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“He who throws pebbles asks for rocks in return.”

Jinx and Snickerfang are bored on a hot day when one tiny pebble starts a very silly fight. A pebble becomes a rock, the rock leads to dung, and before long the two goblins are trying to get even with each other in more and more disgusting ways.

In this kids story podcast, their revenge gets completely out of control:

• 💩 Snickerfang fires dung from his Sniksy Mud-Splodger.
• 🤢 Jinx answers with ancient snot.
• 🐀 A dead-looking rat gets launched through the air - and then bites Jinx!
• 🪱 Maggots, fish guts, toenails and swamp muck soon join the battle.

Neither goblin wants to stop because each one believes the other started it. Eventually they build two enormous muck-launching machines and fire at the same time. Their horrible ammunition crashes together in the sky and rains straight down onto their own Beetle Burrow!

Thousands of furious beetles chase them all the way to the Slithering Stream, where Jinx and Snickerfang finally realise how ridiculous things have become. One tiny pebble caused an enormous mess because they kept trying to get revenge. They learn that getting even often makes a problem bigger instead of making it better... although one cheeky dung beetle soon puts that lesson to the test!

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What if a story could be more than something children simply listen to?

In this special episode, Dan introduces Wise Kids Academy - a new way for children to explore the stories they already love through reading, imagination, curiosity, discussion and play.

Wise Kids is built around four ideas:

W - Wisdom
I - Imagination
S - Social and Emotional Learning
E - Education

Children can read along with the original BKFK performances, discover new vocabulary, take on Quiz Quest, explore fascinating facts, think about characters and choices, get creative with Doodle Time, experiment with Mad Libs, and see how ideas from stories connect with the real world.

The big idea is simple:

Don’t just listen to the story. Explore it.

Wise Kids is designed to help children read, think, imagine, question, discover and create - while keeping the story and the fun at the centre of everything.

Families can try Wise Kids Academy with a 14-day free trial. After that, Family access is $5 per month or $42 per year.

Explore Wise Kids Academy here:
https://wisekids.academy

Choose a story. Hand your child the Director’s Chair. And see where the adventure takes them.

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“Looking impressive does not mean you know what you are doing.”

Granny Gigglesnort finds a mysterious bottle buried in her garden. When she opens it, out bursts Eugenie the Genie in a storm of smoke, glitter, jewels and thunder. She certainly looks powerful - and Fergus and Trolla are immediately impressed.

But in this funny kids story podcast, Eugenie’s wishes keep going horribly wrong:

• 💎 Fergus asks for jewels and gets mules.
• 🔥 He asks for fame and gets flame.
• 👀 Trolla asks for pickled eyeballs and gets tickling fireballs.
• 🍽️ She asks for a feast and gets a huge hairy beast!

Granny soon notices that Eugenie’s mysterious tattoos are not ancient magic at all. They are instructions telling her how to look impressive: pause for effect, raise eyebrow slowly, wait for applause.

At last Eugenie admits the real problem: she is hard of hearing. Granny gives her an old brass ear trumpet, and suddenly Eugenie can hear perfectly. The friends learn that fancy clothes, big titles and dramatic tricks can make someone seem clever or powerful, but what really matters is what they can actually do.

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