Goodnight, Warm Pond: a Toffee & Zip bedtime story
A Toffee & Zip bedtime story
Goodnight, Warm Pond
The cover
Toffee & Zip · Bedtime story · about 4 min read aloud · Ages 3–7
Goodnight, Warm Pond
It's bedtime at the warm pond, but Zip, the fastest capybara in the world, races around shouting goodnight so fast that nobody hears her. Toffee shows her the slow way: slow steps to the orange tree, slow goodnights to Frog and Miss Snail, slow counting of the stars, and slow breaths like the steaming pond. By the last page, the fastest capybara in the world is fast asleep.
- Winding down
- Slow breathing
- Saying goodnight
Talk about it together
For grown-ups, after the story.
The lesson: Slow down, lie down. Slowing your body down, with slow steps, slow counting and slow breaths, helps you get sleepy.
- What did Zip and Toffee say goodnight to?
- Can you breathe like the warm pond: in... and out?
Try this tonight
A gentle part of the bedtime routine.
The goodnight walk
Before bed, walk around your home together as slowly as Miss Snail, and whisper goodnight to three things: a toy, a window, the moon. Then lie down and take three slow pond breaths, in... and out.
Whisper it at bedtime
“Slow down... lie down.”
A line from the story to say together at lights-out, even on nights you don't read it. Meet the characters in Toffee & Zip.
