Koko & Kira's Lost Comfort Blanket 🐼🧸 Premium Kids Bedtime Story

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[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_01] Deep in the episode. Just as, just as human boys and girls, just as human boys and girls often have toy animals, animal children often have toy humans. That's just the way it is. Coco was very in love with his little toy human, who he called Terry. He took Terry everywhere with him, to kindergarten, to the shops with his mum, to walks along the sleepy river, and to bed every night too.

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_01] He would whisper in Terry's mum, to the rest of the night.

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_01] And whenever Coco was going someplace new and unfamiliar, he was glad that Terry was there with him, to give him comfort. That's right. Terry was Coco's comfort toy. Now that Coco was a bit older, he didn't need to take Terry everywhere with him anymore. These days, Terry lived on top of Coco's bed, waiting for him to come home from school in the evenings and snuggle up with him in bed.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_01] But having had Terry as a comfort toy meant that when his adopted little sister, Kira arrived in sleepy forest a year or two before, clutching in her little panda paws a threadbare purple blanket, Coco knew just what it was. That's your comfort blanket, he told Kira, pointing at the blanket she was dragging around.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_01] Kira, who was still new to sleepy forest back then and rather shy, gave a bashful little nod. This is Nino, she explained. Nino goes everywhere with me. I understand completely, Coco reassured his little sister.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_01] And then he wasted no time in telling her all about Terry and the places they'd been together, and the times that Terry had made Coco feel safe and warm and relaxed. And as Coco told her, he saw Kira's eyes brighten with understanding, and a small smile spread across her face. Would you like to meet Terry?

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_01] He'd asked her, and she'd nodded. Yes, please. Now, Kira was a couple of years younger than Coco, and most of the time she still took Nino around wherever she went. She wrapped her comfort blanket in her lap when they were eating, or tucked it into her jacket when they went on walks through sleepy forest.

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_01] She took it to school with her, because she found that holding onto Nino and feeling the soft, familiar weave of the blanket often helped her get around a tricky problem in maths, like adding up seven and three. And there was nothing she liked more in the evenings, when the whole family nuzzled down beside the fire with cups of tea,

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_01] and their grandad read out a story from one of his many storybooks, then curling up on the sofa with her Nino in her arms, and drifting off into a peaceful sleep. Listen to the full episode by joining the Coco Club. Unlock the entire back catalogue of Coco Club exclusives, and enjoy all episodes completely ad-free. Unlock the entire back catalogue of Coco Club.