SpiderMan Far From Home - SpiderMan Swings Through Europe! (Spider-Man Far from Home)

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Lisa Bueno** (0:30)
Okay, our friends.

**Lisa Bueno** (0:33)
So we are in a Marvel Superheroes mood. We read a story yesterday about Wakanda, and today we're going to read one about a web slinger. That's right. Today we'll be reading a Spider-Man story. Now, this story took place in a movie called Far From Home, okay, where the character of Spider-Man goes to a different part of the world. He goes to Europe, okay?
And so we're going to read this story. It's called Spider-Man Swings Through Europe.

**Lisa Bueno** (1:12)
Because he does, right?

**SPEAKER_4** (1:13)
Okay.

**Lisa Bueno** (1:13)
So the words are by Kaliope Glass, the pictures are by Andrew Kolb, and it is read today by Mommy and...

**Lisa Bueno** (1:29)
Who are you?

**SPEAKER_4** (1:32)
Do you not know who I am?

**Lisa Bueno** (1:34)
I do not know who you are.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:36)
Of course you have seen me.

**Lisa Bueno** (1:40)
I have seen you?

**SPEAKER_4** (1:42)
Yes, yes, my friend. Come, come, come. Hondo Onaka returns!

**Lisa Bueno** (1:48)
Oh, Hondo Onaka, the fast-talking pirate from Star Wars.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:57)
Greetings from the Outer Rim.

**Lisa Bueno** (1:59)
I'm so pleased that you are here. Would you like me to tell you about one of our heroes in the United, well, one of our heroes in the world on our planet?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:14)
Come, come. Of course.

**Lisa Bueno** (2:16)
Then allow me to sh...

**SPEAKER_4** (2:18)
I don't know what it has to do with profit.

**Lisa Bueno** (2:20)
Um, we'll talk about profit at the end. You tell me if you find anything profitable.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:25)
Okay?

**Lisa Bueno** (2:27)
All right. Perhaps a good story could be profitable.
Huh?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:31)
Uh, can you sell stories?

**Lisa Bueno** (2:36)
You definitely can. They make them into movies, and movies can make a lot of money.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:45)
I mean...

**SPEAKER_6** (2:46)
Here we go.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:48)
As long as you say the magic word.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:51)
Please?

**SPEAKER_1** (2:53)
No! Money!

**Lisa Bueno** (2:55)
Oh, money. Here we go. Spider-Man swings through Europe. In the picture, when we open it, we can see Europe. It's a continent on the planet Earth.
With lots of different countries attached to it. And here we see Spider-Man, and he says, Hi, it's me, your friendly neighborhood, Peter Parker.

**SPEAKER_8** (3:19)
I mean, Spider-Man. I'm so excited because today we see him.

**Lisa Bueno** (3:26)
He's packing up his things in a great big trunk.

**SPEAKER_9** (3:33)
I'm going on a school trip to Europe. My friends and I are all going together.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:39)
Hurry up, Ned, hope you can make it.

**Lisa Bueno** (3:42)
And in the picture we can see Ned, his best friend, is running to try to get through security, and they're going to get on an airplane, and they're going to take that airplane to Europe.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:58)
First stop, Italy.

**SPEAKER_7** (4:00)
We're visiting the city of Venice.

**Lisa Bueno** (4:06)
And in the picture we can see they've gone a big old dotted line from the United States all the way over to Italy, and we can see where they're headed to in Venice. Which by the way, is a city built on...

**SPEAKER_4** (4:23)
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Rhydonium? Water.
Makes more sense. Yeah. Rhydonium is highly explosive.

**Lisa Bueno** (4:35)
Makes more sense if it's water, yeah.

**SPEAKER_8** (4:38)
I love traveling, but it can be tricky with a secret identity. I sure hope none of my friends spot me in my Spider suit.

**Lisa Bueno** (4:48)
He thinks to himself because he's used to being back in New York City, not in Venice.

**SPEAKER_8** (4:54)
Only my best friend Ned knows I'm Spider-Man. We take a ride in a gondola together. In Venice, they have canals instead of streets and boats instead of cars.
Later, I visit St. Mark's Square. This place has more pigeons than Central Park, and my friend MJ says the church is over 1,000 years old.

**Lisa Bueno** (5:18)
That's a long time for humans. In fact, in the book, we can see the picture of this place.