Encore: Of Beans and Bunnies

Circle Round

WBUR

Ages 4-10, Children, Storytelling, Kids & Family, Childrens' Story, Books, Stories For Kids, Kids, Storytime, Story

4.4 • 14.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Efren Ramirez (Napoleon Dynamite, Lightyear) portrays a beloved trickster who lives by his wits, and uses them to outwit others, in this folktale from the Spanish-speaking world.

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0:00.0	Hi, Rebecca Shear here.
0:02.2	Before we get to our story, a humble invitation.
0:05.4	Circle Round is a public media podcast.
0:08.0	As public media faces serious federal funding cuts,
0:10.9	I invite you to help keep us going strong by joining the Circle Round Club.
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0:22.4	Sign up at WBUR.org.org slash circle round club.
0:26.0	Thanks for circling round with us, and thanks for your support.
0:30.9	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:43.1	Hi, Rebecca Shear here.
0:49.5	We're taking some time off this summer as we gear up for Circle Round's ninth season of our WBUR podcast,
0:57.4	featuring dozens of folktales from around the world and an exciting lineup of live episode recordings across the United States.
1:02.3	In the meantime, this week, please enjoy a special encore edition of Circle Round.
1:05.4	A really fun story you may have missed the first time around.
1:06.5	Here we go.
1:10.9	Ever heard the phrase, live by your wits?
1:17.5	If you live by your wits, then you're surviving, you're getting by, by using your cleverness, you're cunning.
1:21.2	We're about to meet a character who doesn't just live by his wits.
1:25.1	He uses them to outwit a not very nice guy.
1:32.8	I'm Rebecca Shear, and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.
1:37.0	Today, our story is called Of Beans and Bunnies.
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