Hello and welcome to super great kids stories

Wise tales 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.

Did you have a good week?

Have you been able to visit the sea this summer?

We're telling water-themed stories this month to keep us all cool.

This week we hear a seaside how and why story told by Emily Hennessy who lives near a very big beach in the north of England called

Morcombe Bay. I wonder if you live near a beach. Stories are quite often inspired by the places where we live. People look at the mountains or the lakes or the rivers and think, huh, I wonder how they got there.

And then they make up a story about it.

Well, today's How and My story was inspired by Morcombe Bay and the curleus the birds which live along its shore.

If you listen carefully in this story, you might even hear the sound of the curl you calling. Just before we hear from

Emily here's a little question for you. Which is your favorite noise in stories? Do you like you

like a hoating you like a hooting owl or a howling wolf or do you prefer a creaking door

the storyteller Jason Buck is particularly brilliant at making noises or sound effects as we call

them.

There are lots in his story, The Old Woman and the Pig, which is episode 137 if you want to go and listen.

The crack of the whip is pretty clever or his barking dog and his bleating goat or very realistic

or Cape Corcary's Crying' Crying Baby in Eggshell Soup. That's rather brilliant too.

That's episode 94.

Have a think about which sound effect you like best and which one you'd like to make in a story you might tell while we have a quick word with the

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