Bedtime audio stories for 4-year-olds

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 · female narrator · for growing kids (4–5) Read or listen →

The Great Sock Mystery

Gus notices that socks keep disappearing all over the house — one from the laundry basket, one from the stairs, one right off the radiator. 5-minute · male narrator · for growing kids (4–5) Read or listen →

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 · female narrator · for growing kids (4–5) Read or listen →

The Dream Kite at Dusk

Ada and her grandpa fly a special kite from the garden hill at dusk — a deep blue kite with a long silver tail that catches good dreams drifting by before bedtime. 5-minute · male narrator · for growing kids (4–5) Read or listen →

The Night-Light Moth

Maya can't sleep because her night-light keeps flickering, and when she looks closely she finds a tiny pale moth called Flicker sitting on it, whose wings brush the switch every time she gets nervous. 5-minute · female narrator · for growing kids (4–5) Read or listen →

The Dinosaur in the Boot

Leo finds a smooth speckled egg under the big rhubarb leaves in the garden at dusk. 5-minute · male narrator · for growing kids (4–5) Read or listen →

The Village in the Glass

Ivy's snow globe on the windowsill holds a tiny village with a bakery, a church and a row of cottages, and tonight the snow inside has stopped falling — the little villagers are standing in their doorways looking up at the sky. 5-minute · female narrator · for growing kids (4–5) Read or listen →

The Hippo Who Had the Hiccups

Rafi, a boy in a big straw hat, is sitting by the waterhole at sunset when Hubert the hippo gets the hiccups — enormous ones that send ripples across the water and wake the birds. 5-minute · male narrator · for growing kids (4–5) Read or listen →

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 · female narrator · for growing kids (4–5) Read or listen →