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You've heard the expression green with envy. Being green with envy doesn't mean you turn

the color of a tree frog or a grasshopper or an avocado. It means you want something

someone else has. It can be normal to feel envious, but if you let that envy get the best

of us, like the person we'll meet in today's story, we just might find ourselves empty-handed.

I'm Rebecca Schier and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called a coconut a day. It comes from the brumise people of Southeast Asia.

Some really great people came together to bring you our version of this folktale, including

Tony Award winner Jane Howdy-Shell from the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building and

the feature film The Humans. Jane is currently appearing on Broadway with Sutton Foster

and Hugh Jackman in The Music Man. So circle round everyone. For a coconut a day.

In a little white house. In a little seaside town. There lived a very crafty and very greedy man.

The man in the little white house had something that none of his fellow towns people had.

A coconut tree growing in his back yard. But the problem was the man couldn't get his coconut

tree to grow any coconuts. What is going on with this silly tree of mine? No matter how much water

it gets or how much sun it doesn't grow any coconuts. Not a one.

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