn

hmm if that's all there is to it he said

to himself

i like it better than carpentry so

instead of going back to his hammer and

saw

he set up as a fortune teller

his fame spread quickly and he grew

richer than he'd ever dreamed

and he married the cloth merchant's

daughter and lived

long years of happiness

as to the real fortune teller while he

had been leaning over the balcony

wondering if tomorrow would be hotter

than yesterday he

lost his balance tumbled down into a

passing cart

and jolted the driver off the seat

the frightened ox bolted and went

lunging through town into the savannah

where the fortune teller was thrown

clear only to be chased by

a lion

and as he climbed a tree to escape he

broke open a

hornet's nest and

fighting off the angry swarm was

snatched from the branch

by a giant eagle who carried him aloft

and

dropped him into a river where he was

swept downstream

and never seen or heard of again

now despite his wealth and fame the

carpenter

never forgot his benefactor although in

time he gave up wondering what had

happened to the fortune teller

the carpenter thought of him frequently

with warmth

and gratitude for having seen the future

so clearly jamie

i don't i don't think i understood all

of it well you understood a little of it

right

oh yeah yeah uh-huh well and uh if we

read it again i think you'll understand

a little bit more of it see that's

what's so great about harder stories

the more you read them the easier it is

to understand them

well one thing i did get is that the

crystal ball wasn't really magic

that's true well how did you like the

pictures in this story

i like them a lot i only like one

picture which one was that

it was someplace in here

toward the end

huh that one no that's the cover picture

this oh i know the one i bet you like

where he was falling out of the uh

off the balcony no no i like this

picture oh that picture oh

i see that's the one where they've got

some uh

cattle here and they have a horse and

somebody's leading him in and he kind of

hosted us yeah well that is nice

i like all the pictures me too i only

like the purple

i like i like two pictures this picture

on

yeah well he married a very pretty woman

didn't he oh lucy

lucy yes kino well i have a question for

you okay

okay here's my question

do you know why the lion spit out the

clown

because the lion wasn't hungry no

because the clown tasted funny

good one kino well now we'd better do

our story pics before we go

oh yeah i'd like to recommend one of my

favorite favorite scary stories only

it's not too scary and it's also funny

it's called

come for a ride on the ghost train

it's really cool and i like it and i'd

like to recommend

another story about ducks this one

make way for ducklings has been around

for many years

but it's still one of my favorites

i am looking for the future

uh say do i really need a crystal ball

or

can i just use any old ball i don't know

can you see anything

yup yup yup i can see us reading stories

in our next story time are they good

ones

only the best for my little banana slugs

out there

good good thank you jamie

lily and caitlin for coming to visit us

and until the next story time keep a

story in your heart

hustle away go borrego what's a borrego

oh it's a little lamb

well i didn't know that well i didn't

know it either

but my grandpa told me you know what

else he told me james what

well that lambs have babies in the

spring

well i knew that well i didn't know

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today's story time books are farmer duck

by martin waddell illustrated by helen

oxenbury

i hear a noise by diane goode

the fortune tellers by lloyd alexander

illustrated by trina shart hyman

come for a ride on the ghost train by

colin and jackie hawkins

and make way for ducklings by robert

mccloskey

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

story time is production of kcet los

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