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75 Kipper's Plastic Surprise: The Lost Beach Ball · The Story Time With Lucky Podcast

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  Welcome back to Storytime with Lucky Podcast. Today we're going to read Kipper's Beach Ball.
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  One morning, as Kipper was pouring out his cornflakes, a thing dropped into
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  his bowl, a colorful wriggly sort of thing.
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  Kipper picked the thing up and looked at it. He sniffed it. He had a nice plasticky sort of smell.
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  It was quite exciting, really, except that Kipa had no idea what the wrinkly,
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  plasticky thing might be.
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  He hurried go round to Tiger's house.
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  I got a free gift in my cornflakes, he said.
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  Tiger was unimpressed. Oh, I've been collecting them for weeks, he said.
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  I already got the penguin rubber that goes on the end of your pencil.
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  The wind-up shark that goes in the bath. And two jumpy frogs. They're just for fun.
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  The only one I haven't thought yet is the ball. What's yours then?
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  Keep helping the thing. It must be the ball. He said, it don't look much like a ball.
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  It didn't look most like anything, I thought balls weren't supposed to be around the bounce, he said.
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  He kept a bounce a thing, or rather he didn't, because the last thing he just
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  hit the floor with a little flap and no bounce at all.
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  And it laid him looking colourful but useless.
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  That, that's when, that's when Kipper, it was when they discovered the nozzle. Oh, said Tiger.
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  You're meant to blow this up. It's just not, this isn't just an ordinary ball.
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  It's a beach ball. He started to blow it up. He blew and blew and blew until he began.
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  Gideon, Kipper had to take over. Slowly, the wrinkly, plasticky thing turned
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  into the fastest Chinese beach ball they had ever seen.
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  Wow! Wow! said Kipper. He bounced the ball as hard as he could. Wow! said Tiger.
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  Where could you take a beach ball? To the beach, of course.
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  And that's what they did. Kipper was so excited as they reached the cliff dock.
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  He forgot how the windy cliff tops are through the ball up into the air.
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  This was a mistake. The wind grabbed the ball and whisked it away.
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  It sailed high out over the beach, circling in the air, making the seagulls
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  spork. Then it dropped down.
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  Onto the hard sand and bounced off again, spinning faster and faster away from them.
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  Stop, called Kipper, chasing down the cliff steps.
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  The ball rushed away. It looked and bounced unskilled along the beach,
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  knocking the top off of Sandcastle.
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  It's a sea.
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  And just as it seemed that would never, never stop, the sea grabbed it,
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  and for a moment it stopped spinning,
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  as if to catch a breath, before a wave washed up to the beach and sucked it onto the surf.
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  Come back, shouted Kipper. But by the time Kipper and Tiger reached the water's
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  edge, the ball was bobbing far out among the waves. Come back!
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  And strangely, the ball seemed to do as it was told.
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  For that moment, a great breaking wave came looming up.
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  Behind it flicked up to his nose like a seal and began to and bring bring and
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  began bringing it back to the beach it's coming it's coming three times get ready gibber,
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  there was no time to get ready gibber just hurl hurl hurled himself at before,
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  as the wave crashed onto the beach he grabbed and disappeared and in a A great
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  splash of foam and water went over the sound of waves.
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  And of the tumbling of the tibbles and of the bubbling in the water in his ears.
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  Kipper heard another sound, a faint, and he felt something collapse underneath him.
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  As Kipper lifted his beach ball out of the water, it seemed to give a sigh and
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  slowly became a wrinkly thing again.
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  He said to Tiger, it sort of died, he said to Tiger, which made them both a laugh.
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  They tried blowing it up again, but the big split on one side let the air out
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  as fast as they could blow.
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  Kepa noticed that it smelled more plasticky than ever, which for some reason,
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  had made him feel suddenly sad.
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  We could always buy some more cornflakes, suggested Tiger.
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  So they hurried home to buy more cornflakes and ran all the way to Kipper's
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  house with six whole boxes.
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  They entered straight onto the floor, but.
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  All they found was three penguin rubbers, two wind-up sharks,
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  one jumpy frog, and lots of cornflakes.
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  Over the next three weeks, Kipper ate nothing but cornflakes.
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  Cornflakes for breakfast and cornflakes for dinner too.
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  But there was no beach ball in the end, Kipper stopped looking.
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  Even so, each new bar, each time he gets a new box of cornflakes,
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  Kipper snitched the box before opening it, Just in case there's a nice plasticky
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  sour smell coming from inside.
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  The end and thank you for listening.