Up and Away! 🦊 🐿️
Short Stories for Kids: Bedtime ~ Car Time ~ Downtime
Lucy
4.1 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Come and follow more adventures on our animated TV show on Youtube! 📺🤩
SUBSCRIBE HERE: youtube.com/@shortstoriesforkidspodcast
If you would like a special birthday shout out, order one here! 🎂 https://www.shortstoriesforkidspodcast.com/
Looking for Ad Free Episodes?
Just join our 🌟PREMIUM CHANNEL 🌟
Join up to our Premium channel through your Apple player or here at Supercast: https://shortstoriesforkids.supercast.com/ And become a Super Fan of Short Stories for Kids!
Here you will receive a Friday Bonus Episode every week! Plus our entire back catalogue of stories ad free! Also Premium Only Shout Outs just for you guys! To request a shout out, just email us telling us your a Premium member and you would like a shout out to shortstoriesforkidspodcast@gmail.com
As a Premium member you have a guarantee of having your story idea turned in to a story and read out on the show!
Premium Member Perks 🧒🏾🧒🏻👧👦🏼
🌟 Friday 'Premium Only' Bonus episodes (with zero ads)
🌟 Access to the entire back catalog (Ad Free)
🌟 A guarantee of having your idea turned in to a story!
🌟 Premium Only Shout Outs🌟
Our Love and Appreciation for being so Awesome and supporting our Show 💖
So, to join up, just sign up here in a couple of clicks In your Apple player or below at Supercast. Easy Peasy! https://shortstoriesforkids.supercast.com/Or go to our website at shortstoriesforkidspodcast.com
Short Stories for Kids Book! 📙
Purchase our 5 book's complete with lots of our stories and packed with illustrations!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CL1HB5ZN?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk
ADVERTS DISCLAIMER:
This podcast has ads at the start of every episode. However never in the middle of a story or at the end.
Please be assured all ad blocks have been applied to ensure no over 18 or inappropriate ads are played.
However, there may be the odd occasion where an advert slips through the net because the company submitting them submits them under a category that is not correct. This happens very rarely and I do my upmost to stop this happening.
If this happens, please email me at shortstoriesforkids@gmail.com and let me know the following information: What the ad was for? What state you live in? And what episode you heard it on and I will immediately contact Spreaker to block the ad.
I take this very seriously and I really appreciate your support and co-operation.
As creators, we want your child’s experience to be a pleasurable one. Running adverts is necessary to allow us to operate, but please do consider the premium subscription service as an alternative – it’s ad free.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, friends, to short stories for kids. |
| 0:16.0 | Up and away. |
| 0:19.0 | High in the mountains of Europe lived Anna, a marmot. Marmots are big, furry ground squirrels, |
| 0:26.5 | living in burrows dug into the thin soil of the mountainside. It was a quiet life that offered |
| 0:33.3 | stunning views across the snow-covered peaks and flower-covered meadows. |
| 0:38.9 | All the marmots loved it, not least Anna. |
| 0:43.0 | Besides finding enough to eat, marmots have two things to worry about. |
| 0:48.0 | Boxes hunting them upon the ground and eagles hunting them from the air. |
| 0:53.5 | If either are ever spotted by a marmot, they shout a warning |
| 0:57.4 | to the others, allowing them to dive into their burrows for safety. When it was Anna's turn |
| 1:03.7 | to keep watch, she was always frustrated by how difficult the job was. It would be better to climb up higher amongst the rocks to give her a good |
| 1:13.7 | view across the meadow. But if she did that, she'd be too far from the burrow if she needed to |
| 1:19.7 | hide herself. There's got to be an easier way, she muttered to herself. Then one day, she saw a Lamergeier circle overhead. These gigantic, |
| 1:32.0 | bearded vultures like to eat bones, so she wasn't in any danger, despite its size. Instead, |
| 1:39.8 | she had the time to watch it swooping and circling across the meadow. |
| 1:45.1 | That Lamergeier must be able to see everything from up there, she thought. |
| 1:50.3 | If I could be that high, then I could see every fox and eagle for miles around. |
| 1:56.6 | The problem was, how was she going to get up there? She thought about making herself some wings, |
| 2:03.4 | but didn't know where to start. There had to be an answer somewhere. Then, one day, a man came to the |
| 2:11.6 | meadow. People rarely came this high up the mountain, but this man came often enough that Anna knew he wasn't |
| 2:19.0 | any danger. He would set down his bag, pull out some binoculars, and watch the eyebacks |
| 2:25.2 | higher up the slope. Maybe, thought Anna, he would have something in his bag that could help |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lucy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Lucy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.