Hello and welcome to super great kids' stories.

Wise tales from storytellers around the world,

which will make you laugh and sometimes cry.

Recommended for ages 5 to 105.

I'm Kim and I love stories.

The story this week is from Indonesia and it's called the Tiger's Whisker.

This is the first of two stories this week. The second is a coyote story from the US.

Hello, super great kids, and how are you?

I wonder if you tried something new this week.

It was half-term holiday in the UK, so some people went off travelling.

I had my friend Amy Douglas, the storyteller to stay, and we ate brioche, which is a delicious bread which she'd brought back from a trip to France. Her daughter was improving her French by going to bakeries every morning.

She was allowed to order anything she wanted so long as she could ask for it in French.

Now that's a good way of learning a lot of French vocabulary.

Our current story theme is animal stories.

And the storyteller for the first story this week is Toop, who's going to tell us a tiger story from Indonesia.

Indonesia is a beautiful island nation in Southeast Asia where they have mountains, volcanoes and tigers. Now just before we get to our story, I have a little game for you.

How many countries can you think of?

You can get your grownups to help you. Do you know there are nearly 200 countries in the world today?

That is a lot of countries. I wonder how many you've visited. Some people put a map of the world on their

bedroom wall and colour in the countries once they've visited them. So, to help get you started,

there's India, where Stickwoman's from, and Russia,

where Baba Jaga, the witch comes from. See how many countries you can think of while we have a

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