Hello friends, and welcome to bedtime Stories with mister jim O. I was just getting ready for bed, are you as well? Oh good? I hope you brushed your teeth and found all of your comfy things like pillows and blankets and stuffies. Oh yes, oh good. Well, as long as you have all those things ready, then it's time for our story. But first we must close our eyes so that we can travel to an imaginary world the end Charlie's mothers as she closed the book, aw said Charlie, disappointed. Can
we read one more? I'm not sleepy yet. Her mom smiled at her but shook her head. Nope, time for bed. Let's tuck you in and then it's off to dreamland. As they walked to her room, Charlie frowned and asked, dreamland. Where's that? Oh? You know, it's the place where all dreams live, her mother answered. Charlie climbed into bed, but she still had more questions. Mom, how do I find dreamland? Mom looked out of Charlie's window at the night sky.
The stars were twinkling and the moon shone bright tonight. She told Charlie just follow the moon, then tucked her in nice and snug and kissed her good night. Charlie sighed and yawned and looked out her window. She watched the moon expectantly, waiting for it to do something, but wasn't exactly sure what. Would it move toward her window and ask her to follow. Would it speak and give directions?
She waited and waited, the starlight growing weaker as clouds began to move in the moon had not moved, winked, or spoken. Still, she waited until finally something happened. The moon disappeared. No, how will I get to Dreamland now, Charlie jumped out of bed to get a better look outer window. Oh, the clouds had taken over the night sky, making it hard to see much of anything. A bright flash dipped below the cloud cover, then quickly disappeared the moon.
Come on, clouds, I need to see the moon. I want to go to Dreamland. The clouds blanketing the sky remained the same for a moment, and then a few of them began to wiggle. They wiggled and jiggled their fluffy selves until they popped loose and dropped down, each one lower in the sky than the next. The last cloud to wiggle and pop landed with its belly just above the grass in Charlie's yard. Charlie wasted no time climbing out of her window and up onto the first cloud.
Then she reached to squished the fluff of the cloud above it in both hands, and pulled herself through. Up and up she went, until the last cloud she had to climb through was the cloud layer blanketing the sky. She pulled herself through and saw the moon tucked into the clouds, snoring. Excuse me, mister moon, asked Charlie. The moon opened one eye and spotted her. Then both eyes popped open and he began to zip away in the opposite direction. Wait, come back, Charlie tried to run after it,
but the clouds were too soft. I felt like trying to run through cotton candy. How am I going to get to Dreamland if I can't catch the moon? Are you trying to catch the moon? I can help, said a voice behind Charlie. Charlie turned to see a green shell larger than two Charlie's with two fins and a friendly face. Are you a sea turtle? She asked in astonishment. Good guess, but HI more of a sky turtle since I live up here. Climb on, we can chase after that moon. He can be pretty tricky to find. He
loves to play hide and seek. Charlie climbed onto the sky turtle's fin and up onto his hard shell. She found a round pillow waiting in the middle for her and sat down on it. Hold on tight. The sky turtle called to her and began swimming up higher into the inky black of the sky. They looked out among the stars in clouds, searching for that tricky glowing globe.
Something bright dipped below the clouds ahead over there, said Charlie, and the sky turtle responded, zooming towards it and then dipping fast below the cloud blanket and after the bright light. The sky turtle swam through the tall trees of a forest, following the glow. As they got closer, however, hmm, it looked much too small to be the moon. Hello, hello, please wait. The glowing light stopped and fluttered in place.
As Charlie and the turtle passed the last tree, they saw what they thought was the moon was actually a large sky jellyfish. It's many tentacles waved about as it floated in place, while our little Sutle asked the scared jellyfish, I'm sorry, we thought you were the moon. Charlie exclaimed, all but our us, foller ale, said the jellyfish. The sky turtle and Charlie floated behind the sky jellyfish, whizzing the round trees until they were out of the forest.
In front of them was a lake so large that the water looked like it dropped off and disappeared way out in the distance. Where the water met the sky. Something was glowing, hobbling under the lulk so about silver of humples and above the water, said the jellyfish. Then it waved its tentacles all at once and moved quickly through the air and out of sight. The sky turtle and Charlie sailed in the air above the water, trying to reach the end of the lake where the moon
was peeking out. They zipped above the water past lake monsters and mermaids who cheered them on, and the end of the lake was inching closer. They were so close Charlie reached out to tap the moon to tell it she had found him and was ready to go to dreamland. When Charlie heard her mom's voice, good morning, Charlie, did you have a good night in dreamland? Charlie opened her eyes to the sun shining through her window, with the light outline of the moon still visible in the sky.
She squinted at it and could have sworn she saw it wink and then it disappeared. Wow, my friends. As we all climb into our cozy beds and close our eyes, may you have very sweet dreams in dreamland. Good Night,