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Think about one of your special talents.

Think about one of your special talents.

Maybe you have a knack for making up poems or you can do a really cool

magic trick. Perhaps you have an ear for music or an eye for detail. Sometimes we have special talents without even knowing it.

And as we'll hear in today's tale,

brilliant things can happen when those talents come to light.

talents come to light. I'm Rebecca Shear and welcome to

I'm Rebecca Shear and welcome to Circle Round

where story time happens all the time. Today our story is called

The Laughing Bird. Versions of this folk tale were originally told among the

Aboriginal peoples of Australia.

Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this folk tale,

including Kenny Curtis, host and co-creator of the National Geographic Kids podcast, Grecing Out.

So circle around everyone for the laughing bird. Nothing, Bird. Way, way back, ages before humans came along.

Way, way back, ages before humans came along, the world was inhabited by animals. The animals could talk to one another, and most of the time, what the animals were saying, was something like this oof.

Oops.

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