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Maked Up Stories
4.3 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Seven year old Olive adores hedgehogs. Imagine her surprise when during a vacation to New Zealand she learns - alongside a hedgehog she has just befriended - that hedgehogs are considered a pest and are a serious threat to native bird species in New Zealand.
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Maked Up Stories is a daily children’s bedtime stories podcast. Perfect for your bedtime routine, your commute, or for some high quality screen-free entertainment at home. Our interactive format will ignite your imagination. Rich vocabulary with plenty of context clues supports your child’s language development.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Make Up Stories, my name is Aria Korn to join the club. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to MakeDiott Stories. I always got on to join the club. |
| 0:25.2 | Hello and welcome to MakeDup. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm your host, Amanda. |
| 0:30.3 | Did you know that all of our intro and outro messages come from kids like you? |
| 0:32.1 | If you'd like to hear your voice on the podcast, |
| 0:35.3 | you can record an intro or outro message and submit it via |
| 0:39.2 | our website at makeupstories.com. Today's makeup story is a request from Olive. Olive is |
| 0:51.8 | seven years old and lives in San Diego, California. |
| 0:56.0 | Olive asked for a story about a hedgehog and a magical snowflake. |
| 1:05.0 | Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a big girl named Olive, who lived in San Diego. |
| 1:14.9 | Olive adored hedgehogs. Everything in her room was hedgehogs. She had a hedgehog poster, a hedgehog journal with a little hedgehog lock, |
| 1:25.6 | puffy hedgehog slippers, and a hedgehog stuffy that could really curl up |
| 1:30.5 | into a ball. |
| 1:33.4 | Olive had always found hedgehogs adorable, with their little shiny black eyes and noses and their tiny pink paws, |
| 1:42.0 | but what appealed to her the most was the way hedgehogs protect themselves. |
| 1:47.0 | Hedgehogs are covered all over on their back with a kind of hardened, spiky hair called quills. |
| 1:54.1 | When they get scared, instead of running or fighting, they curl themselves up into a tight little ball so that they are completely protected |
| 2:03.1 | on all sides by these quills. Olive got scared sometimes too, and in those times, she sometimes wished |
| 2:11.7 | that instead of being brave, she could defend herself by curling up into a little ball like the hedgehog does. |
| 2:19.8 | Since she couldn't be a hedgehog, Olive thought that the very next best thing would be to have a hedgehog as a pet. |
| 2:28.3 | But alas, she couldn't do even that because in California, people are not allowed to keep hedgehogs as pets. If you asked |
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