Billy and The Blue Whale NEW Version with Awesome sound effects!!! By E3D (Martyn Kenneth

Lights Out Bedtime Stories for Boys and Girls - A podcast by Storyteller Martyn Kenneth

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From the book:Once upon a time, there was a little boy who was very, very shy. He didn’t have any brothers or sisters so he lived all alone with his mommy and daddy. But his mommy and daddy were always working. His daddy worked in a factory miles and miles and miles away from home, meaning that Billy only saw him on the weekends. Mom worked in a restaurant, and she came back really late each night. So the boy, when he left school each day, had to get on the school bus and sit on his seat by the window near the back, get off the school bus by himself, walk all the way up the stairs to his house, open the door, turn on the oven and cook the food that his mom had prepared, eat it by himself, do his homework by himself, brush his teeth, wash his face, and go to bed all by himself. His mom would come home about 10 o'clock at night and he was always still awake, waiting for her. Whenever he heard his mom close the door as she came in from work, he would close his eyes and wait. You see, every time mom came back home she always, without fail, went to Billy’s bedroom first, just to check he was sleeping. And every night she would see his eyes were closed and every single night she would give him a kiss on his forehead. Billy always tried to stay awake but as soon as his mom kissed his head, he fell fast asleep. In the mornings when he got up, his mom would have breakfast with him and tell him what food she'd prepared the night before so he would know what he would be having for dinner alone that night. And then he would go to school.On the weekends Billy’s dad would usually get home on a Friday night around ten or eleven at night. And so that was the night that Billy could stay up a little bit later than usual and also because there was no school on Saturdays he could get to see his dad for bit, but his dad was always tired and didn’t play much with his only child. You see, this boy, Billy, did not have a very nice life. All he did was come home every day by himself: on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday he would go home all by himself and look after himself until he fell asleep when his mom kissed his forehead. He didn't have any friends to play with, and he could never go outside because his mom said not to play outside. Sometimes he could go out on the weekend but his dad would come home on the weekend, and his dad would usually sleep on the sofa all the time, because he was so tired from working so hard. This meant Billy usually had to help his mom to wash and clean and do all the housework so the boy felt very, very fed up. Well, one day, I think it was a Tuesday afternoon, the boy was feeling particularly fed up and he got off the school bus and went upstairs to his house. He turned on the oven to heat up his dinner and then he heard a ‘ding dong’ at the door. “Oh, who's that? Mom didn’t tell me anyone would be visiting!”, he thought. So he went and opened the door and there at the bottom of the step was a little canvas box and nobody to be seen. He looked around again but he couldn't see anybody. “That’s strange”, thought Billy. “Postmen don’t even come at this time of day”.So, after making sure the coast was clear he took the little box quickly under his arm, closed the door and went and put it on a kitchen table. He turned off the oven and let his food cool down a bit. And as his food was cooling, he sat down and opened up the little box. He unraveled the delicate paper wrapped present to find just a little note. And the little note said, ‘Follow the blue whale’ “mmm, is this for me?”, he thought. “Follow the blue whale, what does that mean?” Well, he couldn't really think of what the note meant and then he started to get hungry and remembered that his food was getting cold in the cooling oven so he put the card on top of his piano and went and ate his dinner. As he was washing his dishes, he...