The Three Billy Goats Gruff: Surfside Edition

The summer 2009 variety show is coming to a branch near you soon! In order to whet your appetite, we're giving you a sample. Library staff rewrote The Three Billy Goats Gruff and gave it a Brazoria County twist. Listen as the library staff perform just a taste from the 2009 variety show Texas Three Step: The Good, the Bad and the Funny.

The Three Billy Goats Gruff: Surfside Edition
written by Sara Joiner
performed as part of Texas Three Step: The Good, the Bad and the Funny, the 2009 summer variety show

Direct link: goats.mp3
Total time: 1:42 minutes

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Did you see the 2008 variety show, Jacked Up Fairy Tales: 3½ Stories (and a Song)? If you missed it, here’s your chance to listen to part of it. Three library staff members wrote a new version of the Aesop fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf. What do you think will happen? Find out as the children’s staff of the library system presents our first creative production.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf
written by Sara Joiner, Tom West & Jered Smith
originally performed as part of Jacked Up Fairy Tales: 3½ Stories (and a Song), the 2008 summer variety show

Direct link: wolf.mp3
Total time: 4:00 minutes

Hen Lake

There’s a new bird in the barnyard, and he’s always bragging about himself. Poulette knows that the other chickens are just as good as he is, but can she convince the others to believe in themselves? Miss Emmy reads Hen Lake by Mary Jane Auch.

Hen Lake
written & illustrated by Mary Jane Auch
published by Holiday House, 1995

Direct link: hen.mp3
Total time: 11:47 minutes

Eaglet's World

Eaglet feels quite content in his nest with his mother and father bringing him food. But now they want him to fly on his own. Will he find the courage? Find out as Miss Emmy reads Evelyn Minshull's Eaglet's World.

Eaglet's World
written by Evelyn Minshull, illustrated by Andrea Gabriel
published by Albert Whitman & Company, copyright 2002

Direct link: eaglets_world.mp3
Total time: 5:14 minutes