Hey! Remember that time, StoryTeller, when I told you NOT to touch the button? Yeah, remember StoryTeller, when we INSISTED that you not touch the button? but we worked on you & we did some hypnosis, remember? yeah, yeah, I totally remember remember ... we hypnotized you and then you touched the button! you touched the button! you touched the button! and what does I have to do with today's book? shall we show her? Let's do it, in 3...2...1 Ta-daaaa!!!! Don't Touch this Book?!? Yeah, StoryTeller. Y ou probably shouldn't touch this book oh yeah, it would probably be so bad to touch this book yeah, yeah, and you don't want to be baaaad heh-heh-heh but you guys, I I read books! I HAVE to touch the book otherwise, what does a StoryTeller do if she can't touch the book okay, I'm gonna touch the book I'm gonna... I'm gonna touch it. I'm gonna touch it....right now EVIL LAUGHTER I'm just here to say that I know what's going to happen AND I'm gonna stick around to watch it anyway thank you, Maleficent, I'm going to... oh... I touched it. I touched it. okay... everything's all right we're all here, we're all okay? okay... touching the book... opening the book... Oh, right off the bat: super colorful and rainbow-y. What does it say here in the flap? This is Larry's super cool new book you probably really want to read it, but don't does this book! okay, okay... but you can only touch it with one finger one finger? which? which one should I pick? hmm... I guess I'll use my pointer finger I'll use my pointer finger, that's what I'll do! All right, gosh, I'm not used to just using one finger. Let's see if I can make this work AH! Covering my name Dear StoryTeller, this is from your friend Bill Cotter. Whaaaat?!?!? did you see this named Bill Cotter? Bill Cotter? Bill Cotter? Bill Cotter he's the author of Don't Touch This Book, and he sent us the book with a little drawing to read to you because apparently you guys wanted to hear this book specifically, a kid called Mr. Goat Farmer who I'm pretty sure is not actually a goat farmer but he requested it. oh HEYYYY! How's it going?!? okay now I know you're probably looking at my cool new book hey Larry the monster, it's good to see you again and there's the book we had read: Don't Touch This Book now you're looking at my new cool book ~ I sure AM, Larry but -- uh-oh -- there is a but Don't Touch This Book! What? But? don't even try it, bub, see my picture on the front? well yes, I I do see your your picture on the front and on the inside as well but why? oh gosh this one-finger thing is very very challenging Don't Touch This Book that means Larry decides who gets the play ohhhh, I see. You're the boss of this book Larry the Monster. OK Alright we'll play it your way... for now tell you what, you can play, but you can only use one finger drag it like this -- okay so you want me to drag... this is very challenging
because I'm gonna skip pages...ugh! Larry, you don't know how human fingers work! wow! you made blue! try using all your fingers! oh so NOW I can use all my fingers? Larry you're sending me
mixed messages. Alright. so so so where I touch the book made it blue so you want me to? okay now I'm gonna just go ahead and flip the page and WHOA! COOL! You made a rainbow! now try wiggling! wiggling what? my toes? my my fingers? my whole body? okay I'm wiggling everything because I don't know what precisely Larry wants me to wiggle so I'm wiggle-wiggle, wiggle-wiggle, wiggle-wiggle GASP! YOWZA! Now spin! Spin! Okay...spin, spin...oh my gosh spinning, spinning, spinning...this is a very stressful process I've never had to get so physical reading a book here. Okay... Look at that...the cover's coming off all right, I'm gonna flip the page... WHOAAAAA now walk and talk like a robot Beep-beep-beep-boop-bee-boo okay... MORE COMPUTER BOOPING oh! oh this is getting fun! oh look at that! our monster turned into some sort of a Star Wars-y looking type creature there that's cool Now ~ he's got more instructions for us give me your best dinosaur
ROARRRRR OHHH best dinosaur roar! Did you hear that, Doug? I heard! I heard! And I am at the ready now I will admit that I was not over here earlier yeah, why was that? I was waiting for you I-I'm sorry StoryTeller. I hope you were not upset with me No, no. I'm never upset at you, Doug oh because I know, I know that you know you sometimes... when some when I'm not following instructions, it upsets you yes, yes. And that last time when I told you not to push the button and you pushed it anyway that was kind of traumatic I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Doug. I know you want me to follow the rules. I just... I was tempted, and the Bears they... you know... they they they had me in this sort of witchcraft trance I saw that but now that that Larry says it's okay for you to touch the book and spin it and wiggle it, etc etc etc And include a dinosaur ROAR well I, as Doug the Dinosaur (half-dragon also) but mostly dinosaur I would like to do the roar okay, give it to us ROARRRR (COUGHS) I have a little sore throat oh that sounded really good! now let's see what
happens when we change the page Oh! Run! Run! oh no I know I should not have I should not have
had anything to do with a book where you have to disobey I'm leaving Oh Doug! No, not fine! Not fine! Quick! flap your arms - okay - flap flap flap flap flap flap flap flap oh no, this... he doesn't, he doesn't look like a nice dinosaur like Doug, not at all RAWWRRRRR SWOOSH! oh... oh... okay... we gave Larry some wings so he could fly away from the vicious dinosaur who was clearly nothing like Doug the Dinosaur OOOOOO-WEEE! you saved me back there! that was way too close we should stop. seriously! really just stop it right now I agree. I think this has been enough fighting for one day. And we should call it a day let's go have some espressos I think that I should really keep on going oh you know... (STAMMERS) oh I'm sorry, Doug, I just I... I can't be a StoryTeller and leave the book unfinished. Larry you understand, don't you? I mean I hope you do We could try one last thing Oh see? He's not upset at all Let's wiggle and spin, talk like a robot, roar and flap our arms all at once together are we ready? Okay let's do it! Let's wiggle Ahhhhh!!!! I'm sprinning! I'm dizzy! okay we have to talk like a robot I refuse to do anything but talk like myself okay, I will talk like a robot Doug, please come back, we need the roar! okay okay okay, but only because you said so, Larry ROARRRRR! and then we flap our arms, flap our arms, flap our arms, flappa flappa flappa flappa, flap our arms And then, all at once together, so we wiggle, ROAR, talk like a robot,
flap our arms all together and ohhhh, sweet! you can play anytime look at that, we have robots in the water, playing wrestling we have a robot suntanning, I didn't even know robots could suntan The mean dinosaur is now... looks actually not mean and actually looks a little scared of the water this one is not, however, scared of the water this one is what? is he ziplining through here? yeah we got some monsters playing. Is that a Triceratops of some kind? We have a rainbow super slide Wow. If I'd've known that, I would have jiggled, and spinned, flapped my hands and talked like a robot long ago The End. oh... oof... I don't know about you but this guy... Bill... you write exhausting books Oof. and that was Don't Touch This Book But you touched the boooook (GIGGLES) YEAH, you touched it! Oh I'm so dizzy... oh Red Bear? ~ yeah, yeah I'll help you, come on yeah Oh this is an exhausting book ~ yeah it was exhausting all right, Kid, hope you enjoyed Don't Touch This Book, and remember Don't touch the book unless Larry the nice monster says you can touch the book. isn't that right, Doug? well I guess so. you know I just like... I still feel my hesitation about not following instructions but if the nice monster says to touch the book, I guess it's okay but if a mean dinosaur accidentally pops up - which is totally not my fault then it's because he probably gave me poor directions, I think I probably shouldn't have listened to him. OHHH! I get so conflicted! no, it's okay! it's okay! it all turned not okay, didn't it at the end? that's true ~ okay! So Kid be obedient unless maybe you got the permission to and they change the rules Yeah if they
change the rules and it all turns out okay, then you knew it was okay. Okay then... well Kid... thank you for joining us on Don't Touch This Book Thank you, Bill Cotter, for sharing this special book with us and see you next time on KidTime StoryTime
