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Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

The Good Little Cranes Who Were Bad

Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

Sleep Tight Media

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

👋 Hello friends! The Good Little Cranes Who Were Bad is a story about two cranes who build a nest and have two crane babies. Their babies are remarkable and learn and grow quickly. When they are older they decide that they don’t enjoy always being good so they decide after their parents have gone to sleep to go and get into some mischief. They go to several different places trying to do something naughty but cannot find anything naughty. They finally end up at the farmhouse and start looking. Will they find anything to do? Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark ❤️👂📖   Support Us 👉 If you are enjoying the podcast and would like to show your support, get Sleep Tight Premium: Sleep Tight Premium 🎈Shop for Sleep Tight Stories merch.! ✨Help us improve the show by supporting us on Patreon for as little as $2. https://www.patreon.com/sleeptightstories ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts, or share our podcast with your friends.   ❤️ We would love to hear from you, reach out to us via our website. While there you can find the words to most of our stories. ❤️ We're social! Let's connect on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter     About Sleep Tight Stories Sleep Tight Stories brings you two calming bedtime stories every week. Stories that promote wonder, creativity and fire young listeners’ imagination while helping them drift off to sleep with ease. They are just the perfect length, are safe for kids of all ages, and feature originals and classics that never grow old. Our stories add a little happily-ever-after to your bedtime routine.   Sleep Tight Premium Subscribe to Premium to get instant access to interruption-free episodes, extra exclusive stories, breathing and mindfulness episodes, and music and sound for sleep. Sleep Tight Premium feed includes: No interruptions or ads 🙌 4 + sleep stories per week 📖 Mindfulness and meditation episodes 🧘🏽 Extra long sleep sounds and music episodes 🔊 Access to our full catalog of over 500+ episodes 📚 Special shoutouts for the kids (including birthdays) ❤️ Get your 7-day free trial: https://sleeptightstories.org/support/

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0:00.0

Hello friends, and welcome to Sleep Tide Stories.

0:12.9

I'd like to say hello to some friends, hello to Evan and Josephine Alvarez de Par, hello

0:35.9

to Stella from Alpharetta, Georgia, hello to Maeve Adele from New Hampshire, and hello to Francis and Louise.

0:46.7

Thank you so much for supporting us via our Premium Feed or Patreon. Your support means so much to us.

0:55.4

I'd like to say a great big happy birthday wish to Solal, who is eight years old on September 22nd.

1:09.8

Happy birthday to you, I hope you have a very special day.

1:15.8

Do you like to listen to everything people tell you to do? Do you always follow the rules?

1:31.4

This story is about Mr. and Mrs. Crane, who have two baby cranes, and the cranes are tired of

1:39.1

always listening and always being good. So they decide to go out one night and be naughty,

1:48.2

but they cannot find anything to do. They go here and there and finally end up just coming home.

2:00.0

They decide they are happy, just the way they are.

2:09.9

The good little cranes who were bad.

2:16.5

When the sand hill cranes were married, they began to work for a home of their own.

2:22.8

To be sure, they had chosen a place for it beforehand, yet there were other things to think about,

2:30.8

and some of their friends told them it would be very foolish to build on the ground.

2:36.9

There are so many accidents with ground-ness, these friends said, there are snakes, you know,

2:45.2

and rats, and a great many other people whom you would not want to have looking in on your

2:51.9

children. Besides, something might fall on it. The young couple talked this all over and decided

3:02.1

to build in a tree. We are not afraid of snakes and rats, they said, but we would fear something

3:10.8

falling on the nest. They were talking to quite an old crane when they said this,

3:18.0

do you mean to build in a tree? He said, my dear friends, don't do that, just think. A high wind

3:27.4

might blow the nest down and spoil everything. Do whatever you wish, but don't build in a tree,

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