Catch Me in the Kitchen Audio Snacks: an English-French stories podcast for kids – Details, episodes & analysis

Imagine: Our story today is about two stubborn moose. Can you think of any characters from other stories who are stubborn? Have you ever been stubborn? What happened?

About today's storyteller: Stephen LaFrenie has performed and taught for over 40 years and toured across Canada, Spain, Australia, France, Hungary, Jamaica, Haiti, and the U.S. He has written and co-created 22 plays and performances and is a contributing writer to Catch Me In The Kitchen Audio Adventures and Audio Snacks. Learning to cook at an early age, the kitchen has always been a place of joy and creativity.

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Our audiobooks, ‘Pigs, Princesses, and One Tough Turtle’ and 'Tricksters and Uninvited Guests' are available through our website.

Les mots sont délicieux! Words are delicious. French/English from today's snack:

Deux orignaux têtu – Two Stubborn Moose L’orignal - the moose Le train – the train Un pont – a bridge Les voie ferrées – railway tracks Les voies – tracks Son train – his train Les bois – antlers Mes bois – my antlers Ses grands bois – his big antlers Ces deux orignaux – these two moose La fin – the end

Merci beaucoup! Merci à Stephen LaFrenie for ‘Two Stubborn Moose’, to Chloe Carrot for the joke, and to Professor Pineapple for the illustration. Creative and production support by Liz Pounsett and Ginette Mohr. Music composed and performed by Tim Freeman and Red Velvet Revolution. 'Fingerlympics' performed by Dr. Turtle.

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Imagine: You are lost in a storm, looking for shelter. You find a castle and knock on the door...

About today's storyteller: Ginette Mohr is a writer, performer, and producer of Catch Me in the Kitchen Audio Adventures and Audio Snacks. She works to motivate a more conscious and compassionate community through the creation of imaginative, participatory experiences. Her theatre credits include The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Neptune Theatre, Young People’s Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Drayton Entertainment, Theatre Direct, Theatre Aquarius, The Quickening Theatre, SNAFU Dance Theatre, Keystone Theatre, Canvas Sky Theatre, and The Second City. You can catch her in the kitchen drawing with her kids.

Draw and share... What do you imagine the characters look like? What was your favourite moment in the story? If you’d like to share a drawing you've made inspired by 'The Princess and the Pea', you can do that at catchmeinthekitchen.com/fan-art and we will post it on our story fridge!

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Our first audiobook, ‘Pigs, Princesses, and One Tough Turtle’, along with a paperback copy, is available through our website.

Les mots sont délicieux! Words are delicious. French/English from today's snack:

• la reine: the queen
• un oiseau: a bird
• un poème: a poem
• une princesse: a princess
• maman: mom
• les calèches royales: the royal carriages
• le château: the castle
• une vraie princesse: a real princess
• un cheval: a horse
• la nuit: the night
• les pantalons: pants
• une nuit: one night
• la porte: the door
• un pois: a pea
• la pluie: the rain
• une cuillère: a spoon
• le monde: the world
• moi aussi: me too
• demain: tomorrow
• bonne nuit: good night
• le matelas: the mattress
• attendez: wait
• merci: thank you
• la fin: the end

Merci beaucoup! Merci à Ginette Mohr for ‘The Princess and the Pea.’ This story was directed by Liz Pounsett and performed by Ginette Mohr and Stephen LaFrenie. Audio snack episode narration by Professor Pineapple, Ginette Mohr, and Bearkin. Episode music composed and performed by Tim Freeman, The Pickle Peppers, and Red Velvet Revolution. 'Fun Times Ahead' performed by Dream-Protocol.

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Imagine: When you see someone in trouble, what do you do first? Do you offer help? Do you blame them for getting into trouble? Which character in today's story is most like you? Are you more like Angus or Mr. Simpleton?

About today's Storyteller: Stephen LaFrenie has performed and taught for over 40 years and toured across Canada, Spain, Australia, France, Hungary, Jamaica, Haiti, and the U.S. He has written and co-created 22 plays and performances and is now a contributing writer to Catch Me In The Kitchen Audio Adventures and Audio Snacks. Learning to cook at an early age, the kitchen has always been a place of joy and creativity.

Draw and share... If you’d like to share a drawing you've made from today’s story - or any of our stories - you can do that at catchmeinthekitchen.com/fan-art and we will post them on our story fridge!

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Our first audiobook, ‘Pigs, Princesses, and One Tough Turtle’, along with a paperback copy, is available through our website.

Les mots sont délicieux! Words are delicious. From today's story:

• La boue: the mud
• Un peu de boue: a little mud
• Un petit canard: a little duck
• Un canard blessé: an injured duck
• Un canard heureux: a happy duck
• Elle aime les canards: she likes ducks
• Une petite aventure: a little adventure
• La rivière: the river
• Un poisson: a fish
• Le conseil: advice
• Suivez mon conseil: take my advice
• Monsieur: Mister
• Écoutez: listen
• Les castors: beavers
• Les tortues: turtles
• Les oiseaux: birds
• C'est très important: this is very important
• Bonjour: hello

Merci beaucoup! Thank you to Stephen LaFrenie for 'The Boy Who Got Stuck in the Mud' and Bearkin for the story illustration.

This Audio Snack was performed by Stephen LaFrenie, Bearkin, and Professor Pineapple. Direction by Liz Pounsett. Mixed by Tim Freeman. Creative and production support by Ginette Mohr. Music composed and performed by Tim Freeman and Red Velvet Revolution. 'Church Street' performed by Clay Ross and Matuto. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Clay_Ross_and_Matuto/

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Imagine: What would you do if you couldn't pull out a carrot you had planted? Who would you call to help you? How would you feel if you didn’t succeed? How might you celebrate if you did? Today’s story is about group effort and asking for help – even from the most unlikely places or, in this case, animals.

This story contains a half-cup of French! Bon appétit!

About today's Storyteller: Chantale Groulx is a French and English actor in Toronto from Montreal. Twelve years of heading a children’s theatre company Stories Come to Life, and doing French storytime at Toronto Public Libraries have helped Chantale keep her goal of keeping French alive in Ontario for herself and kids, embracing this expressive language. Currently, she keeps busy doing theatre, TV, film and voiceover work in both languages. Reach her at: cng.bonjour@gmail.com You can Catch her in the Kitchen for her next adventure sharing ‘Gros grognon/Grumpy Bird’.

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Our first audiobook, ‘Pigs, Princesses, and One Tough Turtle’, along with a paperback copy, is available through our website.

Les mots sont délicieux! Words are delicious. Check out these French/English phrases from today's story:

• Un printemps un fermier a planter des grains de carottes: One Spring a farmer plants carrot seeds.
• Le fermier s’accroche à la carotte. “S’accroche.” This is a delicious French word because you really need to slow down to say it. The meaning, “to attach, to latch onto”, is exactly how it sounds: “Il s’accroche.”

Merci beaucoup! Thank you to Chantale Groulx for 'La grosse carrotte/The Big Carrot.' Thanks to Professor Pineapple for the episode illustration.

This Audio Snack was performed by Chantale Groulx, Bearkin, and Professor Pineapple. Mixed by Tim Freeman. Creative and production support by Ginette Mohr. Music composed and performed by Tim Freeman and Red Velvet Revolution. Carmen Suite no. 2 - 4. Chanson du Toréador performed by Papalin.

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Imagine: What if you visited a new place and someone you just met played a trick on you? How would you feel? Do you play tricks on people? Are you the fox or the heron?

About today's Storyteller: Stephen LaFrenie has performed and taught for over 40 years and toured across Canada, Spain, Australia, France, Hungary, Jamaica, Haiti, and the U.S. He has written and co-created 22 plays and performances and is now a contributing writer to Catch Me In The Kitchen Audio Adventures and Audio Snacks. Learning to cook at an early age, the kitchen has always been a place of joy and creativity.

Draw and share... If you’d like to share a drawing you've done from today’s story - or any of our stories - you can do that at catchmeinthekitchen.com/fan-art and we will post them on our story fridge!

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Our first audiobook, ‘Pigs, Princesses, and One Tough Turtle’, along with a paperback copy, is available through our website.

Words are delicious. Les mots sont délicieux! From today's story:

• Une renarde: a female fox
• Un grand héron bleu: a great blue heron
• Les hérons: herons
• La soupe: soup
• Un poisson: a fish
• La soupe de poisson – fish soup
• Mes amis: my friends
• Bonjour: hello or good day
• Impoli(e): impolite or rude

Merci beaucoup! Thank you to Stephen LaFrenie for 'The Fox and the Great Blue Heron.' Thanks to Bearkin for the episode illustration.

This Audio Snack was directed by Liz Pounsett and performed by Stephen LaFrenie, Bearkin, Ginette Mohr, and Professor Pineapple. Mixed by Tim Freeman. Creative and production support by Ginette Mohr. Music composed and performed by Tim Freeman and Red Velvet Revolution. Piano Sonata no. 16 ‘Facile’, K. 545 – III. Rondo performed by Simone Renzi. Mozart’s ‘Alla Turca’ performed by Markus Staab. Special thank you to musopen.org.

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Imagine: What if you made a promise to invite a frog out to dinner? What if people stared at you? What if they laughed? Or what if that frog turned out to be the best friend you ever had? Have you ever made friends with someone you never expected to be friends with?

About today's Storyteller: Sarah Joy Bennett is a Toronto actor, writer and director. Her award-winning puppet play about motherhood, Night Feed, will be remounted at The Bridges Festival in 2023, (www.nightfeed.ca). You can catch her in the kitchen eating raw cookie dough out of the mixing bowl and saying "I'm allowed to do this - I'm a grownup!"

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Our first audiobook, ‘Pigs, Princesses, and One Tough Turtle’, along with a paperback copy, is available through our website.

Words are delicious. Les mots sont délicieux! From today's story:

• Il était une fois: Once upon a time
• Le roi: the King
• La reine: the Queen
• Une princesse comme-il-faut: a perfect princess
• Sa balle dorée: her golden ball
• Sa nez: her nose
• Excusez-moi: pardon me
• Même ma couronne: even my crown
• Une invitation: an invitation
• Les blagues: jokes
• S’il vous plaît: please
• C'est délicieux: it is delicious
• J'adore danser: I love to dance
• Ma chère grenouille: my dear frog

Merci beaucoup! Thank you to Sarah Joy Bennett for 'The Princess and the Frog.' Thanks as well to her daughter Holly for the episode illustration.

This Audio Snack was performed by Sarah Joy Bennett, Bearkin, and Professor Pineapple. Mixed by David Atkinson and Tim Freeman. Creative and production support by Ginette Mohr. Music composed and performed by Tim Freeman and Red Velvet Revolution. String Sextet, Op. 38 - III. Allegretto grazioso e vivace, performed by Steve's Bedroom Band. Piano Trio in Bb, K. 502 - I. Allegro and Grand Septet, E flat major, Op.62 - Allegro vivace, courtesy of The Internet Memory Foundation.

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Imagine: What would life be like if you were a mouse in the forest? How would it feel to meet a lion? Today's story is all about courage and kindness. When are you brave? When is it easy or hard to be kind?

About today's Storyteller: Ginette Mohr is a writer, performer, and producer of Catch Me in the Kitchen Audio Adventures and Audio Snacks. Her theatre productions have won numerous awards; performance credits include The Stratford Festival, Neptune Theatre, Young People’s Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Theatre Aquarius, The Quickening Theatre, Theatre Direct, Keystone Theatre, and The Second City. You can catch her in the kitchen reaching for chocolate at the back of the cupboard.

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Our first audiobook, ‘Pigs, Princesses, and One Tough Turtle’, along with a paperback copy, is available through our website.

Words are delicious. Les mots sont délicieux! From today's story:

• Une souris: a mouse
• Un lion: a lion
• Une noix: a walnut
• Le sol: the ground
• Chanter: to sing
• Une patte: a paw
• Les dents: teeth
• Oui: yes
• Merci: thank you
• La fin: the end

Merci beaucoup! Thank you to Ginette Mohr for her adaptation of the Aesop Fable 'The Lion and the Mouse.' Thanks as well to Professor Pineapple for today's episode illustration.

Today’s Audio Snack was directed by Liz Pounsett and performed by Ginette Mohr, Bearkin, and Professor Pineapple. Mixed by Tim Freeman. Music composed and performed by Tim Freeman and Red Velvet Revolution. Additional music: Holberg Suite, Op.40 - 1. Praeludium (for Recorder Ensemble), performed by Papalin.

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Imagine: If you could hear what a prophetic tree had to say, would you share what the tree was telling you? If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? If you could become an animal, what animal would you be?

'Yomumuli and the Talking Tree' is a creation story that has been passed down for generations. There are many different versions. The one you are hearing is a combination of two: one by Yaqui leader Anselmo Valencia and the other by Yaqui temasti Lucas Chaves.

The Yaqui, or Yoeme, are Indigenous peoples whose homelands include the Río Yaqui valley in Sonora, Mexico, and the area below the Gila River in Arizona, Southwestern United States. They also have communities in Chihuahua and Durango, Mexico. Yoemem (also known as the Yaqui Nation) believe they descend from a tribe called the Surem.

About today's storyteller: Mexican of Yoeme/Basque heritage, performer, choreographer, and instructor living in Toronto, Norma Papalotl Araiza works in different modalities within the arts blending dance, theatre, vocals, percussion, and text with cultural and traditional themes in a contemporary context. Norma has studied with international artists such as Jerzy Grotowski, Eugenio Barba, Natsu Nakajima, Tascabile di Bergamo, Kei Takei, Pol Pelletier, among others. Norma is the co-artistic director of Vanguardia Dance Projects, a collective promoting Latin American and Indigenous dance artists. She holds a Master’s Degree in Dance Ethnology from York University and graduated from the Expressive Arts Therapy Program at CREATE Institute. She has a private practice as an Expressive Arts Therapist. Her work has been presented at different venues in Toronto, throughout Ontario, Montreal, Hungary, California, Rochester, NY, New York City, Colombia and throughout Mexico.

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Yaqui / French / English from today's snack:

• yoawam / les animaux / animals
• bwia / la terre / land
• vaa’am / l'eau / water
• huya / l'arbre / tree
• eeye / les fourmis / ants
• monte / la montagne / mountain

Merci beaucoup! Merci à Norma Papalotl Araiza for sharing her instruments and telling ‘Yomumuli and the Talking Tree.’ Thank you to Professor Pineapple and Bearkin for the episode illustration.

This Audio Snack was performed by Norma Papalotl Araiza, Professor Pineapple, and Bearkin. Creative and production support by Ginette Mohr and Stephen LaFrenie. Additional episode music by Tim Freeman and Red Velvet Revolution.

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Imagine: What would it be like to move somewhere new? Would you feel lonely without your old friends? Does the moon ever feel lonely?

Today's story is all about loving yourself as you are. When are you the most yourself? When is it easy or hard to be yourself?

About today's storyteller: Jillian Welsh is a writer, performer and cast member of the Second City MainStage in Toronto. She has a Canadian Comedy Award and is a writer for TVO Kid’s Backyard Beats. You can also see her acting on TV in Odd Squad Mobile Unit, TALLBoyz, Working Moms and Baroness Von Sketch Show. Her adult stories have been featured on This American Life, CBC’s Love Me and RISK! You can catch her in the kitchen reaching for frozen blueberries. jillianwelsh.com

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Our first audiobook, ‘Pigs, Princesses, and One Tough Turtle’, along with a paperback copy, is available through our website.

Les mots sont délicieux! Words are delicious. French/English from today's snack:

• La lune de fromage: the cheese moon
• Je sais: I know
• Mais, non! But no!
• Une merveilleuse aventure: a wonderful adventure
• Pas de problème: no problem
• Allons-y! Let's go!
• La lune: the moon
• Je t'aime: I love you
• La même lune: the same moon
• La fin: the end

Merci beaucoup! Merci à Jillian Welsh for entertaining us with her story ‘Cheese Moon.’ Thank you to Jill's niece Haley Welsh (age 5) for the episode illustration.

This Audio Snack was performed by Jillian Welsh, Professor Pineapple, and Bearkin. Creative and production support by Ginette Mohr. Episode music composed and performed by Tim Freeman and Red Velvet Revolution. 'Acoustic Motivation' performed by Yrii Semchyshyn, 'Life Ambient' performed by Sergei Chetvertnykh, 'Light and Reflective Piano Orchestra' performed by Musictown, and 'Voice of Nature' performed by Oleksii Kaplunskyi.

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Come sing with us! Our friend Lori leads a delightful song in both English and French. C'est tellement amusant!

There's a rat in the barn, I hear the cat meowing, There's a rat in the barn, I hear the cat meow, I hear, I hear, I hear the cat meowing, I hear, I hear, I hear the cat meow.

Y'a un rat dans le grenier, J'entends le chat qui miaule, Y'a un rat dans le grenier, J'entends le chat miauler. J'entends, j'entends, j'entends le chat qui miaule, J'entends, j'entends, j'entends le chat miauler.

About Today's Guest: Lori Nancy Kalamanski began singing in her school’s ‘Club Des Chansonniers’. Her career as an actor, singer and musician has taken her all over the world. She was last seen in the Toronto hit musical ‘Come From Away’ and performing interactive folk-rock for families with bandmates ‘Sing Along Tim & The Pacifiers’. She loves animals, riding her bike & playing board games. You can catch her in the kitchen making pizza dough & on socials @lorinancykalamanski and @singalongtim.

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Our first audiobook, ‘Pigs, Princesses, and One Tough Turtle’, along with a paperback copy, is available through our website.

Les mots sont délicieux! Words are delicious. French/English from today's snack: Une chanson: a song Y'a un rat dans le grenier. There's a rat in the barn. J'entends le chat qui miaule. I hear the cat meowing. C'était amusant! That was fun! Je vous en prie. You're welcome. Ça va bien? How are you doing? Très bien, merci! Very well, thank you! Bien sûr! Of course! J'aime ça. I like that.

Merci beaucoup! Merci à Lori Nancy Kalamanski for 'Y a un rat'/'There's a Rat.' Thanks to Professor Pineapple for the episode illustration. Thank you, friends, for singing this song with others and continuing the oral tradition!

This Audio Snack was performed by Lori Nancy Kalamanski, Professor Pineapple, Bearkin, Dr. Sandwich, Ms. Bees, Captain Cracker, and Melon Man. Creative and production support by Ginette Mohr, Tim Freeman, Liz Pounsett, and Stephen LaFrenie. Episode music composed and performed by Tim Freeman and Red Velvet Revolution. Additional episode music by Musictown and Oleksii Kaplunskyi.

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