Ellie Harrison - The Night Pirates CBeebies Bedtime Stories

CBeebies Bedtime Story.

Arrr, pirate teddy, it be time for a bedtime story.

Are you ready, shipmates?

Because tonight's story is a pirate adventure.

It's called The Night Pirates

and it's by Peter Harris and Deborah Allwright.

Down, down, down the dark, dark street they came.

Quiet as mice, stealthy as shadows.

Up, up, up the dark, dark house they climbed.

Stealthy as shadows, quiet as mice.

Only the moon was watching them when they arrived.

Only the moon was watching them when they left.

Only the moon and one little boy.

Tom was a nice little boy.

Tom was a brave little boy.

Tom was a little boy about to have an adventure.

Who were these shadows as quiet as mice,

stealing away with the front of Tom's house?

Maybe monsters or trolls,

maybe ogres or gremlins.

Maybe bandits or pirates.

Pirates?

Pirates!

Rough, tough, little girl pirates, with their own pirate ship.

A ship set for sailing.

A ship off on adventures.

A ship stealing the front of Tom's house for disguise.

But what about Tom?

Could he join the crew?

"Please, let me aboard!

"Can I come, too?"

And did the little girl captain say, "Certainly not, you're only a boy"?

Oh, no, not at all.

Instead she roared, "Welcome aboard!"

Then up went the sails and up went the flag,

then off sailed the rough, tough, little girl pirates.

The little girl pirates and their shipmate Tom.

But where were they going?

To an island

where Captain Patch

and his really rough, tough, grown-up pirates

were snoozing around their full treasure chest.

Then Captain Patch saw something -

something very strange.

Something very strange indeed!

What could he see?

A house sailing towards them, getting closer and closer.

A house sailing towards them with a little boy waving hello.

"I've seen a house," Captain Patch declared.

"We've all seen houses!" said the pirates.

"Who cares?!"

"Don't just lie there, do something!" Captain Patch roared.

But the Pirates went back to sleep and just snored

while the house sailed nearer and nearer,

until out leapt the girl pirates

and out leapt Tom

and out leapt a fearsome roar.

The pirates gaped.

The pirates goggled.

Then the pirates all ran away.

So Tom and the girl pirates sailed away with the treasure,

while the rough, tough, grown-up pirates hid in the trees.

Captain Patch stamped his feet and shouted to his worst pirate curse.

"If you don't give me my treasure back,

"I'll tell my mum!"

But off they had sailed, all the way home.

Down, down, down the dark, dark street they came.

Quiet as mice, stealthy as shadows.

Up, up, up the dark, dark house they climbed.

Stealthy as shadows, quiet as mice.

Only the moon was watching them when they arrived.

Only the moon was watching them when they left.

Only the moon and one little boy.

Tom was a brave little boy.

Tom was a sleepy little boy.

Tom was a boy who had had an adventure

and no-one would ever find out.

Would they?

Did you spot what happened at the end?

The night pirates put the house back the wrong way round!

I think Tom's got some explaining to do.

Now it's time for teddy pirates to go to bed

and I think it's your bedtime, too.

I hope you have adventures in your dreams tonight.

Sleep tight.