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03:29Can I have some?
03:31No, I was talking about the history quiz today.
03:33I thought it was easy.
03:34Oh, sorry Buster.
03:36My dad made this incredible cake and I've been thinking about it all day.
03:40Lucky you.
03:41No, unlucky me.
03:43I'm not gonna get any because it's for a wedding.
03:45And my grandma's making dinner tonight.
03:48You mean that cheesy tuna noodle thing?
03:52Probably.
03:52Probably.
03:53Then you might want to stock up on some real food.
04:00Chocolate, nougat, caramel, peanut brittle, and gummy eels.
04:06A balanced meal of all the major food groups.
04:09But where's the cheesy tuna noodle thing you usually make?
04:17Sorry to disappoint you, Arthur.
04:20Your father left dinner for us.
04:22He did?
04:24Hooray!
04:24I mean, how nice.
04:27You don't have to do any work, Grandma.
04:30Thank you, dear.
04:32Now, if you both clean your plates, I have a big surprise for you.
04:40Whew.
04:41Now, what's the surprise?
04:43We get to watch really scary movies until Mom and Dad come home?
04:47Are we going to a toy store and you're gonna buy us any two toys we want?
04:52No.
04:53Your father left us some of the wedding cake.
04:59I really shouldn't.
05:01I already feel like I'm going to burst.
05:04Maybe just one tiny bite.
05:11Serves your right for eating two slices of cake.
05:15Would you like me to read to you, Arthur?
05:17That's what I used to do when you had an upset stomach.
05:20Yes, read to us, Grandma.
05:22Oh, not fairy tales.
05:25They're so boring.
05:26Why don't you read the new Scare Your Pants Off book,
05:29Blood-Sucking Beavers of Bavaria.
05:31No!
05:32I bet these fairy tales are just as exciting and frightening as that book.
05:38Maybe if you're a baby.
05:40Grandma, I think Arthur wants to go to bed early.
05:44All right, settle down, you two.
05:47Now, let's see.
05:48Ah, here's a good one.
05:51Once upon a time, there lived a poor woodcutter who had two children.
05:56A boy named Hansel and a girl named Gretel.
06:00One year, a great famine fell upon the land.
06:04Huh?
06:04Where am I?
06:07Oh, dear brother.
06:09We are stranded in the middle of a deep, dark forest with only a crust of bread.
06:15You can have my half.
06:16I'm stuffed.
06:17It's not for eating, silly.
06:19It's for marking a trail so we can get back home.
06:22See?
06:23But some animal has been eating the crumbs and now we're lost.
06:30Mmm, bread.
06:34Let's walk a little further into the forest.
06:36Maybe we'll find a nice stranger who will help us.
06:39Boy, I'm tired of these leather shorts.
06:43They may be cute, but I'm freezing.
06:45Me, too.
06:46All I get is this dress with lace trim.
06:49It's like wearing a tablecloth.
06:51I'm freezing.
06:54Great.
06:55Now we're even more lost.
06:57We'll probably be eaten by blood-sucking beavers.
07:00Any more bright ideas?
07:02D.W., I think we're in luck.
07:04Look.
07:05This is no ordinary house.
07:10There are chocolate chips in the walls.
07:12And the windows are made of fruit rolls.
07:15Hey, look what's in the mailbox.
07:18Jump food mail.
07:21Mmm, spicy nacho flavor.
07:24Must be a letter from Mexico.
07:26Well, well, well, what have we here?
07:29Two scrumptious little children.
07:32Oh, sorry, sir.
07:34We were just admiring your house.
07:36It's, um, very tastefully decorated.
07:40This?
07:40This is nothing.
07:42Wait till I take you to the mall.
07:46Semi-sweet chocolate cookware.
07:50It's a cinch to clean.
07:52Oh, look.
07:54The sight of all this candy is making me sick.
07:57Can we go home now?
07:58Right after I buy a new oven.
08:02Let's see.
08:03You look like you're a medium.
08:10Let us out.
08:10Let us out.
08:11Let us out.
08:12Let us out.
08:13Oh, I will.
08:14As soon as the oven heats up.
08:17Now, where did I put those cloves?
08:20Arthur, the bars on the cell are candy canes.
08:23We can lick our way out.
08:25We can lick our way out.
08:26I can't.
08:28I'm too full.
08:31We're ready.
08:34I'm melting.
08:36I'm melting.
08:38Tommy and Timmy.
08:39Tommy and Timmy, you saved us.
08:41I'm not Tommy.
08:43I'm pesky.
08:44And these are my brothers.
08:46Whiny, grouchy, angry, noisy, creepy, and stinky.
08:50And you're our princess, Doe White.
08:53I'm not Doe White.
08:55I'm D.W.
08:56The D stands for Dora, and the W stands for Winifred.
09:00You must go with us, princess.
09:01It's nap time.
09:03No.
09:04Put me down.
09:06Arthur, go to Grandma's.
09:08Get help.
09:09Nice pants, Arthur.
09:15Where's the flood?
09:17Gotta find something else to wear.
09:19A cape.
09:20This'll do.
09:23That's even better.
09:25Who are you, super doofus?
09:30Come in.
09:32You will have to excuse my appearance.
09:35I've been a little under the weather.
09:37Grandma.
09:38What creamy skin you have.
09:41It's my new moisturizer.
09:43And what frosty hair you have.
09:45And what dark, chocolatey eyes.
09:48The better to be eaten by you.
09:55Arthur Reed, did you eat Grandma?
09:58It wasn't Grandma.
10:00It was that wedding cake.
10:02I've heard that one before.
10:04Sheesh.
10:05I spent my day cleaning and cooking for the Tibbles, and this is what I find.
10:10I'm telling Mom and Dad.
10:12Don't worry, little girl.
10:14It is I, Buster the Woodcutter.
10:17I'll have your Grandma out of him in a jiffy.
10:19It's me, Arthur.
10:21No, it isn't.
10:22You're a Grandma eating wolf disguised as Arthur.
10:25Or maybe you're a Grandma eating alien disguised as a wolf disguised as Arthur.
10:31Either way.
10:32No!
10:33Are you all right, Arthur?
10:38Did you have a nightmare?
10:40It's probably from all those fairy tales you were reading.
10:44See?
10:45They are scary.
10:46My stomach really hurts.
10:49Chew these, and in a little while you'll feel better.
10:53First you get us really lost in the woods.
11:00Then you eat Grandma, and now you've sold my Merry Moo cow for some beans.
11:04But, but they're magic beans.
11:07That's what I think of your magic beans.
11:11Whoa!
11:15You better hope there's another toy for me at the top of that thing.
11:19Why couldn't I have dreamed an elevator for this thing?
11:29Wow!
11:38Boy, this place is bigger than home hardware heaven.
11:42Watch it, you silly goose.
11:45Hey, D.W. will love this.
11:47Fee-fi-fo-fum.
11:51Ah!
11:52Who are you?
11:53I am everything you've ever eaten.
11:56Eight and a half years of food.
11:59And that's my goose.
12:08I hope this is one of those dreams where I can fly.
12:11Ah!
12:12What a cute little goose.
12:19Quick, D.W., we've got to get out of here.
12:21The giant's coming.
12:22Stand back.
12:23I'm not just a woodcutter.
12:25I'm also a licensed beanstalk cutter.
12:37Timber!
12:38I feel much better.
12:47I guess that last fairy tale really did the trick.
12:51And from then on, Arthur never ate too much candy.
12:55And he lived happily ever after.
12:57The end.
12:58Well, maybe the happily ever after part will come true.
13:08A great thing about books is that there are all different kinds.
13:15There's fiction that's made up stuff.
13:18And non-fiction that's real stuff.
13:21There's picture books and chapter books.
13:23There's books about history, like this one.
13:27Ah!
13:32History can be pretty exciting.
13:36Here's a book about the ocean.
13:39Ah!
13:40What's the matter with you?
13:46You're raised in a barn?
13:52What are you doing, Arthur?
13:53I can't hear you!
13:56That's better.
14:02I'm looking at all the different kinds of books.
14:04Books?
14:05Who cares about books?
14:33Buster hits the books.
14:35Yahoo!
14:45Am I the only one whose brain hurts?
14:47The last time I saw this many numbers in a row,
14:50I was paying for a broken window out of my allowance.
14:53Who has the answer? Buster?
14:55You better get it right.
14:57Is it... zero?
15:00Correct!
15:02I thought I was gonna die.
15:05Don't forget, your book reports are due tomorrow morning.
15:08What are you writing your book report on, Arthur?
15:11I've read a lot of good books lately.
15:13I'm trying to choose between the two best.
15:15If you can't decide, I read an exciting book about magnetic fields that I highly recommend.
15:23No, thanks. It can't be as good as the case of the creaky shadow.
15:27What about you, Buster?
15:29It's intriguing reading and comes with six free magnets.
15:32Um, sounds great, Brain, but I plan to do what I always do.
15:36Book reports are no sweat.
15:42Only one thing could have set the horses free.
15:46The creaky shadow.
15:48Opposites attract.
15:55This has been proven by scientific research performed in my room.
16:05Arthur, bedtime!
16:07Ten more minutes, Mom!
16:09I have to finish this book report!
16:11You look tired.
16:18Hmm...
16:19I had to get up extra early to finish my book report.
16:23Didn't you do one?
16:24Of course I did.
16:25Here it is.
16:27Pa Kanung!
16:28Creature with the big face!
16:30I wish I read that!
16:31Can I borrow it?
16:32I don't think so.
16:34Why not?
16:35I've returned everything I ever borrowed from you.
16:37Even that gum!
16:38I can't loan it to you.
16:40Ha Kanung!
16:42Hey!
16:43I saw that on the Giant Monster Channel last night.
16:46Big?
16:47Ugly?
16:48Misunderstood?
16:49I cried.
16:51Buster!
16:52Is that why you can't loan your book to me?
16:54You did your book report about a movie?
16:57So?
16:58That's how I do all my book reports.
17:00All movies come from books.
17:03They don't?
17:05Uh-oh!
17:06Be a book.
17:08Please, be a book.
17:10Sorry.
17:11No book called Pa Kanung, Creature with the Big Face, was ever published.
17:15But it was a movie in 1957.
17:17Would you like the video?
17:20No, thank you.
17:22This is a tragedy.
17:23What are you gonna do?
17:25My dad's a pilot.
17:26Maybe he can fly me out of the country.
17:29No.
17:30Mom's making my favorite dinner tonight.
17:32Ratburn will give me an F for sure.
17:36Knowing Ratburn, probably F minus.
17:39Maybe even a G or an H.
17:41I guess I should tell Mr. Ratburn before class,
17:44so everyone doesn't have to watch me flunk.
17:50You sure you wanna go through with this?
17:52It's a far, far better thing I'd do than it would be to cry and run home.
18:02Did he give you an F?
18:04No.
18:05He said if I hand in a report on a real book by Friday, I won't get penalized.
18:10That's great!
18:11Something weird is going on.
18:19Buster put down his fork and there's still food on his plate.
18:22Why are you sad?
18:23All you have to do is read a book by Friday.
18:26Arthur, I have a confession to make.
18:29I've never read a whole book in my entire life.
18:36Sure you did.
18:38Nope.
18:39Yes you did.
18:40No.
18:41What about the Scare Your Pants Off books we all read?
18:44I watched the TV show.
18:50Whatever book Buster reads for this report will be the first book he's ever read.
18:54He needs suggestions.
18:56This molecular theorem book changed my life.
18:59It's his first book.
19:00Go easy.
19:02My first book was Ponies Go to Paris.
19:05Yuck.
19:06Well it can't be anything too hard.
19:08I tried to read something hard and didn't read anything else for a long time because it was hard.
19:14Molecules are very small.
19:15Small things are easy.
19:17Molecules are not easy.
19:18Forget science.
19:19I can't even spell molecules.
19:20Hey!
19:21Sherlock Holmes.
19:22Sherlock Holmes.
19:23Google.
19:24Short book.
19:25Simple.
19:26Very, very short book.
19:27Hey!
19:28Don't scare your pants off book.
19:29You'll like it.
19:30Curse of the Jumping Peanut.
19:33See, you're reading it already.
19:37So how'd you like the book?
19:39I only got to page two.
19:42I told you it should be easier.
19:46That's an easier book.
19:47Sam and the Sandwich Company.
19:49Read it right here.
19:50Don't move until you're done.
19:54The sun was shining the morning that Sam won a tour of the spectacular Sandwich Factory.
20:01You lucky boy.
20:02You found the golden sandwich and get to see my Sandwiches and Sandwiches.
20:13Yeah?
20:14Well, I found the golden sandwich by biting it and broke off all my teeth.
20:20But you want all the real sandwiches you can eat.
20:24But I can't chew them.
20:26Do you have a soup factory?
20:28I'm starving.
20:29When you break off all your teeth, it becomes so hard to eat.
20:35Oh, I'm so hungry.
20:40Buster, at least he made it to page three.
20:48Buster, why did you stop reading?
20:51I can't read that book.
20:52It makes me too hungry.
20:54It was too hard.
20:55We need an easier book.
20:56The Jolly Jollisters?
20:59It's a family that solves mysteries.
21:01And they're very happy while they do it.
21:03You'll love it.
21:04The Mysterious Ink Stain.
21:06This is a mystery that we must solve.
21:11Yes, Bud.
21:12We must.
21:13How could this ink stain be on our couch when we Jollisters only write with pencils?
21:20Woof, woof.
21:21Woof.
21:22Woof.
21:23Woof.
21:24Woof.
21:25Woof.
21:26Woof.
21:27Could you guys please keep it down?
21:29I'm trying to watch TV.
21:31Woof.
21:33Woof.
21:35Woof.
21:36Woof.
21:37Woof.
21:38Woof.
21:39Woof.
21:40Woof.
21:41Woof.
21:42Woof.
21:43Woof.
21:44Woof.
21:45Woof.
21:46Woof.
21:47Woof.
21:48The car with no driver climbed into my room and said,
21:52Let me drive you to Afka Fazoom.
21:55The Bondo Garimers waved as we passed.
22:00Downhill we went slow and uphill we went fast.
22:04Hovers and Baringters and a piece of the moon asked to come along to Afka Fazoom.
22:13I said, Let me out.
22:15There is not enough room and I don't care to go to Afka Fazoom.
22:24Why did we stop?
22:25Well, nothing happens if no one is reading the bark.
22:28And it was just getting exciting.
22:30Well, I didn't want to go anyway.
22:33He stopped reading.
22:34How can my best friend not like reading?
22:43You don't know all the great stuff you're missing by not reading.
22:47So I'm not a reader.
22:49I'll just become rich and pay the brain to do that simple stuff for me.
22:53I think I might be too busy discovering new planets to read to you, Buster.
22:57Here's a book anyone can finish.
23:00What's that other book?
23:02Robin Hood.
23:03If you really work at it, someday you can read a book like this.
23:06Cool.
23:08The sky is blue.
23:15The ocean is blue.
23:18I can't do it.
23:23Wait a minute.
23:26So you finished it?
23:27Not really.
23:28Buster!
23:29You're going to flunk.
23:30I couldn't finish because I was too tired from reading this.
23:31I'm almost done.
23:32It was so exciting I couldn't stop.
23:33You read that much of Robin Hood?
23:34Hey, you can't be a faster reader than I am.
23:35You never read.
23:36I guess the problem was, I just wasn't reading anything I really liked.
23:40I mean, blue, come on.
23:41I don't know.
23:42I can't do it.
23:43I can't do it.
23:44I can't do it.
23:45I can't do it.
23:46I can't do it.
23:47I can't do it.
23:48I can't do it.
23:49I can't do it.
23:50I can't do it.
23:51I can't do it.
23:52I can't do it.
23:53I can't do it.
23:54I can't do it.
23:57Is it okay that my report has a cliffhanger ending?
24:03Next time, start reading when you're supposed to and you'll be able to finish the book.
24:07So, I don't flunk?
24:09No.
24:10I can't wait to read the next chapter of Robin Hood.
24:15Me neither.
24:16Let's do it now.
24:18Oh wow, this is great.
24:20You done with this page yet?
24:22Almost.
24:23Hold it.
24:24Okay, turn.
24:26This is the best book I ever read.
24:28I thought it was the first.
24:30That too.
24:31Visit us online at pbskids.org or America Online keyword PBS Kids.
24:41You can find Arthur books and lots of other books too at your local library.
24:47And this is my doggy-waggy pal.
24:48He's so smart.
24:49He does amazing tricks.
24:50Watch.
24:51How?
24:52Sit.
24:53Lie down.
24:54Good doggy pal.
24:55I found my glasses mom.
24:56DW took them.
24:57I'm not DW.
24:59I'm Arthur.
25:00Duh.
25:01Give me back my glasses.
25:02Mom.
25:03I'm Arthur.
25:04And some tiny little thing happened.
25:05So, right away I'm calling my glasses.
25:06And this is my doggy-waggy pal.
25:07And this is my doggy-waggy pal.
25:08He's so smart.
25:09He does amazing tricks.
25:10Watch.
25:11How?
25:12Sit.
25:13Lie down.
25:14Good doggy pal.
25:15I found my glasses mom.
25:16DW took them.
25:18I'm not DW.
25:19I'm Arthur.
25:20Duh.
25:21Give me back my glasses.
25:22Mom.
25:23I'm Arthur.
25:24And some tiny little thing happened.
25:25So, right away I'm calling for help.
25:26Whoa.
25:27What were you doing?
25:28Proving that I could be Arthur.
25:29I can do anything you can do.
25:30Oh, yeah?
25:31I bet you can't do this.
25:32My math homework.
25:33Ha.
25:34Ha.
25:35I win.
25:36I sat on my dog.
25:37DW tailspins.
25:38Awww.
25:39D.W.
25:40Tailspins.
25:41Oh.
25:42Oh!
25:43Oh, yeah.
25:44Yes, sir, great.
25:45Awww.
25:46What were you doing?
25:47Proving that I could be Arthur.
25:49I can do anything you can do.
25:50Oh, yeah?
25:52I bet you can't do this.
25:53My math homework.
25:54Ha.
25:55I win.
25:56Ah.
25:57I sat on my dog.
25:59D.W. tailspins.
26:00Throw it back! Like this, Kate!
26:09No! Try it again!
26:13I feel so alone sometimes.
26:18A dog touched my nose!
26:21The best book in the series is The General.
26:24Nah, I like The Specific better.
26:27And what about The Random?
26:29It was so unpredictable.
26:30What are you talking about?
26:32Nothing that would interest you. We're talking about books.
26:35I like books.
26:40The Vegemorph books make the scare-your-pants-off books look like kid stuff.
26:45I just read the trilogy. Part 1, then Part 1, Part 2, and Part 1, Part 3.
26:51You can't read it, D.W. No pictures.
26:53Do you realize I found something I can do that D.W. can't force me to include her in on?
27:04This is probably the greatest moment of my life.
27:08I don't want to read those dumb books anyway.
27:11Don't want to? You can't read.
27:14I don't need to read. I can make up better stories than those.
27:17Oh, yeah?
27:19Yeah!
27:19Oh, yeah?
27:20Yeah!
27:21Oh, yeah? You think you can do better?
27:23Prove it. Write a story.
27:26Okay, I will.
27:27Oh, yeah?
27:28Yeah!
27:29Well, I'm out of here. This show's no sign of ending soon.
27:32Oh, yeah?
27:33Yeah!
27:33There you go. Write your story.
27:38I'll show you.
27:42I don't know how to write.
27:45If you can't write, you're wrong.
27:47Write?
27:50Then he laughed at me and said I didn't know how to write.
27:54Which is true. Brothers are so mean.
27:58I know what it's like. I had three older brothers.
28:03I bet one Arthur is as bad as any three brothers.
28:07More cookies, please?
28:10You know, D.W., you don't have to be able to write to tell stories.
28:14Huh?
28:15A long time ago, stories weren't written down.
28:19They were?
28:25Stories were told out loud.
28:27Like television?
28:29No.
28:30These stories excited your imagination and filled you with wonder.
28:36And when you heard a good story, you'd pass it on.
28:46It was done without computers or expensive equipment.
28:52And without even writing them down.
28:56Hmm.
28:57I don't have to know how to write.
29:00I can tell a story out loud.
29:02That's how they used to do it.
29:05Hmm. She's right.
29:06Hey, you know what story you should tell?
29:08The story of how I got pounded...
29:09Nobody cares.
29:11This is my story.
29:12A long time ago, a brave warrior had traveled far away.
29:18And she really wanted to get home fast.
29:21And this warrior was a queen named O.D.W.S.
29:26But the sea got made rough by Poseidon.
29:29He was really mad at the queen.
29:32What did I do?
29:40What did I do?
29:44The queen sort of forgot she took Poseidon's prettiest unicorn.
29:48How'd that get there?
29:53Why don't I get to have a unicorn?
29:57I'm a queen and everything.
29:58It's not fair.
30:00We're doing it.
30:15Poseidon's wave can't hurt us.
30:18But big rocks can...
30:21We survived.
30:35But our queen is nutty.
30:37Don't you hate it when you get water in your ear?
30:42There's a good joke here about her being crabby.
30:45But I'm not saying it.
30:49The queen ordered her crew to help search the island to find a way home.
30:54Because nothing was more important to any of them than going home.
31:00Man, am I hungry.
31:03Here, try these.
31:05Just as the queen was about to eat the strange flowers...
31:09You know, what's the big deal about going home anyway?
31:14He's right.
31:15Why did we want to go home?
31:17And who are you?
31:19The weird plants they ate gave them um, um, knee, um...
31:23It made them forget everything.
31:26The queen ran back to the beach.
31:28But she was too late.
31:31They'd all eaten the weird old plants.
31:33And now they didn't want to go home or do anything worth doing.
31:37Oh, this is bad.
31:39Then it got worse.
31:41The queen found out what this was.
31:45Cyclops Island.
31:51Cyclops brought them to his cave for lunch.
31:53And I mean for lunch.
31:55Because he'd eat anything.
31:58We were going somewhere.
32:01I wish I could remember where.
32:06Is this where we were going?
32:11Must be.
32:12Well, I'm going to take a nap.
32:14Travel always makes me tired.
32:16The queen had a smart plan to escape the Cyclops.
32:27Hey!
32:29An eclipse!
32:33Hey!
32:34Cyclops!
32:35Everyone's squeezing out under the big boulder!
32:37They won't get away!
32:45The queen and her crew got in Cyclops' robo.
32:49Which was just the right size to be their ship.
32:54Cyclops was too dumb to untie his ear.
32:57So he couldn't stop them.
32:59I'm bad with knots.
33:01That's why I don't wear sneakers.
33:07The queen reminded the crew that they had to go home.
33:13And they all said,
33:14Oh yeah!
33:16And remembered.
33:17But the way home was full of dangers.
33:21Including the sirens.
33:22Who played music that hypnotizes you
33:24so you'll crash your boat off their rocks.
33:26Crazy bus!
33:27Crazy bus!
33:28Right down the crazy bus!
33:30Right down the crazy bus!
33:32I must go to that music!
33:35Don't go there, queen!
33:36You'll crash the boat!
33:37But it's so beautiful.
33:43They had to tie the queen to the mast
33:45until they passed the siren's spellbinding song.
33:48It's the most beautiful music I've ever heard.
33:56But the worst danger was the last.
34:01They had to sail between a cranky monster
34:03and a swirl pool named
34:04Scylla and Charybdis.
34:07Hey, you can't say whirlpool
34:09but you can say those big names.
34:10Quiet!
34:11It's my story.
34:13Don't you even think about
34:14coming onto my property!
34:16Somebody's old sock!
34:37They were happy.
34:38They got past all the monsters
34:40and they were almost home.
34:41But, oh yeah, they got hit by a thunderbolt before they got there.
34:50After so many years, the queen was finally home.
34:56I made it! I'm home!
35:00The first thing she did was run to tell her friends all about her adventures.
35:05Because that's a good way to tell a story, by telling it, like this, the end.
35:11Good story, huh?
35:12No, nobody fought crime with mutant potato powers or anything.
35:16That just proves you can't make up a good story.
35:19No, it proves you don't know what's a good story.
35:23Grandma told me that story.
35:25It's called The Odyssey.
35:27It's from long ago and people still read it.
35:30I changed it a little to test you.
35:33Now I know when you tell me I'm no good, you're probably just as wrong about that as you are about this.
35:38Oh, what does she know?
35:41Buster?
35:42Hey, D.W., I like that story.
35:45Would you tell me part of it again?
35:47Tell the part about Charybdis.
35:48Not that I really care.
35:53Okay.
35:54A long time ago, there was a warrior.
35:56Start with the Cyclops.
35:57He's the best.
35:58He eats everything.
36:00The Cyclops had only one eye right in the middle of his face and lived in a cave.
36:06And he ate stuff.
36:07He ate everything.
36:09And now, a story from me, Francesca.
36:18Once, there was a little girl who grew up in the woods.
36:21She was lost in the woods when she was just a baby.
36:24She grew up with animals so she understood what the animals said.
36:28Next, she started telling the animals stories every day.
36:32They called her Storius.
36:33She told the animals fantastic stories.
36:37When she told her stories, she showed the animals what she was talking about.
36:42She used props.
36:44Storius took the animals to natural places.
36:48They visited the bay.
36:51They also visited a forest with gigantic trees.
36:55And a river with rushing water as fast as a race car.
36:59The animals didn't really know where Storius came from.
37:07When she was a baby, her mother would take her on trips to meet animals in the forest.
37:13One day, when she was riding in her Jeep, the baby girl fell out.
37:17And they saw a spot in the woods.
37:19The baby girl was lost.
37:22Throughout the years, the mother missed her baby.
37:25But one day, when Storius was traveling, she accidentally walked right out of the forest into the city.
37:33Then, all of a sudden, she bumped into her mother.
37:36As quick as a wink, she recognized her daughter.
37:39They lived together, and Storius' mother sent her to school.
37:43Of course, Storius did go to school.
37:45And some people say she's still telling stories in her third grade class.
37:49And now, back to Arthur!
37:57Check out Arthur online at pbskids.org
38:01Remember, you can find Arthur books, and lots of other books, too, at your local library.
38:09And I say, hey, what a wonderful kind of day
38:15You can learn to work and play
38:18And get along with each other
38:21You got to listen to your heart
38:23Listen to the beat
38:24Listen to the rhythm
38:26Rhythm of the street
38:27It's a simple message
38:30And it comes from the heart
38:33Believe in yourself
38:35For that's the place to start
38:38Start and I say
38:39Hey, hey, what a wonderful kind of day
38:42You can learn to work and play
38:45And get along with each other
38:47Hey, what a wonderful kind of day
38:50Hey, what a wonderful kind of day
38:53Hey
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