Welcome to Disney's Magic of Storytelling podcast, brought to you by WakeMed Children's,

because inside every child is a story waiting to be told.

Our storyteller is ABC 11's Ed Krupp.

It was morning at the circus.

Hopeful mothers looked up as storks flew overhead, each one carrying a bundle holding a baby animal.

Mrs. Jumbo sighed as she watched the happy mothers with their babies.

Oh dear, I so hope there would be a bundle for me, she thought.

At long last, a stork flew into Mrs. Jumbo's railway car with a large bundle.

It was a baby elephant. Mrs. Jumbo's elephant squeezed with a large bundle. It was a baby elephant. Mrs. Jumbo's

elephant squeezed and outflapped two enormous ears. Mrs. Jumbo wanted to call him Jumbo Jr.

The other elephants began to giggle. Dumbo, one of them said, but Mrs. Jumbo didn't care

what the other elephants thought. She loved her baby, big ears and all.

The next day a group of boys came by the circus tent. They laughed at Dumbo and teased him. Look at his ears! One of them cried.

Mrs. Jumbo tried to protect her baby. She lifted the boy away from Dumbo.

Help, help, he wailed. The circus keepers

raced in. Soon Mrs. Jumbo was locked in the prison wagon. From then on, the other elephants

ignored poor Dumbo. They even turned their backs on him. Dumbo felt alone and heartbroken

until Timothy Mouse found him. He liked Dumbo. At last Dumbo had a friend. Timothy wanted to help

his new friend. All we've got to do is build you an act, the mouse explained, make you a star.

Just then they heard the ringmaster talking. Have I got an idea? he exclaimed. An enormous

pyramid of Pachyderms. He wanted Dumbo to be the very

top elephant of the pyramid, the star. Finally, the big moment came, but when Dumbo ran down

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