The Early Years: Weird Backpack

Story Pirates

Lemonada Media

Comedy, Education, Kids & Family

4.5 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2014

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The Story Pirates are back with ‘The Weird Backpack’ by then 9 year old Bridget Hermann. When classroom eating backpacks threaten to take over the country, there’s only one backpack up to the job of saving the world! Will the Superhero Backpack with worms in its pockets be able to save the country? Will they make it to Tickle Island?! There’s only one way to find out! Featuring a snow day interview with now 10 year old author Bridget Hermann! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Story Pirates Podcast, my name is Leo Virturi.
0:12.0	And I'm Mindy Thomas from SiriusXM's Kids Place Live.
0:15.3	You know, the Story Pirates take stories written by elementary school kids and we adapt
0:19.4	them into sketch comedy and musical theater.
0:22.4	We're going back into the archives to play you some of our favorite stories, Mindy.
0:28.3	What story do we have today?
0:29.8	Well, today we're going back to August of 2012 where fourth grader Bridget Herman from
0:35.1	Berlin Elementary School in Berlin, New York sent us a story about a weird backpack.
0:40.8	Awesome.
0:41.8	But before we hear Story Pirates adaptation of Bridget's story, let's hear Bridget's
0:46.5	original story that she sent in to Story Pirates.
0:50.7	So here's Story Pirate, Peter McNerney reading Bridget's story.
0:54.7	And afterwards, we might even have an interview with Bridget.
0:59.3	Peter, take it away.
1:02.1	Thanks, Lee.
1:03.1	And here now is Bridget's story, The Weird Backpack.
1:06.6	The day in Chicago when Henry realized that his backpack was a man eating monster, it ate
1:11.5	everything it sees.
1:13.1	So since usually bring a backpack to school, it ate books, desks, teachers, sometimes it
1:18.2	was so hungry and even ate classrooms.
1:20.8	All the kids thought the backpacks were weird.
1:23.3	The backpacks took over the country.
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