Watch Videos by Stories by Josie

Description Fairy Tale/Child A classic Fairy Tale of how team work makes the dream work, when family & community come together to find a working solution!

Length of Video 7 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

From Dawn to Dusk :Celia

Description Black History/Women's History/Slave/3rd & up 13:00 minutes Fictitious story of Celia Mable, a slave buried in a cemetery in Mableton, GA alongside her master. Written by Josie Bailey in the dialect.

Length of Video 13 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

From Dawn to Dusk: Rosa Lee

Description Black History/Women's History/Post slavery/3rd grade & up/Time 14:00 Fictitious story written by Josie Bailey. Rosa Lee is Celia Mable (a slave), granddaughter who speaks of the customs of her day!

Length of Video 14 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

Henry Box Brown

Description Black History/Historical/Adult/Child A true story of a slave, who mailed himself to freedom and later created a performance and wrote a book about his escape.

Length of Video 7 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

How Tiger Got His Stripes

Description Black History/African Folktale/Adult/3rd grade & up A folktale that sheds light on how Tiger, in his quest for wisdom, gets his stripes, instead!

Length of Video 10 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

I Am Bob Lemmons (Horse Whisperer)

Description Black History/Historical/Adult/Child The story of a Black Cowboy, who was a horse whisperer. He got his freedom in 1865 and owned 1200 acres of land.

Length of Video 13 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

I Am Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Description Black History/Historical/All Ages/12 min A portrayal of Martin's life from boyhood, which includes a portion of his, "I Have A Dream Speech!"

Length of Video 12 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $5.99

I Am Hank Aaron

Description Black History/Historical/ 1st grade-Adult A portrayal of Hank's life as a Major League Baseball Player for the Atlanta Braves.

Length of Video 13 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $5.99

I Am Jackie Robinson

Description Black History/Historical/All Ages A portrayal of Jackie's life from youth through the end of his career with a focus on his life as a Bridge Builder. Poem: The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole

Length of Video 11 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $5.99

I Am John Lewis

Description Black History/Historical/2nd Grade - Adult A portrayal of Congressman John Lewis from his early life to his career of getting into Good Trouble through the Civil Rights Movement and beyond.

Length of Video 13 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $5.99

I Am Maya Angelou

Description Black History/Historical/POETRY 3rd & up A portrayal of Maya's Life from youth throughout her career. POEMS: Still I Rise When I Think About Myself

Length of Video 20 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $5.99

I Am Ruby Bridges

Description Black History/Women's History Month/Historical/1st grade up to Adult Ruby Bridges at her current age of 61 as of 2021, telling of her experience as the first black child to integrate a southern white school in the 1950's, in the United States.

Length of Video 7 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $5.99

Johnny Stempletoe: The Butterfly (Adult)

Description Black History/Personal/Adult/3rd & up Josie's personal journey as written by Josie of her escape from circumstances in her life, to the exhilaration of freedom!

Length of Video 8 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

Johnny Stempletoe: the Butterfly (Illustrated version)

Description Black History/Personal/Adult/3rd & up Josie's personal journey as written by Josie of her escape from circumstances in her life, to the exhilaration of freedom!

Length of Video 8 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

Juneteenth Intro

Description Introduction to JUNETEENTH: What is Juneteenth and why do we celebrate it! A brief history of how the holiday came about.

Length of Video 6.05 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $.99

Laughter Yoga (ages 4-6) Affirmation

Description Wellness/All Ages Using Laughter, Josie helps students find relaxation through the use of "Affirmations!"

Length of Video 13 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $.99

Laughter Yoga (ages 4-6) Alphabets Sounds

Description Wellness! Using the alphabets to keep you laughing with deep breathing exercises!

Length of Video 9 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $.99

Laughter Yoga (ages 4-6) Animal Sounds

Description Wellness Helps students release stress and relax with laughter, oinking and meowing!

Length of Video 11 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $.99

Laughter Yoga (All Ages)

Description 28.00 minutes: A full Laughter Yoga session lead by Josie Bailey and Celeste Greene with deep breathing through laughter and relaxation exercises!

Length of Video 30 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $4.99

Legend of the First Strawberries

Description Cherokee Indian Folktale/Adult/Child This folktale gives us insight into the first man, the first woman, the first love and the first argument!

Length of Video 14 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $4.99

Little Red Hen (Illustrated version)

Description Classic Folktale/child Time 10:43 The Little Red Hen lives tries to convince some very lazy animals, to help her plant and harvest some food.

Length of Video 2.086 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $1.99

Little Red Hen and the Sly Fox

Description Fairy Tale/Child A traditional Fairy Tale where the sly fox is secretly watching the Little Red Hen while plotting how he can have her for his dinner!

Length of Video 10 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

Mama: They Don’t Make Them Like They Use To

Description Black History/Personal/Adult/3rd & up Personal story as written by Josie of a few hilarious memories of she and her Mama!

Length of Video 10 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

Multiplication Goes Hip Hop (Math X's tables)

Description Child Math is the only language that's shared by everyone on the planet. The multiplication facts are taught through Hip Hop music and catchy rhythms!

Length of Video 7 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $1.99

Negro Spirituals

Description Black History/Adult/Child A list of Negro Spirituals, which also includes a couple of Civil Rights songs, performed by Josie!

Length of Video 20 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $4.99

No Charge for Love

Description Human Interest All Ages An inspiring and motivational story of the power of love and understanding for those who are different from us.

Length of Video 4 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $1.99

Nursery Rhymes

Description Musical/Child/Fun A mixture of favorite children nursery rhymes with a challenge to sing a rhyme in time or be Thrown Out The Window!

Length of Video 12 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

POETRY: American Poets Singing -about the American People

Description American Poets 1. I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 2. The New Collosus Emma Lazarus (18-49-1887) 3. America Claude McKay (1889-1948) 4. My People Langston Hughes (1901-1967) 5. Lift Every Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

Length of Video 11 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

POETRY: Emily Dickinson

Description Poems of Emily Dickinson 1. I’m Nobody 2. The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me 3. A Book 4. A Word 5. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking 6. Because I Could Not Stop for Death 7. Bequest 8. I Never Saw A Moor

Length of Video 8 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

POETRY: Paul Laurence Dunbar

Description Black History/Grade 6 - Adults/10 minutes Short biographical sketch with poems: In the Morning & When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers

Length of Video 10 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

POETRY: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Growing Up With

Description Josie's personal encounter with Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry in elementary school that changed the course of her life. Follow Josie from being a shy school girl to becoming a Master Professional Storyteller for the past 30 years!

Length of Video 13 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

POETRY: Paul Laurence Dunbar,150th Birthday Celebration

Description Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) Bio 1. In The Morning 2. When They Listed Colored Soldiers 3. Encouragement 4. An Ante-Bellum Sermon 5. A Letter

Length of Video 23 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

POETRY: Poems of Inspiration and Life Philosophy

Description Poems of Inspiration and Life Philosophy 1. Invictus William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) 2. The House by the Side of the Road Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911) 3. If Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) 4. Thinking Walter D Wintle (1871-1953) 5. I Know My Soul Claude McKay (1889-1948)

Length of Video 12 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

POETRY: Poems on Nature

Description Poems on Nature 1. I Wandered Lonely as A Cloud William Wordsworth (British 1770-1850) 2. Deep in the Quiet Woods James Weldon Johnson (American 1871-1938) 3. Trees Joyce Kilmer (American 1886-1918) 4. Wind Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981)

Length of Video 8 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

POETRY: Edgar Allan Poe

Description Poems with short historical sketch - Grade 6 - Adult Bio, The Raven & Annabel Lee

Length of Video 17 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $5.99

POETRY: Poems for Children

Description Poems for Children 1. Clouds Anonymous 2. The Tyger William Blake (1757-1827) 3. Who Has Seen The Wind? Christina Rosetti (1830-1894) 4. My Shadow Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) 5. The Crocodile Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) 6. Antigonish [I met a man who wasn’t there] Hughes Mearns (1875-1965)

Length of Video 7 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

POETRY: Will Allen Dromgoole: The Bridge Builder

Description Poem, The Bridge Builder, written by Will Allen Dromgoole ( 1860-1934).

Length of Video 2 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $.99

Stone Soup Josie's Pandemic Version

Description Fairy Tale/Adult/Child A 2020 Pandemic version of a hungry storyteller, named Josie, as she travels through a neighborhood looking for kids to share a story for a meal.

Length of Video 5 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $1.99

The Farmer & The Donkey (Illustrated version)

Description Fable/Pre-k - 3rd grade/8 minutes The farmer and the audience learn the valuable lesson that you can't please everyone so you should do what works best for you!

Length of Video 8 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

The Fisherman and His Wife

Description Classic English Fairy Tale/Adult/Child A Fairy Tale of a poor fisherman, his greedy wife and a magical fish. Greed leads to no good end.

Length of Video 9 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

The Knee High Man

Description Black History/African Folktale/Child A little man discovers that what he is searching for has been on the inside of him all the time.

Length of Video 6 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

The Magic Pot

Description Chinese Folktale/Adult/Child A hardworking woodcutter discovers a magic pot that changes his life forever!

Length of Video 5 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

The Man Who Had No Luck

Description Adult/High School/ Irish Folktale A man on a journey to find his luck but in the end discovers that his luck was all around him and that he only had to look for it.

Length of Video 16 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $5.99

The Selfish Crocodile

Description Black History/Fable/Child The Selfish Crocodile realizes that he needs the help of the other animals in the forest.

Length of Video 6 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

The Wolf and Seven Little Goats

Description English Fairy Tale/Child A hungry wolf sets his sights on a family of seven little goats for his dinner.

Length of Video 4 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $.99

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Description English Fairytale/Child A tale of three Billy Goats, who happened to be brothers, that have to develop a plan to get from one side of the meadow's bridge to the other side while outwitting the Mean Giant Troll.

Length of Video 15 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

Why Ostriches Has a Long Neck

Description Black History/African Folktale/All Ages This tale explains how Ostrich, who once had a short neck, ends up with a long neck, as a result of helping someone in pain.

Length of Video 11 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $3.99

ZZ CHRISTIAN: A Letter from a Child

Description Black History/Religious/written by Josie Bailey A 9 yr old boy writes a letter to God in search of a friend.

Length of Video 4 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $1.99

ZZ CHRISTIAN: A Tale of 3 Trees

Description Black History/Religious/Adult/Child/American//Folklore In this tale children and adults alike are reminded that dreams do come true.

Length of Video 13 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $1.99

ZZ CHRISTIAN: Folklore-Integration & Segregation

Description Black History/Folklore/Adult A series of humorous folklore tales on integration, segregations and how the first man came to be!

Length of Video 12 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $5.99

ZZ CHRISTIAN: From the Windows of the Throne Room

Description A Christian story of how the first man came to be on earth and how interactions between the Father, Son, Holy Spirit and Satan viewed the situation.

Length of Video 21 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $1.99

ZZ CHRISTIAN: Fun Children Christian Songs

Description Religious/Musical/Child Great for Sunday school and Vacation Bible school.

Length of Video 11 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $2.99

ZZ CHRISTIAN: Please Let Me Be Your Friend

Description Black History/Religious/Written by Josie Bailey Adult/Child An invitation from God to Man to, "Please Let Me Be Your Friend!"

Length of Video 7 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $1.99

ZZ CHRISTIAN: Time Before I Was (Adult)

Description Black History/Fictitious/All Ages/written by Josie Bailey A fictitious story of #4243's life in heaven before being born on the earth.

Length of Video 11 Minutes

Price of Video Rental $1.99

ZZ CHRISTIAN: Time Before I Was (Illustrated version)