Wendell's Wonderful Worrisome Day | 7
Little Stories Everywhere
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🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Wendell takes the bus to school every day. He treats it like a ritual. But one day his rule-abiding driver leaves town and is replaced with a quirky farmer—Wendell buckles in for a bumpy ride that offers many surprises along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | From Wunder, I'm Virginia Madsen, and this is Little Stories Everywhere. |
| 0:12.0 | Each episode will bring you stories for kids that |
| 0:14.8 | spark the imagination, take you to other worlds, and bring joy. This story is |
| 0:20.8 | called Wendell's Wonderful Worry Some Day. |
| 0:29.0 | Wendell was a worrier. |
| 0:31.0 | He didn't like being a worrier. He certainly didn't want to be the most anxious |
| 0:36.7 | nine-year-old in all a fourth grade. He just couldn't help it. |
| 0:43.0 | At least when Mr. Keene drove the bus, |
| 0:46.1 | Wendell didn't worry about being late for school, |
| 0:49.0 | because no matter how deep the snow, |
| 0:51.3 | Mr. Keene always got there on time. The bus was quiet too, just like |
| 0:56.9 | Wendell. Mr. Keen didn't allow singing, shouting, or even chatting, so Wendell never had to fret about talking to anyone else. |
| 1:06.0 | And that was a relief because talking to other people, except as mom, usually sent his worry meter soaring. |
| 1:15.0 | Then, just before holiday break in December, |
| 1:20.0 | Mr. Keene up and quit. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm tired of these northern winters. Mr. Keene, up and quit. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm tired of these northern winters. I'm heading south, he declared. |
| 1:26.8 | I'll bask by the sea under the swaying palms. |
| 1:30.3 | No swaying palms around here Wendell thought |
| 1:35.6 | The next day principal Paul called an emergency town meeting to decide what to do and And it was an emergency because Wendell's small town |
| 1:45.9 | was really just a village with only one elementary school and one bus. |
| 1:51.9 | Maple Sugar Molly threw back her frizzy white braids, hiked up her faded |
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