Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast.

Once upon a time, there was a podcast.

Every week, podcast hosts Jacob and Olivia took topic suggestions from their incredible

worldwide web of listeners.

One week, a listener reached out all the way from the enchanted land of Manchester, England,

and here's what she had to say.

Mailbag!

Mailbag!

Haya and I, Haya's mom, are huge fans of the podcast. We discovered your channel by accident and were very pleasantly surprised. Can you do an episode on clocks, tooth fairies, fairy tales, or money signs? Thank you for all your hard work.

Hiya, thank you so much for suggesting such wonderful episode topics from beautiful Manchester, England,

home to my favorite Premier League soccer team, Manchester City.

We can't wait to get curious about fairy tales for you this week.

And before we do that, why don't you tell everyone the question of the week?

In one popular fairy tale, there was a talking cricket by the name of Jiminy Cricket.

The question of the week is, in which fairy tale would you find Jiminy Cricket?

That's a good question, and it comes from one of my absolute favorite fairy tales.

While you're thinking about the answer, let's kick off the learning by describing what a fairy tale is.

After all, it's not just a story with fairies in it.

Fairy tales are special stories that often start with the words once upon time.

Many of them end with the words, happily ever after. Some of them have fairies

as part of the story, but many don't. Fairy tales have magical elements in them, things like

curses, spells, and enchanted objects. They also have amazing characters, like dragons,

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