GT133 - Imaginativa And the Painted Polish Village
Goop Tales — Storytelling Podcast for Kids
Maria Calanchini
4.6 • 736 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In the whimsical world of Goop Tales, Imaginativa possesses the most vivid imagination of all the Goops. While other students doze off during Miss Wigglebutt's boring lectures, Imaginativa transforms ordinary moments into extraordinary visions. When she picks up her magical binoculars and a mysterious paintbrush in her playroom, she paints a blue door in mid-air and steps through it, vanishing into another dimension entirely. Imaginativa finds herself in Zalipie, Poland—a real village where every surface bursts with hand-painted flowers in brilliant reds, yellows, and greens. But when she discovers a haunting blank wall guarded by creeping vines and a terrifying painted squid, she becomes trapped. A friendly golden sunflower warns her that this wall once held the most beautiful paintings in the entire village, until something stole its light and buried it deep underground.
Can Imaginativa's powerful imagination defeat the sinister squid and restore the wall's stolen brilliance? Or will she remain trapped in the painted village forever, unable to return home to Goop World?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there and welcome to Goop Tales. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Maria Kalincini, the founder, writer, and narrator behind these original audio stories. |
| 0:17.4 | And it has been a very long time since I've seen you, but I'm back, and I'm starting out |
| 0:24.6 | 2026 with a brand new goop tale. And I want to thank all of you who have written to me |
| 0:32.6 | or left me voicemails or reviews on either iTunes or Spotify over the past months. I have read every |
| 0:42.1 | single one, responded to every single one, and I love them. And I'm going to name all of you at the |
| 0:48.8 | end of this podcast. So please listen in. And if you are a new listener, I just want to say welcome. Also want to tell you |
| 1:00.7 | about the goop creation kit before we jump into the story. So the goop creation kit is free. It is a gift to you. You can get it at gooptails.com |
| 1:15.9 | forward slash kit. And you can use it to create your own goop using the exact same process that I use to create goops and goop tails. It has it all laid out so you can |
| 1:34.1 | name your goop, you can draw your goop. There's help in there for the drawing. You can decide what it |
| 1:40.8 | wears, where it goes, who it meets, what it carries, and a whole area for storyboarding |
| 1:49.0 | your goop. Just go to goptails.com forward slash kit. And once you are on that list, I have some new |
| 2:00.7 | adventures coming your way. Okay, today's story was |
| 2:06.0 | inspired by Aya. Thank you, Aya, for creating imaginativea straight from your imagination, |
| 2:17.1 | the best place in the world. |
| 2:20.4 | Let's listen to what Aya had to say. |
| 2:23.1 | My name is Aya Irvin. |
| 2:26.3 | I live in Oregon, Eugene. |
| 2:29.1 | I'm seven years old. |
| 2:32.1 | I'm in second grade and I have an idea for a charming group girl named imaginative. |
| 2:40.0 | She has a very big lively imagination, but sometimes she is so imaginative. She doesn't even hear what the other groups are trying to say to her. |
| 2:55.6 | So she holds binoculars so she can look inside her imagination really far. |
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