Hello and welcome back to Koala Moon, your podcast of original children's bedtime stories

and meditations, designed to make bedtime a dream.

Welcome to Coco's Club Friends, today we're giving a warm and friendly shout out to Emily

Hope, Lunora, Ethan, 19-year-old Lexi, nice one Lexi, Lyra, Tilly, Emily, Lucy in Connecticut,

all in happy birthday for the 25th, Stella, Gunner and Robert in South Carolina, Phoebe Patterson,

and Catherine in South Africa, who offered her own birthday money to pay for the subscription.

We are so lucky to have great folks like you find us and support us.

Thank you for the whole team here in SleepHQ. It's a real joy and privilege to read you to sleep,

so sweet dreams, wherever you are in the world.

Before we begin, a quick message for the grown-ups. If you'd like to support our podcast,

enjoy ad-free listening, unlock four bonus stories per month, and much, much more you can

join Coco Club. Subscribe in just two taps via the link in the show notes, but now he's a quick word

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Now cast your minds back to episode 18, where we first met Magician Maggie and her faithful

assistant Marshmallow, the white rabbit, because we are reuniting with them for tonight's story.

Maggie is about to show her good friend Thomas, her newest piece of magic, her imaginary.

Though it might look like a bog-stand attempt from the outside, inside it contains the whole

universe and more. We're going to need to be super relaxed for this one, so jump into bed quickly

and I'll get started on guiding you into the perfect state for listening. And maybe sleeping,

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