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Maked Up Stories: Imaginative Kids Stories

Tanin and His Fig Hill Discovery*

Maked Up Stories: Imaginative Kids Stories

Maked Up Stories

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4766 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

* Content warning: the protagonist in this story finds a skeleton and is initially frightened. Nothing else scary happens and the story is about finding one's bravery.

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Maked Up Stories is a daily children’s bedtime stories podcast. Perfect for your bedtime routine, your commute, or for some high quality screen-free entertainment at home. Our interactive format will ignite your imagination. Rich vocabulary with plenty of context clues supports your child’s language development.

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Check out our sister podcast Maked Up Clubhouse, where ALL the storytellers are kids! https://open.spotify.com/show/1DJIjGsPGXvUi4Qmcima0K?si=8cb76c3e21b248d0

Love our intro and outro music? We do do! The song is Hishtadlus by Batya Levine and you can find more of her work on Spotify.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Makeup Stories. My name is Zoe, go to MakeDup Stories.com to join the MakeDub Club. Tell all your friends.

0:21.6

Hello and welcome to MakeD up. I'm your host Amanda. Today's story is a request from Tannen.

0:29.6

Tannen is five years old and he lives in Florida. My name is Tannen. I'm five years old.

0:38.3

I live in Florida

0:40.3

and I would like a story about a tree, a skeleton, and a bug.

0:46.3

Thanks Tannen for this fun request.

0:50.3

We hope you enjoy the story.

0:55.0

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a big boy named Tannen who lived in Florida.

1:02.0

On weekends, he would visit his grandpa on a large, overgrown, and somewhat dilapidated for a run-down property in northern Florida.

1:12.9

Tannen loved the way the sunlight would stretch across his grandfather's land in the afternoons.

1:18.7

It felt warm and inviting, beckoning him to explore.

1:23.0

Yet despite his fascination with the open fields and the quiet groves of trees, Tom often hesitated.

1:30.3

A quiet boy of five years old, he sometimes struggled with wavering self-confidence that kept him cautious, just a little bit wary of the unknown.

1:40.3

But something about this land, his grandfather's property, which had been in the family

1:45.9

for generations, urged him onward, coaxing him out of his shell. He wasn't alone, of course.

1:53.5

His younger sister, Amora, trailed him everywhere. She was too, and had a bright, boundless

1:59.6

energy that bubbled over into everything she did,

2:02.6

from painting lopsided rainbows on stray rocks to singing made-up tunes about the birds that nestled in their grandfather's sycamores.

2:11.6

Tonnan found her enthusiasm both comforting and irritating.

2:16.6

Sometimes he just wanted a quiet moment to gather his

2:20.2

thoughts. Yet deep down, he was grateful that she always insisted on tagging along. Well, most of the time,

2:28.3

he was grateful. One day, after their chores were finished, Tannen and Amora wandered off to play in the massive patch of Kudzu that rose just west of Grandpa's house.

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