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Hello, there. How are you today?

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Salty and I have a tale or two to tell you about this beach

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and the rockpools

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and all the magical things that have happened here.

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# Come with me, we're off to the sea

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# To where I used to play

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# Looking back when I was a boy and the fun we had each day

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# Over the cobbles and through the streets

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# Playing in the sun

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# Friends to meet with games and treats

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# Adventures just begun

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# Stories from a magical world Washed in by the sea

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# Meet the rockpool creatures there It's amazing what you see

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# Looking back when I was a boy

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# Shrimps and starfish Crabs and snails

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# In twinkly Rockpool Tales

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Ha-ha-ha-ha!

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# Those lovely Rockpool Tales. #

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TOOT!

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Oh, hello! Ha-ha! Do you know what?

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This little cupboard has seen better days.

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Look! You can look straight through it.

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Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Oh! Do you know?

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I keep all my special bits and bobs in here.

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Now, this tin, this has got buttons in it. It's my button tin. Yes.

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Oh, look at this! Salty, look what I've found. Look at this!

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You see that little red button?

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Oh-ho! Now, that's got a story to tell, haven't you? Yes.

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Yes, it all happened when I was a boy

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in a twinkly time long, long ago.

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Ha-ha!

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I used to run down to the beach as often as I could.

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Meeting up with my best friends, Little Ernie and Little Sailor Sue.

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What are you doing?

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One day, we were playing pirates

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and finding pebbles and shells in the sand,

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and pretending they were jewels from a pirate's treasure chest.

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Ha-ha-ha!

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-There'll be jewels in the rockpools!

-Let's go and look for treasure!

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But Sue stopped in her tracks.

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Oh, no! Look at the buttons on my new cardigan! The middle one's gone!

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And surely enough, it had.

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Sue decided to retrace her footsteps

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to see if she could find her button.

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Go and explore the rockpools, I'll meet you here later.

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So Ernie and I scrambled off in search of jewels

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washed into the rockpools by the sea.

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And as we gazed deep down into the glittery waters,

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a magical world appeared before our eyes.

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On this particular day, Belinda the Blenny

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saw something very colourful

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and very unusual stuck between the rocks.

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It was red and round and flat.

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And Belinda thought it was beautiful.

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With a tug and a heave, she managed to wiggle it out.

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And then, very carefully, she carried it all the way home.

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As she swam home, she passed Andrew the Anemone.

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"Morning, Belinda", he said. "What have you got there?"

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"I don't know", said Belinda,

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"but it's very lovely and I need to get it home".

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Andrew looked at it very carefully.

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"I think it's a button from the big world outside."

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"Well" she said, "I need to put my button in a safe place."

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"Oh, really?" said Andrew.

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"Couldn't we play with it and whizz it around like a saucer?"

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"No," said Belinda, hurriedly. "It's too precious.

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"I must put it in a safe place." And she rushed off.

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Yes, you know all about safe places, don't you, Salty?

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That's where you put your tennis balls, isn't it?

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Yeah, anyway, Belinda's safe place

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was a little cupboard on the wall of her home.

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And she put the button very carefully inside

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and closed the door.

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"There!", she said to herself, "nice and safe."

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Then she went outside to look at the pretty flowers

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that bloomed around her home on the rocky ridge.

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After a while, she heard a shout. "Hiya, Belinda!"

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It was her friend, Sally the Starfish. She'd come to play.

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Belinda was very keen to show Sally her lovely red button,

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so she asked her inside and opened the door to her cupboard.

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"My button", she said, proudly.

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Sally peered inside the cupboard

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and then she looked at Belinda

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and then she peered inside the cupboard again.

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"But there's nothing there", said Sally.

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Belinda looked inside, and it was true.

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Her red button had disappeared.

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Well, as you can imagine, Belinda was very, very upset.

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"I really loved that button", she said.

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"How could it have disappeared like that?"

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"Never mind", said Sally,

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"I've got just the thing to make everything better."

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And with that, she dashed next door to her own home in the rocks

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and brought out a bright, shiny, red button.

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"Look", she said, happily,

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"I have one, too. Come and play with mine."

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Well, Sally and Belinda whizzed the button around for ages.

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One of Sally's whizzes whizzed the button so high

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that it flew out of the rockpool,

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before falling back with a splash.

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"I love this game", laughed Belinda.

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Well, they played and they played until they felt tired,

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and they agreed it was time to go home.

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Sally took her red button back to her cosy home

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and she popped it in her cupboard.

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Belinda, with a sad little sigh, went home with nothing,

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except the memory of what fun she'd had playing with Sally.

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Inside, Belinda went over to her little cupboard.

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She missed her button.

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She opened the door to have one last look at the space

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where the button should be, and...

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there it was, right where she'd left it.

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The red button was back in her cupboard.

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Now, how did that happen, Salty, eh?

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Well, Belinda had no idea, but she was so happy to see it again

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that she snatched it out of the cupboard

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and hurried next door to Sally's house to tell her.

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"Sally? Sally? Look, my red button's back!"

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"That's amazing", laughed Sally. "Now we've got two buttons.

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"Let me get mine."

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Sally dashed over to her cupboard on the wall and opened it.

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And, do you know? The button was gone.

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Sally could not believe her eyes.

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"But I put it here after we finished our game", she cried.

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Belinda and Sally didn't understand what was going on.

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"Hm", said Belinda, "I'm going to put my button back in a safe place.

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"There are too many disappearing buttons today."

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And she rushed home.

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Sally went back over to her cupboard to see if, by some chance,

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she'd missed the red button.

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She opened the door and,

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to her astonishment, what did she see?

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It was Belinda, holding the red button.

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"Belinda", said Sally.

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"Sally", said Belinda.

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They stared at each other from either side of the cupboard

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for a moment or two.

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They blinked, and then, slowly...

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Ha-ha-ha-ha!

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..slowly, they realised what was going on.

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Did you guess?

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Yes!

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"I think the back of my cupboard is the door to your cupboard",

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said Sally, laughing.

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"I think the back of my cupboard

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"is the door to your cupboard", laughed Belinda.

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"That's because we live next door to each other", smiled Sally.

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That also meant that there had only ever been one cupboard

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and one red button.

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"I think because we're the best of friends", said Belinda,

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"and we share a cupboard, we could also share the red button.

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"In fact, we could be button buddies!"

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And then they rushed outside to play together

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in the still waters of the rockpool for the rest of the day.

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Friends and button buddies forever.

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I've looked everywhere we've been and I can't find my button.

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Sue gazed into the rockpool, looking glum.

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But there, twinkling in the water was a little red button.

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Sue's missing button.

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-There it is!

-I'm sure it wasn't there before.

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"Rockpools are magical places, Jack", Ernie smiled.

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-Sue fished the button out with a cheer.

-Hooray!

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We all got up and ran back to Sue's house

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so that she could sew her button back on,

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and we could eat her mum's cake.

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Oh! It was the best in Staithes.

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Yeah.

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And then the tide came in

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and covered the rockpool like a great seaweedy blanket.

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Hm-hm-hm!

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There we are, there we are. Ha!

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What do you think, eh? Hee-hee-hee!

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Perfect place for a red button, isn't it, Salty, eh?

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Why don't you join us for some more Rockpool Tales next time? Hm!

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Goodbye!

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