Mouse's Time Machine: A Time Travel Story for Kids

Little Stories for Tiny People: Anytime and bedtime stories for kids

Rhea Pechter

Arts, Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Books

4.6 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Squirrel is the best sales squirrel in the business, but he is also chronically late. When he finds a shiny new elevator in the tree he needs to climb, he figures it won't hurt to take a ride rather than rumple his suit. Once Squirrel is inside, he finds himself on an unexpected adventure. Will Squirrel be late for his sales meeting? And who is the strangely enthusiastic mouse huddled in the corner? You'll just have to listen and find out. ENJOY! If you love this story, please share it with all exasperated bosses, any shrews who just want people to stop collapsing their tunnels, all time travelers, and your friends. They might just need a good story these days. Big People: leave a rating or review in your podcast app! If your tiny person wants to share a story they've written, please send photos or recordings of it to rhea@littlestoriestinypeople.com. I'd LOVE to see their artwork, stories, and anything else they'd like to share. Thank you to GEORGE for contributing the reminder message at the beginning of this episode! And thank you to the listeners who provided sound effects used in this story: ESSIE, ISOBEL, FREDDIE, and BROOKS! You can find the LSFTP picture books, Little Hedgehog Goes to School and Little Fox Can't Wait to Dream, by visiting https://www.littlestoriestinypeople.com/books Little Stories Premium is available now! Get more of the stories you love and ad-free listening. Join at http://www.littlestoriespremium.com

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0:00.0	This is Ria. Welcome to Little Stories for Tiny People. I've mentioned time travel before
0:16.8	and how I travel in time by sharing stories with you. I speak into my microphone on a particular
0:25.5	day with the studio spiders hovering above me, glaring. But you might be listening to my voice
0:34.0	years into the future. My stories can travel across time and space to reach you. I do think of it
0:43.0	as a kind of time travel. But our story today is about real time travel, the classic kind. The
0:53.5	get in the time machine kind. I have always loved time travel stories, even when they don't make a
1:01.6	lot of sense. Usually if you think too hard about time travel stories, you end up tying yourself
1:09.3	in knots trying to make the plot hang together. But still I love them. Time travel stories always
1:17.0	involve adventure and discovery and heroism. They're just fun. So I wanted to try my hand at
1:27.8	creating one just for you. Let's get to it. It's called Mouse's Time Machine. Take it away, George.
1:38.7	We remember there's no pictures. You can't move them in your mind. You can't move them however you want.
1:44.2	Okay, here you go.
1:55.0	Squirrel was late, as usual, and he really wasn't supposed to be late today. He darted through trees
2:04.2	still lush with green in early autumn. The forest was vibrant, holding over the summer humidity,
2:12.0	enjoying its last sense of fullness before the gradual thinning of the leaves from the tall
2:18.8	trunks all around. Squirrel dipped beneath prickly vines and leapt over a bustling ant mound.
2:27.1	Careful to keep his briefcase from getting caught in the tangle of plants around his path.
2:33.5	Squirrel glanced at his wristwatch, 927. His boss's face entered his mind as he scrambled
2:41.9	ever faster through the forest. If you're late to this meeting, don't bother coming in tomorrow.
2:48.5	We need this sail. Do you hear me? Are you even listening? Why does it look like you're looking
2:54.4	over my shoulder? We need this Squirrel, I mean, we need this sail, squirrel. Stop laughing.
3:02.0	And Ms. Whistle down will not tolerate late comers. Last year, she ate my sail's person whole.
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