In tonight's premium bedtime story for kids, we're joining Koko and Kira on a trip to the Sleepy Forest Folk Festival! There'll be arts and crafts, music, face-painting and puppet shows, and more - it's an amazing day to be in Sleepy Forest! Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: the supercast link in the show notes. Anyway, here's a
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Speaker 1: preview of this very special episode. Deep in the heart
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Speaker 1: of a far away forest stirred a cozy wooden cabin.
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Speaker 1: Inside the cabin lived a family of koalas. There was Cocoa,
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Speaker 1: Coco's parents, his grandparents, and his little sister Kira, who
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Speaker 1: in fact was not a koala, she was a panda bear,
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Speaker 1: but that's a different story altogether. There was a special
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Speaker 1: time in Sleepy Forest. The globe trotting Folk Festival was
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Speaker 1: coming to down Most people knew this because for the
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Speaker 1: past few weeks, posters displaying the words in bright orange
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Speaker 1: lettering had been discovered tacked up on tree trunks all
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Speaker 1: over the place. But in fact, Coco had known about
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Speaker 1: the folk festival's arrival for some time. That's because Coco's
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Speaker 1: friend Buck the Beaver had been busy making puppets for it.
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Speaker 1: A couple of months ago, Coco and Kira had been
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Speaker 1: sharing a slice of walnut cake with Buck at his dam,
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Speaker 1: which stood on the prettiest spot of the meandering, Sleepy river.
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Speaker 1: Buck had just gone across the kitchen to cut another
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Speaker 1: slice when Coco noticed something lying on his work bench.
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Speaker 1: It looked like a doll, but a strange dog. He
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Speaker 1: asked Buck what it was, Ah, said Buck. He gave
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Speaker 1: a smile, then a small shake of the head. You
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Speaker 1: sudden have theen there. It was meant to be a surprise, oops,
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Speaker 1: said Kira. But Koco was now very intrigued and said,
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Speaker 1: it's still a surprise even if it happens before you
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Speaker 1: mean it too. What is it, Buck, please tell us.
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Speaker 1: Buck gave a sigh and another shake of his head,
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Speaker 1: but then his smile came back, and he told them
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Speaker 1: that the object was, in fact, not a doll, but
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Speaker 1: a puppet, a marionette with tiny holes in its hands
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Speaker 1: and feet and mouth which strings could be run through
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Speaker 1: so that she could stand up straight and wave her
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Speaker 1: arms and speak. One of Buck's very oldest friends was
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Speaker 1: a wallerbee named Wonder. Wonder had many talents. She knitted
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Speaker 1: marvelous blankets, grew magical herbs and made beautiful pottery out
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Speaker 1: of the softest clay. But her greatest talent was putting
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Speaker 1: on fantastic puppet shows, and for many years it was Buck, who,
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Speaker 1: after all, was so good with nibbling and whittling away
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Speaker 1: at wood, who she entrusted with making the marionettes. In fact,
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Speaker 1: Buck became so enthusiastic telling Coco and Kira the story
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Speaker 1: that he accidentally let slip that these marionettes were for
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Speaker 1: the folk festival that would be arriving in Sleepy Forests soon.
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Speaker 1: Then Buck clamped his hands over his mouth. That was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be a surprise too, So that's how Coco knew,
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Speaker 1: but he made sure he kept it a surprise for
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Speaker 1: everyone else. On the morning of the festival, Coco and
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Speaker 1: Kira sat with their parents eating delicious plates of eucalyptus
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Speaker 1: pancakes with oodles of honey syrup on them. Their dad
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Speaker 1: was telling them all about the folk festival. He'd been
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Speaker 1: many times before. It was his favorite event of the calendar.
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Speaker 1: At one point, Kira took a mouthful, put down her fork,
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Speaker 1: and asked her dad what exactly people wore to a
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Speaker 1: folk festival. Oh, he said, stroking his fluffy chin. Let's
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Speaker 1: see now the folk festival. You know, it's all about
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Speaker 1: truly connecting with nature. There's music, an there's crafts, and
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Speaker 1: there are performances that take us out of our heads
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Speaker 1: and put us in our bodies. Or sometimes they take
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Speaker 1: us out of our bodies and put us up in
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