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Bertie and the Secret Potato
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Happy 12 everyone ! We are starting 2012 with a Bertie story this week, and a Katie story next… and look out for the final chapters of the Wizard of Oz and a spectacular Greek Myth.
Just in case you are new to Bertie and his stories – let us explain – these days he is a frog and has some pond-life friends, but in the past he was a human prince.
In this story, we hear about one of Bertie’s human adventures. It took him to the jungle of Papua New Guinea along the famed Kokoda Trail. The Lovely Princess Beatrice came with him. They were in search of long lost Cousin Jonas who has discovered the Secret of Eternal Youth. The Wicked Queen wants it – but will she us it, as promised for the good of mankind?
And by the way, the secret or sweet potato is also known in America as a yam.
Read by Natasha. Story by Bertie. Duration 31 min.
Only last week, I was walking past the Palace Pond, when I heard a deep groan. I looked at the water, and saw some angry-looking bubbles on the surface. Then I heard an unmistakable voice:
“Oh Tim, When are you going to grow up?” It was Colin the Carp, groaning and grumping as usual. Perhaps this time, he had good reason. Tim the Tadpole was annoying him by tickling his belly.
Sadie, the elegant black swan, heard his complaint too. She swam out of the rushes and said: “I don’t think Little Tim is ever going to grow up into a frog. In fact, I think he has discovered the Secret of Eternal Youth.”
“Ooh that sounds exciting,” said Tim. “Er what is it?”
As ever, Prince Bertie the Frog was on hand to answer Tim’s questions.
“Let me tell you Tim,” he said. “It’s a potato.”
When Prince Bertie said this, Colin the Carp thrashed the water with his tail so hard that some drops splashed on my face.
“Is this pond full of fools?” groaned Colin. “How can the Secret of Eternal Youth be a Potato? That frog’s brain is a potato, more like…!”
“Well actually,” said Bertie, “The Secret of Eternal Youth really is a potato. Or to be precise, it is a Sweet Potato. I know that for a fact because when I was a human prince, I brought it back from the Jungle….”
“Oooh Bertie, do tell us the story…” pleaded Tim. Colin sighed heavily, but all the other pond life gathered around excitedly to hear Bertie’s story – and I pricked up my ears too….
It was winter. The Palace cook was off work with a cold. At breakfast time, the Wicked Queen went into the kitchen and made Bertie’s porridge herself.
“There you are Bertie,” she said, as she placed the steaming bowl of milky oats in front of him on the dining room table, ” Just how you like it.”
” I don’t really feel like porridge today,” said the Prince. “I’ve got a bit of a rotten tummy.”
For a second, an angry glint flashed across the Queen’s eye, and then she said soothingly, “Come on now, eat up. There’s nothing like a bowl of porridge to get you through the morning.”
“Sorry, I’d rather not,” said Bertie. He looked guiltily across the table at Princess Beatrice who was frowning at him. After breakfast, she tapped Bertie on the shoulder at the foot of the stairs.
“There’s no need to be so rude to my step-mother,” she said frostily.
“I can’t help it,” said Bertie. “Sometimes she just scares the life out of me.”
“Couldn’t you see how hurt she was when you wouldn’t eat her porridge? You seemed to think she had dropped poison in it.”
“Well… yeah……,” said Bertie, quite sarcastically.
“Oh sometimes ….you’re just impossible,” said Beatrice annoyed, and she started to stomp off, which was not at all like her. Then she turned around and said: “Not every step-mother is wicked you know. And she’s going to be your mother-in-law one day, so you better start seeing the sweet side of her.”
Bertie was upset, as well as hungry, as he climbed the stairs. The last thing he wanted to do was to get on the wrong side of Beatrice. She had such a lovely character, she just couldn’t see that her step-mother, the Queen, truly was wicked. The world might well be full of lovely mother-in-laws, and charming step-mothers, but this one was well.. like something out of a scary fairytale.
For the rest of the week, the Wicked Queen, was so sweet, and so full of thoughtful little gestures, that Bertie became more suspicious of her than ever. On Saturday morning, she bought Beatrice a present – a delicate and beautiful orchid for her collection. It had snowy white flowers, with beautiful purple centres that looked just like butterflies.
As they admired the lovely plant, the Queen said casually, “Or course, if you want to see rare orchids in the wild, you really ought to go to Papua New Guinea.”
“Really?” said Beatrice. “Perhaps Bertie and I can go there on holiday.”
“Oh you would love it,” said the Queen, “The biodiversity is incredible.”
Bertie tried not to groan. He knew that “biodiversity” – which means a wide selection of life forms – was just the word to use if you wanted to persuade Beatrice of anything. She truly loves the environment and all living things.
“Oh Bertie ! Do let’s go there for our holiday,” she cooed. “I do so want to go to Papua New Guinea to see the Biodiversity.”
“And while you are there,” said the Queen, “You can look up our long lost cousin Jonas. He lives in the Rain Forest and is an expert on the nature of New Guinea.”
“Oh how wonderful,” said Beatrice.
Bertie sighed. He knew that the wicked Queen was plotting something – but there was nothing he could do to prevent it.
But what was the Queen up to? Was she planning for them to be kidnapped by pirates or eaten by cannibals? He didn’t dare suggest anything of the sort to Beatrice. She would be furious with him. He would have to wait for clues. And gradually the clues came. The nearer they got to the holiday, the more the Queen spoke about Cousin Jonas. There was an article about him on the internet with a photograph. He stood on a cliff with with the tree tops of the jungle spreading out for miles behind him. He looked about 25 years old – not a day older than when he left the palace 25 years ago.
“I do believe,” revealed the Queen, “that Cousin Jonas has discovered the Secret of Eternal Youth. Just think Beatrice darling… what a benefit this could be to humanity ! We could make medicines that could cure every illness. Bring back the secret to me, my sweet, or else it may never get out. Greedy Cousin Jonas is just keeping it to himself. That can’t be right. Go to him, Beatrice, with your sweet smile, and persuade him to do the right thing.”
Bertie tried to seem keen on the Wicked Queen’s plan to benefit mankind, but it was no use – Beatrice knew that he was thinking negative thoughts. Her manner was a little colder than usual to her prince.
They flew first to Australia, and then to Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea. At the airport, they were met by their tour guide, an Australian called Roger Jolly. “Mates call me Jolly Roger,” he said with a grin as he firmly shook their hands.
He showed them the way to the car – which was, as it turned out, a pick-up truck. Princess Beatrice sat in the cab next to Jolly Roger. Prince Bertie sat on the back of the truck with the luggage. He was kept company buy Roger’s righthand-man, a Papua New Guinean called Simon, and known to his mates as Sly Si.
As they drove through the town, Bertie saw that most of the houses were defended by barbed wire and metal gates. “Don’t go for a walk in Port Moresby,” warned Sly Si. “There are plenty of murders.”
And Bertie decided that he could manage without stretching his legs that evening.
They drove to the gleaming white Yacht Club, which was where all the rich people and foreigners liked to hang out. That evening they ate grilled fish out in the warm tropical air. Beatrice told him that they wanted to find Cousin Jonas in the village of Tanga. Jolly Roger looked at Sly Si. Si said: “That’s in the Owen Stanley Mountains, about four or five days hike along the Kokoda Trail.”
“Great, I love walking,” said Beatrice.
“That’s good,” said Jolly Roger, with a smile,”Because the Kokoda Trail is just about the toughest walk in the world.”
Two days later, they drove out to the Owen’s Corner, which is at the start of the famed Kokoda trail. Five porters joined Bertie in the back of the truck, each with a huge rucksack.
They drove as far as they could, before the road just petered out. Before them rose the mountains, covered in dense jungle. The only sign of human life was a bronze monument.
“That’s to the heroes of the Second World War,” explained Roger. “The Australians fought the Japanese through these mountains and beat them off – otherwise Australia might have been invaded.” Then turning to Sly Si he said, “And the locals played a big part too. The worked as porters. They carried the injured on stretchers, and tended to their wounds. The troops called them Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, because they never abandoned an injured solider, even under heavy fire. ”
After a minute or two of silence, to acknowledge the heroes of the past, they heaved their packs onto their backs and began to plod down the same trail that the troops and the angels had taken in 1942.
At first they went down, but soon they were climbing. The rain started to pitter-patter on the broad leaves above their heads. Some of it managed to dribble down the backs of their collars. The porters cut long walking sticks for them for Beatrice and Bertie. Still it was hard to get a good foothold. Beatrice was the first to slide face down in the mud.
“Bertie, where were you looking? Why didn’t you catch me?” she said testily as he helped her up. Bertie ignored the unfair remark, and said. “Don’t worry dearest. It can’t be like this all the way.”
“Oh yes it can,” said Jolly Roger with a grin.
Often the jungle track divided – one path going one way – the other in a different direction. Fortunately, the porters knew the trail just as certainly as Beatrice knew her way around the palace gardens. Quite often the trail disappeared all together. The porters took out their machetes and scythed a path through the undergrowth, with as little effort as if they were spreading butter on bread. The great packs did not seem to give them any trouble at all. And most remarkable of all – some of them weren’t even wearing boots on their feet – but flip-flops, as if they were strolling down to the beach.
It was still raining that night when they struck camp. The porters cut big logs to get a fire going, and Bertie and Beatrice washed in an icy cold mountain stream. Bertie did his best to help put up the tents, but most of the work was done by the porters. They brewed up the best drink of tea ever. And then they ate a supper of Vegetable Stew – made from a packet – and Sweet Potato Mash. One of the porters was carrying a ruck sack that was filled with nothing but sweet potatoes. Sweet Potatoes were to be the main diet along the trail.
And at long last, they stretched out in their lovely dry sleeping blankets and fell asleep to the mysterious whoops and cries of the jungle birds and animals.
Over the next few days they crossed gushing rivers with the help of ropes, and struggled up and down steep slopes. The rain stopped, and often the sun brightened things up. Sometimes they waded through long wet grass, and slug-like leaches fastened themselves to their legs.
“They like sucking Bertie’s blue blood,” said Jolly Roger, who usually had a joke to hand.
“They have good taste,” said Beatrice, “UGGH There’s one on me…. Get it off me Bertie…”
“I thought you liked all living things,” said Bertie as he sprayed it with insect repellent.
“I do,” she said, “It’s not their fault they like our blood.”
Roger made sure that they treated any little cuts and grazes with stinging iodine, because he said wounds could go rotten in the damp jungle air. Sly Si always came up at the back of the line, to make sure that nobody got left behind. They were in good hands – but if anyone twisted an ankle, there was only one way out of the jungle – on a stretcher carried by the porters.
They stopped often to drink water, and for Beatrice to photograph wild orchids. She wasn’t disappointed – there were many that she had not seen before, even in books. One time Sly Si pointed and said “Look over there,” and he started to walk towards a huge snake that was draped over some branches. He took it in his arms and wrapped it around himself. Then suddenly he made a choking nose and rolled his eyes:
“Oh no, it’s a python and it can squeeze the life out of him,” squealed Beatrice in horror.
But it was just an empty skin that a python had shed.
“Nice one,” laughed Jolly Roger, as Sly Si draped the skin back on the tree, to scare the next group of hikers.
On the fourth day, they reached Jonas’s village. It was on a high plateau, overlooking the tops of the trees for miles and miles. The village huts stood on stilts, growing out of a green lawn that was almost as perfect as a cricket pitch. The hikers were greeted by a group of local kids who wanted to know the latest rugby scores. Bertie made up for their lack of sports results, by handing out pens and badges.
“Can you take us to Jonas?” asked Beatrice hopefully. But they did not have to – because a youthful looking man was walking towards them.
“He can’t be fifty years old. He must be Jonas’s son,” whispered Bertie. But Beatrice was ready to believe that this relative of hers had discovered the Secret of Eternal Youth.
“Er, Prince Jonas, I presume,” said Bertie.
“It’s quite a while since anybody has called me Prince,” replied the youth, “But I am Jonas.”
“Well I’m Prince Bertie and this is your relative, Princess Beatrice. You may not know her, because she was born after you left the palace.”
“Yes, that was a long time ago,” said Jonas. “Well I haven’t heard from my family for a long time. Welcome to my home. Have some tea and, we’ll get dinner ready for you. Hope you like sweet potatoes. It’s all we have around here.”
“We can provide tinned sardines,” said Bertie.
“Oh wonderful,” enthused Jonas.
“And chocolate..” added Bertie.
“You must come more often,” said Jonas.
As they sat around the fire that evening, a sky crammed with stars looked down upon them. They were about as far away from anywhere as you could possibly get. All around the clearing was steep jungle – and it was at least three days hike until you got to anything like a road. The word “remote” hardly summed it up. While they tucked in to their feast of sweet potatoes, sardines and chocolate, the villagers sung and banged drums for them. When the din died down, Beatrice said:
“Cousin Jonas, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but how old are you?”
“I will probably seem ancient to a youngster like you,” admitted Jonas, “It was my fiftieth birthday last month.”
“Wow,” said Bertie .
“Pretty old aren’t I?” said Jonas.
“But you can’t be that old,” said Beatrice. “You hardly look older than Bertie.”
“Hmm. Well, you can’t beat a diet of fresh air, mountain water, and sweet potatoes,” explained Jonas.
“Oh come on, you must have a bigger secret than that,” said Beatrice, “Do tell…”
“Worried about getting lines are you? I shouldn’t be concerned at your age. Well perhaps I will tell,” said Jonas. “We’ll see in the morning. ”
After Beatrice had gone to bed, Bertie and Jonas stayed up for one last square of chocolate each. “Do you ever miss your life of comfort and ease in the palace?” asked Bertie.
“Sometimes,” said Jonas. “But I had no choice. I had to leave.”
‘Why?” asked Bertie.
“In a word, Hilda.”
“Ah Hilda,” said Bertie. “I understand. In fact, one day I might have to leave because of Hilda.” Because… you see … Hilda was the person who is now better known as the Wicked Queen.
Later on, as Bertie lay awake in his sleeping bag, he wondered about his moral dilemma. Loyalty to Beatrice dictated that he should help her on her mission to take Jonas’s secret back to the Queen. But his instinct that the Queen had no good intentions, meant that he ought to warn Cousin Jonas. Even though his limbs were weak from the day’s jungle hike, the problem kept turning around his head and preventing him from falling asleep.
In the morning, Beatrice began her assault on Jonas with all her batteries of charm and persuasion.
Bertie could hardly believe the way she fluttered her eyelids and pleaded: ‘Dear Jonas, just think of all the good you could do for humanity if you shared your secret.”
And Jonas was clearly weakening and saying things like, “Well I suppose it has been a bit selfish of me to keep it to myself. I just didn’t want it fall into the wrong sort of hands.”
“Oh I promise will do the best thing possible for your secret. We’ll give it to my step-mother who is ever such a clever woman, isn’t she Bertie? ” said Beatrice. And Bertie had no choice but to nod. He felt a real heel, knowing that Beatrice was going to give it to Hilda, because she really believed that her step-mother would use it for the good of mankind.
At last Jonas gave in. “Well I’ll tell you,” he said. “I’ve developed a special breed of Sweet Potato. I make it into a kind of paste and rub it into my skin. Everyone who has tried it – including many of the villagers here – seems to stay young. I can’t say if lasts eternally – it’s too early to say yet – and I suppose it always will be – ha ha.”
“Oh thank you,” said Beatrice throwing her arms around him. “Will you let us take some back home with us?”
“I’ll get some ready for you,” said Jonas. “Enough to put under a microscope – and some left over for your personal use.”
“Oh I don’t want to use it myself,” insisted Beatrice.
Bertie felt he could hold in his conscience no more. Later, when Beatrice was hunting for orchids on the other side of this village, he said to Jonas.
“Look please don’t let on that I told you this. Beatrice is such a sweet girl. She just can’t see any bad in her stepmother…who is somebody you know..”
“Who exactly…?” asked Jonas, suspiciously.
“Hilda,” said Bertie. “I fear that your secret might not be put to the best use. But what am I to do? If Beatrice catches on that I’ve told you this, I will be right in the do-do.”
“Well we don’t want you dumped in the do-do, do we?” said Jonas. “I have an idea. I’ll give one preparation to you – secretly – and I’ll give another one for Beatrice to give to her step-mother. It will be a nice little present from me to Hilda.”
The next day, their trekking expedition restarted along the Kokoda trail. At first, their stiff limbs protested at being made to work again, but they soon got into the swing of things. Some fine weather saw them through the day. They climbed even higher into the Owen Stanley Mountains, where the air became thinner, and strange trees and shrubs fascinated the botanist in Beatrice. After that, the way was mostly down. On the final day, they waded through some long bush grass, and out into the welcome end-of-trail station to be greeted by the universal symbol of civilisation – Coca- Cola.
After a few blissful days on the beach at Buna, they flew back to Port Moresby, on to Sydney, and then back home. Beatrice carried a jar of the Secret Sweet Potato Cream in her hand luggage. Bertie carried an even more secret formula inside his suitcase.
“You little darling!” exclaimed the Wicked Queen as Beatrice handed over the jar from Uncle Jonas. “We’re RICHHHHHHH!”
‘What do you mean, rich?” asked Beatrice.
“Oh don’t you see? People will pay a fortune for an anti-wrinkle cream that actually works. And as for a hair restorer, even the King would give his crown for one of those, if it did what it said on the tin. It’s what human kind has been striving for all these centuries…. The Cure for Baldness…. The Removal of Wrinkles…..The End of Cellulite… The Eat What You Want and be as Thin as a School Girl Diet….. in short, The Secret of Eternal Youth….”
In her delight, t he Queen was looking younger already – she did a little dance of glee.
And Beatrice was so upset that she turned to Bertie, her eyes full of tears, and said. “Don’t you dare say a word… ” before she ran up to her room.
“I don’t think that’s quite what Beatrice thought you meant by the good of mankind,” he said to the Queen, before leaving the room. Out in the corridor he smiled to himself, because he had already sent the even more secret formula to a top scientist who was working on all sorts of cures for various illnesses.
“Foolish children!” said the queen to herself, as she swept upstairs to her dressing room. “Now let’s just try out a little of this on ourself.”
She stood before the mirror and rubbed some of the sweet potato cream into her face. Almost instantly, the deep troughs around her eyes disappeared. She looked twenty years young.
“I’m beeeee-autiful, ” she exclaimed. .
But when she woke up in the morning, she opened her mouth and all she could say was ‘WAAAAA’ because Uncle Jonas and supplied an extra strong formula, and she had turned back into a baby. Bertie called the Palace Nanny and told her to keep the development a secret. The Wicked Queen grew back into her former self within a week, though, as Bertie noted, her face was perhaps just a bit older and a bit more evil looking than before.
Bertie is the guiding spirit of Storynory. Once he was a prince. Now he's a frog who tells stories.
Dear Awesome LOL Thank you so much !!!! Yes it was my birthday on 5th May and I was in Paris.
oops i meant yesterday
Bertie, if ur birthday is on 5th of May. is it ur birthday today.also if it is HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also will u ever turn back into a prince
PS: plz answer
: )
Dear Georgina, it’s just a story.
Bertie is it really true that potatoes give you eternal youth?? Be honest because I trust your answer!! : p …. Georgina
hi everone
Good Book
Hi NATASHA & BERTIE I know that you 2 are working hard for the stories. But I still like your stories. <3 SHIREESH
I love it very much. please ,I beg your purdon make many stories like this
Arpitha, 5th May.
Bertie…. When is your birthday?
Arpitha
This is great for friends and family to listen to!
I showed my family this and they liked it alot.
This is probably one of my faveorites!!!
I need a sweet potato cream jar
Dear natasha, do you do all the voices or is there more people
Hi!
Bertie………. If ever on your birthday please write a story!
Arpitha
how old are you Bertie? :D -_- :D
Bertie and Natasha, I have read all of the books in my house and I was sooooooooooooooooooo glad to open up storynory and find some new ones. Thank you soooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Secret Potatos?????? How crazy! Natasha ! And Bertie! Make a new Story Called.
Judy Moody!! And Sink Moody! And litte shop of horrus
when will bertie turn back into a prince
I liked it !!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU SHOULD DO STORIES FOR OLDER KIDS!!!!!!!!!! Please it would be great
if the story is about a sweet potato, then why in the beginning, there is a picture of a carrot?
I love it. Make some more
I Loved your book
serves the wicked queen right! hope that she will get a message from it!!!!!!!!!!
Hi I love this story so much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):):)
JessiE
When is your Natashah
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Sooooooooo cool I love this story
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I wish the wicked queen was a baby forever,serves her right.
And why cant colin stop posting potato massagers?
really FUNNY! :D please do more as funny!
Stop posting potato messagers colin
Seacret PotATO IS baD
yams are bad too!!!
I dont like potatos
potatoes r bad potatoes r bad potatoes r bad potatoes r bad
why do you keep deleting these comments???? there celebrities writing these!!!!
hey guys did you like the story? i know you did!! it was awesome!!!!! please reply!!!
love it sooo much potatos magical!!! soo cute!!
happy fourth of july from your friends at storynory!!!
love those stories!!!
love those stories!!! who is bertie? kakina dumklieran actress in ohioliving
welly welly welly THIS STORY IS LONG long but amazing
Please do another story it’s been so long and I really like Bertie stories
make these stories shorter please they are sooooooooo long after a few minutes of reading this story i went nuts
Dear Bertie,
I was just wondering…. What is the new series going to be called and what is the character/topic about going to be? Oh, and also… I read one of the comments and I think that you should talk about Tim becoming a frog and all sorts of things he wants to experience like you did after a long time being a frog. I think you should also talk about when you become a human prince again and the stepmother forgives you and you marry princess Beatrice and so on. I’m not going to tell anymore of the thought I said to you about princess Beatrice because I’d be going on forever and ever and I do not want that to happen. :
That sounds good….. Would you make more original stories of Katie and Bertie? Oh… I have a great idea.. it is sort of off topic but I think we should have a story share. You should pick the stories you guys like and read it to the storynory and everybody will probably listen to the stories before they go to sleep. Arpitha
Bertie and Natasha…… When are your birthdays?
this is the best story but i dont understand how the potato is magical it makes no sense well it’s good…..i guess
I love this story so much but it is way too long… I have a request. If your birthday is coming up you should write a story.
Do you no what I relly like the Original Stories can you make more Original Stories ? please please please !
Is there any more Bertie stories ?
very exciting and funny story. Its worth sharing to kids. They will surely love it!
Exciting and a very funny story. Worth sharing to kids. :)
It was a good story for the second time but i want more astropups i have reed them all pls can u make some more storys thats about the only story i like ok !!!!!!!!!!!
:D
Ruby, I do my best to tell my stories in the Bertie stories.
soooooooooooooooooooooooo…………..can you tell me your story? bertie?
Fun story
love this story and it is long Bertie
Remember when I told you about the book I’m writing? Well you should do a story share
Arpitha
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this story was great i love dit was great you should make another one like this
i love this story sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much and i;m going to listen to it for the rest of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow… just wow im in school.
i like singing songs
im a really good singer
could u suggest a song?
refridgerator
I love it! make more ! make more! pleaseeeeeees? >
Please can we have more bertie stories i really like them!
Hi Katherine Beatrice is royalty and hard to approach also somewhat disbelieving
and can you answer the last comment
why don’t you tell Natasha to tell Beatrice that you are not a frog , you are Bertie ! and you should do this first thing tomarrow moing !
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I am afraid Percy Jackson is in copyright and we can’t read them. You can get them from Audible.com (and pay for them).
please reply! Happy Easter!
Love
Arpitha
So does that mean you can read the Percy Jackson Series???
Please call me Arpitha!
We met when we started Storynory in november 2005.
Dear A.s Arpitha We can only read books that are not in copyright – generally speaking that means old books or ones we have written ourselves.
When did you meet Natasha for the first time?
7 years celebrating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a question. Can you read different books or not?
Sorry if I am asking so many questions. I am a curious person indeed.
Hi A.S or Apritha… Yes, this story is rather long ! We started Storynory in November 2005. Thanks
Whenever I put this on I never finish it because I sleep in the middle. So I guess I am going to be putting this story for another 3 years or more ( or less )
P.s
Everyone please call me Arpitha not A.s, I’m starting not to like A.s.
When did you guys start storynory and when did you guys meet each other for the first time?????????
The story is wicked long and I love it!!!!
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hi i like this storee 2. ot of all the storees this 1 is my bestest fafarite. plees re pley to this cooment also :)
Yur frend
Mary Beth Ruth
ps. tomorow i wil be 6 yers old.
omg that is so cool……………… birdie are you really a frog?
Hi A.s or Apritha We meet when we do the recordings.
One more question….. Bertie and Natasha when did you guys meet?
I love this story! It is funny and adventurous. I like Tim and Bertie and especially Sadie the swan and a little bit of Collin. Natasha…… You are the best reader ever!
well this is an excellent story………….. natasha im going to listen to this story everyday for the rest of my life
i really like this story nory i was wondering Natasha do you read all the stories?
hi Bertie do you have any more stories like this? because I really like this. thanx Bertie:)
I don’t understood some parts
It was a good story but I don’t understood some parts
cool story!
Dear Catty
Thansk for your comment. Bertie and the Seceret Potatoe is the latest story in the Bertie series and full of adventure. I hope you like this and other stories on Storynory.com
Thanks for listening
Bye Bye
N *
Dear Bertie and Natasha i think for your first time this story is really good[:
i <3 story nory
hi natasha! this is a weird story i mean like why would you write a story about a potato
hi natasha!
Hello
Bertie and the Secret Potatoe is a very adventurous story in the Bertie series. Uncle Jonas reveals the secret of eternal youth to Bertie and Princess Beatrice who travel all the way to Papa New Guinea, to find him. You may also like Bertie in Siberia, another story with a sense of adventure and travel , when Bertie rides on board a very famous train route.
Thanks for listening
Bye Bye
N *
Is there any more Bertie story ?
P.S plese answer this comment and the last commet,
plese plese plese ! And can you do what I said on the last comment !
I love this story it is mystifying.
story makes sense thank you for this story very much
REPLY BACK PLEASE…………
Why does almost every story have the word “wicked” in it?
Dear Bertie,
I love the stories u have. a suggest my sister the vampire I love the story and micki is right she did put prince bertie and princess bertie u are everwhere
P.S what is ur real name!
I love all the bertie stoyrs that I have read on storynory!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone please reply back!!!!1
yeah im happy with this story. are u? and thats the question
Awesome but too lon
thanks for the link ive lisened to all the stories
ps natasha is the best story teller in the world!!!!!!
tou men thfy r 32 storys not 31
Dear Bertie,It is super long but I like it!Perty please with a cherry on top write back!
You are hurting Natasha’s feelings.
I love her
There are more readers in storynory
try to listen to other stories
Dear Jessica,
Don’t say that!
arpitha
Happy Valentines Day
Not as bad as YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ” Anonymous”
I don’t like the accent in which Natasha uses it makes me want to throw up. No offense! I am very sorry but I am saying the truth. The first time I opened storynory.com. I heard Natasha’s accent and i never opened storynory again. I don’t this might be the first time I opened in two or three years i don’t know. But my advice you should really get a different reader. Natasha is very good, but the accent… umm I dont want to be offensive I am really SORRY
PLEASE REPLY BERTIE…I AM A HUGE FAN NOW
DEAR BERTIE,
I think it is either u start editing the writing or hire someone else. Because when i tried to read it without Natasha umm… some of the words I saw didn’t even make sense. For example:”“Nice one,” laughed Jolly Roger, as Sly Si draped the skin back on the tree, to scare the next group of hikers.”. It was supposed to be as Sly Si dropped not draped.
PLEASE ANSWER ME BERTIE!!
REGARDS, Kathy
this story is good
Hey Bertie , why don’t you tell Natasha to tell Beatrice that you are not a frog , you are Bertie ! and you should do this first thing tomarrow moing ! P.S would you answer this comment !
Bertie when did you meet Natasha?
Georgia,you are a horrid speller
that was grate i loved it do a nother wun
Please can i have another? i love his one and it is very exciting i adore stories like this and hope you make more!!
hi i love the last paragraph as withch i youst to read ever sinse it has been out lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol !!!!!!!!!!! lol i mean lol lol lol lol
This story is really great, not to mention funny!
the name makes me laugh!=D lol
wickedi love this story. you could be a AUTHOR
why close down storynory.com on Jan. 16
Oh Bertie i love your stories
i love it
my birth day is in 1 week . And I would eprysht it if you poot up a story for my b day
HAPPY NEW YER!!!!! I love this story. Its so cool you posteed a sprshl story for 2012.
hi bertie and natasha i love this story alot but can you make more and more katie story it is my favirote story can you make please please
HIYA! great story I really like it.
whyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!
love this book who ever maid this book up is cool.I LOVE THIS BOOK SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH LOVE IT SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOO MUCH
hello this is natasha thank you for listening this story storynory gonna to be closed down jan 16 2012
I tried the secret internal youth at home… but it didn’t work. WHYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Nina, I try to check the comments several times a day, and Natasha helps a lot too. But I can’t answer them all as I am often in a rush and there are too many ! Thank you again for all your writing.
Dear Anna, I think you are in luck. We are planning to publish a Katie story a week today – next Sunday – and it will have original pictures by CaiJia to go with it. My birthday is in May.
thanks for answering Bertie! that was very kind of you!do you check your blog daily?I would love to talk to you again please write back soon.
Dear Bertie, Next Sunday is my birthday! Could you pretty please, with Easter eggs and birthday cake :) on top, make a Katie story for my birthday? P.S. When is your birthday, Bertie?
Dear Naomi, that would be a huge story !
great story.
you should somthing were like you put all the bertie storys together to make a like 5 hour long story.
Many thanks Nina and others. Hope you all have a great new year too. Our plans include a good flow of Katie and Bertie stories.
This is a really funny story!!!I think that my favorite person in this story is the wicked queen.She is very mean but she has such a great character that she makes me love and hate her at the same time.happy 2012 Story Nory!!!!!we hope hope you have a great new year!
Hello
Bertie and The Secret Potato is a story of travel, adventure and courage. Beatrice and Bertie journey to Papa New Guinea to discover the secret of eternal youth from their uncle Jonas, under the command of the Wicked Step Queen. They travel a long distance by aeroplane plane to reach Port Moresby, stopping in Australia, and when they get there, they must walk the Kakoda Trail, which is a treacherous jungle track in the Owen Stanley mountains and actually does exist.
Thanks for listening
Bye Bye
N *
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a Gladys and the chix part 2! !!! I loved the first gladys series so PLEASE do it! My other favourites are bertie, and katie
This tale of marvellous splendour was extravagant, i regoyeced in it’s wonder,please
wright another of thies novels.YOURS
SENCEARLY
” GLORIA”
Nice story, also , when did you say the next Katie story was coming out? I think you guys said something about that earlier…
I love it ! do you have more ? I what to hear more !
I love Bertie Stories!!!!!!!!
That sounds good….. Would you make more original stories of Katie and Bertie? Oh… I have a great idea.. it is sort of off topic but I think we should have a story share. You should pick the stories you guys like and read it to the storynory and everybody will probably listen to the stories before they go to sleep. Arpitha
Dear A.S. We don’t have the new series planned for Orignal stories.. well there is one plan which is a bit under wraps as it’s in partnership with another organisation but that’s not quite finalised…. I think we will do Gladyx and the chiX part 2 though with more music this time.
I hope you have more stories coming along… Arpitha
Dear Bertie,
I was just wondering…. What is the new series going to be called and what is the character/topic about going to be? Oh, and also… I read one of the comments and I think that you should talk about Tim becoming a frog and all sorts of things he wants to experience like you did after a long time being a frog. I think you should also talk about when you become a human prince again and the stepmother forgives you and you marry princess Beatrice and so on. I’m not going to tell anymore of the thought I said to you about princess Beatrice because I’d be going on forever and ever and I do not want that to happen. :)
No problem Bertie. Just want to let you know. Arpitha
I would love that Bertie thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!
good story.
DEAR Arpitha. Many thanks and good luck with your book. I’m sorry though, we only do our own stories.
This story is awesome! Oh by the way Bertie, about the new series you wanted to make……. Nobody knows except for my family that I am writing a book and I am half-way done. Just wondering if you could share it here. It is alright if you do not. I’m just letting you know. My real name is actually Arpitha. You could call me Arpitha instead of A.S. Well…. Happy New Year! I’m wihing this a little late.
Hi Micki, I missed that. Did she really say Princess Bertie? Where ? Thanks for pointing it out…. oh I see now, you meant in her comment, not in the audio.. just a slip I expect.
Dear Blossom, we are going to try and keep Bertie and Katie and Astropup flowing more regularly, and if we manage that, we will start a new series. But what I really have in mind is Gladys and the ChiX part 2. Would that suit you?
Dear Ruby, Thank you for the suggestion. Of course if Tim grows up, he will be a frog just like Bertie !
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This is an amazing story! when i opened up storynory i was so happy to seea new story. i think you should do a new story about tim growing up
thank you natasha I really liked the story really
like all the stories here
PLEASE can you start a new series OF ORIGINAL stories?
PLEASE ANSWER
from Blossom
um…………. natasha u said prince bertie and princess bertie
Hello
Thank you, were pleased you enjoy it. In this story Prince Bertie and Princess Bertie have a great adventure a long the Kakoda trail. And when they meet Uncle Jonas they discover the secret properties of the Secret Potatoe.
Thanks for listening
Bye Bye
N *
I like this story alot and I like sweet potatoes alot
to.Natasha is a realy a good reader
from julia
when i first saw this i thought it was weird secret potato? it sounds wrong
wow, that is a great story!
This story is verey funny!