The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark: as read by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge on CBeebies Bedtime Stories

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The author uses the phrase ‘a fountain of dancing stars sprang up from the ground’ to describe the fireworks. The Duchess of Cambridge is narrating a bedtime story for BBC channel CBeebies to mark Children's Mental Health Week. This is a great activity for independent learning, as it lets you work on other tasks while your child reads. It’s such a special and relevant tale and perfectly represents this years’ Children’s Mental Health week theme. Plop, the Baby Barn Owl, is like every Barn Owl there ever was, except for one thing–he is afraid of the dark.

Kate was seen wearing a sweater and sitting down cross-legged by a fire bowl to record her reading of the children's classic, The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. If they feel like they haven’t got a good grasp of the story yet, encourage them to reread it until they feel confident in their knowledge. Reading comprehension activities are essential in any literacy class, and there are many reasons why.

You may want to read Google’s cookie policy , external and privacy policy , external before accepting. Other big names to appear on the CBeebies Bedtime Stories are Hollywood star Chris Evans, best known for playing Captain America; Foo Fighters frontman, Dave Grohl; and British actor, Tom Hiddleston. Reese Witherspoon was a recent addition to the list, which also features Chris Evans, Tom Hiddleston, Orlando Bloom and Eddie Redmayne, along with singing talent including Dolly Parton, Sir Elton John, Dave Grohl and Ed Sheeran - and children's television royalty such as Dame Floella Benjamin.

This three-lesson Diary Entries English Pack includes detailed plans, engaging slide shows and differentiated worksheets. I can't wait to see her deliver her own take on such a classic story and I'm sure our audience can't either. Orion the black cat explains that there are ‘hot scented summer nights’, ‘cold windy nights’, ‘breathless thundery nights’ and ‘fresh spring nights’.Patricia Hidalgo, director of BBC Children's and Education said: "I couldn't be more proud to have the duchess read a CBeebies Bedtime Story as we mark the 20th anniversary of our CBeebies and CBBC channels. Patricia Hidalgo, director of BBC Children’s and Education, said: “I couldn’t be more proud to have the duchess read a CBeebies Bedtime Story as we mark the 20th anniversary of our CBeebies and CBBC channels.