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Danny’s restless feet keep disturbing the North Pole wrapping room. When a jam sends presents onto every wrong conveyor, he becomes the only elf quick enough to follow the mixed-up parcels through the workshop. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/christmas-stories-for-kids/danny-the-elf As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories...

Holly Haven’s Christmas clock stops at eleven when its mechanical robin flies away with the winding key. Ellie and Ben follow its scattered song through the snowy town before the midnight lantern procession begins. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/christmas-stories-for-kids/the-christmas-rescue-mission As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorit...

Nora and Ben build a snowman beside Bellweather Station, where a lost ticket brings him to life after the final Christmas train departs. He has until sunrise to discover where the ticket was meant to go. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/christmas-stories-for-kids/the-adventure-of-frosty-the-snowman As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite ta...

Fern’s silver brush falls through the clouds while she is painting the season’s first snow. Mia finds it below—but every stroke she makes changes the weather over Silver Pine in an unexpected way. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/christmas-stories-for-kids/the-snowflake-fairy As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Piper’s ambitious festival igloo keeps collapsing in one particular place. As visitors begin arriving, she discovers that the design’s most troublesome feature may be exactly what the crowded celebration needs. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/christmas-stories-for-kids/the-igloo-architect As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and s...

When a storm scatters Pineglass Valley’s Christmas lanterns, Bramble—a young deer who knows every woodland path—sets out to gather them before the hilltop procession begins. The lanterns make his antlers increasingly difficult to manage. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/christmas-stories-for-kids/rudolphs-bright-christmas As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com...

Emily knows there is a puppy somewhere in the house on Christmas Eve—but every clue leads to an empty basket, a chewed ribbon, or a mysteriously moving present. Finding CoCo is only the beginning of the surprise. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/christmas-stories-for-kids/a-puppy-for-christmas As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales a...

Buster has a favorite chair and a very comfortable afternoon planned. But when his family comes to visit, somebody keeps taking his spot. Getting it back will take more than a hopeful look. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/5-year-old/busters-chair As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Blue paint ruins Timmy’s Captain Comet costume just before Maplewood’s Halloween parade. When the painted splashes begin changing everyone’s costumes for real, Timmy and Grandma Grace must catch the wandering blue blob. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/the-halloween-costume-catastrophe As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favori...

Wanda brews a potion to make Spooksville’s Halloween parade funnier, but one extra ingredient causes jokes to leap out and run loose through town. She must catch the final joke before it reaches the mayor’s midnight speech. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/wanda-the-witchs-wacky-brew As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite...

Emma and Jack enter the Howling Woods expecting wolves but discover that the howls move whenever the wind changes. An old map leads them toward a hidden clearing where the forest is struggling to finish its Halloween song. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/the-mystery-of-the-howling-woods As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favo...

Eddie and his friends receive invitations to a Halloween party inside Willowville’s empty mansion. When the house begins rearranging every room before the midnight dance, they must find out what kind of party it actually wants. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/haunted-house-party As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tal...

Every bag of candy corn in Sweetville disappears before the Halloween festival, leaving only three-colored arrows behind. Hannah and Max follow the trail and discover that the missing sweets are building something enormous beneath the clock tower. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/the-candy-corn-mystery As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com fo...

Waldo promises to bring his famous vegetable pies to a Halloween barbecue. Then the full moon turns him into a werewolf whose howl makes every pie rise, roll, and race into the forest. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/waldo-the-werewolfs-dilemma As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Wendy’s flower spell turns the town’s Halloween decorations into butterflies, balloons, and bouncing pumpkins. To repair the parade before sunset, she must work out why every spell is producing the wrong kind of magic. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/witchy-wendys-magical-mishap As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tal...

Emily receives an invitation to a ghostly tea party frozen at one minute before midnight. The guests cannot finish Halloween until she discovers why the mansion’s oldest clock refuses to strike twelve. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/the-ghostly-tea-party As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Spooky wants to join Willowville’s Halloween celebration, but every helpful thing he does looks like a haunting. When the parade’s lanterns suddenly go dark, the invisible little ghost finally has the perfect job. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/spooky-the-friendly-ghosts-halloween-adventure As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your...

Lucy catches three goblins rearranging her garden for Halloween. Their decorations are funny until enchanted vines begin wrapping the whole garden, and stopping them requires understanding which goblin started which spell. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/goblins-in-the-garden As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales...

Four friends begin their yearly Halloween hike, but the forest path rearranges itself behind them. Their costume lanterns may be the only way to persuade the enchanted trail to lead them home. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/the-halloween-hike As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Victor the vampire plans to serve vegetables at Gruff’s Halloween barbecue, but moonlight makes his entire garden pull itself from the soil and march toward the party. Catching dinner may be harder than growing it. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/vampire-victors-vegetable-garden As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tal...

Mia and Max awaken an enchanted cauldron just before the Halloween sweet-making contest. When every piece of candy begins copying itself, they must decipher the cauldron’s pictures before the town disappears beneath the treats. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/the-enchanted-candy-cauldron As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your fav...

Maplewood’s prize pumpkin vanishes in green smoke, leaving Lily and Sam a riddle about bats and owls. To save the festival contest, they must discover whether the pumpkin is cursed—or trying to lead them somewhere. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/the-mystery-of-the-cursed-pumpkin As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite ta...

Emily discovers an antique violin whose unfinished tune summons a ghostly orchestra into her attic. Before the musicians can perform at midnight, she must help them find the final missing note. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/holiday-stories/halloween-stories/the-ghostly-orchestra As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A shimmering mailbox flag delivers Emily an astronaut's unusual problem, and solving it requires testing a gentle invention before sending her plan. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/series/the-midnight-mailbox/the-starlight-flag Discover hundreds of free bedtime stories: https://www.readthetale.com As always, visit us at ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A pirate-stamped letter transforms Emily's bedroom into a treasure hunt for a tiny compass charm that must be recovered before morning. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/series/the-midnight-mailbox/the-pirate-stamp Discover hundreds of free bedtime stories: https://www.readthetale.com As always, visit us at ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.