Hi Rebecca Shear here seeking an ideal holiday gift for your favorite Circle Round fans

then check out our Circle Round swag. Visit W-B-U-R-D.org

slash Circle Round to order the new lunchbox and backpack plus copies of our picture books

autographed by me it's all at w bure dot org slash circle round.

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As you're listening right now, the Circle Round team is hard at work, producing even more exciting folk tales for

this seventh season of our W-B-U-R podcast. We're also gearing up for our first national tour with stops in San Francisco, California, Minneapolis,

Minnesota, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, and Chicago, Illinois. You can

learn more about it and see which tickets are available by visiting

W b-U-R-D.org slash Circle Round. In the meantime, this week we're bringing you a

favorite episode from the Circle Round Archives. A fun surprising tale you may have missed the first time around.

We'll be back with a brand new episode next week.

Have you ever heard of The Golden Rule? It's an idea that goes all the way back to ancient Egypt, actually.

And basically, the Golden Rule says that you should treat other people the way you want to be treated.

Like if you want to borrow a friend's toy,

maybe you can let your friend borrow one of your toys sometime.

In today's story, we'll meet a shoemaker who extends kindness to someone in need, and what

she gets in return she never saw coming. I'm Rebecca Shear and welcome to circle round where story time happens all the time.

Today, our story is called The Red Leather Shoes.

Versions of this tale come from India in South Asia.

Some really great people. Asia.

Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this folk tale,

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