'Stella And The Dragon' | feat. Kathryn Hahn

Circle Round

WBUR

Ages 4-10, Children, Storytelling, Kids & Family, Childrens' Story, Books, Stories For Kids, Kids, Storytime, Story

4.4 • 14.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Kathryn Hahn ("Bad Moms Christmas") stars in this Romanian folktale about a clever mother and her quest to outwit a powerful dragon.

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0:00.0	Hi Circle Round fans! Rebecca Sheer here, inviting you to join us this August at Tanglewood,
0:07.7	the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lennox, Massachusetts. Our annual live
0:12.9	recording on Sunday August 13th is all sold out, but not to worry! You can join us on Tuesday,
0:18.9	August 8th, as part of Tanglewood on Parade, the BSO's annual Family Funday. Showtime
0:25.0	is at 2.30pm in Seiji, Ozawa Hall. General seating is available in the open air hall or on the
0:30.6	lawn. Kids get in free, but require a ticket. Get yours now by visiting wbur.org slash Circle
0:37.1	Round and clicking on events. What's the strongest thing you can think of? An elephant, a bear,
0:46.7	maybe a brick wall or a stone house? Well, what if I told you that the strongest thing of
0:51.9	all could be you? Today we'll hear the story of a woman who discovered that being strong isn't
0:58.4	always about muscles and bones or bricks and stones. I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round,
1:10.5	where Storytime happens all the time. Today our story is called Stella and the Dragon. People have
1:17.4	been telling versions of this tale for years in Eastern Europe, in the country of Romania.
1:24.6	Some really great people came together to help bring this one to you, including Catherine
1:28.6	Hahn. She's a great actor who's been in a bunch of movies and television shows, including the
1:33.5	Amazon original series Transparent. So Circle Round everyone for Stella and the Dragon.
1:47.6	Their once was a farmer named Stella. She and her husband Ovi lived in a house down a long,
1:53.3	long lane in the village. The house was small but comfortable. Stella and her husband shared it
1:58.5	with their friendly striped cat and their old faithful dog. In the hills above Stella's village
2:04.5	lived a giant green dragon, a very wealthy dragon who had piles and piles of gold in his
2:11.2	lair atop the hill. When he was hungry, the dragon would swoop down and pluck a cow or a sheep
2:16.9	from the villager's fields. Many of Stella's neighbors feared that someday the dragon would be hungry
2:22.0	enough to swoop down and carry off a human. But Stella and Ovi tried not to think about the giant
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