Popular Bedtime Stories

A hungry dog and a bold little sparrow set off together. When a carter ignores the sparrow's warning, he discovers that one determined bird can make a very long journey home. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-dog-and-the-sparrow As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Karen loves a pair of bright red shoes. When their magic makes her dance without stopping, she must find a way to escape before they carry her beyond the village. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-red-shoes 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.

Kept home from the royal ball by her stepfamily, Cinderella receives one night of fairy magic—and leaves behind the glass slipper that leads the prince back to her. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/cinderella As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

On a hot summer night, the moon turns into a melting scoop of ice cream, and Emily and Daniel must discover the strange nighttime rule that can freeze it again. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-ice-cream-moon 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.

Emily sets a quiet watch for her missing socks and discovers that the creature beneath her bed has been building something much stranger than a nest. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/emily-and-the-sock-monster As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

When Emily wishes for someone to finish her animal project, a homework fairy appears—with a broken wand, terrible facts, and an assignment of her own. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-magical-homework-fairy As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A plain toy rabbit learns from an old nursery horse that love can make a toy Real—even when its fur grows worn and thin. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-velveteen-rabbit As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A blue mailbox appears on Emily’s porch before midnight, delivering a cocoa-scented letter whose picture clues lead to an alarming pirate message. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/series/the-midnight-mailbox/the-letter-after-dark Discover hundreds of free bedtime stories: https://www.readthetale.com As always, visit us at ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and storie...

When a forgotten satellite begins sending pictures to Max's homemade receiver, he and Lena discover a message hidden in its final trip around Earth. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/space-adventure As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Emily and Daniel find a bottle with a beach clue, but the buried box they uncover belongs to a mystery that began forty years earlier. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-missing-beach-treasure As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A shepherd's false alarms stop being funny when a real wolf appears—and earning back the village's trust takes more than one apology. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-boy-who-cried-wolf As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Two swindlers promise an emperor cloth that foolish people cannot see. Ministers praise empty looms, the emperor joins the lie, and one child finally describes the parade plainly. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-emperors-new-clothes As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Little Red Riding Hood takes a basket through the forest to Grandmother. A wolf reaches the cottage first, but Red and Grandmother are saved before his trick can succeed. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/little-red-riding-hood As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Objects keep escaping from the school anniversary display, and Max's unreliable invisibility gives him a closer look. But solving the mystery will take more than disappearing. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/9-year-old/the-invisible-detective As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

The old hotel elevator gains a button marked 0. When Noor presses it, the doors open onto an underground station where every train has forgotten its destination. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/9-year-old/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Neri finds a brass key tangled in harbor kelp. With Odo and Harbor Keeper Sela, she traces it to a locked instrument case inside an old sunken ferry. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/6-year-old/ariel-and-treasure As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Nia’s list of things she might become keeps changing all day—from baker to bridge builder to bug photographer. Mum saves every crossed-out idea. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/5-year-old/the-wonderful-things-you-will-be As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

During a wartime blackout, two young evacuees arrive at Blackbird Station with a rain-damaged label and no one waiting for them. Nine-year-old Elsie has until the last train departs to work out where they belong. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/9-year-old/number-the-stars As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

When one drop of water releases a wind-up seed cart, Pico the tree frog rolls out of the conservatory’s quiet pond room and into a nighttime world of giant leaves, falling fruit and unexpected tracks. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/8-year-old/the-mouse-and-the-motorcycle As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Nora’s poster disappears on the morning of the neighborhood art show. Its torn blue corners lead her across the station—and into a mix-up nobody planned. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/madeline As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.