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Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

Chunky, The Happy Hippo 🦛

Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

Sleep Tight Media

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

👋 Hello friends! This story is about a happy hippo who lives in Africa. We learn more about hippos and find out what their name means. Chunky, the happy hippo, is a hippo who lives with his mother and father and sister and younger brother. In this story we find out how the hippo children get their names and then Chunky gets into a bit of trouble. Can he find out how to solve the problem? Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark ❤️👂📖   ❤️Support Sleep Tight Stories   👉 If you are enjoying the podcast and would like to show your support, then we would love for you to check out Sleep Tight Premium. Visit Sleep Tight Premium to learn more. Thank you.   🎈Shop for Sleep Tight Stories merch.! ❤️ We're social! Let's connect on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter   ❤️ We would love to hear from you, reach out to us via our website. While there you can find other ways to support the show and find the words to most of our stories.   About Sleep Tight Stories Sleep Tight Stories brings you new and captivating bedtime stories every week. The stories range from retellings of fairy tales, folk stories, classic Canadian works, and original stories written by guest authors. Each story is safe for kids of all ages.

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0:00.0

Hello friends, and welcome to Sleep Tight Stories.

0:20.8

Sleep Tight Stories is supported by the generosity of our patrons and premium subscribers.

0:29.0

If you would like to get some of the perks, like shout outs, stickers, and other surprises

0:34.1

in the mail, go to sleeptightstories.org forward slash support, or follow the link in our

0:41.7

show notes.

0:43.5

Thank you.

0:46.9

Do you have a favorite animal at the zoo?

1:02.0

I always like to go and see the giraffes.

1:08.0

This story is about a hippo family and how the children got their names.

1:15.3

The hippo is the hippo we are going to learn about in this episode.

1:23.0

He is going to have some fun and also find a bit of trouble.

1:33.0

Chunky the happy hippo.

1:38.7

Once upon a time, some years ago, but not so long that you could not easily remember

1:45.7

if you tried.

1:47.7

Their lived in a muddy river off a far off country called Africa, a great, big animal baby

1:57.4

named Chunky.

2:01.0

He was not a fish though he could stay underwater, not breathing at all, or maybe ten minutes.

2:10.8

And that is why he swam in the muddy river so much.

2:16.9

He did not mind the mud in the river.

2:20.2

He rather liked it.

2:22.2

For when he sank away down under the dark, brown water, no one could see him.

2:31.4

And Chunky did not want any of the lions, or tigers, or perhaps the African hunters to

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