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Think about the last time you picked a flower. What color was it? What shape? What did it

smell like? We're about to meet a character who is wild about flowers, growing them, picking

them, even talking to them, in hopes that eventually they'll talk back.

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

our story is called the Bright Yellow Hat. Variations of this folktale come from many

places, including Japan and Tibet, France and Canada, Morocco and Peru. Some really great

people came together to bring you our adaptation of this tale, including Jonah Shao, who voiced

young Namari in Disney's animated film Raya and the Last Dragon, available on Disney Plus.

So circle round everyone, for the Bright Yellow Hat.

There once was a flower farmer whose name was Flora. Each morning Flora woke up in her

cottage in the countryside, then strolled up and down the rows of her garden to decide

which flowers she would sell at the marketplace that day. Good morning my marvelous miracles!

And how are you my precious petunias? Your pink and purple petals look so pretty.

Oh my sweet sunflowers, you're looking a bit droopy today. I wonder if you've been getting

too much sun. Flora chatted with her flowers as if they were old friends. Granted, the

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