1 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. This episode 2 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 1: is the first of a two part introduction into a 3 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: book called match Box Dreams. In this story, we are 4 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: going to meet some little mice who love to have 5 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: adventures in dreamland. Match Box Dreams written by Douglas Schwartz. 6 00:00:54,120 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 1: Chapter one the introduction of Harper, Remy and Milli. Harper 7 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: Remy and Millie aren't your typical stuffed animals. They possess 8 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: the ability to come alive in dreamland. Oh yes, dreamland 9 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: is real. It exists in your mind, but it only 10 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: comes alive when you are sleeping. Just like how the 11 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: night is never around during the day, Dreamland is only 12 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: around when you are sleeping. So what about daydreaming, you 13 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: might ask, or what about pretend? Play? Well, Harper Remy 14 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: and Millie love to be with you when you are 15 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: daydreaming or pretending, but they will just look and act 16 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: like all your other stuffed animals and toys. The real 17 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: magic begins when you go to bed. As soon as 18 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: you fall asleep, Harper Remy and Millie tucked into their 19 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: little beds and snuggled up safe and warm by your side. 20 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: Wake up and begin a new adventure each night. Some 21 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 1: experiences are so much fun you may want to relive 22 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: them again and again. Like all adventures, there needs to 23 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: be a beginning. Or Harper and Remy and later Millie, 24 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: the beginning started a very long time ago. It was 25 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: before you were born, before your mom and dad were born, 26 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: and even before your grandparents were born. Harper and Remy 27 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: got their start in nineteen hundred, at the turn of 28 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: a new century. In a small village at the foothills 29 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: of Boise, Idaho, a young toy maker named Jack wanted 30 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: to create cute toys for his three children, his youngest Evy, 31 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: his middle child, Constance, and his oldest Titus. With snow 32 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: all around his little cabin, his wife at the sewing 33 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: machine and the children tucked in bed, Jack worked at 34 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: his small workbench near the only fireplace in the cabin. 35 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: Jack was sketching animals which he and his wife could 36 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: make as toys and sell at the store he worked at. 37 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:17,679 Speaker 1: You see, Jack started each day working at the local 38 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 1: toy store, stocking shelves and selling toys to children in 39 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: the village. Each night, he would remember the expressions on 40 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: the children's faces when they received their new toys. He 41 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 1: used this knowledge to design what he thought would be 42 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: the most desired toys in the world. Jack noticed that 43 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: small stuffed animals like mice, hamsters, and puppies were the 44 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: most popular toys with the children in the village. With 45 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: that information that night, he was inspired to create a 46 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: couple of the cutest stuff toys anyone had ever owned. 47 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:18,799 Speaker 1: As it got later, Jack's wife, Missus Drapkin, kissed Jack 48 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: on the cheek and said she was going to sleep. 49 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:28,239 Speaker 1: Soon after, Jack started yawning from all his hard work. 50 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 1: It didn't help that he was also really cozy in 51 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: his chair near the fireplace. He soon put his head 52 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: down on the workbench and fell fast asleep. In the 53 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: olden days, people didn't dream unless the Sandman visited them, 54 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: and for the Sandman to come to your house, everyone 55 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: had to be sleeping. Unlike Santa Claus, the Sandman could 56 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: not get to every home in one night, so some 57 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: nights people just didn't dream. With everyone in the Drapkin 58 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:20,919 Speaker 1: house fast asleep and the Sandman being an Idaho, he 59 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: stopped by to sprinkle dream dust on each member of 60 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 1: the family. When he got to Jack, he looked at 61 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: the cute mice Jack had drawn on his sketch pad, 62 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:41,799 Speaker 1: and he accidentally spilled dream dust on the drawings. Later 63 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: that night, Jack had a most colorful dream, like the 64 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: kind he used to have as a kid. He dreamt 65 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 1: he was in Dreamland and he was being shown around 66 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: by the two mice he had drawn in his sketch, 67 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: Pat Harper, one of the mice came up to Jack 68 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: and said, Hi, I am Harper, and this is my 69 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: sister Remy. Wow, you can speak, said Jack. You look 70 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: exactly like the mice I was drawing. Well, when you 71 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: were young, you probably went to our part of Dreamland, 72 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: and you must have seen us there and remembered us. 73 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: Remy said, since the Sandman spilled the dream dust on 74 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: our sketch, now whenever anyone sleeps near us, they can 75 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: join us in Dreamland, even if the Sandman didn't visit 76 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: their home. Harper added, our part of Dreamland is usually 77 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: just for kids, but since you design toys for kids, 78 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: you can enter Dreamland even though you are a grown up. Yes, 79 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: Jack said, now, I remember when I was young, I 80 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: did visit Dreamland. I guess now when I dream, I 81 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: go somewhere else. You are correct, said Remy. Dreamland is 82 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: just one part of dream World, which has many different lands. 83 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 1: When you sleep, you go to one of those other lands. 84 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: They can be fun, but Dreamland is the nicest, safest, 85 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: and most fun land in all of dream World. Remy continued. 86 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: There are no monsters which is, or ghosts in Dreamland, 87 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: and there are lots of places to travel, adventures to 88 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: be had, and people and animals to meet. How long 89 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: have you two been living in Dreamland, asked Jack. Well, 90 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: we are not sure, said Harper. Ever since we can 91 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: remember we have been there. Time is different in Dreamland. 92 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: Instead of having the past, present, and future, we can 93 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: visit all three times anytime we want. Remy added, We 94 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: would show you around, but it may be best for 95 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: you to wake up now while we are fresh in 96 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: your memory, so you can finish the sketches and make 97 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: us into real stuffed animals. Yes, said Harper, and when 98 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: you make us, please make us nice beds that we 99 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 1: can sleep in while we travel off to Dreamland. Jack 100 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: woke up. He sat up in his chair and thought 101 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: to himself that his dream was one of the most 102 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: real dreams he had ever had. He had forgotten what 103 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: a beautiful place Dreamland was. Then he looked down at 104 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: his sketches and noticed a small pile of sparkling dust 105 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: on each drawing. He paused, had it all been a 106 00:09:55,360 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: dream or did it really happen? That night, Jack finished 107 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,559 Speaker 1: his sketches of Harper and Remy, and in the morning 108 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: he gave the drawings to Missus Drapkin so she could 109 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: make the two mice with her sewing machine. While Missus 110 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: Drapkin was lighting the fire to make breakfast, she ran 111 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: out of matches and was just about to throw the 112 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: empty match box in the fireplace when Jack told her 113 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: to save it. He thought it was the perfect size 114 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: for Harper and Remmy's bed, so he asked Missus Drapkin 115 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: for another one. All during the day, while Jack was 116 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: working at the toy store, he kept thinking about the 117 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 1: dream he had the night before and about how real 118 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: it had seemed. When he got home, he couldn't wait 119 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: to see what Missus Drapkin had sewn up while he 120 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 1: was at work. Sitting on his workbench were two large matchboxes. 121 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: On the outside of each box, Missus Drapkin had drawn 122 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: three mice pedaling a three mouse powered bicycle under the 123 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: name Royal Star Brand. He slowly opened the first box 124 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: to see Harper tucked snugly between his bed and blanket, 125 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: smiling up at him. He opened the second box and 126 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: found Remy tucked into bed, smiling too. Although Jack had 127 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: left his wife detailed sketches of Harper and Remy, he 128 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:50,679 Speaker 1: was surprised at how every detail was exactly like the 129 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: Harper and Remy of his dream. At dinner time, when 130 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: his wife and three children, ev Constant and Titus, were eating, 131 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: he showed them Harper and Remy and told everyone about 132 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:11,359 Speaker 1: the dream he had had the night before. The kids 133 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: instantly fell in love with the mice and asked their 134 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: dad if they could have them. Jack had planned on 135 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 1: taking Harper and Remy to the toy store the next 136 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: day to see if mister Lambert, the owner of the store, 137 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: wanted to place an order of copies of Harper's and 138 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: Remy's to sell in the store. Titus, since you are 139 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: the oldest, you can pick which mouse you want to 140 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: sleep with tonight, Jack said. Titus picked Harper. Constance was 141 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: happy because secretly she wanted Remy anyway. Evie was too 142 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: young to speak, but Jack could tell she was not 143 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: happy being left out of choosing a mouse. Ev you 144 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: are too young to be able to sleep with Harper 145 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,079 Speaker 1: or Remy. But when I read to all of you tonight, 146 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:13,079 Speaker 1: you can each take turns playing with the mice, said Jack. 147 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: Eve In a few days, when you turn three years old, 148 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 1: you can have your own mouse. Evie seemed happy with 149 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: that decision for the first time in ages. All three 150 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: of the children had all their chores done, their teeth brushed, 151 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:37,559 Speaker 1: their faces washed, and they were in bed even before 152 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:45,319 Speaker 1: Missus Drapkin had to ask them. It was the Drapkin 153 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: family tradition to gather all the children together in one 154 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: bed and for Jack to tell a story each evening. 155 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: Most of the time he would make up stories based 156 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: around the stuffed animals in the toy store. This evening, 157 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: Jack told them about his trip to Dreamland and how 158 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: he met Harper and Remy. He also told them what 159 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: Remy had said, if the mice were tucked up into 160 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: their little matchboxes and sleeping near you at night, you 161 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: could enter Dreamland anytime, even if the sandman had not 162 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: sprinkled dream dust on you. Constance and Titus could not 163 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: wait to fall asleep so they could start dreaming right 164 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: after Jack told them a story. Both children said they 165 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: were tired and ready for bed, Constance took Remy to 166 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: her bedroom and Titus took Harper to his or Evie 167 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: didn't have a new mouse to sleep with, so when 168 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: Jack tucked her into her crib, snuggled up to her 169 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 1: old stuffed hamster doll that Jack called mister Hamster. And 170 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: after everyone was tucked into bed, Jack went and sat 171 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: by the fireplace with Missus Drapkin. Meanwhile, Titus took Harper 172 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: out of his matchbox and told Harper that when he 173 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,359 Speaker 1: slept that night, he would like to go to Dreamland 174 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: like his dad did and have Harper show him around. 175 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: Harper continued to smile up at Titus in response. Before 176 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: Titus fell asleep, he pretended that Harper was walking through 177 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: sand dunes his blankets and that Harper could fly wherever 178 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: he wanted to. In the other room, Constance was doing 179 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: the same thing, only she pretended that her blankets were 180 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: knee high soft green grass that she and Remy were 181 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: making their way through to find Titus and Harper. After 182 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: a while, both Constance and Titus grew tired, so they 183 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: tucked their new little friends into their matchbox beds and 184 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: both fell fast asleep.