Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale

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  Okay friends, today we are going to continue on our Stories Around the World book series that we're doing.

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  We are finding folk stories and famous tales and fables and mythologies

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  and all kinds of things from different parts of the world.

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  And today we are heading over to a little village in India.

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  Off we go.

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  And I cannot wait to share it with you.

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  So today we're going to be doing a Bengali folktale.

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  It's called Grandma and the Great Gourd.

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  This story was retold by Chitra Banerji Divacaruni.

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  It's illustrated by Susie Pilgrim Waters.

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  And it is read today by Mommy and...

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  Philip.

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  Once upon a time, in a little village in India, there lived an old woman whom everyone called Grandma.

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  She loved gardening and had the best vegetable patch in the village.

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  Grandma lived by herself in a little hut at the edge of the village next to the deep, dark jungle.

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  At times, she could hear herds of elephants lumbering on forest paths.

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  Thump!

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  Thump!

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  Or giant lizards slithering over dry leaves.

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  But she didn't mind because she had two loyal dogs, Kalu and Bolu, to protect her.

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