✨Short Story✨ Nellie And Her Dolls 🧸

Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

Sleep Tight Media

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Nellie and Her Dolls is a story about a little girl who has been sick. While she was sick, her aunts and cousins gave her some dolls to make her feel better. Now that she is better, she would like to give some of her dolls to some sick children in the hospital, and she is asking her mom if it would be alright to give away something that has been given to her. Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark❤️👂📖 --- 💡 Send us your story ideas 💡 --- SUPPORT US 👉 Join Premium for AD FREE listening and extra bedtime stories! 👉 Sleep Tight Premium is now available in Apple Podcasts! 🎉 👉 If you are enjoying the podcast and would like to show your support, visit our support page at: https://sleeptightstories.org/support/ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts, or share our podcast with your friends. --- ❤️ Find us on YouTube: @SleepTightStories📷 Instagram: @sleeptightstories📱Facebook: @sleeptightstoriespodcast --- ABOUT Sleep Tight Stories When your kids Sleep Tight, you will too. Sleep Tight Stories brings joy and comfort to millions of families worldwide with new calming bedtime stories every single week. Each episode is relevant to children’s lived experiences, and sparks wonder (without overstimulation) so listeners can easily drift off to sleep. As one young fan eloquently states, “The stories are very entertaining, but they also are not entertaining enough to make it hard for me to sleep.” Make bedtime the sweetest part of everyone’s day with Sleep Tight Stories --- Dedicated to enhancing the health and happiness of children, Sleep Tight Media helps families replace bedtime struggles with bedtime snuggles. --- Bedtime a nightmare? Turn it into a dream. With Sleep Tight Stories.

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0:00.0	Hello friends and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. This story is about a little girl called Nellie.
0:30.0	Nellie has been sick and when she was sick she got lots of dolls from her aunts and
0:39.4	and cousins now that she is feeling better, she is thinking of something that she'd like to do and her dolls.
0:57.0	Mama, little Nellie asked, is it all right to give away things that have been given to you?
1:11.1	Her mother replied that it might be all right sometimes and she said,
1:17.0	But I would feel a little sad if I had made a little friend a present. she did not appreciate, and so was glad to part with.
1:28.4	Oh, Mama, said Nellie, you know how I love my dollies, everyone that my dear aunts and cousins
1:40.9	sent me when I was sick. Now I am well again, but I have heard that
1:49.6	there are some sick little girls in the hospital who want dollies.
1:56.8	Could I, if I knew which ones to choose,
2:00.5	keep only one of my dolls for myself and send the other five of them to those poor sick children
2:08.0	who don't have any dolls to make them happy or keep them company?
2:14.0	Her mother liked the plan,
2:19.0	so she gave Nellie a box.
2:22.0	And Nellie began kissing her babies and laying them one after another very
2:28.5	carefully in the box. There were two of nearly the same size that were very dear to this little girl.
2:40.0	Nellie called them twins.
2:44.8	They wore white dresses and blue kid boots.
2:49.3	They had real curly hair and their eyes would open and shut.
2:58.0	These lovely twins Nellie held in her arms a long time before she could decide which one to part with.
3:10.2	When she did place one in the box to be her own no more, a tear was on the doll's cheek.
3:18.0	I do not think the drop came from Dolly's eye, but from Nellie's own eye.
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