Mrs. Josie Wood

The stories include new sleep-time songs and poetry and have been written and performed by Annie Heyes from Bolton Abbey and Josie Wood from Addingham.
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'Sleep is so important to a child's physical, mental and emotional well being,' says Josie, 'we wanted to create gentle, stress-free stories so that sleep can come naturally and calmly.'

Trials proved very successful so Josie and Annie, who have been best friends for over twenty years, decided to form a company: Sounds Dreamy.

The young ducklings are the brainchild of Annie Heyes and Josie Wood, and feature on a CD to help children nod off at night time.
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Mrs Heyes a former childcare worker, and Mrs Wood, a trained counsellor have spent a year devising the characters for the CD.
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Mrs Heyes of Bolton Abbey and Mrs Wood of Addingham, have produced 2,000 copies of the stories which were launched earlier this month.
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"Josie has two children of her own and has often said how difficult it has been over the years getting them to drop off at night."
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The CDs are the brain child of Annie Heyes and Josie Wood from Addingham near Ilkley, who have formed their own small business Sounds Dreamy to sell the idea to parents who struggle getting their children to sleep.
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Addingham mother Josie Wood and business partner Annie Heyes of Bolton Abbey are writing and producing their own unique CDs they believe could be a hit with exhausted mums and dads everywhere.
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Mrs Wood and Mrs Heyes designed the CDs not only to help children sleep but also to help give parents a therapeutic night's rest.
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Mrs Wood and Mrs Heyes are now planning to meet with national high street children's clothing and toy store Mothercare in a bid to sell the CDs nation-wide.
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Sounds Dreamy Ltd is the brainchild of Annie Heyes of Bolton Abbey and Josie Wood of Addingham, and emerged as a consequence of not being able to find anything in book or CD form that lulled children to sleep.
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Mrs Wood's musical talents became useful in putting music to the lyrics written by Mrs Heyes wife of Bolton Abbey estate manager, Ben Heyes.
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Mrs Wood provided the voice for the songs and poems
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Josie Wood - who runs the company with business partner Annie Heyes - told us: "Our bank is also in Keighley, so the town has featured a lot in helping us launch our venture.
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Annie Heyes of Bolton Abbey and Josie Wood, of Addingham, created Sounds Dreamy, a compilation of two CDs - The Ducklings for one to four year-year-olds and Hugwood Kangaroos for three -to-six year olds.
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In addition, the ladies have just returned from the London book Fair at Olympia where Annie and Josie rubbed shoulders with big names like Penguin and random House.

Josie Wood, Partner, Sounds Dreamy