The Bird of a Thousand Colours

Super Great Kids' Stories

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids

4.5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The birds of the forest need to choose a king. Turkey wants to be the one to wear the crown, but his dull feathers are not impressive. A colourful bird lkindly lends her bright feathers to Turkey, who promises to return them after he becomes king. Does he keep his promise? Listen to storyteller Wendy Shearer share this thoughtful story and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to super great kids' stories, wise tales from storytellers around the world which will make you laugh
0:23.6	and sometimes cry.
0:26.6	Recommended for ages 5 to 105.
0:31.6	I'm Kim and I love stories.
0:34.6	Hello, Super Great Kids. Today we have our first story from Cuba. It's called
0:42.5	The Bird of a Thousand Colors and it's told by Wendy Shearer who enjoys telling stories from
0:49.9	Africa and the Caribbean. How are you, Super Great Kids?
0:55.0	I hope you've had a happy week.
0:57.0	I'm very happy because our first book of Super Great Stories
1:01.0	was published in the US and Canada this week.
1:04.0	It has 30 of your favourite stories, including Anansi and Baba Yaga and of course,
1:15.5	The Ghost of the Bloody Finger.
1:18.4	It's illustrated by artists from around the world and were really pleased with it.
1:24.7	Story Owl is particularly Ticketyp Boo because she's on the front cover.
1:30.5	If you'd like to support us and buy a copy of our book, it's available at Barnes & Noble
1:36.0	and Bloomsbury US and Bloomsbury Canada and Amazon. The publishers, Bloomsbury,
1:42.9	have done a great job. It looks brilliant and it'll make a
1:47.1	beautiful Christmas gift. Thanks to all of you super great listeners who pre-ordered it and have helped
1:54.6	to push it up the book charts. Arrah! Thanks too to all of you for telling me your favourite stories which helped me to decide which ones to include in the book.
2:06.1	Happy Reading.
2:07.7	And my bag of happy's is brimming over this month because right now I'm staying in a house in a beautiful woods with my granddaughter Dorothy.
2:20.1	It's so good to be able to introduce her to nature and stories by the fireside. Just before we hear this week's story from Cuba in the
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