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~9 min listenAges 5–7

English (UK)·Bedtime · Animals

Somebody Called Shh

Above Lo’s Fish Bar, Scraps the dog counts his family every night, nose by nose. Tonight Mum comes home carrying someone who smells of nothing at all — and everybody keeps saying shh.

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4 reads·0 likes

~8 min listenAges 5–7

English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship · Nature

One for Next

Rafi Singh promised his dad a whole row. Flo Marsh promised her mum an arch of red flowers. Tonight the packet on Beanpole Lane has only three Scarlet Emperor seeds left — and nobody asked the seeds.

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~7 min listenAges 5–7

English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship · Adventure

The Pigeon Was Awake

Lila Moss has lost her list, and the world will not stay still without it. Tonight she presses the blank button herself and finds the pigeon awake — still with one rule: leave one, take one.

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1 read·0 likes

~8 min listenAges 5–7

English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship · Adventure

Between Doesn't Count

Jed Crow knows every floor of Ash Court by sound — until he presses the blank button and finds a warm floor that isn't on the directory, with one rule: leave one, take one.

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1 read·0 likes

~8 min listenAges 5–7

English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship · Adventure

Not You, Nell

The snow has stopped and Chandler's Pitch has turned to glass. There is a bus full of cold people at the bottom of the hill — and everybody keeps telling Nell Craske to stay where she is.

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3 reads·0 likes

~7 min listenAges 5–7

English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship · Animals · Nature

Birdie Nowak Does Nothing

Fog has stopped every boat on the canal, and Birdie Nowak has never kept anything to herself. Tonight the quiet boy from the lock cottage offers to show her something — if she can do nothing first.

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1 read·0 likes

~7 min listenAges 5–7

English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship

Whoever Stops Moving

Wilf asked for the good pillow first — but on the hottest night of the year, sharing the roof above the launderette turns out to be harder than keeping it.

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2 reads·0 likes

~7 min listenAges 5–7

English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship · Nature

Don't Let the Warm Out

Kit Bramley's first tooth is nearly out, and he has brought a matchbox to keep it in forever — until a laugh in the glasshouse sends it through the floor grating into the dark.

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3 reads·0 likes

~6 min listenAges 5–7

English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship

Last One Sitting

Mei Soh always wins the last bowl at closing — until another child sits at her table, and staying awake means giving away the secret names chalked under every table.

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4 reads·0 likes

~6 min listenAges 5–7

English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship · Adventure

Otto Rye and the Nine O'Clock Slow

Otto wants a biscuit out of a tin that never opens — until he shows off on a wet platform and drops the last warm brick in the valley into a rain barrel.

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