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Circle Round

The Wind Catcher feat. Lea Salonga

Circle Round

WBUR

Ages 4-10, Children, Storytelling, Kids & Family, Childrens' Story, Books, Stories For Kids, Kids, Storytime, Story

4.414.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Tony Award winner Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon, Les Misérables) headlines this Marshallese tale about how the first sailboat came to be.

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carry it around, even drink it?

0:09.8

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a brand new adorable stuffed lion, the same one from our logo.

0:18.8

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0:25.0

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0:37.8

Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston.

0:46.3

Think about a time you did something nice for someone.

0:49.8

Maybe you shared a kind word or you held the door open for a stranger.

0:54.6

We're about to meet some characters who think that helping others will be a burden and

0:58.8

weigh them down.

1:00.4

But little do they know, lending a hand could actually give them wings.

1:12.8

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

1:17.9

Today our story is called a Wind Catcher.

1:20.6

Fans of this folk tale come from the Marshall Islands, a country made up of thousands of

1:24.8

islands in the Pacific Ocean.

1:29.6

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

1:33.7

Tony Award winner Leah Salonga, star of numerous Broadway musicals including flower drum song,

1:39.8

Les Miserables, Miss Saigon and once on this island.

1:43.2

Leah is also the voice behind two Disney princesses, Jasmine and Aladdin and Mulan in Mulan.

1:50.5

So Circle Round everyone, for the Wind Catcher.

2:06.5

Long long ago, a mother lived with her ten sons on a balmy tropical island in a glittering

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