Hello and welcome to Super Great Kids Stories.
Wise tales from storytellers around the world which will make you laugh and sometimes cry.
Recommended for ages 5 to 105.
I'm Kim and I love stories.
This is the second of two stories for this week.
This tale is particularly for children who don't like unsettling stories.
It's told by the wonderful storyteller Liz Weir, from Northern Ireland, and it's called The Three Bears Rap.
Hello again, super great kids.
I hope you had a happy week.
My reason to be cheerful is that this week our first super great book was published in the United States and in Canada.
It has 30 of your favourite stories, including The Ghost of the Bloody Finger and A Nancy and the Hot Pepper Soup.
We're very pleased with it.
It's a good looking gift book and it would make a lovely Christmas or birthday present.
Look for more details on our website under news at supergreatkidsstories.com.
We're also marking our 300th story on the podcast.
Now that we have so many, we've decided to keep 150 of them available for everyone and reserve the rest for our Owlet subscribers.
This story which we're going to hear today is an unusual version of a fairy tale told by the brilliant Liz Weir, who told you The Boy and the Horse recently.
Simple fairy tales are very good if you want to learn to tell your own story.
And this fairy tale combines songs and rhythm and rhyme and all the things that I love in a story.
So, you're in for a treat.
Now, just before Liz Weir begins, I wonder how many fairy tales you can remember.
You might have heard them on this podcast or been told one of them at school or by your grown-ups.
A fairy tale usually has something magical in it, like in Cinderella, where the fairy godmother conjures up a ball gown and a coach and horses.
And it's often set in a woods or in a castle or somewhere which feels a bit scary.
And it usually has frightening characters in it like a witch or a wolf or a giant.
So have a think about which fairy tales you can name, while we have a very quick word with the grown-ups.
Ready?
Off you go.
Hello, super great kids.
I'm back.
Did you think of any fairy tales?
I wonder if you remembered Little Red Riding Hood or The Three Little Pigs or The Magic Orange Tree or Stick Woman or Jack and the Beanstalk.
Give yourself a pat on the back if you thought of three fairy tales.
And if you thought of more than three fairy tales, well you are a super great fairy tale genius.
Well done so.
Now it's time to hear our story.
I hope you're ready to join in and do lots of clapping as you listen along.
Let's give a very warm welcome to storyteller Liz Weir.
Hello everybody, my name's Liz Weir and I'd like to tell you one of my favourite stories.
I like to play around with stories and I like to do rap versions with a wee bit of rhythm and rhyme.
And so this is one that I heard a long time ago.
This is my version of it.
It's a story you know very well.
It's a story about three bears who live in the forest.
A nosy girl came into the house.
Can you guess which one it is?
I'm sure you can.
This is the Three Bears Rap.
Now for this story, I need you to do a clapping rhythm like this.
You can do that.
Then there's a bit in the story where I say said the papa bear.
And I want you to fold your arms, put on a very cross face and say said the papa bear.
Then I want you to put your hands on your hips and say, said the mama bear.
And then I want you to clap your knees and go, someone has broken my chair.
And that's a little bear, I should guess.
Have you got it?
We'll get our rhythm going.
Once upon a time in the nursery rhyme, there were three bears.
I said three bears.
One was a mama bear, one was a papa bear, one was a wee bear, a wee bear, a wee bear.
They all went a-walking in the deep woods a-talking when along came a little girl with long flowing golden hair.
You know her name?
Goldilocks.
She knocked on the door, but no one was there, so she walked on in.
Along came those three bears.
Someone's been eating my porridge, said the papa bear, said the papa bear.
Someone's been eating my porridge, said the mama bear.
Said the mama bear.
Hey, Mama see there.
Said the little wee bear.
Someone has broken my chair.
Woo!
Someone has broken my chair.
Woo!
Someone's been sitting in my chair, said the papa bear, said the papa bear.
Someone's been sitting in my chair, said the mama bear, said the mama bear.
Hey, Mama, see there, said the little wee bear.
Someone has broken my chair.
Woo!
Someone has broken my chair.
Woo!
Someone's been sleeping in my bed, said the pawpaw bear, said the pawpaw bear.
Someone's been sleeping in my bed, said the mama bear, said the mama bear.
Hey, mamma see there, said the little wee bear.
Someone has broken my chair.
Whoo, someone has broken my chair, whoo.
Goldilocks woke up and broke up the party and she ran out of there.
And she ran out of there.
Bye bye bye bye bye bye bye, said the papa bear.
Bye bye bye bye bye bye bye, said the mamma bear.
Hey, mama see there, said the little wee bear.
That's the story of the three bears right, big sigh.
Oh, thank you very much Liz, for sharing that fabulous fairy tale rap.
I wonder if you could listen to it again and maybe try learning some of it.
It's not long now until we begin a season of fairy tales.
So that was a lovely sneak preview story to start us off.
Now I'd like to say hello and thank you to some of our fans who attended our online show with Amy Douglas, Tim Ralphs and Jason Butt last weekend.
Hello to Sully from Vermont and Zoya Mira, Rhea and Luca, who were zooming in from near Paris in France.
And to William, who is five, from Toronto, and his sister Zoe, who had a birthday recently.
Hello to Beatrice and Arthur from Buxton in England and to Ava and Jack in California, and to Maeve, Emma and Devon and eight-year-old Evan from Bristol, who drew a brilliant howling wolf.
Thanks to all of you who came.
It was really lovely to meet you.
And our Pick of the Week picture is from six-year-old Lucy.
And after listening to The Devil is a Hog Seller, I think we can call her Super Brave Lucy.
She drew a very good picture of this story with a terrifying devil who has huge horns, long fingernails and thick black hair.
The red paper you've used makes the whole picture even more scary, Lucy.
Thanks for sharing your imaginative drawing.
And yes, more good news.
You asked and we listened.
And now we have a new picture gallery for those of you who want to send us a picture but don't have access to Facebook.
Do send us any of your pictures inspired by our stories, either to the gallery on our website supergreatkidsstoriescom, or to our Facebook page facebookcom.
Forward slash supergreatkidsstories and we'll post them and that'll get Story Owl hooting with delight.
That's it for now.
Keep telling your stories and singing your songs.
Have a happy week.
This podcast was produced by Kim Normanton and David Smith at Wardour Studios in fabulous Fitzrovia in London.
