The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Join Brooke and Hannah for the fun, entertaining and fast paced story of The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Come and listen and join in with these sneaky princesses and help the Prince catch them before their next party! Told by award-winning storytellers. Audio story for children.

Transcript

Hello Adventure Tellers!

Welcome to your story today.

You find me with the Great King,

All-Hell Great King.

Can you all bow?

There.

Or can you curtsy?

There you are,

Your Royal Highness.

Oh,

You seem sad.

George,

Should we find out?

Your daughters,

12 of them.

Wow,

12.

Wake up in the morning and all their shoes are tatty and you don't know why?

Hmm.

I wonder,

Maybe somebody could come to the castle and help you.

Just if only somebody could come and find us here at the castle.

Oh,

That sounds like the doorbell,

Your Highness.

Should we not get it?

No,

But you don't.

Could be a prince that's come to save the day.

An answer?

Your riddle.

You don't think so.

Your soap.

There's the doorbell again.

Should we not go and get it?

No.

You don't think that's a sign that maybe somebody's come to help,

Do you?

You don't.

Well,

We'll never get to the bottom of this unless you answer that door because if you're not willing to help the situation,

Then you'll never know.

It could be a prince that's come to help,

Couldn't it children?

Oh,

I think you should go and answer it.

Listen,

If they ring the doorbell again,

They must be serious.

You don't think anybody can help?

No?

Oh dear.

Oh,

King.

Okay.

Oh dear,

It's the doorbell again.

Listen,

I know.

I know.

I think I'll go and answer the door,

Okay?

Okay?

And I'm sure whoever's behind that door is here to help you,

Your Highness.

I do believe that even if you don't,

Even if you think,

This riddle will never be solved.

Oh,

Come on children.

Let's help this poor King out.

Oh,

Imagine.

12 daughters?

That's an awful lot of shoes,

Isn't it?

There's the door again.

I'm going to answer it.

Okay,

Here goes.

Children,

Who do you think could be at the door?

Shall we go with Brooke and have a look?

Well,

Here I am children,

At the front door of this huge castle and I can't.

.

.

Oh,

Hold on a minute.

Who's that?

Oh,

It's a prince on his horse.

Oh wow.

What's your name,

Prince?

Prince Smellypants.

Oh,

And you're the youngest of 12 brothers,

Are you?

Oh,

And you've been riding through the kingdom to come here to solve the riddle for the King.

Well,

Do step this way.

This is Prince Smellypants.

Smellypants,

Your Highness.

Yes,

Come this way.

He's just through here.

A prince to solve the riddle,

Your Highness.

His name is Prince Smellypants.

Don't laugh.

That's it.

All hail Prince Smellypants.

Here to solve the royal riddle.

The King commands that you have three days,

Three days to solve the riddle.

And at the end of the three days,

If you've solved the riddle,

You can marry any,

That's right,

Any of his 12 beautiful princesses.

But if you don't,

Then I'm afraid the King says,

You will not have anything,

Nothing,

Not even a golden coin,

Not even,

What's that?

Not even a scaletrix.

What's that?

Not even an action man,

Pickle.

Not even about to the co-op.

Nothing.

Oh,

Goodness me.

And certainly not one of his princesses hand in marriage.

So three days you've got,

He says.

Do you think you can do it?

You do.

And also while you're here,

Do you think you could have a shower and change your pants?

Three days.

That's not very long.

Is it children?

Oh,

I wonder if the Prince will be able to find out why the princess's shoes get so dirty.

Oh look,

I think here comes the princesses now.

Hello.

We are two,

That's right,

Two of the 10 princesses.

What's that?

You want to know?

What?

You want to know where the other 10 are?

Well,

They're outside,

Aren't they?

Playing croquet.

Such a lovely summery day.

And also children,

They need some fresh air after the party that we went to yesterday.

And that's why our,

Shh,

Don't tell anyone,

Shh,

Why our shoes are tatty every morning and that we have to have brand new shoes every day.

But shh,

Like I said,

Don't tell.

Prince Smelly Pants,

The Prince Smelly Pants,

Oh my goodness,

Has come to try and solve the riddle.

And if he does,

Which he won't because we'll make sure of it,

You will have to marry him.

What?

I thought you said yes.

Oh no,

Yes he won't solve the riddle and no,

If he does,

You won't marry him.

I will have to marry him?

Oh no.

No,

I don't think so.

Listen,

We better go and tell our 10 sisters about this Prince Smelly Pants.

What's that?

You think they'd probably be happy to marry him?

About this Prince Smelly Pants?

What's that?

You think they probably know already?

Why?

Because you think that they'll have smelled him already?

Well listen,

When he goes to bed tonight,

I have a plan.

We'll put out a goblet and in the goblet will be sleeping potion.

But it will be disguised in hot chocolate.

What's that?

With some marshmallows,

Yes of course.

With whipped cream,

Yes of course.

With sprinkles,

Yes of course.

And extra milk,

Yes of course.

And extra chocolate,

Yes okay,

Okay.

Right,

So let's find the goblet.

Oh,

It's in your house,

Thought as much.

There we go,

Can you pass it over?

Thank you.

Right,

Here's the goblet.

Put all those lovely things that you said you wanted to put in.

Lovely,

Lovely.

And if there's any space left,

If you could just put a little bit of sleeping powder in there.

Where are we going to get sleeping powder?

Oh,

From the moon of course.

That's it.

Here we go,

A little bit from the moon.

And sprinkle that in children,

Can you help?

Oh yeah,

Oh yeah,

Oh yeah.

And now let's go and place it on the side table in the room of Prince Smelly Pants.

Oh my goodness children,

The princesses have made the prince a sleeping potion.

No prince,

Don't drink that.

Ha ha,

It is I,

Prince Smelly Pants.

Oh it's so horrible that everybody's laughing at my name.

I know,

But it's okay,

I'm sure you'll solve the riddle.

I hope I will solve this riddle.

What's this?

A nice cup of cocoa for bedtime.

Oh yes,

Look,

Let's have a look children.

Oh wow,

It's got pink marshmallows,

White marshmallows,

Sprinkles,

Extra chocolate.

Oh let's smell it first before we drink it.

Take a deep breath everyone,

Ready?

There's something not quite right in there Prince.

Yes you're right,

In there is sleeping potion.

What do you think they meant by that,

Putting sleeping potion in?

Oh I know,

You don't need to tell me.

They are going to sneak out tonight and they want to make sure that you're very sound asleep.

So we'll just have to pretend.

Children,

Can you pretend with us?

We need to snore really loudly so that all the doors will rattle in their hinges.

All the knights in shining armor will rattle in their armor.

Yes,

Oh that the snoring will set the crows out from their roosting place on the castle roof and fly away.

Yes and that will make everybody think that you are very much sound asleep.

Ready?

Ready?

Good job,

Keep it up everyone.

Oh thank goodness Prince Smelly Pants didn't drink that hot chocolate.

Well done children.

Now what do you think those sneaky princesses are up to?

Children,

I can hear the Prince Smelly Pants snoring and so I'm just getting ready to go out with my other sisters.

So I've got this lovely dress with flowers on,

I might wear that.

Oh I like this lovely 1930s style dress.

Oh and I might wear that.

And of course most importantly the shoes.

Oh look at these lovely sparkly shoes.

Yes I think I'm going to wear these shoes.

We're going out tonight but shh don't tell Prince Smelly Pants don't you dare wake him up otherwise you can't come to the party with us.

Right put these on.

Very high up here in these shoes.

Shhh,

Chit chat,

Chit chat,

Chit chat,

Chit chat.

So all the princesses sneak out into the night.

They don't know do they children?

That Prince Smelly Pants,

He isn't really asleep and I think he's going to follow them.

Come on children let's go.

Oh look,

Look Prince Smelly Pants.

I can see,

I'm sure of it,

12 princesses leaving the castle.

Here look through my telescope.

Do you see?

Yeah.

Oh let's count together.

One,

Two,

Three,

Four,

Five,

Six,

Seven,

Eight,

Nine,

Ten,

Eleven,

Twelve.

Twelve princesses leaving the castle.

Right come on let's find out where they're going and solve this riddle.

Yay!

Great party isn't it Big Bad Wolf?

Yeah!

Oh wow even the knights are here.

The knights in knight shining armour.

Oh yes a good dance on a Friday night.

Oh he's never going to find out Prince Smelly Pants.

No that we go out every night to go dancing.

Can you dance with these little children?

Yeah!

Good dancing.

Yeah.

Oh is that somebody at the window?

No,

Very quickly.

Does my imagination.

Oh it's all these disco lights creating all sorts of different shadows.

The dance floor makes you think you're saying lots of strange things when they're not really there.

Oh what's that?

All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't solve this riddle even if they tried.

Oh you're so funny.

Oh you're so funny Henry.

Yes Henry likes to come out dancing as well don't you Henry?

And Big Bad Wolf loves it as well.

Oh look at my lovely sisters having a great time.

What's that?

You've got blisters in your shoes.

Oh blisters from your shoes.

Just kick them off.

Just kick them off.

Yeah.

Oh hold on a minute.

I think we should be getting back to the castle now.

Oh I'll see you guys tomorrow.

Bye.

Oh what a great party.

I mean I can't believe those princesses have been going to parties.

And now they're sneaking back into the castle.

Zip-Zop.

Zip-Zop.

Zip-Zop.

Zip-Zop.

We've got to get into the castle without the prince seeing us.

Come on.

Light on your feet.

What's that?

Oh yeah they're all blistered.

I know well limp on your feet then.

Just don't get caught.

Tick tock.

Tick tock.

Oh no.

I've dropped one of my shoes into the moat that's round the castle.

Oh I'm sure it'll be okay.

I'm sure that the Prince Smelly Pants won't find it.

Yeah.

Come on.

Let's quickly get back to our bedrooms.

The sun is definitely rising.

Good job Prince Smelly Pants.

You found one of the princesses shoes when they were sneaking back into the castle.

Great.

This is pure evidence that they are up to no good.

Oh quick though.

I think.

Yes I think the rooster's about to crow.

Let's pretend to be asleep.

Come on.

Everybody nice big snoring again.

Good job.

Keep it up.

Keep going until the rooster crows.

Oh well done Prince Smelly Pants for finding one of the princesses shoes.

Those princesses they have no idea.

They think they've gotten away with it.

We are the princesses and we got away with it.

Yes.

Yes.

Oh this is one of our other sisters.

What's the other nine doing?

Oh they're eating cucumber sandwiches out on the lawn drinking pink lemonade.

We should probably go out there and join them.

Considering we didn't get much sleep last night from our party.

Yes a nice relax on one of the sun loungers outside while our servants scuttle around helping us.

I can smell Prince Smelly Pants.

He must have woken up.

He slept all through the night and has no idea whatsoever that we went to a party.

Right come on let's go out onto the lawn and sunbathe.

That's nice that princesses went up to their old tricks again.

They've got another cup of their special hot chocolate.

They're going to try and give it to Prince Smelly Pants.

Well what a lovely day we've had.

Lounging in the sun but now the moon is here and it's time for us princesses to go back out to the party.

I've got another little nightcap for Prince Smelly Pants so that he again will sleep through tonight and not know what we really been up to.

What should we put in children?

Hot chocolate again?

Double hot chocolate.

Should we put those sprinkles on top?

Put rainbow ones?

Okay well sprinkle it on.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Prince Smelly Pants.

I've left you another lovely little nightcap for you by the side of your bed.

I'll just put it down.

Right and as soon as we hear him start to snore I can put my lovely shoes on which tonight are ballet pumps.

Yes lovely ballet pumps so I can go on my tippy toes and I can dwell but I can't do anything until that Prince Smelly Pants goes to bed and falls asleep.

Aha your royal highness yet again a lovely hot chocolate has been set to one side for you.

Oh what's that?

You don't believe it just to be hot chocolate?

Ah you're right the youngest princess has yet again put sleeping potion into your nightcap.

Now we'll just need to pretend again that we have drunk it but instead we have not.

We have not.

We need to stay alert so that we can catch them when they are out in the night.

Yes we want to catch this all in our memories okay but we mustn't let them know that we know because we'll get to have another another night in the castle and it's jolly nice especially after such a lovely day on the lawn eating cucumber sandwiches.

Anyway right time to start our plan into action.

You know what to do children get snoring.

That's it louder.

You've blown out all the candlesticks.

All the flames have been blown out on them.

The room that we're in is rattling.

That should do it.

Right are you ready?

Because I can do it.

Right are you ready?

Because I can hear the prince snoring so it's our chance to sneak out of the castle and off to the party.

So let's tiptoe tiptoe tiptoe.

Oh my goodness he's snoring so loudly that the castle the castle walls are shaking and he's snoring so loudly that he's blown the candle flame quite out.

Oh well we're outside now.

The light of the moon yes the light of the moon can show us the way to the party.

We're off to party the night away.

So the princesses they're on their way to the party.

And here comes prince smelly pants following them.

Right your royal highness I think this time we must follow them.

So everybody as quiet as you can be we need to tiptoe out.

But we have a slight problem.

We need somebody to keep snoring.

Could you ask one of the grown-ups please to snore.

Great and Hannah Hannah could you snore for us.

That will mean they'll still think we are asleep when actually we're sneaking out of the castle.

They went along the corridor and they went down these stairs.

They went across the drawbridge yes where we found yesterday in the moat underneath the shoe.

Now they went across the field.

Oh I hear some music.

Oh it seems to be coming from this enchanting tree.

Oh look through one of the holes.

Inside this enchanting tree is a party and we can see 12 dancing princesses.

Oh it's Big Bear.

Hello Big Bear.

Oh no Goldilocks with you this evening.

No?

No.

Oh oh she is.

No she's not.

Oh oh you're just enjoying the music for popping your head.

Well do you care to dance the tango?

No?

Oh is that somebody out there?

Check.

Could it be someone?

I saw somebody looking in through that window.

No?

Okay well just keep dancing.

No no no no no no.

What's that Georgian?

There's somebody out there.

Oh no no.

I thought that yesterday and I was completely wrong.

Oh is that the time?

Oh we really should be getting back.

The sun's coming up.

Come on Teddy dance me out of here.

The party is over and that means it's time for the princesses to tiptoe back into the palace.

Hold on to your shoes this time girls.

Children I'm holding on to my shoes this time very safely because well I don't want to drop them again.

Look at the bottom of the soles they're so worn out.

Yeah I probably won't want to wear these again anyway.

Oh well I've kept my rose my lovely rose from Teddy.

Right let's sneak into the castle.

Okay shh oh oh no I've dropped my rose.

Oh fine.

No evidence on a rose really is there?

I'm being far too sensitive.

Right come on talking of sensitive my eyes oh they're really hurting with the sun coming up.

Oh is that far too sensitive for the daylight?

Quick into our bedrooms.

Well children the prince and I are very pleased with ourselves because we followed the princesses.

We know about the enchanted tree now.

Yes and you picked up the rose that the youngest princess dropped.

Another bit of evidence even though she doesn't think so.

It is because this flower only grows by the enchanted tree.

Oh now I wonder if we could get the enchanting tree to agree to tell the king all about the parties.

What do you think?

We've got the shoe,

We've got the rose,

We just need the tree to talk.

He doesn't think you're going to be barking mad.

Listen I'm sure we can do this.

Oh right the princesses look like they're back out on the lawn with no sleep.

I don't know how they're doing it.

Oh I think they're going out on their horses this morning.

Right this will give us a chance to get all of our evidence properly together.

And maybe we can think of something we could give the tree as a gift for the information it will give us about the parties.

While the prince is finalizing his plan the princesses they're starting to get ready for tonight's party.

Hi adventure tellers.

Oh it's so nice to see you.

We're just back from our horse riding lesson.

Yes we galloped so far today.

We galloped right up to the magic tree.

Oh I love that magic tree.

If only we know about it.

Oh right so I'm going to wear some pearls this evening.

All of the pearls.

Yes all of the pearls.

Don't tell my other 11 sisters.

Yeah yeah yeah.

Mind you they'll probably see that I'm wearing all the pearls and when I'm eating all the pearls I'm wearing all of their pearls as well.

Anyway oh right I've got another pair of shoes because as you know I lost my I lost my I lost my shoe one of my shoes for the first night out.

The second night out they're just completely tatty so I've just got these lovely sparkly shoes today.

Look really nice.

All the colours.

I couldn't make up what my what my mind would be on the colours so I just got all the colours.

Yeah all the colours.

Right now I've got to get that prince off to sleep again.

Another hot chocolate.

Do you think children?

Yeah and this is his last night with us and then he will go with his smelly pants.

His pants are so smelly I'm not surprised that they haven't just walked off on their own.

The princesses have made their sleeping potion again in the hot chocolate and they've given it to prince smelly pants but he knows better than to drink it doesn't he children.

Well royal smelly pants it's the third and final night.

Do you feel confident that we can get the tree to talk?

Great right well children you know what to do.

Don't drink the supposed hot chocolate.

That's a no and instead we snore snore snore snore snore that you could move move the princesses.

Yeah snore so loudly that when you breathe in that when you breathe out a big gust of wind will blow the princesses quicker.

Ha ha to the tree.

Brilliant ready.

Good job keep snoring so we can sneak out.

Good job everyone let's go prince.

Oh great that sounds like prince smelly pants is definitely asleep.

I'm going to put my shoes on.

Lovely brand new shoes.

Ah 12 princesses we are costing our papa king papa a royal fortune on our little titsy toes.

Right okay so we're gonna tiptoe out of the castle.

He's really really snoring super loudly today that when he blows out his snore it's pushing us all the way out of the castle.

Things will get there even quicker how handy.

I've not drunk any of that hot chocolate and I have followed the princesses out of the castle to the enchanted tree.

Now I've just got to get that enchanting tree to talk and if it does I can tell the king and present my evidence.

Hi everybody yeah I'm just here with dragon.

Yeah oh I love dragon always coming up to the castle and trying to kidnap us.

So funny okay could you make it could you make it Friday next week yeah yeah yeah oh I mean you could come Wednesday just that we've got we've got this prince smelly pants day with us at the moment oh yeah and he's trying to spoil the riddle of our shoes yeah oh I love this tune.

Come on everybody can you dance yes if you can make it next week to come and kidnap us that would be great yeah.

But while the princesses are enjoying themselves at the party prince smelly pants he is having a chat with the enchanting tree.

Tree tree talk to me everything you ever wish for I will grant if you help me.

Hello I am the enchanted tree how can I help you oh I know why you're here you do yeah it's for the princesses isn't it oh well I have been sworn to secrecy that I will never never never divulge what the princesses are doing inside my tree whoa is that right well I will give you anything you wish anything you desire uh if you tell me anything anything anything anything okay then actually I've got a real problem with birds yeah real problem with the ladies here the ladybirds yeah they're living inside all of my bark if you could clear this tree of mine out I will grant you your wishes very well very simple I can do this for you we will uh give you a wash and uh actually talking of washes do do you think you can have a wash as well well it's just that your pants are really really smelly how amazing you could dance come on let's make the most of our last night together because you know that tomorrow the prince the prince won't be here because he'll have not solved the riddle oh what's that by the window oh oh there's nothing I'm sure of it yeah we're fine mind you though the sun is coming up we should really get out of here I don't suppose um you could give us a lift back to the castle could you oh you can great come on sisters let's get a lift home on dragon ah children it's me prince smelly pants again and look look what I've got in my hand the pearls that's more evidence now I've got a shoe a rose pearls and a talking tree I will solve this riddle for the king and I'll have a princess to marry me oh and I'll get a shower I promise and you can call me prince smarty pants yeah prince smarty pants for solving the riddle well children prince smelly pants has all the evidence he needs now so it's time to go and tell the king what his daughters have been up to your royal highness I present to you the evidence that your daughters go out every single night and party what do you mean they leave the castle that's correct they leave the castle they dress up in beautiful clothes and they ruin their shoes every night here's a shoe oh the soles on these shoes are dirty thank you thank you next evidence please oh the next evidence is a rose this rose your youngest daughter was dancing with a bear dancing bear with a rose no dancing with a grizzly bear oh I thought you meant bears if no clothes on oh that would be just terrible oh but dancing with a bear that's right not just any bear big bear from goldilocks and that's the rose she was dancing with bear with oh very good I will keep this rose great hmm now what's this hanging off your neck this is the pearls that your youngest daughter wore but she dropped them on her way back from the party where she was flying on a dragon flying on a dragon what oh this gets worse right give me those pearls and last but not least if you're still not convinced but I am well just because I'm actually called prince smarty pants not smelly pants I brought the enchanting tree with me and this tree hosts the party every night hi yes it's true is it's true I have a party inside me every single night you should come oh yeah it'd be great but sorry back to what we should be doing which is solving your mystery rather than organizing when you can come around for a play date yes I agreed to come here to give witness to you your highness that your 12 daughters come out dancing every night to the enchanted tree barking tree more like yes um and as a reward the prince here says he's going to get rid of my lady bird problem oh thank you so much oh and so there you have it children this is really prince smarty pants and he now gets to marry one of the princesses well children I'm the lucky one that gets to marry prince smarty pants fancy that you're being called prince smarty pants all along I think you're better at playing tricks on us than we were at trying to play a trick on you well children I hope you enjoyed your story oh I do love a happy ending and I hope prince smarty pants and the princess will be very happy together and that the king will start getting invited to the parties thank you for joining us everybody see you next time bye

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