Imagine:
What if you made a promise to invite a frog out to dinner? What if people stared at you? What if they laughed? Or what if that frog turned out to be the best friend you ever had? Have you ever made friends with someone you never expected to be friends with?

About today's Storyteller:
Sarah Joy Bennett is a Toronto actor, writer and director. Her award-winning puppet play about motherhood, Night Feed, will be remounted at The Bridges Festival in 2023, (www.nightfeed.ca).
You can catch her in the kitchen eating raw cookie dough out of the mixing bowl and saying "I'm allowed to do this - I'm a grownup!"

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Words are delicious. Les mots sont délicieux!
From today's story:

• Il était une fois: Once upon a time


• Le roi: the King


• La reine: the Queen


• Une princesse comme-il-faut: a perfect princess


• Sa balle dorée: her golden ball


• Sa nez: her nose


• Excusez-moi: pardon me


• Même ma couronne: even my crown


• Une invitation: an invitation


• Les blagues: jokes


• S’il vous plaît: please


• C'est délicieux: it is delicious


• J'adore danser: I love to dance


• Ma chère grenouille: my dear frog

Merci beaucoup!
Thank you to Sarah Joy Bennett for 'The Princess and the Frog.' Thanks as well to her daughter Holly for the episode illustration.

This Audio Snack was performed by Sarah Joy Bennett, Bearkin, and Professor Pineapple. Mixed by David Atkinson and Tim Freeman. Creative and production support by Ginette Mohr. Music composed and performed by Tim Freeman and Red Velvet Revolution. String Sextet, Op. 38 - III. Allegretto grazioso e vivace, performed by Steve's Bedroom Band. Piano Trio in Bb, K. 502 - I. Allegro and Grand Septet, E flat major, Op.62 - Allegro vivace, courtesy of The Internet Memory Foundation.

See you soon! A bientôt!

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