Can Bears Ski? by Raymond Antrobus, illustrated by Polly Dunbar. This story draws on the author’s own experience to show how isolating it can be for a deaf child in a hearing world. This is the first CBeebies bedtime story to be read in British Sign Language.
Richard Fleeshman reads Kangaroo's CanCan Cafe, a rhyming story set in the Australian outback and featuring an animal dance troupe, by Julia Jarman and Lynne Chapman.
Annette Crosbie reads Mrs McTat and Her Houseful of Cats, by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and Joan Rankin. At first Mrs McTats has only one cat, Abner, but quickly finds herself in a house bursting with twenty-five of them.
Annette Crosbie reads Eliza and the Moonchild, by Emma Chichester-Clark. A small moonchild tires of his white, white moon surroundings and whizzes down to earth, only to find it a shadow-dark place without colour.