Hector & Sunny's Enchanted Pebbles 🐶 ✨ Sleepy Bedtime Stories For Kids | Rewind

Koala Moon: Kids Bedtime Stories & Sleep Stories for Kids Podcast

Hector and Sunny embark on a coastal trip to visit an old friend, leading them to meet a wise water dog named Cleo. They encounter the legen

Key takeaways

• Hector and Sunny travel to the coast to visit Hector's human's friend, Joseph.
• They meet Cleo, a Portuguese water dog who shares the legend of 'tiger stones'.

Main topics

• Coastal adventure
• Ancient legends and myths

Notable quotes

Magic doesn't really exist, does it?

Conclusion

A soothing and imaginative tale that encourages children to believe in

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:10) Hello and welcome back to Koala Moon, a podcast of original bedtime stories and sleep meditations for kids, designed to make bedtime a dream. Today, when Hector's human plans a surprise trip to visit an old friend by the coast, the two dogs find themselves exploring new sites, meeting a wise water dog named Cleo and uncovering the legend of some mysterious golden and black striped pebbles said to hold ancient magic. I can't wait to get started, but first... Let's all make sure we're comfy in bed and try this lovely relaxation exercise sent in by six-year-old Gaia. Lie back, let your eyes close softly and choose a colour. Speaker 1 (1:02) Imagine you're holding a balloon in that colour and you're going to blow it up and then let all the air out in time with your breath. Speaker 1 (1:13) Breathe in. And when your chest is full, blow the air gently out as if you are blowing up your special balloon. Great. Now let the air whoosh back in and again blow up your balloon. Do that a few more times as I begin Hector and Sunny, the Enchanted Pebbles by Luke Prendergast. Speaker 1 (1:47) always knew when his human was planning something. Even before the cases were packed, before he loaded anything in the car, before he made cheddar sandwiches and wrapped them up in neat foil parcels, Hector could tell. Call it a dog's intuition, his spidey senses tingling. This time he was happily submerged in a dream in which he was swimming in the ocean. The water was a glorious glittering turquoise and filled with a whole array of multicolored fish. Hector, looking over his shoulder, saw that instead of his usual wagging doggy tail, he had the long and strong tail of a fish, covered in golden scales that were the same colour as his golden Labrador coat. He even had gills so he could swim underwater. He, himself, was in fact a fish. He had just made friends with a pod of dolphins who all wore blonde wigs and sunglasses and who had invited him to visit their deep-sea disco hall when he woke up. He was in the kitchen, lying on his soft red dog bed. His best pal, Sonny, was asleep beside him. Through the window, he could still see that the sky was dark. What had woken him up? He didn't know. But one thing he was absolutely sure of. His human was on manoeuvres. Just then, as if on cue, there came the tell-tale creak of a floorboard. No matter how many times Hector's human had tried to fix it, the fifth stair from the bottom still creaked, and a moment later, his owner stepped into the kitchen. He had bed hair, it all stuck up in tufts, and he was still in his red checkered pyjamas. But his eyes were bright with a fresh idea. Just as Hector had suspected, he was up to something. Speaker 1 (3:59) Wake up, guys, Hector's human whispered. Sunny's eyelid flickered open. She looked grumpy. She was not an early morning kind of dog. She snuck a sideways look at Hector, which seemed to say, Hey, has your human never heard the well-known phrase, let sleeping dogs lie? Speaker 1 (4:25) I know it's early, Hector's human said, but we're off on an adventure. Sonny, your owner has said that you can come along too. We're going to see my old school friend Joseph, who lives on the other side of the country by the sea. It's supposed to be absolutely beautiful, but it's a bit of a long drive so we need to leave soon. This is your half hour notice. See ya. And bubbling with evident excitement, Hector's human left the kitchen. Sonny let out a long yawn. Speaker 1 (5:05) I love an adventure as much as the next canine, she said. But I do sometimes wish your human would save his big ideas for after the sun's risen. Speaker 1 (5:21) An hour later, they were all in the car. The sun was finally up, spreading its gentle yellow rays across the cloud-strewn sky, and Sunny seemed altogether happier now it was daylight. Hector's human drove while the two of them sat in the back, their heads hanging out of the window, tongues lolling, watching English towns and villages and great expanses of autumnal countryside pass them by. In fact, the views were so vibrant and interesting that the car journey, which took several hours, seemed to pass in the blink of an eye. And before they knew it, the car was pulling up outside an old wooden house that stood on the edge of a steep and craggy hill. Hopping out of the car, Hector and Sonny could see that beyond the house, at the bottom of the hill, the steel blue sea spread out like a plate as far as the eye could see, until it merged with the blue sky on the horizon. Speaker 1 (6:27) A man was coming out of the house. He was tall, with black hair and glasses, dressed in brown slacks and a dark blue knit jumper. This must be Hector's owner's friend. And much to their delight, Hector and Sunny spotted a dog with thick brown curly hair trotting along beside him. That was a pleasant surprise. Now they'd have a friend here too. Speaker 1 (6:57) Welcome, the man with glasses said, giving Hector's human a hug and stooping down to pet both of the dogs on their heads. Come in and drop your stuff off and then I thought we could go straight down and take a walk on the beach. The two