JJ, want to hear a story?
Yes, I do.
Can I please help tell it too?
Yes, listen close.
Let's imagine and rhyme.
It's Cocoa Melon Storytime!
Look, Mommy.
The birds are eating the seeds we put out.
We won't hear them tweeting.
They're too busy eating.
You just made a rhyme, JJ.
You know your rhyme and all these birds reminds me of a story from Spain about a brother and sister trying to find their way to their abuelita's house.
What's abuelita mean?
Abuelita means grandma in Spanish.
Oh!
I want to hear the story!
It's called The Bird of Truth.
One day...
Carmen and her twin brother, Juan Guillermo, or Juan Gui for short, were on their way to their abuelita's house for lunch.
She was making her famous paella.
Paella?
It's a special Spanish dish made with yellow rice veggies, seafood and all sorts of yummy ingredients.
Mmm, paella sounds good.
But when Wangi and Carmen got to the forest they realized they didn't know which path to take to Abuelita's.
Uh-oh.
Luckily, Abuelita taught them a chant to help figure it out.
So Wangi strapped on his guitar, and Carmen took out her castanets.
Castanets are an instrument that go clack, clack, clack, clack.
Then Wangi and Carmen started chanting.
Kuchan, listen to what the birds say.
The bird of truth will chant a rhyme to tell you the right way.
Olay!
Olay!
There were a lot of birds in this forest so the twins knew they'd have to listen for the bird who rhymes.
The bird of truth!
Exactly.
You know what a rhyme is, right, JJ?
Yeah!
It's when the ends of words sound like bingo and flamingo.
You got it.
So Carmen and Juan Gui began to listen for bird calls.
There's one.
Juan Gui strummed his guitar and said, Maybe that's the bird of truth.
Let's follow him.
But what about the chants?
Did it rhyme?
That's what Carmen wanted to know.
So they had to make sure this bird was telling them the right way to go.
So they listened as the bird said, Olé!
The path you need to take goes through the woods and past the river.
Wait!
Take and river don't sound the same at the end, so they do not rhyme.
That's right.
So the twins knew they should not go past the river.
Instead, they listened for the next bird's chant.
Escuchan, listen to what the birds say.
Chirp, chirp, a bird, a bird.
Was it the bird of truth?
The twins hoped it was.
They were getting hungry for lunch.
This bird said, away, the path you need to take goes through the woods and past the mountain.
What do you think, JJ?
Do the words rhyme?
Take and mountain?
No!
They sound really different.
You're right.
So Wangi and Carmen kept listening, softly playing their instruments to pass the time.
Listen to what the birds say.
The bird of truth will chant a rhyme to tell you the rhyme.
That's right, and the twins really hoped she was the bird of truth.
They closed their eyes and listened carefully.
Ole, the path you need to take goes through the woods and past the lake.
Take and lake sound the same at the end.
They rhyme!
They do, which means the dove was the bird of truth and would lead them on the right path to Abuelita's house.
Carmen said, gracias, gracias, bird of truth.
Gracias?
Gracias means thank you in Spanish.
Oh, gracias, Mommy.
You're welcome, JJ.
Wandi also said, since you showed us the way, you should eat with us, too.
And the bird of truth said, don't mind if I do.
So Wangi, Carmen, and the bird of truth took the path they needed to take.
Through the woods and past the lake.
And they cooed and they clacked and went strum, strum, strum.
Till they ate the paella and went yum, yum, yum.
The end.
We heard a story.
Yes. and made some rhymes for Cocomelon Storytime!
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