0:37:06 > 0:37:09You're going to look great if we get to go to that disco.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11Yeah. Oh, hello.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13I'm Guy.
0:37:13 > 0:37:17And tonight's story is all about a royal disco.
0:37:17 > 0:37:21Teddy has got dressed up just in case he's invited.
0:37:21 > 0:37:27This story is called Prince Cinders and it is by Babette Cole.
0:37:27 > 0:37:31Prince Cinders wasn't much of a prince - he was small,
0:37:31 > 0:37:35spotty, scruffy and skinny.
0:37:35 > 0:37:38He had three big, hairy brothers,
0:37:38 > 0:37:41who were always teasing him about his looks.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44They spent their time going to the palace disco
0:37:44 > 0:37:46with princess girlfriends.
0:37:46 > 0:37:51They made poor Prince Cinders stay behind and clean up after them.
0:37:51 > 0:37:53When his work was done,
0:37:53 > 0:37:58he would sit by the fire and wish he was big and hairy like his brothers.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01One Saturday night, when he was washing the socks,
0:38:01 > 0:38:05a dirty fairy fell down the chimney.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08"All your wishes shall be granted," cried the fairy.
0:38:08 > 0:38:11"Zis, zis, boom! Tick, tack, ta!
0:38:11 > 0:38:14"This empty can shall be a car!
0:38:14 > 0:38:17"Biff, bang, bong! Bow, bow, bow!
0:38:17 > 0:38:19"To the disco you shall go!
0:38:19 > 0:38:23"That can't be right," said the fairy.
0:38:23 > 0:38:28"Toe of rat and eye of newt, your rags will turn into a suit."
0:38:29 > 0:38:34"Crumbs," thought the fairy, "I didn't mean a swimsuit."
0:38:34 > 0:38:38"Your greatest wish I'll grant to you, you shall be big...
0:38:38 > 0:38:41"and hairy, too."
0:38:41 > 0:38:44Prince Cinders got big and hairy all right.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48"Rats!" said the fairy, "wrong again,
0:38:48 > 0:38:51"but I'm sure it all wears off at midnight."
0:38:51 > 0:38:54Prince Cinders didn't know he was a big, hairy monkey,
0:38:54 > 0:38:57because that's the kind of spell it was.
0:38:57 > 0:38:59He thought he looked pretty good.
0:38:59 > 0:39:02So off he went to the disco.
0:39:02 > 0:39:06The car was too small to drive, but he made the best of it.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09But when you arrived at the royal rave-up,
0:39:09 > 0:39:12he was too big too fit through the door.
0:39:12 > 0:39:14He decided to take the bus home.
0:39:14 > 0:39:18A pretty princess was waiting at the stop.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20"Eek!"
0:39:20 > 0:39:24"Ehem. When's the next bus?" he grunted.
0:39:24 > 0:39:30Luckily, midnight struck and Prince Cinders changed back into himself.
0:39:30 > 0:39:34The princess thought he had saved her by frightening away
0:39:34 > 0:39:36the big, hairy monkey.
0:39:36 > 0:39:41"Wait!" she shouted, but Prince Cinders was too shy.
0:39:41 > 0:39:44He even lost his trousers in the rush.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47The princess was none other than the rich and beautiful
0:39:47 > 0:39:50Princess Lovelypenny.
0:39:50 > 0:39:54She put out a proclamation to find the owner of the trousers...
0:40:07 > 0:40:12Every prince from miles around tried to force the trousers on.
0:40:12 > 0:40:16But they wriggled about and refused to fit any of them.
0:40:16 > 0:40:17Of course,
0:40:17 > 0:40:21Prince Cinders' brothers all fought to get into the trousers at once.
0:40:21 > 0:40:25"Let him try," commanded the princess, pointing at Cinders.
0:40:25 > 0:40:29"They won't fit that little squirt," sneered his brothers.
0:40:29 > 0:40:30But they did!
0:40:30 > 0:40:34Princess Lovelypenny proposed immediately.
0:40:34 > 0:40:38So Prince Cinders married Princess Lovelypenny
0:40:38 > 0:40:41and lived in luxury, happily ever after.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44And Princess Lovelypenny had a word with the fairy
0:40:44 > 0:40:47about his big, hairy brothers...
0:40:48 > 0:40:50..who she turned into house fairies,
0:40:50 > 0:40:54and they flitted around the palace doing the housework
0:40:54 > 0:40:56for ever and ever.
0:40:57 > 0:41:00And that story was called Prince Cinders.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03Maybe we should get the house fairies to clean
0:41:03 > 0:41:07the CBeebies house. Looking a bit dirty around here.
0:41:07 > 0:41:08What do you think?
0:41:09 > 0:41:13I'm just pleased that Prince Cinders found his princess.
0:41:13 > 0:41:18Maybe you will dream about being a prince or a princess tonight.
0:41:18 > 0:41:22Sleep tight and I'll see you soon for another bedtime story.
0:41:22 > 0:41:25Say good night, Teddy.
0:41:25 > 0:41:27Zzz. Zzz.
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