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What's the quickest thing you can think of?

A train, a jet, a cheetah?

Those are all quick things to be sure, but none of them are as quick as your mind.

In today's story, we'll meet an animal who's not so fast on her feet,

but when it comes to brain power, she's the quickest one around.

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

Today, our story is called the Banana Split.

It was inspired by tales told in Panama, the central American country that bridges north

and south America.

Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this tale, including

Amira Van and Jim Conroy.

Grown-ups, you can see Amira Van in a Jasmine's Blues currently streaming on Netflix.

And kids, you can hear Jim Conroy in the animated series Jelly Stone on HBO Max and fetch

with rough rough men on PBS.

Those circle round everyone for the Banana Split.

In a tropical forest full of towering trees, dangling vines and twisting rivers, they're

lived a monkey.

Monkey made his home at the top of the one and only banana plant in the forest.

At the tip, the top of the thick green stem, yellow clusters of sweet, succulent bananas

dangled high above the ground, and all the animals in the forest longed to eat them,

like cuckoo.

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