{"id":4094,"date":"2009-01-17T11:52:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2009-01-17T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T15:52:40","slug":"capucine-the-tiny-french-storyteller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/01\/17\/capucine-the-tiny-french-storyteller\/","title":{"rendered":"Capucine, the tiny French storyteller"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess I am getting soft in my old age, but as soon as I saw the video of Capucine — a young French girl who tells a magical story filled with monkeys and tigers and Winnie the Pooh and a hippopotamus that is allergic to magic — I fell in love with her, as did hundreds of thousands of other people who saw the Vimeo video. I showed it to my wife and three daughters, who also loved it. So we all eagerly read a story<\/a> in the National Post this morning about how Capucines’s mother is using her daughter’s Internet fame to raise money for a charity that builds libraries in developing countries. So watch the video<\/a>, and read the story — and then go buy a T-shirt<\/a>. I just bought one for each of my daughters, and am seriously thinking about buying one for myself.<\/p>\n

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I guess I am getting soft in my old age, but as soon as I saw the video of Capucine — a young French girl who tells a magical story filled with monkeys and tigers and Winnie the Pooh and a hippopotamus that is allergic to magic — I fell in love with her, as … <\/p>\n

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