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Accessible bedtime stories for kids

Listen to a story, read along, or do both. Purrytale's free bedtime stories come with narrated audio and the full story text, and no account is needed.

Listen & read free stories → Browse 5-minute bedtime stories ↓

Stories in a format that works for more children

Having both narration and readable text gives families more ways to enjoy a story. The audio may be useful for children who are blind or have low vision, children who find standard print difficult, children who have physical difficulties handling printed books, and anyone who simply prefers listening.

The text is there for children who like to read along, for parents who would rather read the story themselves, and for anyone who wants to slow down or reread a favorite part. Every story offers both; how a family uses them is up to them.

Choose how to enjoy the story

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Listen

Every free story includes narrated audio. Press play on the story page — nothing to install, no account to make. On our English stories the words are highlighted as they are read, so a child can follow along.

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Read

Every free story includes its full text on the same page as the player, so you can read it aloud yourself, read along with the narration, or tap a sentence to hear it again.

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Adjust the reading view

Make the text larger, switch to all capitals, or add more spacing to find a reading style that feels comfortable. Your choices are remembered on your device for the next story.

Free stories to listen to and read

A mix for toddlers, 4 and 5-year-olds and bigger kids — each one narrated, each one with its full text, and none of them behind a sign-up.

Toby and the Missing Blanket A little dinosaur says goodnight to half the valley while hunting for his lost blanket, which is closer to bed than he thinks. 🎧 5-minute story · male narrator · for little ones (1–3) Listen or read →
Lola and the Lost Teddy A little bunny can't find her teddy at bedtime and says goodnight to everything in the burrow while she looks. 🎧 5-minute story · female narrator · for little ones (1–3) Listen or read →
The Big Bath Bubble Nell, a small girl wrapped in a yellow bath towel with duck ears, is finishing her bedtime bath when one big round bubble floats up and refuses to pop. 🎧 5-minute story · female narrator · for little ones (1–3) Listen or read →
Button’s Big Night at Grandma’s Milo is spending his first night at Grandma's house, and his teddy bear Button is the nervous one — so Milo gets to be the brave helper. 🎧 5-minute story · female narrator · for growing kids (4–5) Listen or read →
Delilah and the Goodnight Parade Delilah, a small yellow duckling with one white feather on her head, leads her four younger duckling siblings on their nightly parade around the pond to say goodnight to everyone — the frogs, the dragonflies, the old willow tree. 🎧 5-minute story · female narrator · for growing kids (4–5) Listen or read →
The Bedroom on the Ceiling When Zara walks into her bedroom at bedtime, everything is floating: the rug hovers like a magic carpet, her slippers drift past her nose, her teddy Bramble turns slow somersaults near the lamp, and her bed is bumping gently against the ceiling. 🎧 5-minute story · female narrator · for growing kids (4–5) Listen or read →
The Midnight Moon Bakery Sophie wakes at midnight to find her wooden toy kitchen glowing — it has become the Midnight Moon Bakery, run by little field mice in postage-stamp chef hats, led by Chef Crumble and little Sprinkle. 🎧 5-minute story · female narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen or read →
The Fox Postman's Last Letter One letter left in the mailbag and the moon already rising: a fox postman hurries through the wood to deliver the last goodnight. 🎧 5-minute story · male narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen or read →

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For families, teachers and schools

The free stories need no account and nothing to install: open a story page, press play, and the full text is right below the player. Every story can be listened to, read, or both at once.

Stories are grouped by age — little ones (1–3), growing kids (4–5) and big kids (6–8) — and by length, so it is quick to find one that fits a class, a reading corner or a bedtime routine. The reading view can be adjusted on any device: text size, all capitals and spacing, with the choice remembered for the next story.

Teachers, schools, libraries and family-support organizations are welcome to link to Purrytale's free story library as a reading and listening resource. No permission is needed.

Where the free stories live

Pick a story and press play

Every free story can be listened to, read along with, or both — tonight, with no account.

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