✨💗Lucy Langly Has Dangly Legs: A Kids Read Aloud Book by Nancy Dort Rossow! "Diversity makes life fun and colorful!
Lucy Langly Has Dangly Legs shows how being different is beautiful. Lucy, Milton, and Tonya are teased for being themselves. They wish to fit in, but a surprise takes them to a boring, colorless world. They learn how great it is to be unique!"
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Hello and welcome to Dixie's Storytime World.
Are you ready to listen to this beautiful story by Nancy Rosso?
Lucy Langley has dangly legs.
A surprise sends these friends to a boring colourless world.
As they explore, they learn how special it is to be different.
Join Lucy, Milton and Tonya on their adventure to find themselves
and discover the importance of loving who they are and being unique.
Lucy Langley has long lanky legs that dangle loosely from slim bony hips.
Kids tease, hey dangly Langley.
Lucy feels embarrassed.
Milton Middlehouse has a mighty midsection that meanders over his belt.
Kids taunt, hey meaty Milton.
Milton feels hurt.
Tonya Thomas has a tall thin frame that towers over them all.
Kids mock, hey turret Thomas.
Tonya feels sad.
Sorry kids, but that's how you were made and you can't change that.
Say Lucy's and Milton's and Tonya's own folks.
But we don't want to be bullied.
So at bedtime they pray.
Please, please, please make us all the same like peas in a pod.
Please, please, please make us all match like kernels on a cob.
Please, please, please make us all identical like a school of cod.
The next morning the children arise to an unimaginably huge surprise.
They shake their heads and rub their eyes.
Lucy stumbles outside.
Oh, geez, Louise, the colors have faded.
The grays have invaded.
Milton runs in circles.
Oh, holy moly, we all look the same.
Who is to blame?
Tonya stands in shock.
Oh, good grief.
This is breaking my heart.
Who can tell us apart?
They run here and there.
The houses and critters are all the same.
How lame.
They race to the park.
Just swings and swings and nothing more.
What a bore.
They scurry to the store.
No labels or colors or anything cheery.
How dreary.
Lucy grumbles.
Nothing is special, distinct or unique-y.
Milton rumbles.
Everything's gray, dismal and freaky.
Tonya mumbles.
I'm scared and I'm sad and everything's creepy.
And to top it all off, we're rhyming our words.
How absurd.
They join their hands, cry out in besiege.
Please, please, please make us weird and unique.
Make an alligator elephant or an ant with a beak.
Make us colorful and strange.
Anything but bleak.
Shazam!
Shedazzle!
Chazooey!
A dazzling kaleidoscope of colors and shapes illuminate their world.
You are still you and I am still me, Lucy exclaims.
We're all back to normal.
I think you'd agree, Tonya claims.
I guess that's the way it's supposed to be, Milton proclaims.
Lucy Langley's legs still dangle, but she's kind and thoughtful and dances like a diva.
Milton's midsection still meanders, but he's brave and clever and spells like a champion.
Tonya, Tonya still towers, but she's generous and smart and swims like an Olympian.
They're all a bit quirky and certainly unique with je ne sais quoi and that special mystique.
But they are who they are, who they're meant to be.
And there's nothing better than to be you and me.
So kids, the importance of diversity.
Making life more interesting and colorful.
Diversity is the norm in all of creation, living and non-living.
It is important to all because it enriches our lives in the following ways.
Enhances creativity and innovation.
Contributes to better decision making.
Encourages learning and personal growth.
Improves performance in all endeavors.
Fosters inclusivity and social cohesion.
Enhances adaptability and resilience.
Is essential for human health and well-being.
Economic prosperity, food and environmental safety and security.
Ensures natural sustainability for all life forms.
So you see kids, always remember, it's nice to be unique.
It makes you special and beautiful.
And that's what you are.
Thank you for watching and never forget that you're amazing.
I'll see you soon in another adventure.
