The Giant Who Cried Waterfalls written by Stuart Baum

Story Time

Rob Griffiths

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🗓️ 21 June 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Written by Stuart Baum and narrated by Rob Griffiths. Bonnie goes on a quest, after she finds the truth about the origin of the village waterfalls. A short story suitable for young children aged 6 years old to teenagers 15 years old.

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0:00.0	A Ready to Hear a Story
0:11.9	This one's about a waterfall with a very unusual origin.
0:16.8	The Giant Who Crried Waterfalls by Stuart Baum.
0:22.2	This story starts most of the way up a tall mountain.
0:25.5	To get there we first have to take a plane halfway around the world.
0:29.2	Then we have to take a long train ride of about 5 hours to the bottom of a large mountain
0:34.3	range.
0:35.3	That's as far as the train goes.
0:37.5	So we have to take a bus from that town to an even smaller town.
0:42.3	It's not that far, but the roads are so winding and so thin that we have to stop to wait for
0:46.5	cars, cars, other buses and frequently sheep and goats to go past before we can continue
0:51.9	on our way.
0:53.7	Finally we arrive at a smaller town at the bottom of the mountain.
0:58.5	Look up the mountain.
0:59.8	Towards the top you can see a small village with perhaps 15 houses and two larger buildings.
1:06.4	That's the village we need to get to.
1:09.4	You can't see the very top of the mountain, it's above the clouds.
1:14.2	Before we travel up, take a good look up the mountain.
1:17.9	See how the pine trees get smaller and smaller as they get closer and closer to the village.
1:24.6	See how the mountain becomes more rocks than trees as you look past the village.
1:28.4	It's almost all bolder and crags as it disappears into the clouds.
1:34.0	See the village.
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