Popular Bedtime Stories

Danny and Mum follow the evening from the street below to the quietest corner of his room, noticing how everything finds its nighttime place—including Danny. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/4-year-old/goodnight-moon As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A blue line appears overnight on every street in town. Dev follows it past familiar places and discovers who painted it—and why it ends at an empty wall. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/9-year-old/where-the-sidewalk-ends As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Rory plans to spend his first night in a tent at the end of the garden. With a paper map, Dad's porch lantern, and a very active imagination, the little fox travels much farther than either of them expected. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-runaway-bunny As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

The Grimm Cinderella has no fairy godmother or pumpkin carriage. This child-appropriate retelling keeps the hazel tree, helpful birds, three celebrations, and golden slipper while omitting the original’s cruelest details. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/8-year-old/original-cinderella-story-explained As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your fa...

Seven brothers are changed into ravens by an angry wish. Years later, their sister journeys beyond the sun, moon and stars to find their strange home inside a glass mountain. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-seven-ravens As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Imani has made twelve pocket creatures for the neighborhood Creature Quest. On game morning, Buttonback vanishes—leaving tiny clay footprints and a trail that should not be able to move by itself. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/quest-for-goo-jit-zu As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A merchant unknowingly promises his son to a mysterious stranger. The boy later breaks an enchantment, becomes king of the Golden Mountain and must use three strange magical objects to find his way home again. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-king-of-the-golden-mountain As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Gus the young goat has one ambition: to sound the enormous horn on the Harbor Queen. When the captain refuses, Gus submits applications, offers trades, and invents increasingly important jobs for himself. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/dont-let-the-pigeon-drive-the-bus As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A persistent hare invites a girl to his burrow wedding again and again. When she discovers that his cheerful wedding plans leave no room for what she wants, she finds a clever way home. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-hares-bride As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Alma the young alpaca has just moved into Courtyard Number Four. She is determined to be the most helpful new neighbor anyone has ever met, even when she misunderstands nearly every household request. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/paddington-bear As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Old Sultan can no longer guard the farm as he once did, so Wolf stages a rescue that restores his place by the hearth. Their friendship is tested when Wolf expects a dishonest favor in return. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/old-sultan As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

After an awful evening, Nessa enters an elevator that should not exist and arrives at a carnival where every feeling becomes an attraction. At first, making everything louder feels exactly right. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/where-the-wild-things-are As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A poor father accepts a mysterious stranger as his child’s godfather and receives healing water with a strange rule. Years later, curiosity leads him into the godfather’s unsettling house. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-godfather As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Fresh snow changes every familiar object in Leena's apartment courtyard. She and Grandpa open a temporary museum for the shapes, sounds, and tiny surprises that may be gone by afternoon. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-snowy-day As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Three princes seek the Water of Life to save their father. Only the youngest listens to a small dwarf who knows the way through the enchanted castle. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-water-of-life As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A princess changed into a raven gives a traveler three chances to meet her in a forest garden. When he fails, a ring, a letter and three strange magical objects lead him to her castle beyond a glass mountain. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-raven As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Tari waits for the number nine bus and boards one marked YESTERDAY instead. To reach home, he must help its driver recover a missing timetable. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/6-year-old/the-magic-treehouse As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A fisherman’s strange golden catch brings two golden boys, two golden lilies and two golden horses into the world. When one brother is enchanted, the other follows their fading life-token to find him. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-gold-children As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

When six princes are changed into swans, their sister must sew six shirts from star-shaped flowers and remain silent for six years. One unfinished sleeve leaves a final trace of the enchantment. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-six-swans As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Mica and Tansy are ready for their first night in a new tree hollow—until a summer storm delays Dad across the grove. As they arrange their nest, the strange nighttime noises begin to sound more like home. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/owl-babies As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

A young fir tree is so eager for bigger adventures that he hardly notices the forest days passing around him. After one brilliant Christmas, he finally understands why ordinary moments mattered. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/the-fir-tree As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and stories.

Bixby the young goat follows a brass band into town and becomes tangled in its banner. The parade can continue—if somebody convinces him to stop eating it. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/popular-bedtime-stories/curious-george As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and 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.

On the morning of the Moonberry Feast, a young griffin steals the palace's silver clock face. Princess Tilda follows it across the rooftops and discovers that getting it back will require a better idea than chasing it. Read the full story: https://www.readthetale.com/bedtime-stories-by-age/7-year-old/the-paper-bag-princess As always, visit us at www. ReadTheTale.com for all your favorite tales and...

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.