The Whistling Caretaker
Story Quest – Stories for Kids
Fun Kids
4.2 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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This week's Story Quest Classic, is a tale with a twist! This story of a friendly caretaker, who likes a tune, ends in a way that you won't see coming...
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Meal just got a cosmic boost |
| 0:02.6 | because the Super Mario Galaxy movie has landed in cinemas |
| 0:06.2 | and Mario hasn't come alone. |
| 0:08.7 | There's a whole galaxy for your little ones to discover. |
| 0:11.5 | Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal. |
| 0:15.5 | Until the 4th of May from 11am |
| 0:17.4 | includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst talks last. |
| 0:19.9 | The Whistling Caretaker. |
| 0:23.1 | Schools are funny places. |
| 0:25.6 | Not laugh out loud funny, more that they are a bit strange at times. |
| 0:30.5 | We spend more time in schools than we do taking part in our hobbies or visiting relatives. |
| 0:35.8 | We have to get on with a completely random group of kids the same |
| 0:38.7 | age as we are and you all have to wear exactly the same clothes if your school has a uniform. |
| 0:44.6 | Okay, not exactly the same set of clothes, but you all have to dress the same in a way that most |
| 0:48.8 | adults don't, unless they work in a shop like a supermarket, I suppose. Anyway, whether we like it or not, |
| 0:55.6 | we are stuck with school until we are at 16 or 18, and you have to make the best of it, |
| 1:00.6 | even if it's difficult. And school was certainly difficult for the person in our story today. |
| 1:06.6 | Stephen had started at the school a year earlier. He came from another country where there was a war. |
| 1:12.1 | And because it wasn't safe for his family to stay there, they'd move to this country to start a new life. |
| 1:17.7 | Now, as you can imagine, this is a very hard thing to do, and starting at a new school was part of this big change. |
| 1:24.3 | Made more difficult because Stephen didn't speak very much English, although he had special |
| 1:29.3 | lessons to help him learn. His classmates were nice, but he missed his old friends, and so he |
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