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65 Kipper's Monster: Torchlight Frights and Silly Shadows · 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 Monster.
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  What? What? Any author wants for his books to become dog-eared and familiar.
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  I've been lucky enough that my very young readers are particularly adept at
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  giving their books dog-eared in no time at all.
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  And all of my books, perhaps. It's those about Kipper that get the doggiest ears of all.
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  Which I guess is kind of appropriate. Mick Inkpen.
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  Kipper's monster, Mick Inkpen.
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  Tiger had a brand new torch. It's the most powerful torch there is, he said to Kipper.
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  He's shown it at the big owl. He's shown it at Hippo.
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  He's shown it at Kipper's face. You should see when it's dark.
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  It's really good when it's dark. He sat in Kipper's basket and pulled the blanket over his head.
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  We can make it dark under here.
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  Come on, we can make it dark under here, he said. Under the blanket was one
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  of Kipper's storybooks.
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  That's another thing, said Tiger. You can read under the bedclothes with a torch like this.
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  Tipper began to read, deep in the middle of the dark wood, there lived a terrible,
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  a horrible, horrendous,
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  terrible, tremendous, that's it, shouts a tiger, jumping up.
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  We'll camp in the woods tonight, it'll be really, really dark in the woods.
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  Shall I bring my book?
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  Said Giffa So they took the book and some biscuits And,
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  they put up their tent in the middle of the woods At the bottom of the big hill,
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  Just as it began to get dark Tyra began to think that,
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  perhaps it wasn't such a good idea after all.
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  Come inside and you can have a biscuit, said Kipper. Do you want Rabbit or Big Owl?
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  But Tiger didn't reply. He was looking nervously out of the door.
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  Do you think there are any bears in these woods? He whispered.
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  No, I shouldn't think so, said Kipper. He began to read.
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  Deep in the middle of the dark, dark woods, there lived a horrible...
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  But Tiger wasn't ready. He asked Kipper to sit next to the door.
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  Instead of him, when Kipper tried again to read, Tiger got...
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  And up and zipped the door shut all together.
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  But the third time Kipper tried to read from somewhere outside the tent,
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  there came the most terrible, tremendous, horrible, horrendous screech.
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  What was that, said Kipper. Tiger said nothing. Let's go and look.
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  He whispered, whispered Kipper.
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  So they crept out of the tent and into the woods, shining Tiger's torch ahead of them.
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  I think it came somewhere near here, said Kipper.
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  The torch being lit up, the enormous grey trunk of an old tree.
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  There in the middle of a dark, dark hole.
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  Suddenly a huge pair of yellow eyes blinked open, and from the hole came the most terrible screech.
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  They shrieked around bumping into each other and sending the torch flying They
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  scrambled into the tent and lay there panting hard listening,
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  I think it was just an owl Whispered,
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  whispered Pippa Yes,
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  it was just a silly old owl But behind him the shadow of something The shadow of something.
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  Was growing on the wall of the tent Something with horns It's a horrible,
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  horrendous monster squealed Tiger,
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  The shape on the tent grew until it was looming above them.
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  Then slowly it changed into a shape that Kipper had seen before.
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  Kipper crept out of the tent and walked towards the torchlight.
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  Caught in the beam was a little snail.
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  Kipper picked up the torch and let the snail crawl onto his paw.
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  He looked at the snail grossly,
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  Its horns curled out In and out as he touched them,
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  I found the horrible horrendous monster Look tiger Tiger peeked out from underneath
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  the blanket And he saw the snail He saw a shadow It felt silly Shall I read the story now?
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  Said Kipper But Kipper never did get to read his story because they went home to Tiger's house,
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  Where they put the tent in Tiger's bedroom And Tiger got to read it instead,
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  The end and thank you for listening Did I hear that?