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WowoSpot Kids is dedicated to the production and delivery of quality kids content for fun, creative learning and education. WowoSpot Kids podcast is ideal for listeners who are interested in early childhood musical education, parenting, healthy kids entertainment media. The podcast is hosted by Canadian pianist Lisa Ruping Cheng. The sequence of the episodes corresponds with the blog posts in www.wowospot.ca To watch WowoSpot Kids' original, animated song videos please visit https://www.yout ...
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://wowospot.ca/2022/07/04/rapunzel-the-red-fairy-book-by-andrew-lang/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lisa-ruping-cheng/message
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Aesop's Fables | The Goose and the Golden Eggs
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This episode is also available as a blog post: http://wowospot.ca/2022/06/28/the-goose-and-the-golden-eggs/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lisa-ruping-cheng/message
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Aesop's Fables | The Wolf and the Donkey
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This episode is also available as a blog post: http://wowospot.ca/2022/06/28/the-wolf-and-the-donkey/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lisa-ruping-cheng/message
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Aesop's Fables | The Wolf and the Lean Dog
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This episode is also available as a blog post: http://wowospot.ca/2022/06/27/the-wolf-and-the-lean-dog/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lisa-ruping-cheng/message
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Aesop’s Fables | The Owl and the Grasshopper
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This episode is also available as a blog post: http://wowospot.ca/2022/05/02/aesops-fables-the-owl-and-the-grasshopper/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lisa-ruping-cheng/message
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Aesop’s Fables |The Fox and the Grapes
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This episode is also available as a blog post: http://wowospot.ca/2022/03/04/aesops-fables-the-fox-and-the-grapes/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lisa-ruping-cheng/message
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Aesop’s Fables|The Sheep and the Pig
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This episode is also available as a blog post: http://wowospot.ca/2022/04/25/the-sheep-and-the-pig/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lisa-ruping-cheng/message
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Aesop’s Fables | The Lion and the Mouse
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This episode is also available as a blog post: http://wowospot.ca/2022/03/20/aesops-fables-the-lion-and-the-mouse/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lisa-ruping-cheng/message
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Aesop's Fables | The Wolf and the Goat | Bell the Cat
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Wowospot Kids have been blogging Aesop's Fables classic stories. Today Wowospot Kids Podcast is ready to start telling the stories. Please join us to listen to The Wolf and the Goat and Bell the Cat. In this first Aesop's Fables episode, we would like to feature the music of "The Wolf Piping Song". Why did the Wolf make music? Listen on! About the …
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Sleeping Beauty in the Woods | Mothergoose Fairytale (II)
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Let's continue with the story. "As soon as he began to get near to the wood, all the great trees, the bushes, and brambles gave way of themselves to let him pass through. He walked up to the castle which he saw at the end of a large avenue; and you can imagine he was a good deal surprised when he saw none of his people following him because the tre…
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Sleeping Beauty in the Woods | Mothergoose Fairytale (I)
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As an iconic and beloved fairytale, Sleeping Beauty has so ingrained in our culture that it represents an enchanting tale coming from a remote country full of imaginations, magics, wonders and charm. In the new year, what story will be more exciting for Wowospot to tell than Sleeping Beauty? Let me share with you this fascinating tale about a young…
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A Story about Ogre| Little Thumb | Mother Goose Fairytale (IV)
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When it comes to spooky stories, we often think of strange creatures living in the deep forests, unknown mysteries hidden in abandoned houses, dangers lingering in the darkness in the woods.... My early memories of spooky stories were all about ghosts. When I was a toddler, my father and my grandmother used to tell ghost stories, in the living …
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A Story about Ogre | Little Thumb | Mother Goose Fairytale(III)
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My early memories of spooky stories were all about ghosts. When I was a toddler, my father and my grandmother used to tell ghost stories, in the living room, after dinner time. Me and my brother and sister would hold our blankets, wide-eyed, listening to the stories, so quietly. Interestingly, ghosts in oriental culture are conceived in a much more…
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A Story about Ogre | Little Thumb | Mother Goose Fairytale(II)
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My early memories of spooky stories were all about ghosts. When I was a toddler, my father and my grandmother used to tell ghost stories, in the living room, after dinner time. Me and my brother and sister would hold our blankets, wide-eyed, listening to the stories, so quietly. Interestingly, ghosts in oriental culture are conceived in a much more…
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A Story about Ogre | Little Thumb | Mother Goose Fairytale (I)
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When it comes to spooky stories, we often think of strange creatures living in the deep forests, unknown mysteries hidden in abandoned hourses, dangers lingering in the darkness in the woods.... It is Halloween today in Canada. Children are dressed up with their favorite costumes, going out knocking door to door to "trick or treat". We see every ho…
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The Fairy | Mother Goose Fairytale
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The moral lesson in this tale makes me think of a great quote from one of the most admired actresses, Audrey Hepburn: “For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lisa-ruping-cheng/message
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Mother Goose Fairytale | Little Red Riding Hood
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Little Red Riding Hood is one of my favorite stories when I was a kid. I believe the story was told in Chinese when I first learned about it. To my surprise Little Red Riding Hood is part of the Mother Goose Fairytale collected by French author Charles Perrault in 1696. This tells us Little Red Riding-hood is a folklore tale that has been passed on…
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Mother Goose Fairytale: Cinderella
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Mother Goose Fairytale: Cinderella A folklore story that has been told to children for generations is worth being told again and again. I am lucky to have found the original texts of Cinderella in the book of Mother Goose Fairytale, first collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 and translated by Charles Welsh and published in the U. S. in 1901. Let m…
I remember watching 2015's Disney movie Cinderella with my daughters a few years ago and have loved it. What impressed me very much was the folk song sung by Cinderella in the movie: Lavender's Blue. The enchanted melody and the round form makes the melody echo beautifully. It feels like the song is never going to end. In this episode Lisa is going…
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Hickory Dickory Dock | fun English nursery rhyme
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When I first heard Hickory Dickory Dock, it was when I taught my five-year-old daughter to play the piano. I was intrigued by the cute mouse who ran up the clock with the clicking and came down with the sound of the clock striking every hour. What a wonderful way to teach young children about numbers, with literature and music combined in an imagin…
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Jasmine Flowers | Chinese folk song adapted in Puccini's opera Turandot
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Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini's hit opera Turandot (杜蘭多) adapted the tune of a very popular Chinese folk song Jasmine Flowers (茉莉花). I imagine Jasmine Flowers worked as a perfect material for Puccini to portray the princess as an oriental beauty. After the premiere in 1926 in Milan, Italy, Turandot has become one of the most performed and …
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Momotaro | Peach Boy | an iconic Japanese folk song | the lyrics, story and music
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Momotaro is an iconic Japanese folk song that my father and my grandmother can sing to this day. I grew up in Taiwan where Japanese culture became prevalent after the Chinese Chin dynasty lost the the first Sino-Japanese war in 1895 and ceded Taiwan islands to Japan. As a result, Japan had ruled Taiwan for fifty years until the new, modern China wo…
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Frère Jacques | Are you sleeping | The story, lyrics and music
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Frère Jacques | Are you sleeping | The story, lyrics and music Frère Jacques is a very familiar folk song well loved by children. It originates from France. My earliest memory about this tune goes back to my kindergarten days. I learned this song in Mandarin Chinese, not in English, and the meanings in the Chinese lyrics were entirely different fro…
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Toys and Magic | How I came up with the idea for the song Little Puppy Lily's Magic Bone
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In this episode I would like to share with you how I came with the idea of writing the new children's song Little Puppy Lily's Magic Bone. Toys and magic has always been a popular theme in children's stories The imaginary world this song created reminds me of a TV cartoon show I used to love as a kid. In the show, this toy came to life after midnig…
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Mozart's Magic on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: the 12 variations for piano, with guest pianist Kim Yim
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What is your first experience on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star? You may have heard it from your childrens' singing or from the kids TV shows, or you may have heard it since you were very young but you can not pinpoint exactly where and when and how. That is the magic of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. It has so ingrained in our culture and tradition. Li…
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Do you Know the Muffin Man | the story of an English nursery rhyme
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Will we call a man who delivers muffins house-to-house a muffin man today? In older times we did. The popular nursery rhyme The Muffin Man is an English folk song. The lyrics are dynamic, easy to remember and they rhyme well. The melody is cheerful... If you were to change the lyrics into something else what would it sound like?? --- Send in a voic…
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star | the story, lyrics and solfege
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Who wrote Twinkle Twinkle Little Star? This beloved song has become a must-have lullaby nowadays in children’s song playlists. The tune comes from a French folk song ah vous dirai - je ma, maman (oh shall I tell you mama), written in the mid- 18th century. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart adapted the melody and composed twelve variations on it as a piano so…
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Kids Songs in 2021 | The Ideas about WowoSpot Kids
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"In my very remote memories, my earliest musical experience was about songs. We react to music and language most naturally through songs. Before I was made to sit on the piano bench at the age of five to learn to play the gigantic instrument, I had known music by singing and dancing along my favorite songs from the radio." This episode is also avai…
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Hey Diddle Diddle and The Bagels on the Table | creativity during lockdown
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In the spring this year, on a bright sunny Sunday morning, out of my desperation to have some comfort food, I lined up to buy a bag of Montreal style bagels from a new store that had just opened in downtown. I believed a bag of great bagels could definitely save me from feeling even more anxious about the on-and-off lockdown. Before noon I had eate…
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The Story about Itsy Bitsy Spider | treasure found in simplicity
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"Many years ago when I first heard the song Itsy Bitsy Spider, it was at the daycare my kids went everyday. I was impressed to see that more than fifteen toddlers following their caregiver teacher singing the song, smiling widely, walking back from the playground to their room for the nap time. I was fascinated by the high spirits among the little …
