 Hello, I'm so excited to get a chance to read a story to you. Our story today is called Abiyoyo, and it is illustrated by Michael Hayes, and this is a story song written by Pete Seeger. Do you like stories with magic in them? I do. And one thing I love about the facing page of this book right here is the boy is sitting under a sign that says The Magic Shop, and there's a magic hat and a wand and rabbits and a magic goblet. And the story is called Abiyoyo. Once upon a time there was a little boy who played the ukulele. Around town he'd go clink clink clunk clink clink clunk. And the parents and the grownups would say, get that thing out of here. Not only that, the boy's father was a magician, and he got in trouble. He had a magic wand and he'd go zoop zoop, and he would make things disappear. But he played too many tricks on people. He'd come up to someone just about to drink a cold glass of water and zoop, the glass disappears. Oh, oh, what happens to the water? He'd come up to someone doing a hard job of work, zzz zzz zzz, with the saw, up comes the father with his magic wand and zoop zoop. No saw. He'd come up to someone about to sit down in a chair after a hard day's work and zoop. No chair. People said to the father, you get out of here and you take your magic wand and your tricks and you and your son just get. And the boy and his father were ostracized. That means they made him live on the edge of town. Now in this town, they used to tell stories. The old people used to tell stories about the giants that lived in the old days. They used to tell a story about a giant called Abiyoyo. They said he was as tall as a tree and could eat people up. Of course, nobody believed the story, but they told it anyway. One day, one day the sun rose blood red over the hill. The first people got up and they looked out the window and they saw a great big shadow in front of the sun and they could feel the whole ground shape. Women screamed and strong men fainted. Run for your lives, Abiyoyo's coming. He comes up to the sheep pasture and he grabs the whole sheep, yelp. And he comes up to the cow pasture and he grabs the whole cow, yank. Men yelled, great, just then the boy and his father woke up. Hey, Pa, what's coming over the fields? Why, son, that's Abiyoyo. Oh, if only I could get him to lie down, I could make him disappear. The boy says, come with me, Pa. And he grabbed his father by one hand and the father gets the magic wand and the boy gets his ukulele and they run across the fields. People yelled, just there was Abiyoyo. He had long fingernails because he never cut them and he had slobbery teeth because he didn't brush them and stinking feet because he didn't wash them and matted hair because he didn't comb it. And he raised up his claws and just then the boy whips out his ukulele. Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo. Well, you know, the giant had never heard a song about himself before and the foolish grin spread over his face and the giant started to dance. Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo. Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo. And the boy went faster. Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo. Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo. Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo. Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo. And Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo. The giant got out of breath. He staggered and he fell down to the ground and up steps the father and zoop the windows. The people ran across the fields and they lifted the boy and his father up on their shoulders and they say, come back to town. Bring your darn ukulele. We don't care anymore. And they all sang Abiyoyo together. Now whatever you do when I turn the page, don't look at what the monkey is doing. Just don't do it. Sing with me. Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo. Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo. Abiyoyo, Yoyo, Yoyo. Abiyoyo, Yoyo, Yoyo.