EP 49Ages 4-10
Sir Ratsalot and The Black Forest Polecats
A screen-free audio story about Sir Ratsalot, a Goop who is a tattletale. Set in Germany.
Play the story · 28:21
Read by Maria Calanchini
Also on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
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Which Goop are you?The story
Sir Ratsalot is a dapper little Goop with a bowler hat and cane who loves to tattle on everyone. When he heads off to tell on Messalina, a tree branch reaches out of her painted playroom wall and pulls him inside.
He tumbles into Germany's Black Forest, where a friendly badger named Dax warns him about a nasty cuckoo clockmaker and the sneaky polecats who work for him.
The real place: Black Forest
Three things to tell your kid after the story.
- 1The Black Forest in Germany is famous for cuckoo clocks, which people there have been carving by hand for hundreds of years.
- 2It is called the Black Forest because its fir and pine trees grow so thick that the forest looks dark.
- 3Black Forest cake, made with chocolate, cherries and whipped cream, is named after this part of Germany.
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