ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY?
...WELL you won’t be when we tell you that some of your favourite TV stars are going to help you get safely to slumber by reading you a bedtime tale.
Excited? All next week, December 11-15, CBeebies presents a week of brand new Bedtime Stories from celebrity readers…
MONDAY: Actor and children’s TV presenter Floella Benjamin reads I’ll Never Let You Go about how, when you love someone, you stand by them no matter what.
TUESDAY: Jennie McAlpine (Coronation Street and now I’m A Celebrity star) tells a tale about loving what we have when she reads ‘I Don’t Want Curly Hair!’ by Laura Ellen Anderson.
WEDNESDAY: Former JLS star and TV presenter JB Gill reads Ah-Choo! by Suzanne Lang. JB, which tells the story of a brother and sister who are trying to find the perfect family pet but everything they bring into the house makes the little girl sneeze.
THURSDAY: Mark Bonnar (Shetland, Line of Duty) introduces little ones to a fearless blue penguin in Rob Biddulph’s story Blown Away!
FRIDAY: Suranne Jones (Dr Foster) tells the story of Princess Ellie who is left in charge of a magical snowflake machine which malfunctions. And keep your eyes and ears peeled as we get into the festive season because on Christmas Eve, Dr Who’s Pearl Mackie will get everyone settled down with Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood and Meg Hunt, a retelling of the classic fairy tale with a heroine who dreams of fixing space rockets.
CBEEBIES Bedtime Stories, 6.50pm.