Cheer Up Your Teddy Bear, Emily Brown CBeebies Bedtime Stories

What's that, Buttons?

You're sad?

Oh, that's a shame. Oh, hello! I'm Simon.

What, Buttons?

Ah... Buttons would like to hear a bedtime story.

-WHISPERS:

-He needs cheering up.

Don't worry, Buttons, I have the perfect story.

It's by Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton.

And it's called Cheer Up Your Teddy Bear, Emily Brown!

Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Emily Brown

and old, grey rabbit called Stanley.

One drippy, drizzly, wet weekend,

Emily Brown and Stanley were just building a camp

in the outback of Australia because it was too rainy outdoors,

when there was a "plip, plop, plip, plop" noise coming from the toy box.

"Uh-oh," said Emily Brown to Stanley.

"I think there could be something wet in there."

There certainly was.

It was a very wet teddy bear,

and she was singing a song to herself in a sad little voice,

which went something like this:

-HIGH VOICE:

-# Poor me, poor me!

# Poor little, sad little, wet little me!

# I'm a lonely only bear and I'm feeling very blue. #

"Come and have fun with us in Australia," said Emily Brown.

"We're bound to find some bears there."

"Thank you," said the tearful teddy bear.

"But there are no other teddy bears. I'm the lonely, only one."

So, Emily Brown and Stanley

and the tearful teddy bear went out camping in the outback of Australia.

And Emily Brown and Stanley were just as happy as could be, lighting

campfires and spotting kangaroos and making friends with emus.

Emily Brown was just thinking,

"This will cheer up that tearful teddy bear,"

when there was a "plip, plop, plip, plop" noise behind her.

And it was the tearful teddy bear, not cheered up at all.

-HIGH VOICE:

-# Poor me, poor me!

# Poor little, sad little, wet little me!

# I'm a lonely only bear and I'm feeling very blue

# I've got no teddy friends and there's nothing here to do. #

"Oh, dear," said Emily Brown.

"Perhaps we should do something else."

So, Emily Brown and Stanley and the tearful teddy bear went

walking in the wild woods of Yellowstone Park.

Emily Brown and Stanley had a very happy time,

spotting small bears and large bears and black bears and grizzly bears

but absolutely no teddy bears.

And Emily Brown was thinking, "This is a lot of fun!"

when there was a "plip, plop, plip, plop" noise

and it was the tearful teddy bear, gloomier than ever.

-HIGH VOICE:

-# Poor me, poor me!

# Poor little, sad little, wet little me!

# I'm a lonely only bear and I'm feeling very blue

# I've got no teddy friends and there's nothing here to do

# I'm bored and it's raining and raining is no fun. #

"Oh, dear," said Emily Brown. "Maybe we should try something different."

So, Emily Brown and Stanley and the tearful teddy bear

packed paintbrushes and easels and arty-looking overalls

and went to paint sunflowers in the south of France.

And Emily Brown and Stanley had a lovely time, splashing

swirls of glorious blue, yellow and red all over themselves.

And Emily Brown was just thinking, "This is the funnest thing ever!"

when there was a "plip, plop, plip, plop" noise behind her.

And it was the tearful teddy bear, louder and sadder

and more drippy than ever.

-HIGH VOICE:

-# Poor me, poor me!

# Poor little, sad little, wet little me!

# I'm a lonely only bear and I'm feeling very blue

# I've got no teddy friends and there's nothing here to do

# I'm bored and it's raining and raining is no fun

# There are no other teddy bears I'm the lonely, only one. #

And this time, her song was so sad and so loud

and so miserable that a terrible thing happened.

Emily Brown and Stanley began to feel quite sad too.

And then the clouds spread and spread until they filled the sky.

And they got bigger and blacker and drip, drip, drip, the rain

came down and it looked like it was going to wash away the sunflowers.

"This has gone far enough," said Emily Brown.

She took out her red umbrella and pointed up at the sky.

Swooosh!

With a lovely swooshing noise, up, up, up, up, up

went Emily Brown's beautiful red umbrella.

"Wow!" whispered Stanley.

Up went Emily Brown's umbrella

and leaping out of the sunflowers came one, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11...

12 little teddy bears who'd been having a picnic

but were all in a hurry to get out of the rain.

"I'm not the lonely, only teddy bear after all!"

said the tearful teddy bear.

"We've been here all the time," the teeniest teddy bear squeaked.

"We'd really like you to join our picnic

"but your song was so sad, we've been hiding!"

"I think," said Emily Brown firmly, "that it could be

"time for you to stop this sad song and start smiling again."

"Oh, Emily Brown! Emily Brown!" wept the tearful teddy bear.

"You see, that's the real problem.

"Someone has sown my mouth on upside down.

"And I'm not sure that I CAN smile!"

"Well, why don't you try?" said Emily Brown.

"Think of happy things and see if that works."

So, the tearful teddy bear screwed up her teddy forehead

and tried to smile as hard as she could.

She thought of all the other teddy bears wanting to play with her

and PING! The left side of her mouth worked free of the stitches

and waved happily in the wind.

And then she thought of the delicious picnic and PONG!

The right side of her mouth unpicked itself

and wriggled up words into a wibbly, wobbly smile.

And a funny thing happened.

When the tearful teddy bear smiled, the clouds got lighter and lighter.

And the sun came out again. And as the last raindrop dropped - PLOP! -

onto the cheerful, tearful teddy bear's head,

all the little teddy bears sat down for a picnic in the sunflowers.

But Emily Brown and Stanley went outside to play in the rain.

And they got very, very wet!

SPLOSH

That story was called Cheer Up Your Teddy Bear, Emily Brown!

So, Buttons, whenever you're feeling down,

I think you should think of things that make you happy.

And I think YOU should think of happy things while you fall asleep.

Sweet dreams.