November 9, 2025 • 26 mins
What do Winnie the Pooh, Paddington and Baloo all have in common? They're all bears!
This week you'll learn about book bears - the kinds of bears you find in a story book - and all the wonderful stories that go along with them. There'll also be music, and silliness, and movement, and a story! Albert's Tree, by Jennie Desmond. If you can stick around to the end of the episode you'll hear a SUPER, MEGA Big Word Alert - for a word that's 19 letters in length! What could it be?
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S1 (00:13):
One, two, three. It's happy pants.
S2 (00:33):
Good day. And welcome to Happy Pants, a show especially
for kids and especially for you. My name is Geraldine.
S3 (00:40):
And my name is Rebecca. And together, we're your happy
pants team for today.
S2 (00:47):
Are you wearing your happy pants this morning? We are.
Mine are a deep, dark green. And this color green
reminds me of the smell in the bush early in
the morning before the sun gets out of bed.
S3 (01:01):
Mine are green, too. And this kind of green reminds
me of the sound of cold, clean water flowing over
stones into the pond where the water lilies grow.
S2 (01:12):
Deep green bush, a watery pond and dark green plants.
That reminds me of a really scary song.
S1 (03:32):
Oh.
S2 (03:33):
Well, that was scary.
S3 (03:34):
It was. And all the things in my pockets were
bouncing around as I ran. Oh, I hope none were broken.
S2 (03:42):
Oh, we'd better have a look. Pocket number one. Oh,
it's a jar of honey. Nah. Not broken.
S3 (03:49):
Well, my pocket number one. Ah, a thick old coat
and hat. Well, can't break those.
S2 (03:57):
Number two pocket. It's big, it's big, it's big. It's
a picnic basket. Oh, I hope it has sandwiches. I'm
hungry after that run.
S3 (04:05):
Mm. Yummy. Mm. Well, my pocket number two has a
big floppy yellow tie.
S2 (04:14):
And that seems to be all. Now we have to
work out what all these clues are about.
S3 (04:21):
Hmm. A jar of honey. A thick old coat and hat.
A picnic basket and a floppy yellow tie.
S2 (04:30):
Hmm. Picnic basket. Honey. Old coat. Maybe it has something
to do with a picnic in a very cold place.
S3 (04:39):
Perhaps. But what about the floppy yellow tie? That's not
part of your usual picnic. Well, I think they were
(06:05):
all about bears, not real bears. Storybook bears.
S2 (06:12):
Well, honey goes with Winnie the Pooh. He was mad
about honey. He was Christopher Robin's friend and was sometimes
called Pooh Bear for short. He was so fond of
honey that he sometimes got into all sorts of bother
looking for it. Pooh Bear lived with Eeyore, the donkey
and Piglet, Kanga, Roo, and all the other stuffed animals
(06:38):
in Christopher Robin's bedroom. But they all kept nicking out
to the Hundred Acre Wood for adventures. There are lots
of books about Christopher Robin and friends and the adventures
they had.
S3 (06:51):
And the next pocket clue was that thick old coat
and hat. And I know which bear that belongs to
Paddington Bear was a favourite of mine when I was little.
I loved all those stories and always asked for one
at bedtime when someone would always read to me until
I went to sleep. Paddington bear came from Darkest Peru
(07:14):
and arrived at Paddington Station in London, wearing a thick coat,
a battered old hat and carrying a battered old suitcase.
He had a label tied around his neck saying please
look after this bear. Thank you. Some kind people adopted him,
and because no one could say his Peruvian name, he
(07:35):
was named Paddington because that was where he was found.
Paddington always tried to do the right thing, and he
was very kind hearted and sweet natured.
S2 (07:46):
He did have a lot of adventures, though. I remember
some of the things he got up to when he
was trying to help someone. What was the next clue?
S3 (07:55):
A picnic basket.
S2 (07:57):
Oh, Becky, you're much too young to remember that bear.
He was called Yogi Bear, and he spent all his
time trying to get at the food in picnic baskets
that tourists took into the national park in which he lived.
The park was in the United States of America, and
the park rangers tried very hard to stop him from
(08:20):
stealing visitors picnics. Yogi's favorite saying was, I'm smarter than
the average bear. And he really thought he was the
person who really kept Yogi out of that. Most of
the trouble Yogi caused was his little friend Boo Boo
boo boo was the sensible one. But he never received
(08:44):
any of the credit for his good sense. The stories
were always lots of fun. Yogi wasn't really a bad bear.
He never hurt anyone. He just stole their picnics.
S3 (08:56):
Oh, well, that's bad enough. But I don't think I'd
like to argue with a bear who wanted my picnic basket.
I do remember the bear with a big floppy yellow tie, though.
That was Humphrey B bear. He's the only Australian bear.
No real bears live in Australia. But we do have Humphrey.
(09:17):
He specialises in kindness, playfulness and especially kids safety. I really,
really like Humphrey B bear with his floppy yellow tie.
S2 (09:29):
A book I loved to have read to me was
The Jungle Book. It was about the adventures of an
orphan boy called Mowgli, who lived by himself in the
jungle in India. His friends were the jungle creatures who
watched over him. There was a wonderful bear in that
book called Bolu. Bolu took on the job of being
(09:52):
Mowgli's teacher and taught him that you don't really need
all the things you think you want to live a
good life. You just need the bare necessities.
S1 (12:09):
Are you wearing a happy pants? I am, la la
la la la la la la la la la. I
can hear myself. You're listening to Happy Pants.
S3 (12:21):
There's lots of great stories with bears in them. And
most of those story book bears are kind, even cuddly.
Not at all like real bears.
S2 (12:32):
Real bears look cuddly. But most kinds of bears are
hunters which hunt and kill other animals for food. They
also eat some vegetable foods, so they're called omnivores.
S3 (12:48):
Big word alert. Omni means all, and vau means to eat.
So an omnivore eats meat and vegetable material, a carnivore
eats mainly meat and a herbivore eats plants.
S2 (13:03):
Rebecca, I have a question for you. Hmm. Why do
bears wear fur coats?
S3 (13:10):
Oh, I think that might mean you have a joke.
So I won't say to keep warm. But why do
bears wear fur coats, Geraldine?
S2 (13:21):
Because they'd look silly wearing a jacket.
S3 (13:25):
Oh, well, if we're going to tell jokes, how about
this one? What coloured socks do bears wear?
S2 (13:33):
I don't know. What colour do they wear?
S3 (13:37):
Oh, bears don't wear socks, silly. They have bare feet.
S2 (13:42):
Oh! Enough, enough. I can't bear any more.
S3 (13:45):
Oh, and I've barely started. Okay. Let's talk. Pandas. Pandas
are a kind of bear that only lives in China
and they have a very special diet. They eat bamboo.
They do add a little bit of meat to their
diet in the form of eggs and small animals. But
nearly all of their food is bamboo.
S2 (14:07):
All of these bears look cuddly, but they're not friendly.
People who live in countries where bears live have to
be very careful when they go walking in the forests.
S3 (14:19):
Australians don't have to worry about bears because none live
here unless you count the drop bear. Of course, that
is supposed to be a giant koala, but koalas aren't bears.
Their closest relative is the wombat. The first settlers called
koalas bears because they looked very cute and cuddly like
(14:41):
a bear cub. Drop bears were invented, probably to stop
children from going off into the bush by themselves, and
became a joke played on visitors like tourists from other countries.
S2 (14:55):
Well, I've heard about the drop bear, of course, but
I've never found anyone who has actually seen one.
S3 (15:02):
There could be two good reasons for that. First, Drop
bears aren't real. And secondly, anyone who was dropped on
by a Drop Bear wouldn't have known what hit them.
The story people tell tourists is that Drop Bear is
a giant koala about the size of a cow, and
it sits on a branch over a track and waits
(15:24):
for something edible to walk underneath. Then it drops on them.
Its favourite food is kangaroo, but doesn't have very good eyesight,
so sometimes makes a mistake. They don't eat humans though, because, well,
we taste horrible. The funniest thing is that some people
actually do believe the drop bear story.
S2 (15:46):
I did hear that there's a drop bear repellent which
will keep you safe in the bush.
S3 (15:53):
Big word alert. A repellent is something which causes distaste
and disgust.
S2 (16:00):
If you rub Vegemite behind your ears, they won't come
near you.
S3 (16:06):
Well, we couldn't have tourists being flattened by giant koalas,
now could we? Anyway, although we like to tease tourists
with this kind of nonsense, the only kind of bear
that lives in Australia is the good old teddy bear.
S2 (16:21):
Our story today is about a bear who lives in
a forest in Canada. His name is Albert and he
has a favourite tree where he likes to lie on
a branch and watch the forest creatures. Albert loves his tree.
All winter he's been curled up in his snug den.
(16:41):
But spring has come, the snow has melted and Albert
races off to say hello to his favourite tree. But
something's wrong. The tree is crying.
S4 (16:56):
Albert's tree by Jenny Desmond. Spring arrived and Albert woke
from his long sleep. Hurray! He shouted as the snow
was quietly turning to water and trickling down from the mountains.
Albert raced to his favorite place. His tree. Hello, tree!
(17:20):
Shouted Albert. I've missed you! His tree was perfect. Not
too hard or too soft, or too slippery or too prickly.
It was his own special place. Quiet and peaceful. But
what was that noise? Albert's tree was crying. Oh, wailed
(17:45):
the tree. What's going on? said Albert. You don't normally
make a noise. You smell the same. You feel the
same and you taste just the same, even upside down.
What are you doing? Albert said rabbit. Rabbit, said Albert,
(18:09):
my tree is crying. How can I cheer it up? Oh, oh, oh,
wailed the tree. Oh, when I'm sad, I dig lots
of holes to play in, said rabbit helpfully. Maybe that
will stop your tree crying. So Albert and Rabbit dug
lots of holes. We've dug you some holes to play
(18:32):
in tree, said Albert. But the tree just kept crying. Oh, oh!
It wailed. Along came caribou. What are you doing, Albert?
He said, my tree is crying. I'm trying to cheer
it up, said Albert. Oh, well, when I'm sad, I
eat grass, said caribou. Sir Albert and caribou gathered lots
(18:57):
of grass. We've brought you some grass, tree, said Albert.
Please cheer up. Ah, but the tree just kept wailing.
Why is your tree crying? Said squirrel. I don't know,
said Albert, and the tree cried harder than ever. Please
don't cry, shouted Albert. Ow ow ow! Wailed the tree. Ow!
(19:24):
This noise is too much, said the others. Please stop it, tree!
Roared Albert. Stop crying. But the louder he roared, the
more the tree wailed. Then Albert had one last idea.
(19:45):
He took a deep breath and climbed quietly up to
his favorite branch. He wrapped his furry paws around the
trunk and gave the tree a huge, kind bear hug.
He whispered in his tiniest voice, why are you crying? Tree?
(20:09):
To Albert's surprise, his tree whispered back, Because I'm scared
of the big hairy monster. What big hairy monster? Whispered Albert. Outside.
Over there, sobbed his tree. Don't worry. I'll get rid
(20:34):
of it, said Albert bravely. Albert nervously looked high and
low outside and over there. There was no monster. There's
only me here, said Albert. Ah! Few sniffed the tree. Oh,
I can come out then. Ah! Screamed a tiny feathered thing.
(21:00):
You're the monster! Screamed Albert. You're the tree! I'm not
a monster, said Albert. I'm Albert and I'm not a tree.
Said oh, I'm. Oh! But an owl laughed and laughed
at their mistake. Ah! They both felt much better. Albert
(21:22):
was glad his tree was back to normal. He and
owl played in it all afternoon, and as he watched
owl swooping from his favourite branch, Albert knew that owl
loved the tree as much as he did, which he
secretly decided made his tree History twice as perfect as
(21:45):
it was before.
S2 (23:39):
That was a reading of Albert's Tree, written by Jennie Desmond.
The reader was Joe.
S3 (23:46):
Oh poor Albert. He thought the tree was sad and
tried to make things better, but it wasn't the tree
that was crying.
S2 (23:55):
Poor Earl. He thought Albert was a hairy monster coming
to eat him up until he saw how kind Albert
was to the tree.
S3 (24:04):
Sometimes things are not exactly as we think they are.
A few questions might have made things clear for Albert,
al and tree.
S2 (24:15):
So what have we done today?
S3 (24:17):
We found out quite a lot about bears in stories.
Most of those story bears have been given human characters.
They have been. Wait for it. Anthropomorphized.
S2 (24:31):
Big word alert. Anthropomorphized. Wow. That is a mega word
19 letters. Anthropos means human and morphosis means being changed.
So anthropomorphized means something we imagine acts like a human.
(24:55):
They aren't really human, but it sure makes a good
story indeed.
S3 (25:00):
And we had six big words. Carnivore, herbivore and omnivore.
For meat eaters, plant eaters and everything eaters. Then there
was repellent. Something which drives something else away. Mega. Which
means very big indeed. And that monster word? Anthropomorphized. I
(25:22):
won't forget that one in a hurry.
S2 (25:24):
And we had a story about how sometimes things are
not quite the way we see them, and how a
bit of thinking might give an entirely different answer.
S3 (25:36):
If there is anything in today's program about which you
would like to know more. You can find us on
Radio Australia. Keep wearing those happy pants and we'll catch you.
S2 (25:50):
Next.
S3 (25:51):
Time.
S5 (26:04):
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(26:28):
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One, two, three. It's happy pants.
S2 (00:33):
Good day. And welcome to Happy Pants, a show especially
for kids and especially for you. My name is Geraldine.
S3 (00:40):
And my name is Rebecca. And together, we're your happy
pants team for today.
S2 (00:47):
Are you wearing your happy pants this morning? We are.
Mine are a deep, dark green. And this color green
reminds me of the smell in the bush early in
the morning before the sun gets out of bed.
S3 (01:01):
Mine are green, too. And this kind of green reminds
me of the sound of cold, clean water flowing over
stones into the pond where the water lilies grow.
S2 (01:12):
Deep green bush, a watery pond and dark green plants.
That reminds me of a really scary song.
S1 (03:32):
Oh.
S2 (03:33):
Well, that was scary.
S3 (03:34):
It was. And all the things in my pockets were
bouncing around as I ran. Oh, I hope none were broken.
S2 (03:42):
Oh, we'd better have a look. Pocket number one. Oh,
it's a jar of honey. Nah. Not broken.
S3 (03:49):
Well, my pocket number one. Ah, a thick old coat
and hat. Well, can't break those.
S2 (03:57):
Number two pocket. It's big, it's big, it's big. It's
a picnic basket. Oh, I hope it has sandwiches. I'm
hungry after that run.
S3 (04:05):
Mm. Yummy. Mm. Well, my pocket number two has a
big floppy yellow tie.
S2 (04:14):
And that seems to be all. Now we have to
work out what all these clues are about.
S3 (04:21):
Hmm. A jar of honey. A thick old coat and hat.
A picnic basket and a floppy yellow tie.
S2 (04:30):
Hmm. Picnic basket. Honey. Old coat. Maybe it has something
to do with a picnic in a very cold place.
S3 (04:39):
Perhaps. But what about the floppy yellow tie? That's not
part of your usual picnic. Well, I think they were
(06:05):
all about bears, not real bears. Storybook bears.
S2 (06:12):
Well, honey goes with Winnie the Pooh. He was mad
about honey. He was Christopher Robin's friend and was sometimes
called Pooh Bear for short. He was so fond of
honey that he sometimes got into all sorts of bother
looking for it. Pooh Bear lived with Eeyore, the donkey
and Piglet, Kanga, Roo, and all the other stuffed animals
(06:38):
in Christopher Robin's bedroom. But they all kept nicking out
to the Hundred Acre Wood for adventures. There are lots
of books about Christopher Robin and friends and the adventures
they had.
S3 (06:51):
And the next pocket clue was that thick old coat
and hat. And I know which bear that belongs to
Paddington Bear was a favourite of mine when I was little.
I loved all those stories and always asked for one
at bedtime when someone would always read to me until
I went to sleep. Paddington bear came from Darkest Peru
(07:14):
and arrived at Paddington Station in London, wearing a thick coat,
a battered old hat and carrying a battered old suitcase.
He had a label tied around his neck saying please
look after this bear. Thank you. Some kind people adopted him,
and because no one could say his Peruvian name, he
(07:35):
was named Paddington because that was where he was found.
Paddington always tried to do the right thing, and he
was very kind hearted and sweet natured.
S2 (07:46):
He did have a lot of adventures, though. I remember
some of the things he got up to when he
was trying to help someone. What was the next clue?
S3 (07:55):
A picnic basket.
S2 (07:57):
Oh, Becky, you're much too young to remember that bear.
He was called Yogi Bear, and he spent all his
time trying to get at the food in picnic baskets
that tourists took into the national park in which he lived.
The park was in the United States of America, and
the park rangers tried very hard to stop him from
(08:20):
stealing visitors picnics. Yogi's favorite saying was, I'm smarter than
the average bear. And he really thought he was the
person who really kept Yogi out of that. Most of
the trouble Yogi caused was his little friend Boo Boo
boo boo was the sensible one. But he never received
(08:44):
any of the credit for his good sense. The stories
were always lots of fun. Yogi wasn't really a bad bear.
He never hurt anyone. He just stole their picnics.
S3 (08:56):
Oh, well, that's bad enough. But I don't think I'd
like to argue with a bear who wanted my picnic basket.
I do remember the bear with a big floppy yellow tie, though.
That was Humphrey B bear. He's the only Australian bear.
No real bears live in Australia. But we do have Humphrey.
(09:17):
He specialises in kindness, playfulness and especially kids safety. I really,
really like Humphrey B bear with his floppy yellow tie.
S2 (09:29):
A book I loved to have read to me was
The Jungle Book. It was about the adventures of an
orphan boy called Mowgli, who lived by himself in the
jungle in India. His friends were the jungle creatures who
watched over him. There was a wonderful bear in that
book called Bolu. Bolu took on the job of being
(09:52):
Mowgli's teacher and taught him that you don't really need
all the things you think you want to live a
good life. You just need the bare necessities.
S1 (12:09):
Are you wearing a happy pants? I am, la la
la la la la la la la la la. I
can hear myself. You're listening to Happy Pants.
S3 (12:21):
There's lots of great stories with bears in them. And
most of those story book bears are kind, even cuddly.
Not at all like real bears.
S2 (12:32):
Real bears look cuddly. But most kinds of bears are
hunters which hunt and kill other animals for food. They
also eat some vegetable foods, so they're called omnivores.
S3 (12:48):
Big word alert. Omni means all, and vau means to eat.
So an omnivore eats meat and vegetable material, a carnivore
eats mainly meat and a herbivore eats plants.
S2 (13:03):
Rebecca, I have a question for you. Hmm. Why do
bears wear fur coats?
S3 (13:10):
Oh, I think that might mean you have a joke.
So I won't say to keep warm. But why do
bears wear fur coats, Geraldine?
S2 (13:21):
Because they'd look silly wearing a jacket.
S3 (13:25):
Oh, well, if we're going to tell jokes, how about
this one? What coloured socks do bears wear?
S2 (13:33):
I don't know. What colour do they wear?
S3 (13:37):
Oh, bears don't wear socks, silly. They have bare feet.
S2 (13:42):
Oh! Enough, enough. I can't bear any more.
S3 (13:45):
Oh, and I've barely started. Okay. Let's talk. Pandas. Pandas
are a kind of bear that only lives in China
and they have a very special diet. They eat bamboo.
They do add a little bit of meat to their
diet in the form of eggs and small animals. But
nearly all of their food is bamboo.
S2 (14:07):
All of these bears look cuddly, but they're not friendly.
People who live in countries where bears live have to
be very careful when they go walking in the forests.
S3 (14:19):
Australians don't have to worry about bears because none live
here unless you count the drop bear. Of course, that
is supposed to be a giant koala, but koalas aren't bears.
Their closest relative is the wombat. The first settlers called
koalas bears because they looked very cute and cuddly like
(14:41):
a bear cub. Drop bears were invented, probably to stop
children from going off into the bush by themselves, and
became a joke played on visitors like tourists from other countries.
S2 (14:55):
Well, I've heard about the drop bear, of course, but
I've never found anyone who has actually seen one.
S3 (15:02):
There could be two good reasons for that. First, Drop
bears aren't real. And secondly, anyone who was dropped on
by a Drop Bear wouldn't have known what hit them.
The story people tell tourists is that Drop Bear is
a giant koala about the size of a cow, and
it sits on a branch over a track and waits
(15:24):
for something edible to walk underneath. Then it drops on them.
Its favourite food is kangaroo, but doesn't have very good eyesight,
so sometimes makes a mistake. They don't eat humans though, because, well,
we taste horrible. The funniest thing is that some people
actually do believe the drop bear story.
S2 (15:46):
I did hear that there's a drop bear repellent which
will keep you safe in the bush.
S3 (15:53):
Big word alert. A repellent is something which causes distaste
and disgust.
S2 (16:00):
If you rub Vegemite behind your ears, they won't come
near you.
S3 (16:06):
Well, we couldn't have tourists being flattened by giant koalas,
now could we? Anyway, although we like to tease tourists
with this kind of nonsense, the only kind of bear
that lives in Australia is the good old teddy bear.
S2 (16:21):
Our story today is about a bear who lives in
a forest in Canada. His name is Albert and he
has a favourite tree where he likes to lie on
a branch and watch the forest creatures. Albert loves his tree.
All winter he's been curled up in his snug den.
(16:41):
But spring has come, the snow has melted and Albert
races off to say hello to his favourite tree. But
something's wrong. The tree is crying.
S4 (16:56):
Albert's tree by Jenny Desmond. Spring arrived and Albert woke
from his long sleep. Hurray! He shouted as the snow
was quietly turning to water and trickling down from the mountains.
Albert raced to his favorite place. His tree. Hello, tree!
(17:20):
Shouted Albert. I've missed you! His tree was perfect. Not
too hard or too soft, or too slippery or too prickly.
It was his own special place. Quiet and peaceful. But
what was that noise? Albert's tree was crying. Oh, wailed
(17:45):
the tree. What's going on? said Albert. You don't normally
make a noise. You smell the same. You feel the
same and you taste just the same, even upside down.
What are you doing? Albert said rabbit. Rabbit, said Albert,
(18:09):
my tree is crying. How can I cheer it up? Oh, oh, oh,
wailed the tree. Oh, when I'm sad, I dig lots
of holes to play in, said rabbit helpfully. Maybe that
will stop your tree crying. So Albert and Rabbit dug
lots of holes. We've dug you some holes to play
(18:32):
in tree, said Albert. But the tree just kept crying. Oh, oh!
It wailed. Along came caribou. What are you doing, Albert?
He said, my tree is crying. I'm trying to cheer
it up, said Albert. Oh, well, when I'm sad, I
eat grass, said caribou. Sir Albert and caribou gathered lots
(18:57):
of grass. We've brought you some grass, tree, said Albert.
Please cheer up. Ah, but the tree just kept wailing.
Why is your tree crying? Said squirrel. I don't know,
said Albert, and the tree cried harder than ever. Please
don't cry, shouted Albert. Ow ow ow! Wailed the tree. Ow!
(19:24):
This noise is too much, said the others. Please stop it, tree!
Roared Albert. Stop crying. But the louder he roared, the
more the tree wailed. Then Albert had one last idea.
(19:45):
He took a deep breath and climbed quietly up to
his favorite branch. He wrapped his furry paws around the
trunk and gave the tree a huge, kind bear hug.
He whispered in his tiniest voice, why are you crying? Tree?
(20:09):
To Albert's surprise, his tree whispered back, Because I'm scared
of the big hairy monster. What big hairy monster? Whispered Albert. Outside.
Over there, sobbed his tree. Don't worry. I'll get rid
(20:34):
of it, said Albert bravely. Albert nervously looked high and
low outside and over there. There was no monster. There's
only me here, said Albert. Ah! Few sniffed the tree. Oh,
I can come out then. Ah! Screamed a tiny feathered thing.
(21:00):
You're the monster! Screamed Albert. You're the tree! I'm not
a monster, said Albert. I'm Albert and I'm not a tree.
Said oh, I'm. Oh! But an owl laughed and laughed
at their mistake. Ah! They both felt much better. Albert
(21:22):
was glad his tree was back to normal. He and
owl played in it all afternoon, and as he watched
owl swooping from his favourite branch, Albert knew that owl
loved the tree as much as he did, which he
secretly decided made his tree History twice as perfect as
(21:45):
it was before.
S2 (23:39):
That was a reading of Albert's Tree, written by Jennie Desmond.
The reader was Joe.
S3 (23:46):
Oh poor Albert. He thought the tree was sad and
tried to make things better, but it wasn't the tree
that was crying.
S2 (23:55):
Poor Earl. He thought Albert was a hairy monster coming
to eat him up until he saw how kind Albert
was to the tree.
S3 (24:04):
Sometimes things are not exactly as we think they are.
A few questions might have made things clear for Albert,
al and tree.
S2 (24:15):
So what have we done today?
S3 (24:17):
We found out quite a lot about bears in stories.
Most of those story bears have been given human characters.
They have been. Wait for it. Anthropomorphized.
S2 (24:31):
Big word alert. Anthropomorphized. Wow. That is a mega word
19 letters. Anthropos means human and morphosis means being changed.
So anthropomorphized means something we imagine acts like a human.
(24:55):
They aren't really human, but it sure makes a good
story indeed.
S3 (25:00):
And we had six big words. Carnivore, herbivore and omnivore.
For meat eaters, plant eaters and everything eaters. Then there
was repellent. Something which drives something else away. Mega. Which
means very big indeed. And that monster word? Anthropomorphized. I
(25:22):
won't forget that one in a hurry.
S2 (25:24):
And we had a story about how sometimes things are
not quite the way we see them, and how a
bit of thinking might give an entirely different answer.
S3 (25:36):
If there is anything in today's program about which you
would like to know more. You can find us on
Radio Australia. Keep wearing those happy pants and we'll catch you.
S2 (25:50):
Next.
S3 (25:51):
Time.
S5 (26:04):
Happy pants is produced on the lands of the Whadjuk
Noongar people. Vision Australia Radio acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples as the first Australians and the traditional owners
of the land across our working area, we pay our
respects to elders past, present and future in maintaining their cultures,
countries and their spiritual connection to the lands and waters.
Vision Australia Radio acknowledges and respects the genuine diversity and
(26:28):
richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia.
Happy pants has been made possible with the support of
the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
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