Bhanumathi, 35, fondly remembers the bedtime stories her father told her when she was a child.

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She bathed them and read them bedtime stories and rushed over at 7 a.m. to French-braid their hair before school.

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In 2009, Cribbins made several appearances on the CBeebies show, Bedtime Stories.

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We'd have to set aside an afternoon for John K. King books, four floors and a basement that smell like your favorite corner of the library and bedtime stories at grandma's.

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Besides the usual back-and-forth we enjoy with WowWee's products, 'panda also reads bedtime stories (we hear that it's fond of Bearinstein Bears), interacts with a MiniMe version of itself, and of course, delivers mad bear hugs to love-starved tykes.

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It was mostly about being part of a society that reads its children bedtime stories about growing up and falling in love with the opposite sex and about being saturated with media that portrays love between members of the opposite sex as the default kind.

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