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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation as a presenter. There are a

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Speaker 1: few things in Australia I think that are more prestigious

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Speaker 1: than being asked to go on play School. I want

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Speaker 1: to say prestigious. I don't mean look at me. What

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Speaker 1: I mean is for the kid that I was watching

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Speaker 1: play School to be invited to read a story for

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Speaker 1: storytime on play School was an incredible thing. And it's

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Speaker 1: on today at eight fifty this morning. What are you

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Speaker 1: doing at eight fifty, Brenda.

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Speaker 2: I'm leaving here. I'm going to watch the TV here.

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Speaker 2: Of course you are out straight to the ABC.

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Speaker 1: I am reading Max's Dinosaur Feet. Moisturize More was my recommendation,

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Speaker 1: but it's surprisingly difficult to read a children's story. And

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and all the characters are.

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Speaker 2: There, Big Ted, what about Jemima?

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Speaker 1: No I saw Jemimah. I was given a rare tour

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Speaker 1: of the craft room out the back, so I got

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Speaker 1: to see the cast members relaxing about Humpty Saw, Humpty Saw,

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Speaker 1: Jemima saw Big Ted just sitting there. It's like seeing

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Speaker 1: the teachers when you walk past the star Fron They

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Speaker 1: we were just hanging.

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Speaker 2: Having to smoke. Did you see blackboard. Harry, Ah, I.

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Speaker 1: Didn't see black all these There were all these big

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Speaker 1: tubs that were that's another character, big tubs that were

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Speaker 1: just were filled with all the bits and pieces. So

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Speaker 1: there were flowers, there was paper mache, there was things

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Speaker 1: with which you could create all the sets that they use.

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Speaker 2: It was just so great.

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Speaker 1: And reading a story is harder than I imagined it

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Speaker 1: would be. So you have to read the words exactly

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Speaker 1: as they are because they're also because it's a teaching

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Speaker 1: tool for kids, so the words are on the screen

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Speaker 1: as you're reading them, so you can't skip over any

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Speaker 1: of the words.

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Speaker 2: And the old days they didn't.

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Speaker 1: Have that, you know, And anyway, you can't do it

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Speaker 1: when you're reading very.

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Speaker 2: Special Kid's a story. Yeah, when you scoot through. And

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Speaker 2: then the lorex well they managed to say for it.

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Speaker 1: To my shame, I never read them, Doctor Zeus because

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Speaker 1: I found it irritating, which is terrible.

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Speaker 2: You just stick with Harry McClary from.

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Speaker 1: And I got a lot of those pop up books

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Speaker 1: that I loved, and the kids still remember those, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they just just reach out their little hands and

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Speaker 1: rip them apart. And I thought that's reading.

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Speaker 2: That'll do. And Scuffy the tug Bit, Remember Scuffy the

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Speaker 2: tug bit that was good? Or Toodle the train tootle

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Speaker 2: that you stay on the tracks.

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Speaker 1: So many great things for kids, and play school is

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Speaker 1: one of them. It's a staple of Australian television and

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Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be part of it. Eight point fifty

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Speaker 1: this morning, Max's Dinosaur Feet as read by me.

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Speaker 2: Will you be just displaying dinosaur fhe I'm.

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Speaker 1: Wearing a big pair of slippers because the story is

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Speaker 1: about Max who's got some big dinosaur feet and they're

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Speaker 1: noisy in this skirt. It'll wake up his little sister,

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Speaker 1: right okay. And if my loud, shrieking voice reading a

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Speaker 1: story doesn't wake that sister up, nothing will.

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Speaker 2: Well. It's appointment TV, please