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The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling

A story from Japan
Dedicated to Poppy and Felix.

Read by Richard Scott.
Proofed & audio edited by Jana Elizabeth.
Sound fx by Bertie.

LONG, LONG ago there was a funny old woman, who liked to laugh and to make dumplings from rice-flour.

One day, while she was preparing some dumplings for dinner, she let one fall; and it rolled into a hole in the earthen floor of her little kitchen and disappeared. The old woman tried to reach it by putting her hand down the hole, and all at once the earth gave way, and the old woman fell in.
She fell quite a distance, but was not a bit hurt; and when she got up on her feet again, she saw that she was standing on a road, just like the road before her house. It was quite light down there; and she could see plenty of rice-fields, but no one in them. How all this happened, I cannot tell you. But it seems that the old woman had fallen into another country.

The road she had fallen upon sloped very much: so, after having looked for her dumpling in vain, she thought that it must have rolled farther away down the slope. She ran down the road to look, crying:

"My dumpling, my dumpling! Where is that dumpling of mine?"

After a little while she saw a stone Jizo standing by the roadside.

A jizo is a statue, usually of a Buddhist monk, with a round, cute and smiling face. Jizos are protectors of children, including unborn children, and also look after women and travellers. People are very fond of them, and sometimes give the stone statues woolly hats and scarves to keep them warm.

The woman looked at the statue and said:

"Oh Lord Jizo, did you see my dumpling?"

The Jizo answered:

"Yes, I saw your dumpling rolling by me down the road. But you had better not go any farther, because there is a wicked Oni living down there, who eats people."

An Oni, by the way, is an ogre, usually hideously ugly and very dangerous.

But the old woman only laughed, and ran on further down the road, crying: "My dumpling, my dumpling! Where is that dumpling of mine?" And she came to another statue of Jizo, and asked it:

"Oh kind Lord Jizo, did you see my dumpling?"

And the Jizo said:

"Yes, I saw your dumpling go by a little while ago. But you must not run any further, because there is a wicked Oni down there, who eats people."
But she only laughed, and ran on, still crying out: "My dumpling, my dumpling! Where is that dumpling of mine?"

And she came to a third Jizo, and asked it:

"Oh dear Lord Jizo, did you see my dumpling?"

But the Jizo said:

"Don't talk about your dumpling now. Here is the Oni coming. Sit down here behind my sleeve, and don't make any noise."

Presently the Oni came very close, and stopped and bowed to Jizo, and said:

"Good-day, Jizo San!"

Jizo said good-day, too, very politely.

Then the Oni suddenly sniffed the air two or three times in a suspicious way, and cried out: "Jizo San, Jizo San! I smell a smell of a woman somewhere-don't you?"

"Oh!" said Jizo, "perhaps you are mistaken."

"No, no!" said the Oni after sniffing the air again, "I smell a smell of a woman."

Then the old woman could not help laughing. “Te he-he!" and the Oni immediately reached down his big hairy hand behind Jizo's sleeve, and pulled her out, still laughing, "Te-he-he!"

"Ah! ha!" cried the Oni.

Then the Jizo said:

"What are you going to do with that good old woman? You must not hurt her."

"I won't," said the Oni. "But I will take her home with me to cook for us."
"Te-he-he!" laughed the old woman.

"Very well," said Jizo, "but you must really be kind to her. If you are not, I shall be very angry."

"I won't hurt her at all," promised the Oni, "and she will only have to do a little work for us every day. Good bye, Jizo San."

Then the Oni took the old woman far down the road, till they came to a wide deep river, where there was a boat. He put her into the boat, and took her across the river to his house. It was a very large house. He led her at once into the kitchen, and told her to cook some dinner for himself and the other Oni who lived with him. And he gave her a small wooden rice-paddle, and said:

"You must only put one grain of rice into the pot, and when you stir that one grain of rice in the water with this paddle, the grain will multiply until the pot is full."

So the old woman put just one rice-grain into the pot, as the Oni told her, and began to stir it with the paddle; and, as she stirred, the one grain became two, and then four, then eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, then sixty-four, and so on. Every time she moved the paddle the rice increased in quantity; and in a few minutes the great pot was full.

After that, the funny old woman stayed a long time in the house of the Oni, and every day cooked food for him and for all his friends. The Oni never hurt or frightened her, and her work was made quite easy by the magic paddle, although she did have to cook a very, very great quantity of rice, because an Oni eats much more than any human being eats.
But she felt lonely, and always wished very much to go back to her own little house, and make her own dumplings. And one day, when the Oni were all out somewhere, she thought she would try to run away.

She first took the magic paddle, and slipped it under her belt; and then she went down to the river. No one saw her. She got into the boat, and pushed off; and as she could row very well, she was soon far away from the shore.

But the river was very wide; and she had not rowed more than one quarter of the way across, when the Oni, all of them, came back to the house.

They found that their cook was gone, and the magic paddle, too. They ran down to the river at once, and saw the old woman rowing away very fast.

Perhaps they could not swim: at all events they had no boat; and they thought the only way they could catch the funny old woman would be to drink up all the water of the river before she got to the other bank. So they knelt down, and began to drink so fast that before the old woman had got half way over, the water had become quite low.

But the old woman kept on rowing until the water had got so shallow that the Oni stopped drinking, and began to wade across. Then she dropped her oar, took the magic paddle from her belt, and shook it at the Oni, and made such funny faces that the Oni all burst out laughing.
But the moment they laughed, they could not help throwing up all the water they had drunk, and so the river became full again. The Oni could not cross; and the funny old woman got safely over to the other side, and ran away up the road as fast as she could.

She never stopped running until she found herself at home again.
After that she was very happy; for she could make dumplings whenever she pleased. Besides, she had the magic paddle to make rice for her. She sold her dumplings to her neighbors and travellers, and in quite a short time she became a funny, old, wealthy woman.

And I'm delighted to dedicate this story to Poppy aged 8, and Felix aged 6, who live on the border between Victoria and New South Wales, in Australia. Their mum Julie writes that they have quite long car journeys and Storynory makes the trip go faster.
Thank you so much Poppy and Felix, and your mum for supporting us on Patreon. And we hope you enjoy this lively story from Japan.
For now, from me Richard at Storynory.com, goodbye!

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I really LOVE this story 🙂

Amy — April 10, 2018
great!

Kelly — April 10, 2018
Amazing!!!!!!!!! Love this story!!!!

HUGE FAN OF STORYNORY — April 10, 2018
Cool story

Seth — April 10, 2018
amazing narrator

Reagan — April 10, 2018
We love it when there are sound effects 🙂 they made us laugh so much 🙂

Matthew and Stephanie — April 10, 2018
thank you four reading that book to me…… aleisha

aleisha — April 10, 2018
very very funny and amazing

colin — April 10, 2018
Woo loved it do more katie story’s pleas do one about Katie please. i think a story about solaman getting a girl friend and her having kittens. Thanks! 😃😊

Jemima — April 10, 2018
thanks for idea jemima!

Bertie — April 11, 2018
So amazing… Sometimes mythical creatures can really surprise me. Hey, Jana, it’s just an idea, could you try doing a Indian story next?

Isha — April 11, 2018
I’ll talk to Bertie. Great idea, Isha. Thank you 😊

Jana Elizabeth — April 11, 2018
This story was so fun .I can’t wait to see who is gonna win best wishes😍 Ricky. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🐲

Ricky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🐲 — April 11, 2018
Cool I love it

Cool — April 11, 2018
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Ngo — April 11, 2018
this story was boring….. but also great

suit — April 11, 2018
love it

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love it

noah — April 11, 2018
great

faisal — April 11, 2018
That’s a nice story…

Brooke — April 11, 2018
This story was funny because of the part where the Oni threw up the water

Dean — April 11, 2018
cool story

tasnim — April 11, 2018
Amazing and hilarious story!

Christina — April 11, 2018
i like this story very much

lequangmanh — April 11, 2018
Hey Bertie and Jana thanks for replying. Please do my idea. I send comments and never get a reply. I would love it. My little brother loves Bertie and Greek story’s. Thanks! 😃😊

Jemima — April 11, 2018
Hey Jana I’d love it if you could do my story suggestion.
Love jemima . Also my little bro is a fan if you did not see the last comment.

Jemima — April 11, 2018
Thank you jemima, will have a look 😊

Jana Elizabeth — April 11, 2018
I am so happy that you mentioned the Oni in this story! Oni are a Type of Yokai According to jpanese lore

Anonymous — April 12, 2018
Hi anon Thank you for the information on oni and yokai. I really like the Japanese stories and we might do more of them soon.

Bertie — April 12, 2018
Love the story, and it’s a little hard to understand as an English learner. I will try hard to listen more.

Ayma — April 12, 2018
This is the best story I’ve ever read.

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Michael — April 12, 2018
weird title and image and weird sound but cool btw i live in lodan

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I love this story so much that I nearly cried

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The story was funny and I like it .

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I Love this story

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Star — April 13, 2018
GREAT STORY:D

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Lovely story. Enjoyed it so much.

Ana — April 13, 2018
Yeah it’s really nice to listen. Thank you for reading for us 😍😊

Nalini — April 13, 2018
The narration is amazing with the different voices. Quite funny too. A job well done

Beatrice — April 13, 2018
nioce

hue — April 13, 2018
The book was so exiting! I think the old woman is very brave.

Norah — April 13, 2018
I think it is a good and interesting story.I like it so much. I can not stop to listen and read it!!!

curbel — April 14, 2018
The old woman need to come back her own house that she will be happy actually.

Luc y — April 14, 2018
Amazing

KK — April 16, 2018
Hi this story was so good like the other Japanese storys.

I think that they always come alive.

Amélie — April 16, 2018
It’s a really interesting story for my English learning!!

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i love it

star — April 16, 2018
Great Job, Richard! That was amazing! The voice imitations was very on point and I laughed my head off!

Isha — April 16, 2018
Dear Bertie Can you make atustro pup and atustro kitten please btw I LOVE YOUR STorys

Xander — April 17, 2018
shes scary

christopher olsen — April 17, 2018
great story but could be better

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I hate it so much I’m so mad

Anonymous — April 17, 2018
Cool

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Cool story

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it was fun

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I like the music

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lexie — April 18, 2018
Like your story yayaya

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Devi — April 19, 2018
very nice story, full of magic happens wich are properate for kids.

Anonymous — April 19, 2018
I love this i like the sound effects

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yes,i did like it this story

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asian culture is alwayas great <3

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this is a waste of time!

ky — April 20, 2018
Well the voices are kinda creepy for me

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I loved it

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Really good one…my daughter loved your story ,she is under an eye treatment…so the audio version was a good help for us-india

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Thanks Nithya

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Your story is great!!!!!

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Make another one!

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Yes very long

Daisy — April 23, 2018
Even I am 48 years old but I enjoyed a lot to read this story. Its really very interesting. Thanks.

Regards,

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Pakistan

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Love it so much xx

Ciel — April 23, 2018
Not to be rude, but this story creeped me out because of how the lady looked, but good job on the book

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How ya’ll doing this book is not that great

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when will the next story come out??can’t wait !!!

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Ofcourse

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good story

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We loved it!

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Miley — April 25, 2018
This is a really great story I like it a lot.Can you maybe do more Greek stories maybe even Athena and Arachne.Thank you for lots of fun stories!😁

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Thanks Zoey, I was thinking of that one too

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Were my dumpling

U so blinde — April 25, 2018
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loved it alright

Ashlee — April 26, 2018
A story about a dumpling wow xD love it but make it bright not deep

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Great story and adventure……

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that woman is creepy

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LOVE IT!

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I really LOVED this story

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BRAVO!!!

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it was god thx

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This story made me laugh so hard 😆

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Love it. I love this just as much as I love emojis❤️💁🏻‍♀️😉👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🌸🌸🌸🌸💐💐💐🌸💐🌸🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅😎🤨😋👯‍♀️😀🎈🧚🏻‍♂️

Apples 🍎 — May 2, 2018
Hello! I liked that story a lot! I was wondering if you could do a story for me. I really like sausages and was wondering if you could do a story on sausages. Thank you!

June — May 3, 2018
Hi June, Here’s a story about sausages for you 😜
https://www.storynory.com/astropup-best-hotdog-universe/

Jana Elizabeth — May 3, 2018
i love this book!

Arushi — May 3, 2018
ha not real people don’t read it

progamer20618 — May 3, 2018
when she fell down how didn’t she heart her self

jordan — May 3, 2018
cool

Anonymous — May 3, 2018
cool not cool

cruz — May 3, 2018
that was very good and nice story

Anonymous — May 3, 2018
I like dumplings

Big Boi Brown — May 3, 2018
It’s just fun

Matthew — May 4, 2018
This is a very cute story, but the question is; did the Oni keeping the old woman prisoner really justify her stealing their magic paddle?

Alice — May 4, 2018
I loved this book and it was so funny. I loved the expression the reader used and the sound effects used. One of the best books I had read so far. My favourite part was when the Oni vomited up all the water

Chloe — May 7, 2018
I love the story😻✌🏻👨‍👨‍👧‍👧🐷🐽🐖💖‼️🇮🇪🥀🐁🦄🤯🤬😍🤓💩🤞🏻🧜🏻‍♀️

Anonymous — May 7, 2018
i really liked this book because it was about losing a dumpling and the lady sailed so far just to get her dumpling back and walked so far im intrested to read more books from story nory

Ella — May 7, 2018
Wow

Etho — May 8, 2018
Best one yet

J fee — May 8, 2018
This story was spectacular Jana . There is no other words to describe it!

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You are amazing
🐁🐀🐁🐀🐁🐀🐁🐀🐁
Jana, could you right a story about a mouse 😍.

Eila — May 8, 2018
This story is hilarious

Lydia — May 9, 2018
I think the book is really nice and But the photo shall haunt me forever

p.s next story should be on narwhals 🌈🌦

Lydia — May 9, 2018
I LI9K ITR ITS ABOOUT A CHINESE LADY

ZOOP — May 9, 2018
You guys are awesome!

Axel — May 10, 2018
I loved it but what is a oni?

Louise — May 11, 2018
I love this book 📚.

Harry — May 11, 2018
i love this book

gio — May 11, 2018
hey this book is funny

jelly — May 11, 2018
Good story

Kristen — May 12, 2018
i loved your story i recomend it alot

zach h — May 15, 2018
Hey i love this story umm who created it and who wrote it plz respond

Dantdm — May 15, 2018
Story Nory has such funny storys! My dad and I listen to a story every night befor bed. I can not wait for a new story.

Catherine — May 16, 2018
I think the story is really nice btw Jana you’re doing great

Lydia — May 16, 2018
this is so amazing

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I love your channel and it the best with all the story so the thing is I just met your channel today because I have trouble with sleeping so I ask my mom because I ask her what that thing that you use to go to sleep and she said oh storynory and she saw me this and then I look at it I was like OMG there are a lot of books to choose from and I went with this one and now I can go to sleep now because I have not watch this yet so ya

Kayla — May 21, 2018
I like it 💕

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Anonymous — May 22, 2018
Best story ever

Michael — May 22, 2018
FUNNY thing

Michael — May 22, 2018
that was a derpy picture of a old lady doing a triple chin and why is she so worried about a dumpling. Why does she like dumplings so much because they are very bad and why does she want to find them that is very weird going to look for a dumpling.

My Name Is Jeffy who put a pencial up my nose — May 22, 2018
I hate this book

Dude — May 23, 2018
Typical story

Andrew — May 23, 2018
this is CRAZE

Anthony tomin 13537597 — May 23, 2018
it was a very nice story 🙂

Shambhavi — May 25, 2018
It was a very interesting story ever

anabiya — May 25, 2018
So funny

Danh — May 26, 2018
It was amazing

Isaac — May 28, 2018
hi this was a really good story and kind of funny I would like you whoever you are to write another funny story and kind of scary one again.

ly — May 29, 2018
Very good!!!!!!!!!!!

Toby — May 30, 2018
this store is very cool this is a fun book

cinderella — June 4, 2018
oooh old women she is so funny

hadeel — June 5, 2018
I love this story!

Olivia — June 5, 2018
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Alexus — June 5, 2018
funny to a 5 year old

get good buv

Ali-A — June 6, 2018
the lady picture HA

Anonymous — June 6, 2018
i like it it like it

Shayla — June 10, 2018
good story

victor — June 11, 2018
hi this is sow funny

Anonymous — June 12, 2018
amazing 🙂

irenecita2019 — June 12, 2018
hi this is sow funny

1402 — June 12, 2018
Funny story

Tanner — June 13, 2018
I love the story ❤️❤️❤️❤️😎😎😎😎🤑🤑🤑🤑🙀🙀🙀🙀🤘🤚✋️🐶🐻🐯🐶🐻🐯

Lucas — June 13, 2018
it was funny

Anonymous — June 19, 2018
the story was really nice but he does not have a common sense and grammar

Anonymous — June 20, 2018
i liked this storie it was realy funny

Anonymous — June 20, 2018
interesting story realy liked it you must be a great writer

Anonymous — June 25, 2018
I love this story i wonder what other one they are gonna make

Anonymous — June 25, 2018
very very very very funny and amazing story

Anonymous — June 27, 2018
I hat.it a looooooooooooooooooot!

Anonymous — June 27, 2018
Love the dumpling story ..brings back fond childhood memories 😊

Anonymous — June 30, 2018
Super humerous🤣

Anonymous — July 1, 2018
Soooo funny

Anonymous — July 5, 2018
Funny

Anonymous — July 6, 2018
Amazing

Anonymous — July 6, 2018
i love dumplings and stories :DD

Anonymous — July 16, 2018
lovely and funny story

Anonymous — July 17, 2018
Good story

Jameel — July 24, 2018
The face is funny

Jeff — July 25, 2018
yes it was a great story 10/10

Lynton — July 30, 2018
this is a very nice story

Kayden — August 3, 2018
It’s just Hayden with a different name so yeah. I love and studied and still do study Japanese and I can speak Japanese too I love this story

Countrycat25 — August 5, 2018
💘💘💘💘💘💘🏳️‍🌈😍😍😍😍😍💖💖💖💖😍💖💖 love this story

A person — August 5, 2018
yes

aimona — August 20, 2018
Coool…an nice

ppga — August 21, 2018
I like this story

Noah — August 22, 2018
I like this story

Noah Ali — August 22, 2018
I love listening to story’s when i go to sleep it helps me💕

Grace — August 23, 2018
Funny and unusual. Thanks for introducing us to the idea of Oni

Tom n’ Soph — August 24, 2018
funny!

bob — August 28, 2018
Thank you very much .
I like this story.

Maha — September 5, 2018
nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!cool

not going to tell — September 9, 2018
Ths story was the first i ever heard on storynory… hearing it after a year i love it just as much… ive listened to storynory every night since then! 😁😁😁 Thanks Bertie and everyone else!!!

A Storynory lover — September 10, 2018
Wait, I AM JAPANESE!
But this was a great story! I loved that Richard from Storynory read this story! It was truly fascinating.

Sora — September 11, 2018
A bit boring

Jan — September 22, 2018
very interesting as i was hoping for a thriller!

Paul — September 24, 2018
I wish I had an old grandma as my cook!!!

Rico — September 24, 2018
😎this is so good.

Ivy-2016 October 1st Monday — October 1, 2018
apple i like the story

apple — October 5, 2018
i im apple i like the story

apple — October 5, 2018
i like the story it good

melanie — October 5, 2018
This is a very good story but, I felt the vomiting sounds really creepy.. And, they kind of made me feel like in a haunted house. For the whole feeling, just listen to the story during night while you’re alone and with all the lights switched off.. Other than all that, the story is funny and is a very good one…

Anonymous — October 20, 2018
amazing could you do a african folktale

caroline — October 29, 2018
this book is so awesome

curtis — October 30, 2018
I like this story a lot

Hannah — November 13, 2018
I loved this story!

zara — November 14, 2018
I liked this story because I like Japanese folk tales. I have read other Japanese stories with Oni.

Vanessa — January 30, 2019
Cool story and why did the old woman not get hurt when she fell?👍

Jeff — February 6, 2019
It was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo amazing lol😁😁😙😘

Anonymous — February 6, 2019
this was cooolllllll

kennedy — February 7, 2019
Still getting requests for this story from our five year old. A family favorite.

Rebecca — February 24, 2019
I like this story soooooooo much because I love Dumplings!

Big fat man (actually name(from Korea) — February 27, 2019
I like this story soooooooo much because I love Dumplings!

Maria — February 27, 2019
awsome

Anonymous — March 12, 2019
this is the cooiest story ever ever ever # it is so hard to type

amy — March 21, 2019
funny

pig — March 28, 2019
This is so boring

Jesper — April 12, 2019
Majestic

Defetus — April 18, 2019
what the what?the picture is the funniest thing ever:[]

jasper — May 23, 2019
The picture was the funniest thing i’ve ever seen!!!

666 — May 23, 2019
i like it

Finn — June 4, 2019
I loved this story so much
I love how much expression all the readers have. It makes me feel like I’m part of the story
I was wondering if we could do Indian mythology like ramayan or something like that.

Amira — June 21, 2019
Thank you Amira! Yes we are planning to do the Ramayana, maybe later in the year!

Jana Elizabeth — June 22, 2019
Yes it teaches a moral

NISHI — July 15, 2019
Cool old story from when I was a kid. I think it was one of my first books so maybe 1980.

Anonymous — July 23, 2019
love it!!!!

BMXrules — August 5, 2019
awesome bertie!

catgirl123 — August 30, 2019
hahahahah the story is sooooooo good

Billie — September 6, 2019
Good story

Chloe — September 13, 2019
Love dis

Chloe — September 18, 2019
Love is all you need. Love vanquishes all. Love will discover a way. Genuine romance endures forever. I could continue forever with these sappy, admired, unreasonable depictions of affection we’ve been bolstered for our entire lives.

Can A Man Forget A Woman He Loves — October 15, 2019
Yay storie time!

frank — October 29, 2019
Exciting and the woman was really funny.😂😁😊 I loved it!

Bella — November 27, 2019
story nory yourgood

austin — December 4, 2019
I loved the story. It was really good and funny. Thank you for this one.

Anonymous — December 29, 2019
Nice story I love it and dumplings🥟

Ellie — March 4, 2020
This was a good story and I like dumplings to hehe

Caleb — March 12, 2020
I JUST LOVED THIS STORY …AND DUMPLINGS TOO.

ATTICUS — March 20, 2020
Good

Surayya ❤️ — March 30, 2020
Good but funny!!!!

Dingdong — March 31, 2020
Hi Jana. I really love this book plus, you look pretty. I am a fan of this website.

Ruqayah — March 31, 2020
goody oh, it was such fantastic little story I loved it

Zoe — March 31, 2020
three thumbs up

daniel — April 4, 2020
no,i hate it it is so bad

layth — April 5, 2020
it was interesting

abiud — April 11, 2020
very interesting story

Tessy — April 18, 2020
Cool!

Emily — April 22, 2020
yes I liked this story

javion — April 22, 2020
It was ok

Amie — April 22, 2020
I love this story, it’s very intresting,i hope storynory can make a lot of stories like this.

Anonymous — April 27, 2020
I love this story, it’s interesting.i hope storynory can make more stories like this!

Emma — April 27, 2020
keep it up storynory!

Emma — April 27, 2020
I like the story so much

Nikki — April 28, 2020
This story was fun! 😁🤣🤣

Anonymous — May 4, 2020
Wooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Wooooooo — May 11, 2020
I liked the story very much.

Bogi pierogi 25 — May 12, 2020
I like this story. It’s interesting and funny.

Nalia24 — May 12, 2020
I love narrator!

Julka5 — May 13, 2020
I really like this story because it is very funny. The old amusing women had to love her dumpling so much (she even looked for her dumpling in another country). The story shows that laughter can save our lives 😀

niki08 — May 13, 2020
Ohh it was so cute!

Patrycja 16 — May 13, 2020
I very like this story beacuse i’ts addictive and funny

miczyu11 — May 13, 2020
Its good

Pete — May 13, 2020
I like this story,because it is very exciting.

Gabi 1 — May 13, 2020
The story was interesting and those funny sounds made it so enjoyable.

An creative nick 9 — May 13, 2020
The story was quite interesting and uniq. I like that kind of tales during which I can relax. I really enyojed it! 🙂

Mary 13 — May 14, 2020
I like this story because it is very funny and one of a kind

Tom 12 — May 14, 2020
I love this story very intresting indeed! I live Japan to and the story was all so funny I live storynory.com cant wait for more storys!

Lara — May 18, 2020
i like the story but i think i noticed a mistake in the spelling , i might be mistaken but it’s always better to check!!!!

Anonymous — May 19, 2020
nice

Cactus — May 26, 2020
lol sooo funny!!!

johara king — May 29, 2020
The old women who lost her dumpling psh more like they old women who lost her marbles.

Anonymous — May 29, 2020
Very good

Adlan — June 1, 2020
funny

chantelle — June 2, 2020
I loved this story

Hrishika — June 2, 2020
I loved it

Hrishika — June 2, 2020
love this story

zion zangel — June 3, 2020
This story is not bad.

Super JT — June 16, 2020
This story is lovely

Julie — July 1, 2020
Hah

Julie — July 1, 2020
i enjoyed this story a lot 😍🤩

aida — July 23, 2020
Nice!

Anonymous — July 26, 2020
Great story

Sarina — July 29, 2020
Hi this is a great story for kids also i love the sound effects job well done! And also I did a presentation on japan for my class and showed them this story they loved it thank you. Hope you get more nice and lovely stories like this!

Sarina — July 30, 2020
Well done and thank you Sarina 😊

Jana Elizabeth — July 30, 2020

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