0:00:07 > 0:00:11Who turned the lights out in here?
0:00:11 > 0:00:15Ah! There you are. Hello, I'm Shappi.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17I wonder who turned the lights off.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20We need to be able to see so I can tell you a story.
0:00:20 > 0:00:24There's lots of twinkly lights in tonight's bedtime story
0:00:24 > 0:00:28and a big bear who loves eating berries. Yum!
0:00:28 > 0:00:32The story is called Bartholomew And The Bug
0:00:32 > 0:00:34and it's by Neal Layton.
0:00:34 > 0:00:39Bartholomew lived in a cave in a forest at the top of a mountain.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43He spent his days sniffing flowers, snoozing in the leafy glades,
0:00:43 > 0:00:48snacking on berries and generally taking it nice and easy.
0:00:48 > 0:00:53But sometimes, in the evenings, he'd climb up to the top of the cliff
0:00:53 > 0:00:57and watch the twinkly lights down in the valley below.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00He wondered what they were and what went on.
0:01:00 > 0:01:05Perhaps he would go there tomorrow, or sometime next week.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09One day, whilst he was reclining in his favourite spot,
0:01:09 > 0:01:13a strange little bug flew up and hit him on the nose.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16It spoke very quickly in a squeaky voice
0:01:16 > 0:01:18and kept gasping for breath,
0:01:18 > 0:01:23but eventually Bartholomew managed to work out what it was saying.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Bartholomew led the bug over to the edge of the cliff
0:01:26 > 0:01:29to show him the twinkly lights down in the valley.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33But every couple of paces, the little bug got caught up by the wind
0:01:33 > 0:01:37and ended up flying in a completely different direction.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41It seemed obvious the little creature couldn't do this alone
0:01:41 > 0:01:45and, being a kindly bear with nothing much in particular
0:01:45 > 0:01:49planned for the day, Bartholomew agreed to help him in his quest.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52They didn't have a second to lose.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Cradling the small insect in his big paws,
0:01:55 > 0:01:59Bartholomew clambered to the bottom of the cliff.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Then they had to cross a huge river
0:02:02 > 0:02:05and jump a bottomless canyon.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08A frog directed them through the stinking swamps
0:02:08 > 0:02:10and over the waterfalls,
0:02:10 > 0:02:15until eventually they arrived at a huge, concrete road.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Bartholomew was devastated.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21He couldn't read that well, but he knew
0:02:21 > 0:02:25that 117 was a very big number
0:02:25 > 0:02:29and so 117 miles must be a very long way
0:02:29 > 0:02:32and that a very long way was sure to take
0:02:32 > 0:02:35much more than a day to walk.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38They'd never make it in time.
0:02:38 > 0:02:43He sat down by the edge of the road with the bug in the palm of his paw.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47He didn't know how he would tell him the bad news.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51Just then, a huge truck pulled up and a hairy-faced man got out,
0:02:51 > 0:02:55stood beside the road and began to whistle.
0:02:55 > 0:03:00Bartholomew and the bug quietly tiptoed out from the undergrowth,
0:03:00 > 0:03:02climbed on to the back of the truck
0:03:02 > 0:03:06and hid behind some very big boxes.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Neither Bartholomew nor the bug
0:03:09 > 0:03:12had ever travelled so fast in all their lives.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14They were there in record-breaking time.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17The truck screeched to a halt
0:03:17 > 0:03:19and Bartholomew and the bug hopped down
0:03:19 > 0:03:23to take their first glimpse of the bright lights of the city.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26But it wasn't what they were expecting at all.
0:03:26 > 0:03:31There weren't any bright lights - only tall, grey buildings.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33They must have got it wrong somehow.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36There weren't any lights anywhere.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39The bug tried to hide his disappointment.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42As they wandered through the streets and alleys,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45they noticed twinkling lights appearing.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47First one, then two, then more and more
0:03:47 > 0:03:51until the whole place was awash with luminescent glow.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54With the lights came the buzz of thousands of insects
0:03:54 > 0:03:57of all shapes and sizes, all there for the same reason.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59To party!
0:03:59 > 0:04:03They rode up and down in elevators,
0:04:03 > 0:04:05they drove about in limousines,
0:04:05 > 0:04:07dressed in fancy clothes,
0:04:07 > 0:04:08they sang and danced
0:04:08 > 0:04:11until Bartholomew thought his legs would drop off.
0:04:11 > 0:04:15And some of the bugs did.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Just as Bartholomew thought he could dance no more
0:04:18 > 0:04:22and the first whispers of dawn began to peep over the horizon,
0:04:22 > 0:04:27he noticed the bug staring into the eyes of a rather pretty lady bug
0:04:27 > 0:04:31and he thought it was probably time for him to go home.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Bartholomew bade farewell to his insect friends
0:04:34 > 0:04:37and thanked them for such a wonderful day.
0:04:37 > 0:04:42Until, with a frizzle-frazzle sound, they were gone altogether.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45Bartholomew never went back to the big city,
0:04:45 > 0:04:49but at the end of each day, when he sits and watches them
0:04:49 > 0:04:52from the mountain, he thinks of his little bug friend
0:04:52 > 0:04:55and the fantastic day they spent together.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57And he can't resist having a little bit
0:04:57 > 0:05:02of a sing and a dance and a party.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05And that story was called Bartholomew And The Bug.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09I'm glad Bartholomew had so much fun with the bugs,
0:05:09 > 0:05:11but it's time to turn the lights out again
0:05:11 > 0:05:15as you should be snuggling up to go to sleep.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17I'll see you again soon.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Night-night.