Hello there and welcome to Goop Tales.

I'm Maria Kalanchini, the founder, writer, and narrator behind these original audio stories.

Goop Tales is a storytelling podcast for children, created to ignite your imagination, broaden your horizons,

and introduce you to different cultures and exotic animals, while also sparking important

conversations about character traits. Hello everyone!, we are going to take a adventure and go to a bayou in Louisiana.

And today's story was inspired by Simone. Simone came up with the name of Distrusta, so a not very trusting little goop girl.

I'm going to let you hear Simone's suggestion or description for distrusta right here.

Hello, Maria. My name is Simone, and my age is six my and my goop name is distrusta.

And she carries around a little doll with red hair and a blue dress.

And she goes to Louisiana and my name is Simone and I'm six years old. Goodbye.

Okay, before we get started with the story, I just want to tell you one very big and very exciting piece of news.

I got the first drafts for the very first, first goop-tail book.

And it's Gablia and the Turkish Fairy Chimneys.

It's a beautiful book.

It's fully colored.

You'll get to see the entire story come to life with the unicorn and a labyrinth and the

Pamacali basins. and there are even coloring pages

at the end of the book so that is going to be up for sale very very soon i'm going to put a couple of

videos or and photos of the first draft on Instagram so you can actually see what it looks

like. So make sure that you go to goptails.com forward slash book so you can be one of the

first people to be notified when the book comes out for sale. I am going to sign and send out the first hundred copies myself.

So make sure you get on that list.

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