Stories for curious sleepy minds
Bedtime PalsLonger nighttime adventures for ages 5–7. Read together, or tap Read Story when you want a calm voice to help.
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English (UK)·Bedtime · Animals
Above Lo’s Fish Bar, Scraps the dog counts his family every night, nose by nose. Tonight Mum comes home carrying someone who smells of nothing at all — and everybody keeps saying shh.
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English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship · Nature
Rafi Singh promised his dad a whole row. Flo Marsh promised her mum an arch of red flowers. Tonight the packet on Beanpole Lane has only three Scarlet Emperor seeds left — and nobody asked the seeds.
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English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship · Adventure
Lila Moss has lost her list, and the world will not stay still without it. Tonight she presses the blank button herself and finds the pigeon awake — still with one rule: leave one, take one.
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English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship · Adventure
Jed Crow knows every floor of Ash Court by sound — until he presses the blank button and finds a warm floor that isn't on the directory, with one rule: leave one, take one.
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English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship · Adventure
The snow has stopped and Chandler's Pitch has turned to glass. There is a bus full of cold people at the bottom of the hill — and everybody keeps telling Nell Craske to stay where she is.
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English (UK)·Bedtime · Friendship · Animals · Nature
Fog has stopped every boat on the canal, and Birdie Nowak has never kept anything to herself. Tonight the quiet boy from the lock cottage offers to show her something — if she can do nothing first.
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