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Circle Round

The All-Wish Stick

Circle Round

WBUR

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

4.414.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Amy Tsang (Star Wars: The Acolyte, Kung Fu) stars in a Chinese tale about a magical gift that makes wishes come true, provided you make them with an honest heart.

Transcript

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0:00.0

W-B-U-R Podcasts, Boston.

0:09.5

If you could wish for anything in the world, what would it be? In today's story, we'll meet a flute player

0:16.0

who receives a magical gift that makes wishes come true, but only if they're made with an honest heart

0:30.4

I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round where story time happens all the time.

0:36.0

Today our story is called The All Wish Stick.

0:40.0

It's inspired by tales from the East Asian country of China.

0:44.0

Some really great people came together to bring you our version of this folk tale, Amy Tsang. Amy has appeared in

0:54.6

dozens of shows and movies in America and her native China including the feature film

0:59.2

Silent River, the CW series Kung Fu and the new Disney Plus series Star Wars, the Acolyte.

1:05.0

So circle around everyone.

1:07.0

For the all wish stick. There are once. There once was a woman named Faye.

1:27.0

Fay lived in a small town by the sea,

1:30.0

inside a cramped cottage with sagging floors, leaky ceilings, and rickety windows that rattled in the breeze.

1:37.0

Face scraped together a living doing odd jobs for her neighbors.

1:42.0

Sometimes she mended clothing.

1:44.0

I replace the buttons on your jacket, Mr Lee. What do you think?

1:48.0

Sometimes she weeded gardens.

1:51.0

I got the vines off your peonies, Mrs. Woe. See how happy they look.

1:55.0

And sometimes she walked dogs.

1:58.0

Can you pick up the pace, Chester and Rocky?

2:00.0

And Spike, can you please stop nibbling Coco's collar?

2:05.0

Fay enjoyed helping her fellow town's people and towns, dogs.

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