Jonas Armstrong - Guess What I Found in Dragon Wood CBeebies Bedtime Stories

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Now, what on earth are you doing here?

Hello, little fella.

Hello!

My name's Jonas,

and I've found this teddy beside the bookcase,

and I don't know who it belongs to.

Do you know? It's exciting, finding things, isn't it?

It's especially exciting finding new friends,

and that's what happens in tonight's story.

Dragon meets somebody new and wants to learn all about them.

This is by Timothy Knapman and Gwen Millward,

and it's called Guess What I Found In Dragon Wood?

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

It's called a Benjamin. I didn't know what to do with it,

so I took it home to meet my parents.

Mum thought it wanted something to eat, so she cooked it a meal

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

but it turned out it wasn't even hungry.

"Can it sleep in my room, Mum?" I asked.

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

said Mum, "but he does look very tired."

So, I gave it some pyjamas, and guess what?

Its feet weren't stripy, after all.

Next morning, I took it to meet my friends.

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

"and today we're going to learn how to sit on a volcano!"

The Benjamin didn't look keen.

Perhaps there aren't schools where it's from. When he saw the Benjamin,

Mr Crockface said volcano-sitting class was cancelled,

as you don't see a Benjamin every day,

and we could learn lots from something so strange.

And the Benjamin was VERY strange. It got around without wings,

it had soft, stick-out stuff on its head, and where were its scales?

Its claws were blunt. Its tail had dropped off!

No wonder its roar was more like a squeak!

And instead of breathing fire, it leaked water out of its eyes.

You see, it turned out that the Benjamin was homesick.

He told us of the far away, magical land he comes from,

a land full of Benjamins!

Can you imagine it?!

They think dragons are story stuff and make-believe!

"So," I said, "you don't fly? You don't roar or breathe fire?

"What DO you do?".

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

The Benjamin promised it'd be fantastic, and it was!

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

eat the ball or burn the goalposts. So many things to remember!

We had an awfully nice afternoon, but when it was time to go home,

the Benjamin looked like he was going to leak again.

"Do you miss your mummy and daddy?" I said, and the Benjamin nodded.

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

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

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

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

I only met one Benjamin, how would I cope in a country full of them?

But the Benjamin was so happy to be going home, I had to smile.

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

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

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

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

wow noises, and the whirly-birds with the flashing lamps.

They were very excited. "Will you ever go back?" they asked.

"Of course!" I said. "The Benjamin wants me to meet HIS teacher!"

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

I've got to go now - football practice!

That story was called Guess What I Found In Dragon Wood?

Oh...

I wonder if Benjamin or the dragon left this teddy?

Maybe I should find them, or maybe I should wait until tomorrow,

as it's time for bed, and I'll see you soon for another story.

Goodnight!