Making the Day
You can listen to
Making the Day one of the stories from
A Long Run in Short Shorts,
- click here
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To listen to the Little Red Monkey from my CD
- preceded by the counting chant
Five Little Monkeys
The music is by Bill Roberts
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The Enormous Cabbage is just one of the stories from my most recent book Shemi's Tall Tales (Pont Books).
Click on the arrow below and you can hear me telling that story.
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Stories for Young Children - and how to tell them! is my book of stories, rhymes and chants for using with young children. It includes tips for telling and suggested follow-up activities plus a CD of me telling the stories and rhymes. The delightful musical accompaniment on the CD is by musician Bill Roberts.
Listen to one of the tracks from the
CD. First comes me telling the traditional story poem, Where's the Sun? (words below). Then comes my story, The Yellow Blob:
Just click the arrow to hear them.
Where's the Sun?
What's in there?
Gold and money
Where's my share?
Mousie ran away with it
Where's the mousie?
In her housie
Where's her housie?
In the wood
Where's the wood?
Fire burned it
Where's the fire?
Water put it out
Where's the water?
Brown bull drank it
Where's the brown bull?
Back o' Burnie's hill
Where's Burnie's hill?
All covered in snow
Where's the snow?
Sun melted it
Where's the sun?
HIGH, HIGH, UP IN THE SKY
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Here's another track from my CD.
First comes an action chant -
What to do with a piece of cloth. That's followed by the story of
The Naughty Little Mouse. Click the arrow to listen to the chant and story.
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