MEMBERS & VISITORS Your Virtual World Presents “Beauty And The Beast” Based on the classic French fairy tale, the story of Belle, an intelligent young woman scorned by her townspeople for being a bookworm, weary of fighting off the advances of the arrogant Gaston, and dreaming of escape. Her father was a wealthy merchant and […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS Your Virtual World Presents “Honourable Minu” – African Folktale Do you know somebody who constantly seek fame, riches, and all of the material pleasures of life? Listen to the tale of Minu, a very rich man living near the coast in West Africa. The poor villager travels to the big city of […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS Your Virtual World Presents “Beasts And Serpents” – African Folktale Do you know where the animals of the earth came from? Well, let our storyteller relate the fabled West African account of where the beasts and serpents REALLY came from. It all started out in a small West African village with a […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS Your Virtual World Presents “Tom Thumb” Long ago, in the merry days of good King Arthur, there lived a plowman and his wife. They were very poor, but would have been contented and happy if only they could have had a little child. One day, having heard of the great fame of […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Your Virtual World Presents “Snow White” Long ago, in a land far away, a wicked queen asks her Magic Mirror, “Who is the fairest one of all?” and is told that Snow White, her blossoming stepdaughter, is now the “fairest one of all.” In an envious rage, the queen orders a […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS Native American Storytelling Storyteller Gene Tagaban, of Tlingit, Cherokee, and Filipino heritage, talks about the importance of storytelling as a tool to teach, entertain, and heal. Learn more about Gene HERE.

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MEMBERS & VISITORS African Storytelling Oral storytelling is an African tradition. The National Museum of African Art, in Washington, D.C., is keeping the griot tradition alive and using it to encourage children to read more about Africa. Voice of America’s Saskia de Melker has more.

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MEMBERS & VISITORS Your Virtual World Presents “The Legend of John Henry” Though the story of John Henry sounds like the quintessential tall tale, it is certainly based, at least in part, on an actual historical character. John Henry was an African American folk hero ranking with other imaginary legends like Pecos Bill and Paul […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS VELVETEEN RABBIT The Velveteen Rabbit lives in the nursery with all of the other toys, waiting for the day when the Boy will choose him as a playmate. The little cloth rabbit was given as a Christmas gift to a young boy. In time, the shy velveteen rabbit befriends the tattered Skin […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS “Puss in Boots”, is a French literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power and wealth. The youngest son thought about how to manage with this cat. Through cleverness Puss got a bag with lettuce then went to field and caught a rabbit then went straight […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS The old Native American storyteller named Iagoo has told a story about a magical hill called Tutokanula. Other mountains and hills were formed many years ago when the earth was young, but this hill magically appeared overnight. One day it was an ordinary rock, but overnight it rose and stretched until it […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS “In the branches of a great tree, in a forest in India, lived a wise old crow in a very comfortable, well-built nest. His wife was dead, and all his children were getting their own living; so he had nothing to do but to look after himself. He led a very easy […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS “A long time ago there was an old man who lived in a house down a city alley. High walls hid it from view. He had no family and his only company was a cat and dog. He never went out to work. He didn’t even go out t buy food. No […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS This children’s folk tale tells of a strong-willed princess who falls for a foolish woodcutter and helps him seize his destiny to become great. Her father, the king, had once threatened his daughter that if she did not stop crying, she would be forced to marry Ondal, the village fool. Guess what? […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: This children’s folk tale tells of a snake that was killed years before by a kindly woodcutter who saved the life of a bird about to be eaten by the snake. The ghostly spirit of the strong-willed snake has returned vowing vengence on the woodcutter. They meet again and the woodcutter […]

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  MEMBERS & VISITORS: Long, long ago in Kyoto, the people of the city were terrified by accounts of a huge, dreadful, and ugly ogre, who, it was said, haunted the Gate of Rashomon at twilight and seized whoever passed by. The missing victims were never seen again, so it was whispered that the ogre […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS Two humpback woodcutters find both fortune and misfortune is this story. The hardworking one meets some fairies and the other meets some evil ogres. “Domingo Siete” is one of Mexico’s best known tales. Any time somebody has done something very foolish the others will say, “y salio con su Domingo […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS The story is a classic English literature children’s tale that tells the adventures of a mischievous, freshly-baked gingerbread man who jumps from Cook’s oven and flees in an attempt to escape being caught then eaten by the monkey and then by little Bobby. Your host, Binary Mouse, introduces Your Virtual World’s Campfire […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS There once was a widower who remarried. His second wife was ill-natured. The man had a beautiful, gentle daughter of his own, and she was soon to become the servant of her evil step-mother. They called her Cinderella. The King needed to find a queen for his prince, so he threw a […]

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MEMBERS & VISITORS Once upon a time there was a king and a queen, who were very sorry that they had no children,—so sorry that it cannot be told. At last, however, the Queen had a daughter. There was a very fine christening; and the Princess had for her godmothers all the fairies they could […]

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