One Snowy Night Read Aloud: Percy the Park Keeper's Winter Adventure

Percy's Cozy Winter Night

• ❄️ The story introduces Percy the park keeper, who enjoys the cold winter air and lives in a cozy hut in the park.
• 🏡 Percy's hut is a warm and familiar place for the park animals, with whom he regularly shares his lunch.
• 🛌 One particularly snowy winter night, Percy prepares for bed with hot cocoa and an extra blanket.

Unexpected Guests Arrive

• 🐿️ Percy is first interrupted by a cold and miserable squirrel whose bed is full of snow, inviting it to share his bed.
• 🐰 Soon after, two shivering rabbits arrive, also seeking warmth and a place to sleep in Percy's bed.
• 🦊 A hungry fox then appears, and after promising to behave, also squeezes into the increasingly crowded bed.

The Overcrowded Bed

• 🐾 More animals, including a badger, two ducks, a hedgehog, and a family of mice, arrive, all wanting a bed for the night.
• 🛏️ Percy's bed becomes overwhelmed with animals, pushing and shoving until the covers roll off, sending everyone to the floor.
• ⚠️ Percy realizes the bed is too small for everyone, leading to a chaotic situation.

A Mysterious Noise

• 👂 A scratching, scraping sound from underneath the floorboards frightens the animals, who fear a monster.
• 🔦 Percy, however, is not scared and discovers the source of the noise: a mole who had been trying to get in.
• 🤝 Percy helps the mole, puts the floorboard back, and reassures the other animals that it's safe.

Newfound Comfort

• ✨ The animals, initially hidden in fear, have all found new, cozy spots within Percy's belongings, like his dressing gown, coat, and slippers.
• 😴 Percy finally gets his bed back, with plenty of room for himself and the mole, concluding the snowy night's adventure.
• ✅ After the story, listeners are encouraged to go to their Clever app and take an AR test to check their understanding.