Ashley Jensen - Paper Dolls CBeebies Bedtime Stories

Just one last snip. Right.

Let's see this.

Oh, hello! I'm Ashley.

Can you see what I've been making? Look!

It's a string of friends, all holding hands.

Tonight's bedtime story is about a string of friends

just like these ones.

Are you ready to hear it?

Fantastic!

This story is called The Paper Dolls

and it's by Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb.

There once was a little girl who had tiger slippers

and a ceiling with stars on it.

And a butterfly hair slide

which she kept losing!

And two goldfish

and a nice mother,

who helped her to make some paper dolls.

They were Ticky and Tacky

and Jackie the Backie

and Jim with two noses

and Jo with the bow.

And they danced and they jumped and they sang

and they met a dinosaur

who clawed and roared

and said, "I'm going to get you!"

But the paper dolls sang,

"You can't get us! Oh, no, no, no!

"We're holding hands and we won't let go!

"We're Ticky and Tacky and Jackie the Backie

"and Jim with two noses

"and Jo with the bow."

And they jumped onto a bus

and rode to a farmyard

and danced with the pigs.

Then they lay on a rooftop

and stared at the stars,

till a tiger slunk out of his den.

And he crouched and he snarled

and he said, "I'll leap up and catch you!"

But the paper dolls sang,

"You can't catch us. Oh, no, no, no!

"We're holding hands and we won't let go!

"We're Ticky and Tacky and Jackie the Backie

"and Jim with two noses

"and Jo with the bow."

And they floated down the stairs.

And they danced round the honeypot

and kicked crumbs and explored an island,

till a fierce crocodile grinned his grin

and gnashed his teeth and said,

"I'm coming to crunch you!"

But the paper dolls laughed and sang,

"You can't crunch us!

"Oh, no, no, no!

"We're holding hands and we won't let go!

"We're Ticky and Tacky and Jackie the Backie

"and Jim with two noses

"and Jo with a bow."

And they hopped into the garden.

And they sniffed the flowers

and chatted to a ladybird

and lay down in a forest of grass.

But along came a boy

with a pair of scissors and said,

"I'll snip you!"

And he did.

He snipped them into tiny little pieces and he said,

"You're gone for ever!"

But the paper dolls sang,

"We're not gone. Oh, no, no, no!

"We're holding hands and we won't let go.

"We're Ticky and Tacky and Jackie the Backie

"and Jim with two noses and Jo with the bow."

And the pieces all joined together

and the paper dolls flew

into the little girl's memory

where they found white mice and fireworks

and a starfish soap

and a kind granny.

And the butterfly hair slide

and more and more lovely things each day and each year.

And the girl grew

into a mother

who helped her own little girl make some paper dolls.

They were Poppy and Pinky

and Binky the Blinky

and Fred with one eyebrow

and Flo with the bow.

And they jumped and they danced

and they sang.

That story was called The Paper Dolls.

Isn't it lovely that the little girl in the story remembered

her paper dolls for all those years?

Then, when she was a mummy herself,

she made some more paper dolls

for her own little girl to play with.

Maybe one day, when you're grown-up,

you'll know a little boy or a little girl

to play all your favourite games with all over again, too.

But, for now, it's time for you to go to bed,

so you can play again tomorrow.

Have a big stretch

and a yawn

and get cosy in bed.

And I'll be back for another bedtime story.

Night-night.

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