Hello and welcome to Goop Tales. I'm Maria Kalincini, 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. And if you're new to Goop Tales, I just want to, first of all, welcome you, and secondly,

let you know that it doesn't really matter which order you listen to the podcasts in, although

it's fun to start from number one because each one leads into the next, if you will, but they're

all stand-alone stories. And very, very soon,

the new website for Goop Tales is going to be finished and it is going to be so much easier

to look up which goop you want to listen to, maybe find a character trait you want to hear about,

or a country or place that you want to go on a voyage with

with a goop so that new website i will let you know when it is all done the other thing i wanted to let

you know is the very first goop tale book is for sale and i want to thank those of you who have supported B so far.

I'm really so excited to have this book out there.

It's got tear-out coloring pages in it.

I sign it for you.

I personalize it for you.

And it's got activities in it,

and it has the entire first goptail in it.

So if you haven't gotten yours yet, you can go to goptails.com forward slash book and you can get it.

And if you order it in probably, you know, the next, I'm not sure how many are left that I have here,

but you're going to be able to get

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