In tonight's sleep meditation for kids, we're heading out with Koko to the coast. When peeking in the rock pools who does he see but our chillaxed friend Zen the Pufferfish!
Zen teaches him about the magical things we can find in the shallows if we only look close enough. Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin tonight's sleep meditation for kids!
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Author: Luke Prendergast
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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Koala Moon, a podcast of
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Speaker 1: original children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make bedtime
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Speaker 1: a dream. As you know if you've been listening to
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Speaker 1: Kuala Moon for a while, Coco's home of Sleepy Forest
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Speaker 1: is a truly unique place. It's home to a vast
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Speaker 1: melting pot of diverse and wonderful characters, and it has
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Speaker 1: a majestic river running through it. The river eventually runs
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Speaker 1: out to the sea, and tonight we're going to explore
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Speaker 1: the beach that fringes the ocean with Coco. But first,
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Speaker 1: before we head there, let me warmly welcome our newest
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Speaker 1: members of Coco's Club. Hello, and thank you for joining us.
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Speaker 1: Low And from Canada. Sloane and Porter from white Rock,
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Speaker 1: be Ce, Maggie and baby brother, Obie, Thomas and Eve
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Speaker 1: from Kildare, Ireland. Cora and Finn from Melbourne. It's great
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Speaker 1: to have you here with us, and I hope you
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Speaker 1: all enjoy the extra stories and free listening coming away.
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Speaker 1: As I was saying, Sleepy Forest is an enchanted place,
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Speaker 1: and tonight, as we relax and get lulled into deep rest,
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Speaker 1: we're going to join our friend Coco, who has headed
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Speaker 1: out of the forest and is enjoying a gentle seaside stroll.
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Speaker 1: Coco begins peering into rock pools and guess who he
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Speaker 1: finds there, Little Zen, the pufferfish. Zen is our friend
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Speaker 1: who knows exactly what to do to relax, and tonight
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Speaker 1: we're going to hear how he teaches Cocoa to properly
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Speaker 1: slow down and look closely so that he can really
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Speaker 1: see the beauty in the world. This is Coco Go's
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Speaker 1: Rock by Luke Prendergast. Settle down into your bed and
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Speaker 1: close your eyes. If you'd like to, pour the covers
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Speaker 1: up to your chin so you're nice and warm, and
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Speaker 1: tuck the pillow under your head so that you're extra comfy.
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Speaker 1: Give your arms and your legs, your hands and your
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Speaker 1: feet a little shake to release all the tension that's
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Speaker 1: built up in your body over the day. And now
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Speaker 1: give your fingers and toes a big squeeze and release.
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Speaker 1: That's it. Very good. Now I'd like you to imagine
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Speaker 1: a seashell, Picture it in your mind and hold it there.
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Speaker 1: That's it, What a beautiful seashell it is. Now inspect
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Speaker 1: the seashell more closely. What color is your seashell. How
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Speaker 1: is it decorated? Is it smooth as a pearl? Or
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Speaker 1: does it have riches down it? If you were to
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Speaker 1: lift the seashell delicately in your hand and hold it
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Speaker 1: to your ear, what would you hear? That's right, you'd
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Speaker 1: hear the sea, the gentle ebb and flow, the rush
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Speaker 1: and hush of the tide as it comes in and
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Speaker 1: goes out. Let's practice our deep breaths together in time
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Speaker 1: with the sound of the tide. Take a deep, big
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Speaker 1: breath in and then slowly let it out again, a
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Speaker 1: big breath in and slowly let it out. Small breathing
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Speaker 1: and very good. This evening, we're going to meet our
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Speaker 1: old koala friend Cocoa. But we're not meeting him at
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Speaker 1: his home, the little log cabin where he lives with
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Speaker 1: the rest of his family. No, today, we're going to
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Speaker 1: meet Coco at the edge of Sleepy Forest, where the
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Speaker 1: line of trees meets the ocean. Because this afternoon Coco
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Speaker 1: pulled on his weady boots and his bright blue annorak hand,
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Speaker 1: slung his backpack over his back, and set off for
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Speaker 1: the beach. And you hear the sound of the waves,
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Speaker 1: the hush and rush of the tide like the sound
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Speaker 1: of the earth breathing. That means that Coco is here, somewhere,
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Speaker 1: ah there he is picking his way across the pebbles
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Speaker 1: at the edge of the sea. Let's say hello to Coco. Hello, Coco.
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Speaker 1: Cocoa walks across the beach, hearing the shingle crunch satisfyingly.
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Speaker 1: Beneath his bright yellow wady boots, there is a gentle breeze,
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Speaker 1: and on it you can smell the salt of the sea,
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Speaker 1: and on the fur of his face he can feel
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Speaker 1: the little droplets of sea water that are carried on
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Speaker 1: the breeze. Coco's come to the beach to day to
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Speaker 1: go rock pooling. In amongst the rocks at the edge
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Speaker 1: of the water a small pools that get filled by
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Speaker 1: the sea water. Coco has learnt from his teachers at
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Speaker 1: Sleepy Elementary School that these rock pools become the perfect
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Speaker 1: homes for all kinds of sea creatures, animals and plants alike,
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Speaker 1: and that if you put on your wet weather gear
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Speaker 1: and go and peer into the rock pools, you may
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Speaker 1: discover some quite wonderful things. So this is exactly what
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Speaker 1: Cocoa has done. Now Cocoa reaches the rock pools, steps
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Speaker 1: carefully onto the rocks, for they are slippery with sea
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Speaker 1: water and algae, and peers down into the first pool.
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Speaker 1: The water sparkles like crystal, catching the pale light of
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Speaker 1: the early evening sun. Beneath the sparkling, the water is
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Speaker 1: deep and dark. Sometimes it looks blue, sometimes it looks green,
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Speaker 1: other times it looks black as ink. Sometimes, as the
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Speaker 1: water shifts, Cocoa can see silty sand and all kinds
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Speaker 1: of white and black and gray and brown sitting at
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Speaker 1: the bottom of the rock pool, but no other creatures
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Speaker 1: just yet. Cocos scrambles cautiously over the rocks until he
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Speaker 1: has reached the second rock pool. He peers down into
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Speaker 1: the shimmering water and sees more pebbles at the bottom,
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Speaker 1: but still no creatures, And so Cocoa scrambles to yet
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Speaker 1: another rock pool and peers into the water. This time
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Speaker 1: he sees something. It's a sparkling yellow shape beneath the
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Speaker 1: surface of the water. Before Cocoa can make out what
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Speaker 1: it is, the friendly face of a puffer fish pokes
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Speaker 1: up through the surface of the water. Hello, says the
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Speaker 1: puffer fish, Hello says Coco. Who is not so much
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Speaker 1: startled as glad to see the friendly face of a
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Speaker 1: creature swimming about the rock pool. Who are you? The
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Speaker 1: pufferfish tells him his name is Zen, and Coco introduces himself. Hello, Coco,
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Speaker 1: says Zen, the pufferfish, blowing up his body full of air.
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Speaker 1: Nice to meet you. Now, Can I tell you a
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Speaker 1: little secret? Ah? Yes, please, Coco replies, I love to
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Speaker 1: hear secrets. Well, the thing is, says Zen, I've been
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Speaker 1: watching you for a few minutes. Actually, I watched you
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Speaker 1: peer into that pool over there, and then into that
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Speaker 1: pool over there, and then finally into this pool here.
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Speaker 1: Can I ask you why did you move on from
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Speaker 1: each rock pool so quickly? Well, Coco explains, I moved
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Speaker 1: on because I couldn't find any little creatures in the
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Speaker 1: pools ah si, Zen, nodding wisely. I thought that might
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Speaker 1: be the case. But let me tell you one more thing.
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Speaker 1: The trick with rock pooling is that you have to
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Speaker 1: have some patience, and you have to look very closely.
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Speaker 1: A rock pool that, on a brief inspection might appear
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Speaker 1: to be empty is actually very often with a closer
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Speaker 1: look and a dash of curiosity teeming with all kinds
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Speaker 1: of wonderful and interesting things can I show you? Coco
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Speaker 1: is absolutely delighted at Zen the Pufferfish's offer to show
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Speaker 1: him the rock pulls. He nods his head happily and says, oh, yes, please.
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Speaker 1: Zen the pufferfish gives a couple of swishes of his
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Speaker 1: tail and sails around the side of the pool. Coco follows,
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Speaker 1: and when he reaches where Zen has come to rest,
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Speaker 1: the pufferfish tells him to look deep in the water.
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Speaker 1: Coco looks at the sparkling water, at the rocks at
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Speaker 1: the bottom, and the way the tide pulls at the pool,
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Speaker 1: and then releases keep looking. Zen encourages him, don't look away,
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Speaker 1: look harder, look deeper. Coco tries to do as Zen advises,
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Speaker 1: and then, to his great delight and surprise, he does
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Speaker 1: really begin to see things in the rock pool that
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Speaker 1: he hadn't been able to see before. First, he sees
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Speaker 1: that there are not only beautiful colored pebbles at the
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Speaker 1: bottom of the pool, but tufts of swaying seaweed too.
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Speaker 1: The seaweed is dark and silky. It billows in the
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Speaker 1: water in the same way that the leaves on the
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Speaker 1: trees in Sleepy forest billow in a gentle wind. That's it,
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Speaker 1: says Zen. Look even closer. Cocoa looks even closer, and
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Speaker 1: then he sees that the seaweed contains many different wondrous colors.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes the seaweed looks green, other times it looks almost purple.
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Speaker 1: As it moves back and forth in the water, it
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Speaker 1: sparkles blue and red too, a display so iridescent. It
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Speaker 1: seems that the seaweed may well be an underwater rainbow. Oh,
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Speaker 1: whispers Cocoa. You really can see many things if you
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Speaker 1: look very closely. That's right, replies Zen, nodding his head.
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Speaker 1: Do you want to find out what else you can see?
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Speaker 1: Coco says that he sure does, and then Zen shakes
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Speaker 1: his little tail and slips gracefully through a little gap
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Speaker 1: in the rock and into the next rock pool. Coco
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Speaker 1: himself scrambles back over the wet rocks, thankful that the
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Speaker 1: thick rubber treads on the bottom of his wellie boots
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Speaker 1: stop him from slipping bound straight into the water. When
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Speaker 1: he reaches the other rock pool, Zen the puffer fish,
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Speaker 1: is already there, smiling at him kindly. Payko look, Zen says.
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Speaker 1: Cocoa looks down into the gently rippling water. Beneath the surface,
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Speaker 1: Like before, he can see many small stones and pebbles,
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Speaker 1: white stones and red stones, black stones and blue stones.
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Speaker 1: Then his eyes are light on something else. Oh, says Cocoa,
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Speaker 1: what's that? I thought it was a pebble, and then
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Speaker 1: I thought it was a shell. But looking again, it
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Speaker 1: looks like something different. Coco points at the strange thing
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Speaker 1: below the surface. It looks like a shell, shiny brown
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Speaker 1: and white in color, and ribboned with sharp seeming grooves.
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Speaker 1: That says, then the puffer fish is an oyster. An oyster,
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Speaker 1: Cocoa whispers, what's that? Is it a kind of rock?
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Speaker 1: Zen gives out a tinkling little laugh. Oh no, he
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Speaker 1: tells Cocoa, an oyster isn't a kind of rock at all.
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Speaker 1: In fact, it's a kind of animal, an animal. Cocoa
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Speaker 1: can't quite believe his ears, But as he stares at
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Speaker 1: the oyster beneath the surface of the water, he sees
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Speaker 1: its shell opening up. Inside the shell, though Cocoa doesn't
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Speaker 1: know what it is yet, Cocoa can see something bright
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Speaker 1: and beautiful and sparkling, a perfect shiny white orb. Then
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Speaker 1: he hears a little voice, Hello, Cocoa. The voice says,
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Speaker 1: my name is Oily the Oyster. It's nice to meet you.
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Speaker 1: Cocoa tells Oily the Oyster that it is nice to
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Speaker 1: meet her too. Then he asks about the shining thing
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Speaker 1: hidden beneath the oyster shell. Oh, this asks Oily, and
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Speaker 1: she opens her shell to show Cocoa the pale, glowing orb.
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Speaker 1: This is my pearl, a pearl. Cocoa says, where did
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Speaker 1: you find it? Oh, says Oily the Oyster, with a
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Speaker 1: small giggle. I didn't find it. I made it. Let
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Speaker 1: me tell you the story. Oily the Oyster told Cocoa
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Speaker 1: then that oysters make pearls when a tiny grain of
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Speaker 1: sand or a little bit of grit makes its way
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Speaker 1: accidentally through the gap in their shells. This piece of
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Speaker 1: grit or grain of sand is as dull and unremarkable
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Speaker 1: as it sounds, just a tiny bit of dirt that
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't blink twice at. But quite unexpectedly, this remarkable
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Speaker 1: bit of grit is exactly what an oyster needs to
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Speaker 1: make a pearl. When a grain of sand made its
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Speaker 1: way inside oily shell, that's when she began to get
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Speaker 1: to work. Over many many months, Oily began to wrap
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Speaker 1: the little grain of sand in layer upon layer of
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Speaker 1: a special substance, the same substance that her shell is
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Speaker 1: made of. It's like wrapping a tiny ball in layers
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Speaker 1: and layers of silk, she explains. And then after a long,
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Speaker 1: long time and much hard work, the little bit of
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Speaker 1: grit is no longer a mere piece of grit. It
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Speaker 1: is a beautiful pearl. That is a wonderful story. Koco
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Speaker 1: tells her, thank you for telling it to me. And
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Speaker 1: you would not have been able to make a pearl
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Speaker 1: without the piece of grit, he asks, Oh no, Oiley
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Speaker 1: tells him, I would not, And that is the truly
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Speaker 1: important thing. We oysters know, how even something as dull
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Speaker 1: and unremarkable as a speck of dust can often be
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Speaker 1: the start of something indescribably beautiful. A thought occurs to Coco,
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Speaker 1: Just like the ducks on the sleepy River, he says,
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Speaker 1: who grow up and turn into beautiful swans. Yes, Oiley replies,
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Speaker 1: quite delighted, exactly like that. Zen the pufferfish asks Coco
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Speaker 1: if he's ready to discover more delights in the next
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Speaker 1: rock pool, and Coco says that he definitely is. He
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Speaker 1: thanks Oiley, the oyster once more for her wise and
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Speaker 1: wonderful story, before following Zen, who slipped through to another
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Speaker 1: rock pool. What can you find in here, Zen asks him.
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Speaker 1: Coco perches on a shelf of the dark rock and
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Speaker 1: peers into the water. The pool, he thinks, seems empty,
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Speaker 1: apart from the normal pebbles at the bottom. The sound
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Speaker 1: of the sea tide fills Coco's ears. It reminds him
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Speaker 1: of the sound his mum's nails make on his back
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Speaker 1: when she's scratching an itch for him, and Cocoa likes
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Speaker 1: the idea very much that it is the sea's job
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Speaker 1: to scratch the land's back. And then, quite curiously, just
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Speaker 1: as he's having this thought, he notices things in the
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Speaker 1: rock pool that he hadn't noticed before. He sees the
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Speaker 1: shells of some limpets sucking hard on the surface of
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Speaker 1: the rocks. He sees seaweed drifting back and forth like
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Speaker 1: long fronts of hair. He sees bright red and enemies
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Speaker 1: waving their frilly red tendrils through the water. Then Cooko
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Speaker 1: sees something moving in the water, and he notices that
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Speaker 1: a crab has been hiding in the crevice of a rock.
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Speaker 1: The crab creeps out from his hiding place, clicking his
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Speaker 1: claws and greeting Hello, says Coco. Why good evening, says
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Speaker 1: the crab, clicking his claws again. Cooko asks the crab
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Speaker 1: why he's hiding. The crab explains that he slips into
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Speaker 1: the nooks and crannies in the rock and hides there
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Speaker 1: very motionless, waiting for little morsels of food to pass by.
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Speaker 1: Then as they do, he can reach out and take
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Speaker 1: them in his clicky little claws. Often. He says, that's
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Speaker 1: the best way to do things. Bide your time, have patience,
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Speaker 1: and wait for the perfect opportunities to come to you.
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Speaker 1: Coco nods and says he understands. It's just like waiting
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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the tree for a juicy fruit
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Speaker 1: to fall, rather than trying to climb up and pluck
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Speaker 1: the ones that aren't ready yet. Sorry to disturb you,
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Speaker 1: mister crab, Coco says, you go back to your lurking,
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Speaker 1: and with a click goodbye, the crab slips back into
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Speaker 1: his rock crevice. I have one more friend. I want
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Speaker 1: you to meet, Coco, then, the pufferfish tells him. Coco
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Speaker 1: crawls over the rock to meet him at the other
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Speaker 1: side of the rock pool, where he's delighted to discover
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Speaker 1: a bright orange starfish lying against the rock. The starfish
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Speaker 1: blinks her bright big eyes at Cocoa and waves with
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Speaker 1: one of her five arms. Hello, friend of Zen, She says,
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Speaker 1: my name is Stella. It's very good to meet you.
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Speaker 1: Coco says that it's very good to meet her too,
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Speaker 1: and he tells her that Zen has been showing him
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Speaker 1: all of the wonderful creatures and discoveries that are to
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Speaker 1: be found in the rock pools. Oh yes, sighs Stella
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Speaker 1: the starfish. The more you look amongst the rock pools,
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Speaker 1: the more you'll find They truly are a never ending gift.
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Speaker 1: Would you like to know one of my favorite things
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Speaker 1: about these rock pulls? Oh yes, please, Coco replies. Okay,
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Speaker 1: says Stella. But in order to see it, you have
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Speaker 1: to be just like me. You have to lie down
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Speaker 1: on the rock on your back. Coco does as Stella says.
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Speaker 1: He turns over and lies with his back on the rock.
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Speaker 1: Then he looks up and he can't believe his eyes.
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Speaker 1: Up above him, the sky stretches out like a dark
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Speaker 1: blue cloth. The sun has set, evening has come to
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Speaker 1: the sea at the edge of sleepy forest, almost without
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Speaker 1: his noticing it. And that dark blue cloth of the
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Speaker 1: sky is dotted with thousand, if not millions, of stars.
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Speaker 1: It is as though someone has taken a needle and
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Speaker 1: embroidered the sky with gold and silver threads. They sparkle
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Speaker 1: and shimmer, a whole galaxy of twinkling stars. This is
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Speaker 1: why you can always find me lying on this rock,
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Speaker 1: Stella tells them, because from here you can look up
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Speaker 1: to the sky and fill your eyes up with stars.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's why they call me a starfish too, not
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Speaker 1: only because I look like a star with my five arms,
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Speaker 1: but because I feel so connected to them too, and
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Speaker 1: love to look up at them when they come out
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Speaker 1: at night. And sometimes, you know, when I lie hear
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Speaker 1: a long time and listen very closely, I can hear
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Speaker 1: them singing to me, all those stars. It's like a
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Speaker 1: chorus coming down from the sky. And sometimes I even
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Speaker 1: sing back to them. Would you like to sing to
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Speaker 1: the stars with me? Coco and Zen the pufferfish say
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Speaker 1: they would love to sing to the stars, and so,
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Speaker 1: following Stella's lead, they sing a soothing lullaby up to
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Speaker 1: the sky, and when they're finished, In the silence that
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Speaker 1: comes after their song, Hoko swears that he can hear it,
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Speaker 1: a shimmering, far off ethereal sound, the sound of the
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Speaker 1: stars singing back. Coco and Stella the Starfish, and Zen
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Speaker 1: the puffer Fish all gaze up at the sky, listening
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Speaker 1: to the sound of the stars lullaby. Then Coco gives
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Speaker 1: a big yawn. He hasn't realized how tired he is.
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Speaker 1: I'm for bed, he tells Zen and Stella. He thanks
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Speaker 1: Stella for showing him the star song, and he thanks
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Speaker 1: Zen for guiding him around the rock pool so magnificently.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to come back, he says, and he
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Speaker 1: means it. Then Coco makes his way back through sleepy forest,
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Speaker 1: back to the cabin, where his warm bed will be waiting.
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Speaker 1: What an afternoon he has had. There have been so
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Speaker 1: many things that he's discovered at the rock pool. The
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Speaker 1: seaweed billowing beneath the surface, Oiley the oyster and her
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Speaker 1: story about how pearls are formed around grains of meager sand,
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Speaker 1: Stella the starfish and her sky full of stars, and
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Speaker 1: of course Coco's new pal, then the pufferfish. What a
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Speaker 1: day it's been when Coco gets back to his cabin.
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Speaker 1: He is very tired. He brushes his teeth, put on
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Speaker 1: his pajamas, and crawls into his delightfully warm bed. Outside,
00:29:10
Speaker 1: he hears the wind in the trees, the sound of
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Speaker 1: the leaves whispering to each other. He smiles to himself
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Speaker 1: as he falls asleep, and then at last he drifts
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Speaker 1: into a deep and peaceful sleep, full of dreams of
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Speaker 1: magical stars singing their celestial lullabies. D