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I'm Virginia, I'm Virginia Madsen, and this is Little Stories Everywhere.

Each episode will bring you stories for kids that sparked the imagination,

take you to other worlds and bring joy.

This is Bina, the Bouncy Elephant Balarina. Bina, the baby elephant loved to stump, but she didn't call it stomping, she called it

dancing. Bina danced gracefully past her sleeping family every morning to the honey hive trees on the other side of the camp.

After a few mouthfuls of refreshing honey, Bina waltzed into the river as

quietly as she could. As she cleaned the sticky honey off her toes in the river, she liked to practice her favorite dance,

the bounce.

Doing the bounce required her to find the most springy things around.

Turmite mounds, for example, were good for a little bit of bouncing.

But the soft river mud was bouncier. So far the bouniest thing Bina had found was the Acacia tree.

Acacia trees grew along the edge of the valley. Their roots were the hidden trampolines of the bushveld. But Vina kept this secret

all to herself. The rest of the elephants in her herd didn't care for dancing.

Their special thing was long distance walking.

In fact, Biena's herd was known throughout Africa as the Big Walkers.

Bina didn't mind being a Big Walker, especially since her mom was the leader of the herd.

As long as she got to dance, stomp, and bounce every day,

Bina was happy. Most of Bina's friends were boys. She didn't choose it that way, but there weren't any other girls in the herd.

Bina got along with everyone, except Madla. He was the class leader, and he liked to pick on Bina whenever school was done and

Bina was gleefully dancing past the badger tunnels.

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