Animal Orchestra (Little Golden Book)

0:00Okay, our friends. Let's do a classic little golden book shall we? The animal orchestra. Or if you want to try to say it in Spanish. Or questa de animales. Or questa de animales. Muy bien. Let's give it a go. Today's story is a classic. It was written by ILO Orleans and the pictures are by Tibor Gurg Lee. And friends, you got to check this one out. It is just so beautiful. I'm happy to share it with you today. And it's read today by Mummy. What's your name? Who are you? What do we call you? Burps. Burps. What? Oh no, are you? I love burps, burps, burps. I love burps. You never know who it's going to be here friends. Are you ready?

1:02Burps. I love burps. Oh dear. Okay, so when we open the book, we see a bunch of animals. And it looks like they're carrying various items. Cases, right? With perhaps musical instruments in them. And it looks like they're going into a place. There's a door and it says stage entrance. No admittance. Keep out because regular people can't go in there. Only the people who are going to be on stage should go in there. In animal town, it was musical day. The orchestra had gathered to play. And there we can see that there are, in audience, benches full of various animals. I mean we can see cats and dogs and donkeys and lambs and cows and bears and... I see a cheetah right there. And was there a toucan? I think there's a toucan. Yeah, a toucan.

2:07Everyone came. Everyone came to here and to see. There's even pigs and kangaroos. Big, big kangaroos and owls. Ooh, sheep. Ooh, um, snake. Integer. Oh, look, it's an owl and a bunny and a bunny and a bunny and a bunny. The big sign said admission free. Up to the platform, each animal went. I would never have imagined that a rhinoceros would play the flute, but there he is. And I would also never have imagined that the fox would play the bagpipes or that the bagpipes would be necessary in an orchestra, but there they are. And proudly carried his instrument. Then came the conductor, stick in his hand. The handsomeist hippo in animal land.

3:14He tapped his foot, he waved his hands and cried to the players. Strike up the band. He looks impressive. He's got a beautiful tuxedo on and it even has coattails. The seals are impressive, though. The gray seals barked. They lifted their fins and twiggles upon their violins. Oh, look, the spotted giraffes, the artist fellows, zoomed and zoomed on their yellow cellos. They were cellos. Oh, but look at these guys. The lion bugled. The rhino fluted. The leopard harped and the tiger tutored. It looks like he is playing the French horn maybe, do you think? Or the English? Yeah.

4:18And then, oh my, the monkey wiggled a brass trombone. The llama blew a saxophone. The elephant kept trumpeting with an actual like tuba now and not just his. The camel plucked his mandolin string. Upon his cymbals, the bear crang, crang. Upon his guitar, the fox twang, twang. The yak beat the drum. The wolf played the fife. Each beast was enjoying the time of his life. So this what I thought was the bagpipe is in fact a fife according to this author. Butterfly looks like a bright pipe to be. Well, it's a horn of sorts. They whistled. They thiddled. They trumpeted. They blew.

5:19What a roar. What a den. What a great to do. I'm so glad that this word was here because some people don't know this word. It's not used to very often these days. Den. Yeah. It's also a loud way of saying there was a lot of noises all at the same time. A den. Yep. Yep. A den. Yeah, a great den is a very loud noise. There's lots of other words that you can think of. I'm sure for loud noises. Can you think of another one? A roar. A den. A great to do. Uh-huh. An uproar. Excellent. Anything else? Come to mind. Do you want to see a new one? Yeah. Cacophony. Cacophony. Yep. Beautifully done. The animal girls. The animal boys. The animal audience made a great noise.

6:23They slapped their tails. They clapped their paws. And that is how they made a plaz. The conductor bowed and bowed and bowed. All of the orchestra players were proud. The hippo was happy on musical day for everyone shouted. Hippo. Hippo. Hippo. Hippo. Right? Because of the hippo. Well, you got it. Were you with me? All right. And so that. My dearest, dearest friends is! Is? Say it with me. Z and D and D and D and D and... The end and hope you can join us for another story tomorrow. Hope you can.

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