Popular Bedtime Stories

Elise searches for her eleven brothers after they are changed into wild swans. To free them, she must make eleven shirts and remain silent until her work is done. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/wild-swans As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Three princesses vanish beneath a forbidden apple tree. Three hunters find a silent castle, but only the youngest can answer a gnome's strange bread test and descend to the dragons below. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-gnome As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A princess travels to marry with a speaking horse and three red threads from her mother. A jealous maid steals her place, but Falada, the wind, and an old king keep the truth alive. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-goose-girl As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Mouse, Bird, and Sausage live comfortably by doing the jobs they know best. When Bird insists that they exchange work, one unfamiliar task leads to another until their household falls apart. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-mouse-the-bird-and-the-sausage As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A stolen prince grows up with the power to make wishes. He returns carrying his loyal companion as a pink flower, determined to free his mother from a tower and expose the cook who deceived the king. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-pink As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A cyclone carries Dorothy from Kansas to Oz, where three unusual companions join her on the yellow brick road to ask a mysterious Wizard for help. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-wizard-of-oz As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Geppetto's wooden puppet can walk and talk, but Pinocchio must survive tricksters, a puppet theater, and the belly of a giant sea creature before finding his way home. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/pinocchio As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Raised by wolves, Mowgli learns the Law of the Jungle from Baloo and Bagheera—but Shere Khan's return forces him to decide where he belongs. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-jungle-book As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Alice follows a waistcoated White Rabbit underground, where size-changing food, a disappearing cat, and an impossible tea party lead her to the Queen of Hearts. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/alice-in-wonderland As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Seven young goats are warned not to open the door to the wolf. When he disguises his voice and paws, the smallest goat notices one clue too late. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-wolf-and-the-seven-goats As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A magician tricks Aladdin into entering a hidden cave for an old lamp. The lamp's powerful genie can grant wishes, but power does not make Aladdin's choices simple. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/aladdin-and-the-magic-lamp As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

When a shard from a wicked mirror freezes Kai's heart, he follows the Snow Queen north. Gerda crosses gardens, palaces, and snowbound forests to bring him home. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-snow-queen As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A lion laughs when a tiny mouse promises to help him someday. Later, a hunter's net proves that usefulness is not measured by size. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-lion-and-the-mouse As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Lost in the forest, Hansel and Gretel find a house made of sweets. Its smiling owner welcomes them inside—but the locked pantry tells a different story. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/hansel-and-gretel As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Dot the caterpillar discovers that her lunch leaf is disappearing one bite at a time, even though she has not eaten it. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-very-hungry-caterpillar As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A rain-soaked traveler arrives at the castle claiming to be a princess. The queen's tiny test causes a terrible night's sleep—and a much larger argument at breakfast. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-princess-and-the-pea As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Pip wants to finish her first wide web before the evening moths arrive, but the wind keeps delivering leaves, fluff, and one very embarrassed beetle. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/4-year-old/the-very-busy-spider As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Nico's building-brick city spreads across his room—until a missing library and a suspicious trail beneath the rug reveal its smallest resident. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/a-city-of-lego As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Princess Odette is trapped in the shape of a swan by day. A prince discovers the spell, but defeating it will require listening to Odette instead of rescuing her his own way. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-swan-princess As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A princess promises companionship to the frog who retrieves her golden ball, then discovers that keeping an inconvenient promise can break an old enchantment. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-frog-prince As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Goldilocks enters an empty cottage, tastes three bowls of porridge, tests three chairs, and falls asleep in the smallest bear's bed—with consequences when the family returns. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/goldilocks-and-the-three-bears As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Driven from the castle by a jealous queen, Snow White finds shelter with seven miners—but the Queen's enchanted apple places her under a deep sleeping spell. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/snow-white As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

No taller than a thumb, Thumbelina is carried from her flower home into a difficult journey through marsh, field, winter tunnels, and a garden made for people her size. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/thumbelina As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A forgotten fairy curses Princess Aurora to prick her finger on a spindle. A gentler spell changes the curse to sleep, while the kingdom prepares for the day she wakes. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/sleeping-beauty As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A young mermaid longs to understand the human world. She trades her voice for legs, but discovers that love cannot be won by surrendering every part of herself. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-little-mermaid As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.