Birdie and the other bird.

Hello, this is Jana and welcome to Story Noory.

Birdie is a rather special crow who can talk. He's befriended a boy called Jake who thinks that Birdie is unique,

a true one-off, until, well listen to the story and find out.

And at the end of the story we have a bonus, an excerpt from our friends at the

Story, Science from his dad, and another told by his best friend

Birdie, the black crow who perches on his window pane.

One evening. who perches on his window pane.

One evening, while Dad was reading the wind in the willows, the full moon shone brightly above the rooftops across the street. As his father gently closed the book and

tiptoed out of the room, Jake piped up. Dad! Has anyone ever visited the moon? I know birdie's been up there, but have any

human people actually walked on the moon? Oh, why yes, said Dad, in 1969 in fact,

Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface saying,

that's one small step for a man,

one giant leap for mankind.

And a few years later,

another astronaut played golf up there.

Who was he playing against?

The man on the moon?

Jake asked.

Oh no!

Dad chuckled.

He was just having some fun!

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