(upbeat music)
-: Good morning, everyone.
It is a dreary morning this morning,
so my son Marshall and I
are going to make it a beautiful morning by reading
a hilarious book called "Interrupting Chicken," boop,
by David, and we hope you can join us today.
"Interrupting Chicken," by David Ezra Stein.
It was bedtime for the little red chicken.
"Okay my little chicken," said Papa,
"are you all ready to go to sleep?"
-: "Yes, Papa. But you forgot something."
-: "What's that?"
-: "A bedtime story!"
-: "Alright, I'll read one of your favorites, and of course
"you're not going to interrupt the story tonight, are you?"
-: "Oh, no."
(chimes ring)
"Hansel and Gretel."
Hansel and Gretel were very hungry.
Deep in the woods they found a house made of candy.
Nibble, nibble, nibble; they began to eat the house
until the old woman who lived inside,
who lived there came out and said, "What lovely children!
"Why don't you come inside?"
They were just about to follow her when...
(chimes ring)
Jumped the little red chicken and she said,
"Don't go in, she's a witch!"
So Hansel and Gretel didn't. The end.
-: "Chicken."
-: "Yes, Papa?"
-: "You interrupted the story.
"Try not to get so involved."
-: "I'm sorry Papa, but she really was a witch."
-: "Well, you're supposed to be relaxing
"so you can fall asleep.
"Let's try another story."
Marshall: "Little Red Riding Hood."
"Take this basket of goodies to grandma,"
said Little Red Riding Hood's mother.
"But don't stray from the path,
"the woods are full of danger."
Red Riding Hood skipped along through the deep woods.
By and by she met a wolf who wished her good morning.
She was about to answer him when
out jumped the little red chicken and she said,
"Don't talk to strangers!"
So Little Red Riding Hood didn't. The end.
-: "Chicken."
-: "Yes, Papa?"
-: "You did it again.
"You interrupted two stories and you are not even sleeping"
-: "I know, Papa. I'm sorry.
"But he was a mean old wolf."
-: "Yes, now, get back into bed."
-: "Okay, Papa.
"Let's try one more little story and I'll be good."
-: "Okay."
Marshall: "Chicken Little."
Chicken Little was hit on the head by an acorn.
"The sky is falling," she thought.
She was about to run off to warn Goosey Loosey,
Ducky Lucky, Henny Penny, and everyone on the farm
the sky was falling when,
(chimes ring)
the little red chicken and she said,
"Don't panic! It was just an acorn!"
So Chicken Little didn't. The end.
-: "Chicken."
-: "Yes, Papa?"
-: "You did it again."
-: "Oh, Papa, I couldn't let that little chicken
"get all upset over an acorn.
"Please read one more story and I promise I'll fall asleep."
-: "But chicken, we are out of stories."
-: "Oh no, Papa, I can't go to sleep without a story!"
-: (yawns) "Then why don't you tell me a story?"
-: "Me? Tell a story?
"Okay, Papa, here we go. Um..."
(chimes ring)
"Bedtime for Papa," by chicken.
Once there was a little red chicken who put her papa to bed.
She read him a hundred stories.
She even gave him warm milk.
But nothing worked, he stayed awake all...
(loud snoring)
-: Papa? (loud snoring)
-: Good night, Papa.
The end.
(playful music)
-: And I are going to make it a beautiful day
by reading one of the hilarious stories called,
"Interrupting Chicken" by David Ezra Stein.
It was bedtime for the little red chicken.
-: (mumbles)
(loudly laughs)
-: "Okay my little chicken," said Papa,
"Are you all ready to go to sleep?"
-: "Yes, Papa, but you forgot something."
-: "What's that?"
As-- -: "A bedtime story!"
(laughs)
-: "Sleeping."
-: "I know, Papa, I'm sorry." (laughs)
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