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0:27:03 > 0:27:05CBeebies Bedtime Story
0:27:07 > 0:27:08Maybe this one...
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Oh, hello. I'm Frances.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15I'm just looking at all of these lovely books
0:27:15 > 0:27:18and wondering which book to start reading.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20I'm just not sure which one to choose.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24I know who could help me.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28Delilah. Do you know her?
0:27:28 > 0:27:31She loves reading books.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35Let me tell you about her in tonight's bedtime story.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37It's by Jeanne Willis and Rosie Reeve,
0:27:37 > 0:27:41and it's called Delilah Darling Is In The Library.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46My name is Queen Delilah.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50I come from a land far, far away.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Only, my mother likes to keep it secret.
0:27:53 > 0:27:57She always says, "But Delilah Darling, you were born here,
0:27:57 > 0:28:00"and, no, Delilah, you cannot wear a crown to school.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02"You're not a queen."
0:28:02 > 0:28:04That is nonsense, I'm afraid.
0:28:04 > 0:28:09If you don't believe me, ask my brother. Smallboy.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Only, you won't understand him,
0:28:11 > 0:28:14because he only speaks Far Away Language.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18And don't ask Daddy because he's busy.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Now this is Gigi.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23She is my Old Pear.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26An Old Pear is someone who tries to look after you
0:28:26 > 0:28:28until your mother comes home.
0:28:28 > 0:28:33She is French, which is a place in France.
0:28:33 > 0:28:38Gigi says, "Come, Delilah, my little cabbage.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41"Let us go to the library."
0:28:41 > 0:28:45Oh, good. I love looking at books. And smelling them.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48And shutting them like this...SNAP!
0:28:48 > 0:28:50When I get to the end.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53The library's full of extremely interesting books.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55Some have pictures, some have words,
0:28:55 > 0:29:00and this one has a squashed baked bean on page five.
0:29:00 > 0:29:05Smallboy's hungry, so I asked Gigi, "When will they bring the buns?"
0:29:05 > 0:29:09And she says, "What is buns? I am not understanding.
0:29:09 > 0:29:13"Ask that librarian."
0:29:13 > 0:29:19So, me and Smallboy go and ask Librarian, but she says,
0:29:19 > 0:29:22"No food in here, please."
0:29:22 > 0:29:28And I say, "Really? Where I come from everybody eats in the library."
0:29:28 > 0:29:34There's a man who walks around with a big tray and he shouts,
0:29:34 > 0:29:36"Who wants a bun."
0:29:36 > 0:29:42"Sh!" Says Library Anne. But everyone says, "Ah! Are there buns?
0:29:42 > 0:29:45"Are they free? We want buns!"
0:29:45 > 0:29:51"Now that," says Library Anne, "is why we don't shout in the library."
0:29:52 > 0:29:55Library Anne says, "I don't know where you come from,
0:29:55 > 0:30:00"young lady, but we have different rules in this library."
0:30:00 > 0:30:04I tell her, "I come from a land far, far away."
0:30:04 > 0:30:10"Well, run along and find a nice book about it," she says.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13So, I run along, but Library Anne says,
0:30:13 > 0:30:16"No running in the library, please."
0:30:16 > 0:30:22Which is odd, because, where I come from, everybody runs in the library.
0:30:22 > 0:30:28I try to find a book about the land where I came from, but I can't.
0:30:28 > 0:30:33Anyone would think that it didn't exist. Then Smallboy says,
0:30:34 > 0:30:39"Try up there." In Far Away Language.
0:30:39 > 0:30:45So, I start to climb, but Library Anne says, "Goodness, come down.
0:30:45 > 0:30:48"That is not how we fetch a book."
0:30:48 > 0:30:53I say, "Oh, I'm sorry, only, I couldn't find the trapeze.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55"Where I come from,
0:30:55 > 0:30:59"there is a trapeze to reach the too-high books."
0:31:00 > 0:31:05"Hey, I like the trapeze idea." Says Mrs Woolyhat.
0:31:05 > 0:31:10"I'm short. I never get to read the too-high books."
0:31:10 > 0:31:12Library Anne says,
0:31:12 > 0:31:15"There are much more sensible ways of reaching books.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18"I will help you find the book properly.
0:31:18 > 0:31:23"Now," she says, "tell me the name of the land where you come from."
0:31:24 > 0:31:27Only I can't, because it's very hard to say.
0:31:28 > 0:31:32Smallboy tells her in Far Away Language,
0:31:32 > 0:31:34but she doesn't understand.
0:31:34 > 0:31:37So I explain that we come from
0:31:37 > 0:31:39a tiny little island
0:31:39 > 0:31:42between Jafrica and Smindia.
0:31:42 > 0:31:46Only, Library Anne has never heard of such a place.
0:31:46 > 0:31:52Library Anne opens a big book and says, "Here is a map of the world.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55"Can you point to where you come from?"
0:31:55 > 0:31:57But, would you believe it?
0:31:57 > 0:32:00The person who drew the map forgot to put it on.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03So I give Library Anne a map I made
0:32:03 > 0:32:06to show her what the world is really like.
0:32:07 > 0:32:11Where I come from, we have our own animals,
0:32:11 > 0:32:14our own rules, and everything.
0:32:14 > 0:32:21We even have our own song called Hooray For Queen Delilah,
0:32:21 > 0:32:23which I wrote.
0:32:23 > 0:32:27"I'd love to hear that!" Says Mrs Woolyhat.
0:32:27 > 0:32:30So I stand on a chair and sing it.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32Mrs Woolyhat joins in.
0:32:32 > 0:32:35Library Anne says,
0:32:35 > 0:32:40"I wish I lived far, far away. Please stop singing."
0:32:42 > 0:32:47"Delilah Darling," says Gigi, "I think it's time to say au revoir."
0:32:48 > 0:32:50We go home.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53I tell my mother about the library.
0:32:53 > 0:32:55It was extremely fun.
0:32:55 > 0:32:59And I borrowed a lovely book called Tropical Diseases.
0:32:59 > 0:33:04But it was nothing like the library in the land where I come from.
0:33:04 > 0:33:08"But Delilah Darling," Mother says,
0:33:08 > 0:33:11"you come from here! We all do."
0:33:11 > 0:33:13We don't, though.
0:33:13 > 0:33:16She's just pretending.
0:33:16 > 0:33:17Funny old thing.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20"Oh, Mother," I sigh,
0:33:20 > 0:33:25"Sometimes I think you're living in a world of your own.
0:33:25 > 0:33:29"Yes, I know I'm holding my library book upside down.
0:33:29 > 0:33:33"Where I come from, that's how everybody reads."
0:33:35 > 0:33:39And that story was called Delilah Darling Is In The Library.
0:33:39 > 0:33:43I think I'd like to visit the land where Delilah comes from.
0:33:43 > 0:33:46It sounds a fun place to be
0:33:46 > 0:33:49with songs, buns, and blankets.
0:33:49 > 0:33:52Maybe you'll go there in your dreams tonight,
0:33:52 > 0:33:54because it's time for you to go to bed.
0:33:54 > 0:34:02I'll see you soon for another story. Night-night.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05Now, which of these books
0:34:05 > 0:34:09would Delilah like to borrow
0:34:09 > 0:34:12from the CBeebies story seat?