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The programme starts as the library shuts in the evening. At the stroke of midnight, Jelly and Jackson (green and pink puppets who live in the library and hide in the daytime) come out and are joined by a guest presenter, one of the members of the Wordsworth family, who recites "The sun is down, the stars are bright, Story Makers come out at night".
Objects found in the library are put into the top of the story machine (transformed from a desktop computer); Jelly, Jackson and the story maker then recite "Imagine, imagine, imagine a story!"; and the story machine produces a book containing a story based on the object. The story in the book is then "read out" (although this is replaced on screen by live action or an animation). The first story is a play story (live action with small children), and the remaining stories are animated ( cartoons, stop-motion animation, or puppets). The characters in the stories are fairly consistent, including Scratch and Sniff (two puppet dogs), Blue Cow (a cartoon cow), Kevin the Space Boy (puppet), and so on.
As dawn breaks, the story maker takes his leave ("Our time is up, the morning is nigh, time for story makers to say goodbye") and disappears, Jelly and Jackson hide, and story machine turns back into a computer, but the books produced overnight remain for the librarian and children find when the library opens in the morning.
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Each Wordsworth has magicThe term magic is a Persian loanword into English and may refer to any of the following. Magic (paranormal) deals with the manipulation of what the practitioner believes to be genuine paranormal phenomena. Magic and religion deals with the relationship ofal story-making powers.
As is apparent, the story makers are named after EnglishEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England poetPoets are authors of poems. Poets are often regarded as imaginative thinkers or writers. List of poets Apocalypse poets Georgian poets List of romantic poets List of surrealist poets Symbolist Poets List of Albanian language poets List of Arabic languages, William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth ( April 7, 1770 April 23, 1850) was an English poet who with Samuel Taylor Coleridge launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads''. His masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelu, John MiltonJohn Milton ( December 9, 1608— November 8, 1674) was an English poet, most famous for his blank verse epic Paradise Lost''. His father, John Milton Sr. was a well-off scrivener, and his grandfather a wealthy landowner in Oxfordshire who, hewing to the ol, Lord Byron, Dante Rossetti (or possibly Christina RossettiChristina Georgina Rossetti ( December 5, 1830 December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, was a political asylum seeker from Naples, and their mother, Frances Polidori, was the sister), Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake, and John Webster. It's possible the surname is also intended as an appropriate literacy pun (words' worth).