Hello and welcome to Super Great Kids Stories, Wise Tales from Storyers

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?

Have you been able to do some swimming or splashing in water this summer.

Maybe in a paddling pool or a swimming pool or even in the sea.

Always best to swim with a grown-up watching whenever you swim.

I went swimming in my friend's pond for the first time

this week. It was sparkling and beautiful and exciting because neither of us had ever swum there before.

I also went swimming in the North Sea,

which was disappointingly warm

because I prefer it when it's really, really cold. But hey, it was a double swim weekend. Hurrah!

The world is out there waiting and it's full of adventures. This week for our last water-themed story we go to the Irish Sea for a Selky tale, told by story tell by storyteller Jill Brownson.

I wonder if you know what a Selky is.

Selkies are creatures in folk tales which usually live in the sea and take the shape of a beautiful seal,

but they can turn into a human, simply by coming out of the sea and taking off their seal skin.

When their seals they live in the sea and when they're humans they walk on land.

The word Selke comes from the old Scottish word for seal.

Just before we hear from Jill here's a little question for you. We've had lots of stories about the sea recently.

How many words do you think you know which make you think of the sea?

Go on, take a guess. 10, 20, 30, more? It could be things from the

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