The Oh, Hello everybody and welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories.

And today I'm going to talk about sleep.

This whole week is about sleep.

In fact, let me slow down my voice and let's get in to sleepy space shall we so this

story is from our most popular bedtime story series called Sparkle Sleepy Time.

And it's all about routines because routines are good for all of us at bedtime. Adults too. If we do the same thing every night

whether we have snuggles or read or listen to a story or take a bath and of course we always brush our teeth. It tells our body, hey,

body, it's time for rest and then our body will more naturally wind down and go to sleep. So and we all know how important sleep is right it

makes us feel good when we have plenty of sleep. So I am sharing this one as a part of our whole theme this week of talking about the deliciousness of sleep and sharing all of our stories that are the very best bedtime stories.

So the story you're just about to listen to is a part of our giant library of original audio stories. We have almost 1,500 original stories. We have almost 1,500 original stories here at Sparkle stories. That's a lot of really

sweet stories and you can enjoy them all for free for a week.

All you have to do is go to sparklestories.com

click the button at the top that says start free trial.

And then you can listen to as much as you like anytime you like.

Okay now on to the story, Rye the Muir Cat from the Sparkle Sleepy Time Collection.

Enjoy. Once upon a time there was a young mere cat pup named Rybaloke-balloko, which meant

good night, sleep tight.

His parents named him Ry Boloke Boloko because they always loved bedtime themselves and hoped that he would too. When their son was finally

old enough to talk, two of his first words were good and night, and then they knew that they had named him well.

Rye, which was his nickname, and his mother and father started bedtime right after their final meal and it lasted a good long while for little rye loved every single part.

First there was the bedtime walk. Bedtime always started with a slow walk through the burrows,

with rye leading all the way to the central exit. When they arrived there they

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