The Time Travelling Tortoise
Story Quest – Stories for Kids
Fun Kids
4.2 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Timmy, bored with his life in the zoo embarks on a whirlwind journey through time. What happens when Timmy the tortoise comes face tio face with a T-Rex?
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| 0:00.0 | This is StoryQuest. Today's story is... |
| 0:06.0 | Timmy the Time Travelling Tortoise by Freddy. |
| 0:11.0 | Timmy was a tortoise who lived in Tinglewood Zoo. |
| 0:15.0 | He was the smallest tortoise and had lived there for nearly 50 years, which seems a long time, but in tortoise years, well, |
| 0:23.5 | he wasn't much more than a teenager. |
| 0:26.2 | Timmy wasn't a happy tortoise. |
| 0:28.1 | The trouble was that when people came to visit the zoo, hardly anyone wanted to see him. |
| 0:33.1 | It was all about the tall, elegant giraffes and the scary lions and all the tigers, and |
| 0:38.6 | he could see the children practically rush past his enclosure to get to the alpacres. |
| 0:44.8 | This was really confusing because Timmy knew that alpacres are actually really grumpy and |
| 0:50.8 | they spit at people. |
| 0:53.0 | Timmy didn't spit, but he was quite grumpy. |
| 0:55.8 | He felt, well, just left out. |
| 0:58.7 | There were green parakeets who flew freely around the zoo, |
| 1:02.8 | and one of them, who was called chirp, |
| 1:05.5 | had made things worse by telling him that not even one fluffy tortoise toy |
| 1:10.4 | had been sold in the gift shop. |
| 1:12.4 | This did not help his mood one bit. |
| 1:15.6 | Timmy complained to his parakeet friend, |
| 1:18.5 | but it has to be said, Cherp wasn't very sympathetic. |
| 1:22.6 | Well, you've had your time, haven't you? said Cherp. |
| 1:26.3 | What do you mean I've had my time? |
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