This is Ria. Welcome to Little Stories for Tiny People.

Okay, so I do have a guest today, but it's a slightly different situation for my typical

guest scenario. My guest, a raccoon named Jamila, is already asleep. I know, I know, this

makes it kind of difficult for her to listen to the story and give me her feedback, but

that's not what I'm after. Our story today is perfect for bedtime. So I wanted to test

its sleep-deepening abilities. I've hooked up Jamila to a sleep monitoring machine. Yes,

I just happen to have one of those. It sits on a shelf in my studio right next to my snowshoes

and my 3D umbrella printer. Yeah, I can just go to my studio and print a new umbrella whenever

I want. It's really cool. They're not super flexible. Oh, where were we? Right, Jamila,

sleep monitoring. Let me put it this way. Jamila is currently at a two. That means she's

asleep, but just very lightly. At the end of the story, my goal is to have her at a 10.

She put it in the way people's terms, which I don't need, but you might. 10 is that magical

intersection between deep sleep and happy dreams. Do you think I can do it? I hope so. I'm

certainly going to try. Oh, she looks so peaceful. Although her tail is still flicking around

a bit, so let's get started to keep her from waking up. Our story is called The Bedtime

Socks. Take it away, Morgan. Remember, there are no pictures. You have to imagine the

pictures in your mind. You can imagine them however you want. Okay, here we go.

Pablo was a raccoon. Some of his favorite hobbies were slinking, creeping around, and startling

human people when they took late-night walks in the woods. It was really funny. Their

eyes would get all big and they'd say something like, oh, look, there's a raccoon. Well,

maybe you had to be there to get it. Anyway, more than anything, Pablo enjoyed rooting

through those big boxy bins. Human people dragged to the street each week. Pablo was supposed

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