1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:10,759 Hi friends, my name is Beatriz Montero and today I'm going to tell you the Lion Flower, 2 00:00:10,759 --> 00:00:17,760 a story that I wrote in my bilingual English-Spanish book Two Words, Dos Mundos. 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:25,609 This is a very weepy flower, very weepy. 4 00:00:25,609 --> 00:00:27,609 It cries for everything. 5 00:00:27,609 --> 00:00:33,609 It cries when it's cold, when it's sunny, when it rains and even 6 00:00:33,609 --> 00:00:39,530 When it grows, the flower is looking for a place to live into the woods. 7 00:00:41,289 --> 00:00:46,189 Good morning, Mr. Tree. Can I live here with you? 8 00:00:46,850 --> 00:00:50,490 No, no. Here live the mushrooms. 9 00:00:51,490 --> 00:00:52,329 Ask the lake. 10 00:00:53,009 --> 00:00:55,070 The flower goes to the lake. 11 00:00:55,869 --> 00:00:57,689 It cries and cries. 12 00:00:57,689 --> 00:01:02,869 Did I tell you that this flower is very weepy? 13 00:01:02,869 --> 00:01:10,010 Good morning, Mr. Lake. Could I live here with you? 14 00:01:10,689 --> 00:01:16,450 No, no. Here lives the grass. Better if you ask the road. 15 00:01:17,230 --> 00:01:22,049 The flower is still crying. It reaches the road. 16 00:01:22,489 --> 00:01:29,599 Mr. Road, could I live here? asks the flower. 17 00:01:29,599 --> 00:01:41,980 Here? Here? This is not a place to live for a flower. Cars pass through here. Ask the 18 00:01:41,980 --> 00:01:52,659 knight. It's night. The flower cries and sees nothing. Why are you crying? Asks the knight. 19 00:01:52,659 --> 00:01:57,659 I don't have any place to live, said the flower. 20 00:01:58,140 --> 00:02:01,079 Go to the mountain, said the knight. 21 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,480 I will guide you by the moon. 22 00:02:06,219 --> 00:02:12,419 The flower climbs up the mountain. 23 00:02:14,419 --> 00:02:16,020 It cries and cries. 24 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:21,360 The knight takes her crying close to the ear of the mountain. 25 00:02:22,659 --> 00:02:29,599 Who is crying? I will not let me sleep, roars the mountain. 26 00:02:31,039 --> 00:02:35,800 It's me, me, me, says the weepy flower. 27 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:42,960 The echo of the night makes the voice of the flower very loud. 28 00:02:43,780 --> 00:02:46,919 What do you want? asks the mountain. 29 00:02:47,419 --> 00:02:52,340 A place to live, shouts the flower. 30 00:02:52,340 --> 00:03:02,340 The mountain. The leaves. The flower is a very big lion. He thinks an animal so powerful 31 00:03:02,340 --> 00:03:04,340 could protect the mountain. 32 00:03:04,340 --> 00:03:12,340 OK, says the mountain. Climb to the top. No body leaves, sir. 33 00:03:12,340 --> 00:03:22,240 The flower climbs and climbs and climbs to the top of the mountain. 34 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,240 At the top there is snow. 35 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,240 Good night, says the flower. 36 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,240 The snow doesn't speak. 37 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,240 The flower is very lonely. 38 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:40,840 The flower cries and cries. 39 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,840 The moon tucks the flower under the snow. 40 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,840 The flower goes to sleep. 41 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,840 In the morning it wakes up very happy. 42 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,840 It has a house on the top of the mountain. 43 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,840 I have a lion on the top, 44 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,840 shouts the mountain happily. 45 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:10,849 I'm going to tell you a secret. 46 00:04:10,849 --> 00:04:17,850 Everybody thinks a lion lives on the top of the mountain. 47 00:04:17,850 --> 00:04:22,850 Everybody except the moon and the night. 48 00:04:22,850 --> 00:04:25,850 They call it the lion flower. 49 00:04:25,850 --> 00:04:34,870 If you like this video, click on like here, share it and subscribe my channel.