Encore: Sweet Corn and Clever Rabbit

Circle Round

WBUR

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

4.4 • 14.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this favorite episode from the archives, Eris Baker (This Is Us) plays a tricky rabbit who presents her fellow animals with an offer they can't refuse.

This episode originally released April 9, 2019.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	Hi, we're back a sheer here.
0:14.5	Here at Circle Round, we're taking a few weeks off for the summer, as we get ready to present
0:18.5	our fifth season of folktales from around the world.
0:21.9	So today, we're bringing you a special encore edition from the Circle Round Archives.
0:26.4	A really fun story you may have missed the first time around.
0:30.0	We'll be back with a brand new episode soon.
0:32.5	In the meantime, enjoy!
0:39.5	Ever heard the phrase, too good to be true?
0:43.5	If something is too good to be true, that means it sounds so amazing you can hardly believe
0:49.7	it.
0:50.7	In today's story, we'll meet a clever, sneaky rabbit who makes an offer that definitely
0:55.9	sounds too good to be true, because, well, it is.
1:05.0	I'm Rebecca Scheer and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.
1:10.6	Today our story is called Sweet Corn and Clever Rabbit.
1:15.4	Because of this tale come from Mexico, Costa Rica, and the first nations people of Canada.
1:24.5	Some really great people came together to bring you our telling of this folktale, including
1:28.9	Eris Baker.
1:30.7	Grown-ups you may recognize Eris from This Is Us on NBC.
1:35.6	So Circle Round everyone, for Sweet Corn and Clever Rabbit.
1:48.4	Rabbit was one of the fastest animals around.
1:52.4	She also was one of the cleverest.
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