Hello and welcome back to Koala Moon, a podcast of original children's bedtime stories

and meditations designed to make bedtime dream.

As has become usual, I want to start by giving a massive thanks to our newest subscribers.

The heroes who've joined today are Ella and Charlotte, Sam and Wyatt, Harry, Ingrid

and Emmett, Emma from New Zealand, Lucy from Florida, Vasudev from California and Toby

Flynn from Ireland.

Thank you International Gang, welcome to the Coco Club, and I hope you enjoy listening

and sleeping to all the extra stories you now have at your fingertips.

And for the rest of you, remember that if you subscribe for a year, the annual membership

which is also the best deal overall, you can ask to have your name mentioned too.

We couldn't continue to write all the stories, read and produce them so well if it weren't

for you lovely lot signing up to the Coco Club.

So singling you out for a special thanks is the least we can do.

Coco would give you all a high five if he could, but he says he doesn't have that many

hands.

Now then, back to tonight's heartwarming tale, Alicia has written us a sweet story based

in Texas in the US, and soon we're going to journey over to a ranch there.

Before we begin, a quick message for the grownups.

If you'd like to support our podcast, enjoy at free listening, unlock four bonus stories

per month and much, much more you can join Coco Club, subscribe in just two taps via

the link in the show notes, but now he's a quick word from our sponsors.

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