The Name of the Tree

Super Great Kids' Stories

Wardour Studios

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this old African 'How and Why' tale, – tortoise dreams about a magic tree which grows all kinds of delicious fruit, but which only appears if its name is called. All the animals want to find that tree – but all of them keep forgetting the name – all that is, except for one. Can you help Kenyan storyteller Wangari to remember the name of the tree, and help the animals? A great story for retelling.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Super Great Kids' Stories.
0:18.0	Wise tales from storytellers around the world,
0:22.0	which will make you laugh and sometimes cry.
0:26.0	I'm recommended for ages 5 to 105. I'm Kim and I love stories.
0:34.0	Hello Super Great Kids and how are you?
0:38.0	I hope you had a happy week.
0:40.0	My reason for being cheerful is that so many of you have been sending in stonkingly good pictures.
0:48.0	A lot of them for our birthday drawing competition.
0:52.0	If you send us a picture recently, thank you so much.
0:58.0	Story owl and Super Great David and I are going to have a lovely time looking at them all together.
1:04.0	It's going to be very hard to judge though.
1:08.0	They're also very good.
1:10.0	What laughs?
1:12.0	Another thing which makes me very happy is that we've met a new storyteller from Kenya in East Africa.
1:21.0	Her name is Wangari the storyteller and she's going to share a how and why story today about how fruit trees came to be in the world.
1:33.0	Just before we have our story, I wonder how many different types of fruit you can think of while we have a quick word with the grown ups.
1:45.0	Are you ready?
1:47.0	Off you go.
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