Cody, wanna hear a story?
Yes, I do.
Can I please help tell it, too?
Yes, listen close.
Let's imagine and rhyme.
It's Cocomelon Storytime!
Daddy, will you help me put on my shoes?
Sure.
But, wait a minute.
There's a little pebble in your shoe.
Sorry, little pebble.
You can't live in my shoe.
I need room for my foot.
You just reminded me of a story about a family who lived in a shoe.
How could a whole family live in a shoe?
Well, the family was little and the shoe was big.
In fact, it belonged to a giant.
Whoa.
Tell me the story, please.
OK.
It's called Only a Shoe Will Do.
Once there was a big friendly giant who lent one of his huge rain boots to his friend the little woman.
But today the giant needed his shoe back so he could splash across the giant river to see his giant sister.
Splish splash!
When the giant found the little woman, he saw that she had made his shoe into... A house!
Yes, a house!
The little woman and all her children were living in the giant's rain boot.
Did they like living in a shoe?
The giant wondered that too.
Since he needed to take his shoe back anyway, he said, I'll find you a better home than my old shoe.
Come with me and I'll show you.
The giant scooped up the little woman and all her children in his hand and stomped on up a muddy hill.
Squish, squish.
He stopped in front of a cottage made of straw and said, This cottage has a beautiful view.
Surely it's a better home for you.
But the little woman said, This won't do.
The little woman still missed her shoe.
You're right, Cody.
And the giant wanted to know why.
What is this cottage missing?
Suddenly, the wind started hissing.
The little woman explained to the giant This cottage is lovely but it's really cold on top of this hill.
When the wind blows harder than a storm, A nice thick shoe would keep us warm.
The giant thought the cottage would make a better home than his shoe.
But he understood the problem now.
They stomped down the hill till they reached a moat.
Then they splashed on through it because they had no boat.
A moat?
Like the water around a castle?
Yes, Cody.
When they stepped inside the castle, the giant's voice echoed through the stone halls.
No one here.
This stone is thick.
So will this castle do the trick?
The little woman looked around, then said, No, this won't do.
The little woman still missed her shoe.
Nice echoing, Cody.
She agreed the stone would keep her family warm.
But this castle made everything echo.
And so, was too noisy.
Right.
My children won't be able to sleep with all this noise.
Noise.
Noise.
Not like in our snug cozy shoe.
Shoe.
Shoe.
The giant understood.
A cottage or castle seemed good to me.
But you know what's best for your family.
Come with me just once more.
I'll help you get what you're looking for.
So the little woman and her children hopped into the giant's hand and he stomped to the workshop of some old friends, the elves and the shoemaker.
The giant asked if they could build a giant shoe for the little woman and all her children to live in.
What did they say?
Of course, we'll build a great big shoe, big enough for all of you.
Hooray!
The elves snip, snip the leather with scissors.
Snip, snip. hammered the heel into the sole with a bop-donk, then tied up the laces, swish-swish.
When the shoemaker and his elves finished building the shoe, the little woman smiled and said Oh, this will do.
She and her children yelled, Thank you! and ran inside their new home sweet home.
That just so happened to be a shoe.
The End We heard a story.
Yes, it's true.
And I helped tell it, too.
We listened, imagined, and made some rhymes for Cocomelon Storytime.
A Spotify original podcast produced by Moonbug Entertainment.
