This content was created by Dave Edgren. This content was uploaded by Dave Edgren. This is a YouTube video titled "Wombat Stew - Children's Picture Book" (created 2017-03-02) containing an English read-aloud of the children's book "Wombat Stew" by Marcia Vaughan and Pamela Lofts. The narrator introduces himself as Dave Edgren and performs a storytelling narration, voicing multiple animal characters (Dingo, Platypus, Emu, Blue-tongue Lizard, Echidna, Koala) in an Australian bush setting as the animals trick the Dingo over a supposed wombat stew.
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Hi, my name is Dave Edgren, and I'm going to read you Wombat Stew by Marcia Vaughan and Pamela Lofts. One day, on the banks of a billabong, a very clever dingo caught a wombat and decided to make wombat stew, wombat stew, gooey, brewy, yummy, chewy wombat stew. Platypus came ambling up the bank. "G'day, Dingo," he said, snapping his bill. "What is all that water for?" "I'm brewing up gooey chewy stew with that fat wombat," replied Dingo with a toothy grin. "If you ask me," said Platypus, "the best thing for a gooey stew is is mud. Big blobs of billabong mud. Blobs of mud! Dingo laughed. What a good idea! Righto, in they go! So Platypus scooped up big blobs of mud with his tail and tipped them into the billy can. Around the bubbling billy, Dingo danced and sang. "Wombat stew, wombat stew, gooey, brewy, yummy, chewy wombat stew." Waltzing out from the shade of the ironbarks came Emu. She arched her graceful neck over the brew. "Oh ho, Dingo," she fluttered, "what have we here?" "Gooey, chewy wombat stew," boasted Dingo. "If only it were a bit more chewy," she sighed. "But don't worry, a few feathers will set it right." "Feathers?" Dingo smiled. "That would be chewy. Righto, in they go." So into the gooey brew Emu dropped her finest feathers. Around and around the bubbling billy, Dingo danced and sang, "Wombat stew, wombat stew, crunchy munchy for my lunchy, wombat stew!" Old Blue Tongue Lizard came sliding off his sun-soaked stone. "Silly Dingo," he hissed. "There are no flies in this stew. Can't be wombat stew without crunchy flies in it." He stuck out his bright blue tongue. "There's a lot to be said for flies," agreed Dingo, rubbing his paws together. "Righto, in they go." So Lizard snapped 100 flies from the air with his long tongue and flipped them into the gooey, chewy stew. Around and around and around, the bubbling Billy Dingo danced and sang, "Wombat stew, wombat stew, crunchy munchy for my lunchy, wombat stew." Up through the red dust popped Echidna. Wait a bit, not so fast, he bristled, shaking the red dust from his quills. Now I've been listening to all this advice, and take it from me, for a munchy stew you need slugs and bugs and creepy crawlies. Dingo wagged his tail. Why, I should have thought of that! Righto, in they go! So Echidna dug up all sorts of creepy crawlies and dropped them into the gooey, chewy, crunchy stew. The very clever Dingo stirred and stirred, all the while singing, "Wombat stew, wombat stew, hot and spicy, oh so nicey, wombat stew." Just then, the sleepy-eyed koala climbed down the scribbly gum tree. "Look here," he yawned, "any bush cook knows you can't make spicy stew Without gum nuts! Leave it to a koala to think of gum nuts, Dingo laughed and licked his whiskers. Righto, in they go! And into the gooey, chewy, crunchy, munchy stew, Koala shook lots and lots of gum nuts. Aha! cried Dingo. Now my stew is missing only one thing. What's that? asked the animals. That fat wombat! Wait! Stop! Hang on, Dingo! You can't put that wombat into the stew—yet! Why not? You haven't tasted it. Righto, I'll taste it. And that very clever dingo bent over the billy and took a great big slurp of stew. Oh, I'm poisoned! he howled. Oh, you've all tricked me! And he dashed away deep into the bush, never again to sing, "Wombat stew, wombat stew, gooey, brewy, yummy, chewy, wombat stew!"
