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Think about a time you used teamwork. You did one part of a task, somebody else did the

other, and by working together by collaborating, you shared in your success. We're about to

meet a team that works so well together. It's magic.

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

our story is called The Laughing Canoe. It's inspired by tales told in Brazil, the largest

country in South America and Latin America. So really great people came together to bring

you our adaptation of this folktale, including George Salazar, from NBC's Superstort and

the Broadway production of Be More Chill. So circle round everyone, for The Laughing Canoe.

There once was a fisherman, each and every morning, with a fishing pole and two baskets,

the fisherman made his way to the wide winding river, where his hand carved wooden canoe

weighted on the riverbank. The fisherman pushed off from shore, paddled to the middle of

the river, then baited his hook and cast his line. After that, he waited. The moment he felt

a tug, he rolled his line in, then proudly unhooked a wiggling, wriggling bass or catfish

and tossed it into one of his baskets. This he would do again and again, until both

baskets were brimming with flipping, flopping fish. Then he would paddle the canoe back

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