GT065 - Gossipina and the Dragon Trees of Socotra Island

Goop Tales — Storytelling Podcast for Kids

Maria Calanchini

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4.4 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Come along with Gossipina as she gossips her way to Socotra island in Yemen. She comes face to face with the infamous dragon trees and every tree holds a secret. Gossipina can't help herself and she sets out to discover the secrets of the dragon trees but will she end up becoming a secret? A secret that is never released from the tree? Find out at gooptales.com/goop-girls/gossipina.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Goop Tales, episode 65, Gossipina and the Dragon Trees of Sikotra Island.
0:15.6	I'm Maria Kalanchini, and I'm the author of Goop Tales.
0:19.7	And I am recording this today on April 9th, 2020.
0:25.8	So you're probably going to listen to it at a time when you had to stay at home a lot.
0:31.6	Well, there is special significance of April 9th because today is the birthday of a very special little girl named Maya
0:41.8	and she inspired this story today. Maya's a friend of mine and she just turned 10 and she
0:50.0	wanted me to write a story about a goop called gossipossipina. So she's a gossopie little
0:57.2	goop. So that's where today's story came from. And we are going to go all the way to the
1:04.9	Middle East for this story. It takes place on an island called Sikotra Island, which is part of an archipelago, which I had to look
1:17.1	this up because I never pronounce it correctly, but it's archipelago. An archipelago is an island group
1:24.2	or an island chain, like a cluster of islands. And Socotra Island is in the Middle East
1:31.1	and it is part of an archipelago. That's where we're going to travel today. You are going to meet
1:36.8	a masked booby. There's a masked booby. So it's a boobie's a kind of bird that seems to live in the
1:43.3	archipelagos. It looks like it has a maskobie's a kind of bird that seems to live in the archipelagos.
1:44.6	It looks like it has a mask over its face.
1:48.1	So I'll definitely put pictures of that out for this story.
1:52.5	But before we get started, I want to read a review from iTunes
1:58.0	because I promised I would do one for every story.
2:00.6	And I love getting them. So please
2:03.0	keep leaving them. So this one is from Tav Rose 23 and it was left on March 30th of 2020. It's
2:12.4	titled Goop Tales are a bedtime must. My name is Levi and I love goop tales. I am almost four. I listen to
2:22.3	goop tales almost every night. I am excited for Gossipina to come out. Well, this one's for you, Levi.
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