Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to bedtime Stories with mister jim O.
Speaker 1: I was just getting ready for bed, are you as well?
Speaker 1: Oh good? I hope you brushed your teeth and found
Speaker 1: all of your comfy things like pillows and blankets and stuffies.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, oh good. Well, as long as you have
Speaker 1: all those things ready, then it's time for our story.
Speaker 1: But first we must close our eyes so that we
Speaker 1: can travel to an imaginary world the end Charlie's mothers
Speaker 1: as she closed the book, aw said Charlie, disappointed. Can
Speaker 1: we read one more? I'm not sleepy yet. Her mom
Speaker 1: smiled at her but shook her head. Nope, time for bed.
Speaker 1: Let's tuck you in and then it's off to dreamland.
Speaker 1: As they walked to her room, Charlie frowned and asked, dreamland.
Speaker 1: Where's that? Oh? You know, it's the place where all
Speaker 1: dreams live, her mother answered. Charlie climbed into bed, but
Speaker 1: she still had more questions. Mom, how do I find dreamland?
Speaker 1: Mom looked out of Charlie's window at the night sky.
Speaker 1: The stars were twinkling and the moon shone bright tonight.
Speaker 1: She told Charlie just follow the moon, then tucked her
Speaker 1: in nice and snug and kissed her good night. Charlie
Speaker 1: sighed and yawned and looked out her window. She watched
Speaker 1: the moon expectantly, waiting for it to do something, but
Speaker 1: wasn't exactly sure what. Would it move toward her window
Speaker 1: and ask her to follow. Would it speak and give directions?
Speaker 1: She waited and waited, the starlight growing weaker as clouds
Speaker 1: began to move in the moon had not moved, winked,
Speaker 1: or spoken. Still, she waited until finally something happened. The
Speaker 1: moon disappeared. No, how will I get to Dreamland now,
Speaker 1: Charlie jumped out of bed to get a better look
Speaker 1: outer window. Oh, the clouds had taken over the night sky,
Speaker 1: making it hard to see much of anything. A bright
Speaker 1: flash dipped below the cloud cover, then quickly disappeared the moon.
Speaker 1: Come on, clouds, I need to see the moon. I
Speaker 1: want to go to Dreamland. The clouds blanketing the sky
Speaker 1: remained the same for a moment, and then a few
Speaker 1: of them began to wiggle. They wiggled and jiggled their
Speaker 1: fluffy selves until they popped loose and dropped down, each
Speaker 1: one lower in the sky than the next. The last
Speaker 1: cloud to wiggle and pop landed with its belly just
Speaker 1: above the grass in Charlie's yard. Charlie wasted no time
Speaker 1: climbing out of her window and up onto the first cloud.
Speaker 1: Then she reached to squished the fluff of the cloud
Speaker 1: above it in both hands, and pulled herself through. Up
Speaker 1: and up she went, until the last cloud she had
Speaker 1: to climb through was the cloud layer blanketing the sky.
Speaker 1: She pulled herself through and saw the moon tucked into
Speaker 1: the clouds, snoring. Excuse me, mister moon, asked Charlie. The
Speaker 1: moon opened one eye and spotted her. Then both eyes
Speaker 1: popped open and he began to zip away in the
Speaker 1: opposite direction. Wait, come back, Charlie tried to run after it,
Speaker 1: but the clouds were too soft. I felt like trying
Speaker 1: to run through cotton candy. How am I going to
Speaker 1: get to Dreamland if I can't catch the moon? Are
Speaker 1: you trying to catch the moon? I can help, said
Speaker 1: a voice behind Charlie. Charlie turned to see a green
Speaker 1: shell larger than two Charlie's with two fins and a
Speaker 1: friendly face. Are you a sea turtle? She asked in astonishment.
Speaker 1: Good guess, but HI more of a sky turtle since
Speaker 1: I live up here. Climb on, we can chase after
Speaker 1: that moon. He can be pretty tricky to find. He
Speaker 1: loves to play hide and seek. Charlie climbed onto the
Speaker 1: sky turtle's fin and up onto his hard shell. She
Speaker 1: found a round pillow waiting in the middle for her
Speaker 1: and sat down on it. Hold on tight. The sky
Speaker 1: turtle called to her and began swimming up higher into
Speaker 1: the inky black of the sky. They looked out among
Speaker 1: the stars in clouds, searching for that tricky glowing globe.
Speaker 1: Something bright dipped below the clouds ahead over there, said Charlie,
Speaker 1: and the sky turtle responded, zooming towards it and then
Speaker 1: dipping fast below the cloud blanket and after the bright light.
Speaker 1: The sky turtle swam through the tall trees of a forest,
Speaker 1: following the glow. As they got closer, however, hmm, it
Speaker 1: looked much too small to be the moon. Hello, hello,
Speaker 1: please wait. The glowing light stopped and fluttered in place.
Speaker 1: As Charlie and the turtle passed the last tree, they
Speaker 1: saw what they thought was the moon was actually a
Speaker 1: large sky jellyfish. It's many tentacles waved about as it
Speaker 1: floated in place, while our little Sutle asked the scared jellyfish,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we thought you were the moon. Charlie exclaimed,
Speaker 1: all but our us, foller ale, said the jellyfish. The
Speaker 1: sky turtle and Charlie floated behind the sky jellyfish, whizzing
Speaker 1: the round trees until they were out of the forest.
Speaker 1: In front of them was a lake so large that
Speaker 1: the water looked like it dropped off and disappeared way
Speaker 1: out in the distance. Where the water met the sky.
Speaker 1: Something was glowing, hobbling under the lulk so about silver
Speaker 1: of humples and above the water, said the jellyfish. Then
Speaker 1: it waved its tentacles all at once and moved quickly
Speaker 1: through the air and out of sight. The sky turtle
Speaker 1: and Charlie sailed in the air above the water, trying
Speaker 1: to reach the end of the lake where the moon
Speaker 1: was peeking out. They zipped above the water past lake
Speaker 1: monsters and mermaids who cheered them on, and the end
Speaker 1: of the lake was inching closer. They were so close
Speaker 1: Charlie reached out to tap the moon to tell it
Speaker 1: she had found him and was ready to go to dreamland.
Speaker 1: When Charlie heard her mom's voice, good morning, Charlie, did
Speaker 1: you have a good night in dreamland? Charlie opened her
Speaker 1: eyes to the sun shining through her window, with the
Speaker 1: light outline of the moon still visible in the sky.
Speaker 1: She squinted at it and could have sworn she saw
Speaker 1: it wink and then it disappeared. Wow, my friends. As
Speaker 1: we all climb into our cozy beds and close our eyes,
Speaker 1: may you have very sweet dreams in dreamland. Good Night,