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San Bruno Library Presents "Once Upon a Time"
Storytime #35
"It is OK to be You"
January 2011
trt 28:22
Taped by San Bruno Cable

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Storytime storytime.

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Hi boys and girls. How are you today I miss Rocky, and some of you may know me from San, Bruno library and I'm here today to read you some stories and sing a few songs, so welcome to San, Bruno library presents once upon a time. So, let's start with our Hello song ready, and you can repeat after me, hello, my friends, hello, my friends. How are you, how are you very well I? Thank you very well I. Thank you. How about you? How about you very good?

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You can clap with me if you like, but I, love to hear you sing it with me again. So let's do it again: okay, hello, my friends, hello, my friends! How are you, how are you very well I? Thank you very well I. Thank you. How about you? How about you good job now we're gonna! Do another song called two little blackbirds and we're gonna practice using our fingers, our thumb and then our pinky.

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Can you stick both those out kind of like two little birds flying in the air like this, but first we're gonna have the two little blackbirds sitting on a hill, and it goes like this two little blackbirds sitting on a hill one named jack, the other named Jill fly away. Jack fly away, Jill come back, Jack come back, Jill good job. Let's do that again.

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You can practice, have your pinky out and your thumb at the same time and move on like this, like they're flying in the air all right here we go two little blackbirds sitting on a hill one named Jack, the other named Jill fly Jack fly away, Jill come back, Jack, come back, Jill, very good practice using your pinky and thumb. At the same time, that's kind of hard. Well, today, I'm gonna read to you. A fun book called stand tall, Molly, Lou melon by Patti LaBelle.

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Stand tall, Molly, Lou, melon and I like this illustrator, his name is David cat ro when he illustrates a lot of books that you see at the library, Molly Lou melon stood just taller than her dog and was the shortest girl in the first grade. She didn't mind, though her grandma had told her walk proudly as you can, and the world will look up to you so.

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They did and she did too look at her she's way up top there and her friends are watching her looking up to her Molly Lou melon. She had buck teeth. That means teeth that stick out, then they stuck out very far and she could stack pennies on them. She didn't mind, though her grandma had told her smile, big and the world will smile right alongside you and she smiled big. You see her big smile.

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She doesn't care that her teeth stick out, oh, and so she did look at that big smile. That smile is contagious.

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Then Molly Lou melon she had a voice that sounded like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor. Oh I, don't think that means she had a very good voice, but she didn't mind. Her grandma had told her sing out clear and strong, and the world will cry tears of joy.

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So she did and all the insects are listening to her sing.

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Molly Lou melon was often bumble fingered. Oh look at all the plates she's holding she didn't mind. Her grandma had told her believing yourself and the world will believe in you too. Oh no, even though she had an accident, and so she did and now she's not dropping anything. Now that she believes in herself she's juggling all those plates ooh then Molly Lou melon moved to a new town. She had to say goodbye to her grandma and all of her friends.

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And start in a new school Oh.

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On the first day of school, Ronald Durkin called her shrimpo in gym class. When the game started. Molly Lou, melon, caught the football ran under the legs of Ronald Durkin and scored a touchdown. All the children thought wow she's good and Ronald Durkin felt very foolish.

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On the second day of school Ronald Durkin called her Bucky toothed beaver Molly Lou melon took out her pennies stacked, ten pennies on her teeth and smiled as big as day all the children smiled with glee and Ronald Durkin felt very foolish.

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On the third day of school, Ronald Durkin said: hey, you sound like a sick duck. Honk Oh, Molly, Lou melon sang out a quack, so clear and strong that it made Ronald Durkin somersault backwards, hit his head and have to go to the nurse.

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All the children cried with joy to be free of Ronald Durkin for the rest of the afternoon, and Ronald Durkin felt very foolish I, don't think anybody likes Ronald jerkin on the 4th day of school, Ronald Durkin said that she'd made the snowflake all wrong, but Molly Lou melon opened her paper and revealed the most beautiful snowflake of all. All the children would an odd, even Ronald wow.

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What an amazing snowflake on the fifth day of school Ronald Durkin brought Molly Lou melon a stacking penny for her tooth and smiled at her I think he wants to be friends with her that night Molly Lou melon took out a pencil and paper and wrote a letter to her grandma.

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Dear grandma I wanted to tell you that everything you told me was exactly right: love, Molly, Lou, melon, the and so don't forget to stand tall and sit tall like Molly, Lou, melon, all right, good job, listening, okay, I think we have time for one more story.

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Excuse me, and this is called the mixed-up chameleon all right. All mixed up on a shiny, green leaf, sat a small, green chameleon. It moved out onto a brown tree and turned brownish. Then it rested on a red flower and turned reddish when the chameleon moved slowly across the yellow sand, it turned yellowish and you could hardly see it when the chameleon was warm and had something to eat, it turned sparkling green and when it was cold and hungry, it turned gray and dull.

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When the chameleon was hungry, it's that still and waited only its eyes moved up down in sideways. Until it spotted a fly, then the chameleons long and sticky tongue shot out and caught the fly. That was its life. It was not very exciting, but one day the chameleon saw a duel and it had never seen so many beautiful animals whoa look at all the animals. The chameleon thought. How small am I?

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How slow and weak I wish I could be big and white like a polar bear and the chameleons wish came true, but was it happy no I wish it could be handsome like a flamingo, oh and he turned have some feathers and some Flamingo legs, but he still wasn't happy. Hey I wish I could be smart, like a fox and he grew a tail.

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He still wasn't happy I wish I could swim like a fish and he had some fins, but he still wasn't happy I wish I could run like a deer, Oh No he's all mixed up. I wish I could see things far away like a giraffe. ah Oh now he has a neck like a giraffe I wish. I could hide in his shell like a turtle, and then he gets a shell, but is he happy I, don't think so? I wish it could be strong like an elephant and his face turned into an elephant.

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ah I wish I could be funny like a seal. hmm What does he look like now? I wish I could be like people just then a fly flew by the chameleon was so hungry, but but he was mixed up. It was a little of this and it was a little of that and it couldn't catch. A fly. I wish I could be myself and the chameleons wish came true and it caught the flies the end and this book was by Eric Carle, the mixed up. Chameleon he was happy to be himself instead.

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Good listeners, we're gonna, take a break so I'll see you in a little bit all right.

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Why do you like San Bernardino I, like that? It's the same people at the counter? Oh, and they also know me by name I like that, it's a local business and it keeps the money in our community I had a problem with my channels and I called, and they came out that same day. I didn't even have to sign a contract. The other guys wanted me for two whole years. When I called to set up my cable service, they asked if they could come out the next day.

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I thought I'd have to wait a week for an appointment. Thank you for choosing San Bruno, cable.

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Now I'm gonna read to you another story and I love this author, Todd Parr and it's titled, it's okay to be different.

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Okay, it's okay to be different; it's okay to be missing a tooth or two or three: it's okay and it's okay to need some help see this lady is blind and she has a dog helping her walk while she's out and about and it's okay to have a different nose.

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And it's okay to be a different color and it's okay to have no hair.

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It's okay to have big ears and it's okay to have wheels.

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It's okay to be small, medium, large or extra large.

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It's a way: it's okay, to wear glasses and it's okay, to talk about your feelings and here's. The lion. First, he's purring: when he's going, Brad.

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It's okay to eat, macaroni and cheese in the bathtub. Well, I probably asked your mom or dad first before you can do that. I know my mommy, wouldn't let me eat macaroni and cheese in the bathtub and it's okay to say no to bad things.

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It's okay to come from a different place and it's okay to be embarrassed. Oh oh she's got toilet paper stuck to her shoe.

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It's okay to come in last, like the turtle and it's okay to dance by yourself.

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It's okay to have a pet worm, and it's okay to be proud of yourself.

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It's okay to have different moms and it's okay to have different dads and it's okay to be adopted.

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It's okay to have an invisible friend and it's okay to do something nice for someone.

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It's okay to lose your mittens and it's okay to get mad and the skunk is mad. Can you tell yes sending off his odor, it's okay, to do something nice for yourself, wow, he's extra nice to himself he's got lots of ice cream scoops on his cone and it's okay to help a squirrel collect nuts.

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It's okay to have different kind of friends and it's okay to make a wish. Can you tell what the dog is wishing for yep a bone and it looks like Todd wrote a note. He says it's okay to be different. You are special and important just because of being who you are love, Todd, the and it's okay to be different. I, like Todd par okay.

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Now we're gonna do in another song and it's called head shoulders knees and toes. Do you know where your head is yep right up here? How about your shoulders very good right here and your knees? You guessed it right here and where are your toes? You know where your toes are they're.

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Way down there right, can you wiggle your toes? Oh good job? So, let's start you know this song and if you don't follow me, okay, head and shoulders knees and toes knees and toes head and shoulders knees and toes knees and toes eyes and ears, and mouth and nose head and shoulders knees and toes knees and toes good job now I'm sitting down. But if you want you can stand up and do this again.

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Okay, let's do it again head and shoulders knees and toes knees and toes head and shoulders knees and toes knees and toes eyes and ears, and mouth and nose head and shoulders knees and toes knees and toes ah very good. Give yourselves a clap all right now. We're gonna do another story and it's called I like myself and if you can tell this book was illustrated by the same book that the first book that we read Molly Lou melon, the illustrators David cat ro and the book is written by Karen.

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Beaumont I like this illustrator I, don't know if you remember me saying that earlier so I got two books today from him. I, like myself and I'm glad I mean.

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There's no one else: I'd rather be I.

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Like my eyes and I, like my ears and I, like my nose and I like my fingers and I, like my toes, she evens gots pictures of all of them on her wall I like me, wild and I. Like me, tame I, like me different and the same I like me fast and I. Like me, slow and I like me, everywhere, I go I.

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Like me, on the inside too, for all I think and stay and do.

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Inside outside upside down from head to toe and all around I like it all it all is me and me is all I want to be, and I don't care in any way. What someone else may think or say: I.

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May be called a silly nut or crazy cuckoo bird. So what I'm, having too much fun you see for anything to bother me.

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Even when I look a mess- oh my goodness, she does I still don't like me, any less cuz. Nothing in this world you know, can change what's deep inside and so no matter if they stop and stare no person ever anywhere can make me feel that what they see is all there really is to mean.

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I'd still like me, with fleas and warts, or with a silly snout that snorts or knobby knees or hippo hips or purple polka-dotted lips I still like me,.

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Or with beaver breath or stinky toes or horns protruding from my nose or Yanks with spikes all down my spine or hair, that's like a porcupine I still would be the same. You see I like myself, because I'm me.

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And I, like myself, that's a fun book to read: oh hey, now we're gonna. Do another story called nonsense by Sally collar Phillips. Can you say nonsense? Oh good job! That's a that's a! Maybe a new word for you. We're gonna learn what nonsense means.

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What would you say if dogs grew trees, if rhinos could fly mm, I, don't think that happens or if chickens, late cheese? And what would you say to a bat with a hat? What would you say about that.

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You would say nonsense, can you say nonsense? It's an excellent word when you know something is really absurd.

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What would you say if mice lived on stars? Would you say nonsense how about, if rabbits read books, nonsense, I think so how about birds playing guitars oh-ho? Yes, nonsense. Would you say what would you say if a goldfish groupies? What would your answer be? Please, did you say nonsense? ah Yes, nonsense! You'd say it's a good word to know when you're sure something just isn't. So what would you say if pigs could sew quilts if turtles gave tea parties and fish walked on stilts and what would you say to a camel in snow?

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ah What would you say, do you know? Did you say nonsense, nonsense? It is it's the word to declare when you know something's false or on there and what will you say if you're told that you're not good enough or you're dim or too bold or you're, not very special, you're, strange or too shy? What will you say in reply? Did you say nonsense?

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Well you sniffle and sigh and assume that you're right? Well, you kick, will you cry and perhaps pick a fight of course not instead, you'll know just what to do. When you hear something truly untrue, nonsense, you'll say: shout it loud, shout it far and you can decide who you are the.

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Nonsense, ok, we're gonna do one more song before we say goodbye and we're gonna. Do the baby, chicks, okay, how'd, our chicks, like this beep beep baby chicks are singing beep, beep, beep mom! Oh, we are hungry mom! Oh, we are cold. Mom looks for wheat, mom I looked for corn mom, my feets, been dinner. Mama keeps them warm under Mama's wing, sleeping in the hay baby, chicks all cuddle until the next day, oh I had so much fun.

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Reading today and I hope that you have a wonderful day today we have story time at the library three days a week. Monday night at 7:00 is pajama storytime and you can come into your pajamas seven o'clock Tuesday's. We have bilingual storytime at 11:15, that's in English and Spanish, and then on Thursday. We have an itsy-bitsy storytime and that's at 11:15 in the morning as well. So, let's say good bye, good bye, my friends good bye, my friends. It's time to go it's time to go.

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It was very nice to be with all of you good, bye, good.

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So sit me down and let the smell be.

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I'll find myself in story time again.

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