Free bedtime audio stories for kids

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 · male narrator · for little ones (1–3) Listen free →

Mia and the Moon's Lullaby

Mia flies to the moon, discovers the moon itself can't fall asleep, and helps it settle down for the night. 5-minute · female narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen free →

Ember and the Sleepy Spark

A small dragon who can breathe fire is somehow still afraid of the dark, until he discovers what his own spark is for. 5-minute · male narrator · for little ones (1–3) Listen free →

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 · male narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen free →

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 · female narrator · for little ones (1–3) Listen free →

The Great Tooth Strike of Whispering Valley

A stubborn little dinosaur refuses to brush his teeth, so his teeth go on strike and start complaining out loud. 5-minute · male narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen free →

The Patchwork Sky-Balloon

Anja sails over the mountains in a balloon sewn from quilts, chasing the wind's lost whistle all the way home. 5-minute · female narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen free →

The Little Blue Birdhouse

Rocky and his grandpa build a birdhouse together, and at dusk the garden birds repay them with a tiny concert. 5-minute · male narrator · for little ones (1–3) Listen free →

The Midnight Dream Express

Oliver, a curious boy who loves trains, discovers a tiny silver railway running along his bedroom windowsill in the moonlight. 5-minute · male narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen free →

The Little Star and the Lighthouse

Isla and Archie, her scruffy little terrier, are staying in a cottage on a grassy bluff above the sea when they notice one tiny silver star blinking in perfect rhythm with the old whitewashed lighthouse. 5-minute · female narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen free →

The Midnight Dream Route

After bedtime, Poppy finds a tiny red double-decker bus, no bigger than a teapot, parked beside the toy box in her London bedroom. 5-minute · female narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen free →

Mabel and the Yellow Umbrella

Mabel, a small hedgehog with shiny brown prickles and a bright yellow umbrella, sets out across the meadow to bring a birthday cupcake — pink strawberry frosting with one shiny blue berry on top — to her best friend Pip the mouse before the evening rain begins. 5-minute · female narrator · for little ones (1–3) Listen free →

The Teapot Dragon and the Woolly Hat

Theo discovers a dragon no bigger than a teapot hiding inside his green school backpack — Wisp, with soft moss-green scales, shimmering emerald wings and a tail that ends in a golden tassel. 5-minute · male narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen free →

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 · female narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen free →

The Lost Yawn Under the Bed

Alfie hears a tiny polite knock from under his bed and meets Barnaby, a very polite fluffy green monster with soft mossy ears and big amber eyes, who apologises for arriving so late. 5-minute · male narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen free →

Rosie and the Little Lost Cloud

Rosie, in her bright yellow boots, notices a small fluffy gray-blue cloud following her home because it has forgotten how to rain. 5-minute · female narrator · for little ones (1–3) Listen free →

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) Listen free →

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) Listen free →

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) Listen free →

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) Listen free →

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 · female narrator · for little ones (1–3) Listen free →

Rumble Says Goodnight

Freddie, a little boy in blue overalls, helps Grandma put the farm to bed. 5-minute · male narrator · for little ones (1–3) Listen free →

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) Listen free →

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) Listen free →

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) Listen free →

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) Listen free →

The Purr That Said Goodnight

Lulu's tiny grey kitten Mimi has a secret: when Mimi purrs, lights go out. 5-minute · female narrator · for little ones (1–3) Listen free →

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) Listen free →

A Jar of August Evening

At the end of Juno's street is a tiny crooked shop that only opens after dark and sells old weather in jars: last April's rainbow, a snowy Tuesday, the very still hour before a summer storm. 5-minute · female narrator · for big kids (6–8) Listen free →