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3.13.26 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to real Is Children's Story Hour. As
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a reminder, rail Is is a reading service intended for
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people who are blind or of other disabilities that make
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it difficult to read printed material. Today we will be
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reading from various books on famous women. Your reader today
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is Diane. We will begin with the story I Am
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Frida Carlo. It was published by Doll Books for Young Readers,
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an imprint of Penguin Random House, and it has a
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copyright year of twenty twenty one. The author's Brad Meltzer.
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I am Frida Kailo. I was born in Mexico in
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this house. Later we painted a blue and called it
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at La Casa Azul, the Blue House. It stood out
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from everything else. Isn't that beautiful? When I was six
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years old, I got disease called polio. Made my right
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leg thinner and shorter than my left leg. I had
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to stay in my room for nine months. When I
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finally got out, kids would make fun of me. I
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tried hiding my leg under long skirts or by wearing
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extra socks. It didn't help. Thankfully, I always had a
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special place where I could escape. In my room, I
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breathe into the window pane and draw a door. The
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door let me enter my imagination. There. I would visit
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a dairy cob pen soong. I entered through the oh
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would take me down, down, down inside the earth, where
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my imaginary friend was always waiting for me. I don't
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remember what she looked like or even what color she was,
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but together we would laugh and dance. I tell her
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all my problems and she would listen. That place made
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me happy, and when I'd blur the door with my hand,
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it would disappear. It's amazing what you can do with
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your imagination to strengthen my leg My dad encouraged me
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to play sports, soccer, wrestling, boxing, swimming. I did it all.
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One of the best things my dad shared with me
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was his curiosity about the world. As a photographer, he
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take me along when he went to shoot photos. He
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also liked to paint while he did his watercolors. I
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collect pebbles, plants, and even insects. I bring them home,
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looking up each item in my dad's books and examining
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them under a miscope. Look around, Beauty is everywhere. At fourteen,
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I went to the National Preparatory School, the best high
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school in Mexico. The two thousand students. I was one
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of only thirty five girls at school. We were supposed
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to dress and behave a certain way. I dressed differently.
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The wealthy mothers would take one look at me and
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yelle to other students, I was fascinating. My closest friends
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were a group of kids called the Cochushas, which is
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like a hot pepper. We were smart and loved to read,
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but sometimes we got in trouble, like when we rode
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a real donkey down the hallway. One day, a famous
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painter named Diego Riviera was hired to create a mural
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in our auditorium. I watched him for three hours. I
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didn't know it at the time, but my hardest days
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were coming. At eighteen, I was in a terrible accident
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when I trolley smashed into the bus I was riding.
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Someone on the bus had been carrying paint, so my
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body was covered in powdered gold. A month after the accident,
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I came home from the hospital a full body cast.
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My spinal column was broken in three places. The doctors
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literally had to put me back together. The paint in
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my leg and foot were terrible, and I could barely
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move my arms. But I survived, I didn't get many visitors.
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I realized that I wanted to be friends only with
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people who like me just the way I am. I
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knew my life had changed. I would no longer be
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a doctor. Instead, as I learned to lie still, I
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began to paint. Since I couldn't sit up in bed,
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my mom asked a carproom to make a special easel
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for me. I grabbed my father's brushes. Then I began.
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I worked hard for in over books about art history.
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My first paintings weren't great, even tour one up because
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I was so unhappy with it. But with my mirror,
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I kept going, painting what I saw. I paint myself
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because I am so often alone, and because I am
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the subject that I know best. As soon as I
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could go outside, I brought my paintings to Diego Rivieria,
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the famous pain I had met years earlier. Over time,
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my portraits became more complex. I began adding pieces of
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local Mexican art and history, textiles and incredent intricate carvings
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to show people who I was. Eventually, Diego and I
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got married. We traveled to America, to places like San Francisco,
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New York and Detroit means some of the wealthiest people
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in the world. Just like in high school, some people
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would insult my clothing. My time away made me realize
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that my favorite place of all was home. Back in Mexico,
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I embraced all the things I loved, my heritage, animals,
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and of course painting. Back then, women were expected to
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be quiet and feminine. I wasn't either of those things.
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In addition to painting, I became a teacher, a professor.
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On the first day, that's exactly what they did. They
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painted me. The pain for my accident never went away.
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Some days it was so bad I could barely stand.
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Even then, I took my students on field trips. As
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my health got worse, my fore most committed students, those Frido's,
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came to my Casa Azul for their lessons. Eventually I
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sent them out into the world to paint murals on
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nearby laundries in taverns. To honor my work. A gallery
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owner began planning my first ever one woman show in Mexico.
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Was so sick she was worried I might miss it,
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so they set up my bed and made me part
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of the exhibit. It was total chaos and absolutely beautiful.
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Tragedy nearly took my life, but it couldn't take my spirit.
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Fighting back wasn't easy, especially when people make fun of
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how I looked and where I was from. But I
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was determined to see things differently. My face, my clothes,
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my country, even my paint. These are the colors on
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my canvas. They don't look like anyone else's, and they shouldn't.
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That's the best part. Your picture is uniquely yours Today,
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Free You is considered one of the world's greatest artists,
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and La Costo Zoul is now the Frieda Calo Museum,
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open to the public. Museum as this the last pain
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she ever did, Viva la vita, which means long live love.
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Her husband, Diego Rivera, eventually said she's a better painter
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than I am. She is proof that no one can
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ever define you, no matter how you look. Her hair
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looks like a pretzel in this one. That's not a pretzel,
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It's an infinite infinity sign, something that ties us together
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and lives forever. Art is like life. It's rarely what
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it first appears. Instead of following a straight path, your
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life in your art will twist and turn taking you
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on unexpected journeys. It's messy and bold and scary and fun,
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but it's all part of your picture. A magnificent self portrait.
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I am freeda colo, and I know that the most
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beautiful thing is you, just as you are. Our next
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books will be Doctor Seuss books, and our first one
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is titled One Fish Too Fish, Redfish, bluefish, and it
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was published by Random House Children's Books, a division of
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Random House Incorporated. It has a copywriter of nineteen ninety
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to nineteen eighty eight and the author is Doctor Seuss.
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One Fish toofish, redfish, bluefish, black fish, bluefish, old fish,
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new fish. This one has a little star, This one
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has a little car. Say what a lot of fish?
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These are yes, Some are red and some are blue.
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Some are old and some are new. Some are sad,
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and some are glad, and some are very very bad.
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Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do
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not know. Go ask your dad. Some are thin and
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some are fat. The fat one has a yellow hat.
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From there to here, from here to Their funny things
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are everywhere. Here are some who like to run. They
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run for fun in the hot, hot sun. Oh me,
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oh my, oh me, Oh my, what a lot of
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funny things go by. Some have two feet and some
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have four, Some have six feet and some have more.
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Where do they come from? I can't say, but I
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bet they come a long long way. We see them come,
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we see them go. Some are fast and some are slow.
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Some are high and some are low. Not one of
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them is like another. Don't ask us, why go ask
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your mother? Say? Look at his fingers? One, two, three,
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How many fingers do I see? One? Two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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eight nine ten? He has eleven eleven. This is something new.
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I wish I had eleven. Two. Bomp bomp? Did you
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ever write a wanmp? We have a wump with just
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one hump, but we know a man called mister Gump.
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Mister Gump has a seven hump wump. So if you
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like to go bump bump, just jump on the hump
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of the wump of Gump. Who am I? My name
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is Ned. I do not like my little bed. This
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is no good, This is not right. My feets stick
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out a bed all night, and when I pull them in,
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oh dear, my head sticks out of bed. Up here.
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We like our bike, It is made for three. Our
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mic sits up in back. You see. We like our mic,
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and this is why Mike does all the work. When
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the hills get high. Hell there, Ned, how do you do?
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Tell me? Tell me what is new? How are things
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in your little bed? What is new? Please tell me, Ned,
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I do not like this bed at all. A lot
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of things have come to call. A cow, a dog,
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a cat, a mouse. Oh what a bed? Oh what
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a house? Oh dear, oh dear, I cannot hear. Will
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you please come over near? Will you please look in
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my ear? There must be something there. I fear say. Look,
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a bird was in your ear, but he is out,
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so have no fear again your ear can hear, My dear,
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My head is old, My teeth are gold. The bird
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I like to hold my shoes off, my foot is cold.
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My shoes off, my foot is cold. I have a
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bird I like to hold. My head is old, my
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teeth are goat. And now my story is all told.
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We took a look. We saw a nook on his head.
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He had a hook on his hook. He had a
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book on His book was how to cook. We saw
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him sit and try to cook. He took a look
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at the book on the hook. But a nook can't read,
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So a nook can't cook, So what good do a
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nook is a hook cookbook? The moon was out and
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we saw some sheep. We saw some sheep take a
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walk in their sleep by the light of the moon,
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by the light of the star. They walked all night
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from near to far. I would never walk. I would
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take a car. I do not like this one so well.
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All he does is yell, yell, yell. Oh. I have
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this one about. When he comes in, I put him out.
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This one is quite an ass a mouse. I like
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to have him in the house. At our house we
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open cans. We have to open many cans, and that
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is why we have a zan's. A zan's for cans
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is very good. Have you a zans for cans? You should?
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I like to box, how I like to box? Oh,
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so every day I box a gox and yellow socks.
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Eye box, my gox, eyebox and yellow socks, box socks.
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It is fun to sing if you sing with the ying.
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My yin can sing like anything. I sing high and
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my ying sing slow, and we are not too bad.
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You know. This one, I think is called a yink.
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He likes to wink, and he likes to he likes
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to drink and drink and drink. The thing he likes
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to drink is ink. The ink he likes to drink
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his pink. He likes to wink and drink pink ink.
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So if you had a lot of ink, then you
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should get a ink. I think hop hop hoop. I
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am a yop. All I like to do is hop
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from fingertop to fingertop. I hop from left to right
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and then hop hop a hop right back again. I
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like to hop all day and night, from right to
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left and left to right. Why do I like to hop?
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Hop hop? I do not know. Go ask your pop.
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Brush brush, brush, brush, com comb, comb comb, blue hair
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is fun to brush and comb. All girls who like
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to brush and comb should have a pet like this
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at home. Who is this pet? Say? He is wet?
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You never yet met a pet? I bet as wet
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as they let this wet pet get? Did you ever
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fly height in bed? Did you ever walk with ten
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cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind
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of cow? Well? We can do it, we know how
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you never did? You should? These things are fun and
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fun is good? Hello? Hello? Are you there? Hello? I
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called you up to say hello. I said hello, can
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you hear me, Joe? Oh no, I cannot hear your call.
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I cannot hear your call at all. This is not good,
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And I know why a mouse has cut the wire.
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Goodbye from near too far, from here to there, Funny
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things are everywhere. These yellow pets are called the zs.
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They make one hair up on their heads. Their hair
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grows fast, so fast they say they need a haircut
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every day. Who am I? My name is Dish on
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my hand. I have a dish. I have this dish
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to help me wish. When I wish to make a wish,
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I wave my hand with a big swish. Then I
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say I wish we were a fish, and I get
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fish right on my dish. So if you wish to
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wish a wish, you may swish for fish with mysh
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wish dish. At our house, we play out back. We
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play a game called Ring the Gack. Would you like
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to play this game? Come down? We had the only
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ghack in town. Look what we found in the park
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in the dark. We will take him home. We will
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call him Clark. He will live in our house. He
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will grow and grow. Will our mother like this? We
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don't know? And now good night. It is time to sleep,
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so we will sleep with our pet Zep. Today is gone,
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Today was fun Tomorrow is another one. Every day from
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here to there, funny things are everywhere. Our next book
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is Green Eggs and Ham. It was published by Random
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House Books, a division of Penguin Random House. It has
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a copyright ear of nineteen sixty to nineteen eighty eight
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and it was written by doctor Seuss. I am, sam
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i am, sam, sam I am that, sam I am that,
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sam i am. I do not like that, sam i am.
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Do you like green eggs and Ham? I do not
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like them, sam i am, I do not like green
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eggs and ham. Would you like them here or there?
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I would not like them here or there. I would
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not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs
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and Ham. I do not like them, sam i am.
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Would you like them in a house? Would you like
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them with a mouse? I do not like them in
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a house. I do not like them with a mouse.
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I do not like them here or there. I do
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not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs
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and Ham. I do not like them, sam i am.
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Would you eat them in a box? Would you eat
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them with a fox? Not in a box? Not with
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a fox, not in a house, not with a mouse.
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I would not eat them here or there. I would
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not eat them anywhere. I would not eat green eggs
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and ham. I do not like them. Sam i am,
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would you? Could you in a car eat them? Eat
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them here they are? I would not could not in
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a car. You may like them, you will see. You
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may like them in a tree. I would not, could
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not in a tree, not in a car. You let
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me be. I do not like them in a box.
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I do not like them with a fox. I do
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not like them in a house. I do not like
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them with a mouse. I do not like them here
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or there. I do not like them anywhere. I do
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not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them.
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Sam I am a train, a train, a train? Could you?
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Would you on a train? Not on a train, not
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in a tree, not in a car, sam Let me be.
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I would not, could not in a box. I could not,
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would not with a fox. I will not eat them
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with a mouse. I will not eat them in a house.
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I will not eat them here or there. I will
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not eat them anywhere. I do not eat green eggs
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and ham. I do not like them. Sam I am,
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say in the dark here in the dark. Would you
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put you in the dark? I would not, could not
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in the dark. Would you could you in the rain?
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I would not, could not in the rain, not in
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the dark, not on a train, not in a car,
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not in a tree. I do not like them, Sam,
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you see, not in a house, not in a box,
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not with a mouse, not with a fox. I will
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not eat them here or there. I do not like
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them anywhere. You do not like green eggs and ham?
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I do not like them, Sam, I am, could you
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would you with a goat? I would not, could not
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with a goat? Would you put you on a boat?
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I could not, would not on a boat I will not,
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will not with a goat. I will not eat them
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in the rain. I will not eat them on a train,
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in the dark, not in a tree, not in a car.
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You let me be. I do not like them in
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a box. I do not like them with a fox.
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I will not eat them in a house. I do
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not like them with a mouse. I do not like
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them here or there. I do not like them anywhere.
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I do not like green eggs and ham. I do
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not like them, Sam, I am, you do not like them,
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So you say, try them, try them, and you may
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try them. And you may, I say, Sam, if you
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will let me be, I will try them. You will see.
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Say I like green eggs and ham. I do I
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like them, Sam, I am. And I would eat them
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in a boat, and I would eat them with a goat.
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And I will eat them in the rain and in
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the dark, and on a train, and in a car
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and in a tree. They are so good, so good,
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you see. So I will eat them in a box,
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and I will eat them with a fox, and I
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will eat them in a house. I will eat them
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with a mouse, and I will eat them here and there.
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Say I will eat them anywhere. I do so like
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green eggs and ham. Thank you, Thank you, Sam, I am.
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Our next book is called The Shape of Me and
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Other Stuff, and it was published by Random House Shunner's Books,
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a division of random House Incorporated. It has a copyright
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year of nineteen seventy three to nineteen ninety seven and
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it was written by doctor Seuss. The shape of You,
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the shape of Me, the shape of everything I see above,
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a balloon, a bed, a bike. No shapes are never
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ever quite alike. Just think about the shape of beans
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and flowers and mice and big machines. Just think about
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the shape of strings and elephants and other things, the
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shape of lips, the shape of ships, the shape of
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water when it drips, and the shape of camels, the
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shape of bees, and the wonderful shape the factor keys,
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and the shapes of spider webs and clothes. And speaking
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of shapes, now, just suppose suppose you were shaped like
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these or those, or shaped like a blog or a
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garden hose. Of all the shapes we might have been,
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I say hooray for the shapes worrying. Our next book
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is titled If You Think There's Nothing to Do, and
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it was published by Random House Junner's Books, a division
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of Penguin random House. It has a copyright year of
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nineteen eighty six to night Excuse Me, nineteen eighty six
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to twenty twenty four, and it was written by doctor Seuss.
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If you're a border, perhaps even blue, or if you
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think there's nothing to do, well, that's not the case,
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and I'll show you why. Here are some things you
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might like to try. You can juggle some books, or
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you can read them, balance casts on your head, or
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pet them and feed them. You can purchase a tank
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fill it with fish, a turtle, a snail, some plants
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if you wish. But when you feed fish, do not
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give them a lot, or the fish may not fit
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in the tank that you've got. Do not lie around
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doing something at all. You can pick up the phone
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and give someone a call. You can stay in the
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house and fly kites in the hall, or try going
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outside to play ball on a wall. You might want
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to spruce up what you wear every day. You simply
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get started in your usual way. Then try adding feathers
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or some polka dot shoes, a small hat, a tall hat,
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whatever you choose. You can pet all bike, you can
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pad all boat. You can saddlell rne oh or ride
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with a goat. You can swim in a pool on
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a day that is hot, or skate on the ice
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on a day that is not. Jump over a chair,
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bounce on a bed, swing through the air, stand on
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your head, sting on your head. I think you'll agree
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changes the perspective of all that you see. Find some
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things that go bang, find a thing that goes boom,
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and a thing that goes toot. Now march out of
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the room. You can play tic tac toe with your
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hands or your feet. Sometimes you will win, sometimes you
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will get beat. Hide behind a curtain or up on
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a shelf. You can hide from a friend, but not
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from yourself. Here's an idea you can try. If you dare,
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count a tent as you stand with one foot in
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the air. If you are hungry, try better on bread
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or what about donuts. You could try those instead. You
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can scramble some eggs, or you can fry them green
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eggs and ham. I think you should try them. There
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are many things you can do with your voice. It's
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all up to you, so just to make a choice.
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You can talk, you can sing, you can whisper. You
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can shout to them, may get you sent out. You
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might want to grow plants. It's not very hard. Plants
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will grow in the house if you don't have a yard,
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but be careful with seeds. Do not fling them about,
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or you might be surprised where your garden will sprout.
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Try taking a pencil, a pen and some ink to
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write down your dreams and all that you think. You
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might want to paint what you see in your head.
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Don't paint on the wall. Use some paper instead. You
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can build something new using everyday things, little bricks, and
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sticks and blocks and strings. So I hope you can
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see what I told you is true. It is never
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the case that there's nothing to do. This concludes the
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Children's Story ire for today. Please join us next time
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as we will read more stories, fables and fairy tales.
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