Hello and welcome to super great kids stories

Wise tales from storytellers around the world which will make you laugh and sometimes cry. Recommended for ages 5 to 105.

I'm Kim and I love stories.

Hello super great kids and how are you?

What's your reason to be cheerful at the moment?

Some people don't like November. They think it's a bit gloomy, but I rather like it. I love the trees turning bright red and yellow and the candles and the stars which

seemed to twinkle more brightly at this time of year. We've got a funny story for you this week. It's called the Fox and the Raven.

It could even be called the Stinky Cheese Wars, but it's not.

The storyteller this week is new to super great kids stories.

Or unless you're a subscriber, his name is Paul Albrae and he's a friend of Tianan duyep who told us the

ghost of the bloody finger and like Tianan he's very funny.

If you're a subscriber, you might remember his bonus stories,

rumple Stiltskin or the three little pigs who were called Jeremy, Jennifer and Jenkins. Paul likes to tell his

own version of old stories. The story this week is a fable. That's a kind of story with a little lesson in it.

Usually the main characters are animals, of the talking type of course. The fox and the raven includes a dapper fox, a

scruffy raven and some very smelly sheep's cheese. The original tale comes from ancient Greece and it's really really old.

It's thought that it was first told by a man called Isop who was a slave and a storyteller.

He was born in about 600 BC.

That is a really, really, really long time ago.

His stories were passed from one generation to another

by word of mouth.

Until, they were eventually written down, not until about 300 years after E-Sop died.

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