Podcasts kids Confetti Park Storytime: The Beavers Tale of Greed narrated by Iran Martin

Storytime: The Beavers Tale of Greed narrated by Iran Martin

Published: Feb. 18, 2017, 12:12 a.m.

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In this episode of Confetti Park, we hear \\u201cThe Beaver\\u2019s Tale of Greed\\u201d by Iran Martin, from his book Grand\\u2019s Fairy Tales. This is an adapted version of a Grimm\\u2019s fairy tale called the \\u201cFisherman and his Wife.\\u201d

In the older version of the tale, which was first written in Germany in the 1800s, a poor fisherman and his wife are blessed with wishes by a magical fish in exchange for releasing it. However, the wife becomes greedy and the husband, who wants to please her, goes along with her ever-more selfish demands to the fish.

In this version, adapted and narrated by Iran Martin along with his wife Henryell, the main character is a trapper who saves the life of a magical beaver, and the story takes place in a forest.

Iran and Henryell live in Bossier City, in north Louisiana. They are native New Orleanians who moved to north Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. \\u201cThe Beaver\\u2019s Tale of Greed\\u201d and all of the tales and fables in Grand\\u2019s Fairy Tales are steeped in Louisiana folklore and imagery of the forests, bayous and other water ways of our beautiful state. And many of them offer a moral for the reader to take away.

You can look forward to more stories from Iran and Henryell Martin on Confetti Park!

Buy\\xa0Grand\\u2019s Fairy Tales\\xa0on Amazon.

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