Hello and welcome to super great kids' stories.

Wise tales from storytellers around the world, which will make you laugh and sometimes

cry. Recommended for ages 5 to 105. I'm Kim and I love stories.

Hello super great kids and how are you? This is our second Christmas story this week.

So if you missed our first one about the scarecrow in the hair, then do go back and have

a listen. This story is a marvelous tale from Norway about a boy, a troll and a Christmas

tree, and it's told by the gifted storyteller Emily Hennessy. It is a little bit scary,

so if you don't like scary stories, then maybe go back and listen to the scarecrow and

the hair. Or another more gentle Christmas story from the past like the wind that blew

Christmas away. Now, as we're coming towards the end of the year, do you think you could

decide which are your three favourite super great kids' stories while we have a quick

word with the grownups? Hello super great Kim. Hello super great David. Kim, I have a question.

I love questions far away. What is the best kind of story? Well, I think the best kind

of story is an old story which has been told for many years and passed on from person

to person. Ooh, that's a good answer. I thought you're going to say something specific

like only Baba Yaga stories or a Nancy stories or stories that have to have two head

of giants in them. No, just a story which has been loved and passed

along and told by lots of people. Right, okay. So if we really want more people to hear

stories, seems like we're going to need help from our lovely listeners. Yes, we know

these stories because people have been sharing them with each other for donkeys years. I

tell you, you tell someone else, they tell someone else and soon everyone knows the story.

Hmm, you know what Kim, I think maybe it's such a good idea that we could possibly put

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