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CBeebies Bedtime Story.

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Right. Football - check. Whistle - check.

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Hello, I'm Tanni.

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I'm making sure we have everything for the story.

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Football - check. Football goal - check.

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Whistle - check. And Benjamin...

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Benjamin? I can't see one of those.

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I wonder what a Benjamin is.

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Maybe the dragon in the story will know

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because he found it in Dragon Wood. The story is by Timothy Knapman

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and Gwen Millward and is called Guess What I Found In Dragon Wood.

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You'll never guess what I found the other day.

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Apparently it's called a Benjamin.

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I didn't know what to do with it so I took it home to show my parents.

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Mum thought it might be hungry,

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so she cooked it a delicious meal,

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with all the ponkiest fish, and rankiest, mankiest worms.

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But it turned out it wasn't hungry.

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"Can the Benjamin sleep in my room tonight?" I asked.

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"I don't know if he's ever slept in a bed before," said Mum,

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"but he does look very tired."

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So I gave it some pyjamas and guess what -

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its feet weren't stripy after all.

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Next morning, I took it to meet my friends.

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"We're going to school," I said.

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"Today we're going to learn how to sit on a volcano."

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Benjamin didn't look very keen.

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Perhaps there aren't any schools where it comes from.

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The moment he saw the Benjamin,

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Mr Crockface said volcano-sitting class was cancelled.

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After all, you don't come across a Benjamin every day of the week

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and we were bound to learn lots from something so strange.

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And the Benjamin was VERY strange.

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It got around without wings.

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It had soft, stick-out stuff on its head.

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Where had all its scales gone?

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Its claws were blunt, its tail had dropped off.

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No wonder its roar was more like a squeak.

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And instead of breathing fire from its nostrils,

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it could only leak water from its eyes.

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It turned out that the Benjamin was homesick.

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He told us all about the faraway, magical land he came from,

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a land full of Benjamins. Can you imagine it?

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They think dragons are story stuff and make believe.

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"So," I said, "you don't fly, you don't roar,

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"you don't breathe fire. What DO you do?"

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I know, looks silly, doesn't it? Apparently it's called "football".

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The Benjamin promised it would be fantastic, and it was.

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Although you're not supposed to fly in the penalty area,

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or eat the ball, or burn down the goalposts.

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So many things to remember. We had a nice afternoon,

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but when I said it was time to go home,

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the Benjamin looked like he was going to leak again.

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"You miss your mummy and daddy, don't you?" I said.

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"I'll miss you," I said, but I knew it was time for him to go.

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Besides, I really wanted to see the land of the Benjamins.

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I asked my friends if they'd like to come with us,

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but I think they were too scared. I was a little bit anxious myself.

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I'd only ever met one Benjamin, so I didn't know

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how I'd cope with a country FULL of them!

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But the Benjamin was so happy to be going home

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I couldn't help smiling.

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It was an awfully long way, far, far across the seas.

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But it was just as beautiful as he said it would be.

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Mind you, the Benjamins have a very funny way of saying hello.

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When I got back home, I told all my friends about the wheel-boxes,

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with the wow noises and the whirlybirds with flash lamps.

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They were very excited.

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"Will you ever go back there?" they asked.

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"Of course," I said.

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"The Benjamin wants me to meet his teacher."

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Or was that EAT his teacher? I wasn't quite sure.

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Got to go now - football practice!

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WHISTLE BLOWS

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And that story was called Guess What I Found In Dragon Wood.

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Maybe there's a Benjamin who'd like to play football with me.

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And maybe I'll find one in Dragon Wood tomorrow.

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But now it's time for bed.

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Make sure you take off your wellies before you go to bed.

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See you soon for another story. Night night.

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Mr Dragon, whose side do you want to be on?

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