This content was created by Dave Edgren. This content was uploaded by Dave Edgren. This is a YouTube video titled "Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French" (posted 2017-02-06) containing an English narration: a single speaker who identifies himself as Dave Edgren reads the children's picture book "Diary of a Wombat" by Jackie French (illustrated by Bruce Whatley). The excerpt is a verbatim reading of the book's diary-style entries. Metadata available: content_type=YOUTUBE, thumbnail URL provided, and creation timestamp 2017-02-06T07:48:06Z.
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Hi, my name is Dave Edgren, and I'm going to read you Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French, illustrated by Bruce Whatley. Diary of a Wombat. Monday. Morning slept. Afternoon slept. Evening: ate grass, scratched. Night: ate grass, slept. Tuesday. Morning: slept. Afternoon: slept. Evening: ate grass. Night: ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept. Wednesday. Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Mild cloudy day. Found the perfect dust bath. Discovered flat hairy creature invading my territory. Fought major battle with flat hairy creature. Won the battle. Demanded a carrot. The carrot was delicious. Evening demanded more carrots. No response. Chewed whole indoor. For Pete's sake, give her some carrots! Ate carrots. Scratched. Went to sleep. Thursday morning: slept. Afternoon: discovered the perfect scratching post. Evening: demanded carrots. No response. Tried yesterday's hole. Curiously resistant to my paws. Bashed up rubbish bin till carrots appeared. Ate carrots. Began new hole in soft dirt. Went to sleep. Friday morning: slept. Afternoon: discovered new scratching post. Also discovered a new source of carrots. Evening. Someone has filled in my new hole. Soon dug it out again. Night. Worked on hole. Saturday. Morning: Moved into new hole. Afternoon: Rained. New hole filled up with water. Moved back into old hole. Evening: Discovered even more carrots. Never knew there were so many carrots in the world. Carrots delicious. Night: Finished carrots. Slept. Sunday. Morning: slept. Afternoon: slept. Evening: slept. Night: offered carrots at the back door. Why would I want carrots when I feel like rolled oats? demanded Rolled Oats instead. Humans failed to understand my simple request. Am constantly amazed how dumb humans can be. Chewed up 1 pair of boots, 3 cardboard boxes, 11 flowerpots, and a garden chair till they got the message. Ate rolled oats. Scratched. Went to sleep. Monday morning: slept. Afternoon: felt energetic. Wet things flopped against my nose on my way to the back door. Got rid of them. Demanded oats and carrots. Only had to bash the rubbish bin for 5 minutes. Before they arrived. Evening: Have decided that humans are easily trained and make quite good pets. Night: Dug new hole to be closer to them. Slept.
