Is that a lion?

I think he's saying our fourth picture book, The Lion's Whiskour, hits shelves this spring.

And on Saturday, June 17th, we're throwing a party at WBUR's city space in Boston to celebrate

and you're invited.

Find more details and get your in-person or virtual tickets at WBUR.org slash circle

round.

Produced by the iLap at WBUR Boston.

Here's a fun fact.

Did you know there are nearly 8 billion people in the world?

And get this, if you were to say hello to all of them, one person at a time, it would

take you more than 200 years.

But the cool thing is, even with so many people on Earth, no two of us are the same.

We're all different.

And in today's story, different is the name of the game.

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

Today our story is called The Great Ball Game.

Most of this tale come from the Cherokee, Creek, a jibway and monomony people of North America.

Some really great folks came together to bring you our telling of this story, including

William Jackson Harper, who stars in NBC's Hit Comedy series The Good Place, opposite

Kristen Bell and Ted Danson.

So Circle Round everyone, for The Great Ball Game.

Once upon a time, there was a big quarrel between the animals who roamed the Earth and the

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