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Koah Koala is having his first birthday! He's about to discover how fun it is to be One!
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Ted is a big boy and wears big boy undies! But something goes wrong when the washing happens!
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Leah is trying to think of the best present in the world for her mother. Her whole family is here to help her think of the perfect gift!
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Some mummies help us, and some mummies love us. What does your mummy do?
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Baby Bunny has an Easter Picnic with all her baby animal friends. There's lots of chocolate!
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Kynan the caterpillar LOVES shoes.
.. but he can't possibly put them all on by himself!
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Oh no, there's a fire! But Billy the fire-truck doesn't want to get dirty!
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Jimmy the Cat wants to make a garden with his friends. What should he plant?
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Whose egg is this? All the animals are about to find out!
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A wordless picture book about a lost giraffe, and his short adventure!
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A cute non-scary Halloween story about the most loveable little Halloween kid in your family!
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5 Min Stories Age 0-3 All Animals Baby Books Birthdays Friends Picture Books Picture Books Rhyming Stories
Koah Koala is having his first birthday! He's about to discover how fun it is to be One!
5 Min Stories Age 0-3 Age 4-6 All Baby Books Family Feelings and Emotions Growth Mindset Love Mindfulness Picture Books Picture Books
A story about the beauty and love your special light can bring to others, and how it spreads from one person to everyone!
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Ted is a big boy and wears big boy undies! But something goes wrong when the washing happens!
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Leah is trying to think of the best present in the world for her mother.
Her whole family is here to help her think of the perfect gift!
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Some mummies help us, and some mummies love us. What does your mummy do?
5 Min Stories Age 0-3 All Animals Baby Books Early Readers Early Readers Easter Friends Picnics Picture Books Picture Books
Baby Bunny has an Easter Picnic with all her baby animal friends. There's lots of chocolate!
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Kynan the caterpillar LOVES shoes.
.. but he can't possibly put them all on by himself!
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Learn your ABCs with this fun and simple alphabet book!
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A nature alphabet ABCD book for tomorrow's little learners.
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Fezile is looking for his grandmother's shoes, but keeps finding other ones!
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Oh no, there's a fire! But Billy the fire-truck doesn't want to get dirty!
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Mama Chick feels sad.
.. luckily her little chicks are about to make her Easter a happy one!
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Jimmy the Cat wants to make a garden with his friends. What should he plant?
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Whose egg is this? All the animals are about to find out!
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A wordless picture book about a lost giraffe, and his short adventure!
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Use your imagination to tell the story in this wordless picture book about creating a garden with Dad.
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Books for children at bedtime | Publishing House AST
Reading before bed is one of the traditional bedtime rituals around the world. Thousands of children are waiting for this moment all day, especially if they lack communication with their parents or the work was not read to the end the day before. Psychologists recommend that parents devote enough time to this type of leisure, as well as allow the child to independently choose a book to read before bedtime. AST publishing house presents the five best sleepy books.
Traveling frog and other animal stories
In many works for children, the main characters are animals and birds: hares, foxes, goats, geese, bears, cats and dogs.
It is these fairy tales that are one of the best for reading to children at bedtime, because they evoke a lot of positive feelings and develop imagination (after all, in ordinary life, these animals, for example, do not speak). Also, fairy tales about animals show that representatives of the fauna are actually very defenseless and need human support, and some works teach how to properly handle animals and talk about their characteristic features.
The book "The Traveling Frog and Other Animal Tales" contains the most important and famous animal tales by Boris Zakhoder, Leonid Panteleev, Vsevolod Garshin, Yuri Koval and many others. All stories are decorated with realistic and colorful illustrations by popular children's artists. In addition to the fact that children will be delighted with the story about the Tiger Cub or the Gray Neck, later they will face the fact that all works are included in the school literature curriculum, that is, it will be much easier for them to perceive information than children who have not heard these stories before .
Russian folk tales. Drawings by L. Vladimirsky
Reading aloud before bed is a great way to introduce your child to culture. Russian folk tales do an excellent job with this task. However, that's not all. Experts recommend that young children read stories with the most simple and understandable plot, to which only one interpretation can be given. So the child will not get confused and will better perceive the information.
A collection of the most traditional Russian folk tales, accompanied by illustrations by children's artist Leonid Vladimirsky, is the best gift for young parents. Each fairy tale is a source of wisdom and knowledge. There are always good and bad characters in it, evil is punishable, and it also happens that the negative hero is allowed to correct himself and return his good name. Russian folk tales are a great way to explain to a child something that is difficult to talk about in the abstract.
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100 favorite poems and 100 favorite fairy tales for kids
Children's poems have a beneficial effect on the psyche of kids, especially if you read them to them before going to bed.
The main difference between poetry and prose is rhyme, which creates a certain rhythm that allows the child to easily memorize and reproduce the poem. Thanks to poetry, memory is trained, figurative thinking improves, many children begin to rhyme words themselves and compose the first simple poems.
If you have chosen to read poetry before going to bed, try to pay attention to punctuation marks, the correct pronunciation of words, your articulation and expression. The collection "100 favorite poems and 100 favorite fairy tales for kids" includes works by famous children's authors such as Grigory Oster, Alexei Tolstoy, Eduard Uspensky, Valentin Berestov, Samuil Marshak. These writers not only knew how to write for children, they also possessed impeccable literacy and knowledge of their native language, which makes reading their works also very useful for staging the correct speech of a child.
Wind in the willows
According to psychologists, reading books before going to bed can even act as a medicine for a child who, for example, is afraid of the dark, of visiting a doctor, refuses to eat, or reacts aggressively to other children.
The more magical the story, the better: the child is immersed in a fantasy world and forgets about his problems. If parents also choose the right book, then you can purposefully solve some difficult situations together with the characters.
The story of the Scottish children's writer Kenneth Graham "The Wind in the Willows" was written at the beginning of the last century, but does not cease to be published again and again in all countries of the world. The life story of a water rat, a mole, a badger and a toad that find themselves in difficult or comical situations is filled with the author's wisdom and wonderful sense of humor. This is a story about friendship, kindness, courage and mutual assistance, about the ability to communicate and come to the rescue in time, about the fact that one should never give up and despair. The book is filled with magic that fascinates not only children but also adults.
Funny stories for children
If your child refuses to listen to fantasy stories or stories about imaginary worlds and talking animals, don't insist.
Not all children are interested in such literature, so try to choose something closer to reality. It is good if familiar names or places appear in the works, and the situations are quite ordinary. It may seem strange, but for many children it is important to feel like a participant in events.
If the plots of Russian folk tales are interesting, but too far from the present, then the collection of stories for children by Mikhail Zoshchenko is about what happens to children of any age and any time - be it the 50s of the past or the 20s of this century. The stories about Lelya and Minka are full of worldly wisdom. The author talks about how to properly talk with elders, what are the reasons for children's whims, how to make friends, how to take care of nature and much more. The language of the works is very simple and easy, they are all filled with subtle humor and hidden meaning, so that parents will have something to discuss with their child the next morning after reading.
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In the catalog of books of the AST publishing house you will always find a variety of books for reading to children before bedtime.
We also recommend reading:
Pillow Tales
Marshak Samuil Yakovlevich
A collection of the most famous and popular children's fairy tales, thanks to which the child will happily run to bed in the evening. The publication contains not only favorite fairy tales, but also specially selected those that tell about the night, magic and dreams. If you read this book in an appropriate quiet voice, you can speed up the process of falling asleep to your baby and give him beautiful dreams.
All the best for the little ones
Marshak Samuil Yakovlevich
The book contains the classic works of Marshak, and the publishers did not limit themselves to only poems or fairy tales, but also included English and Czech children's songs and various riddles in the collection. All works are illustrated by famous artists, so looking at the pictures will give the reading a special atmosphere.
Russian folk tales
The best book for family reading before bed.
Russian folk tales in the retelling and processing of famous authors with colorful illustrations and proverbs. The book is interestingly structured - sections by month with historical clues and interesting facts will appeal not only to children, but also to their parents.
Hedgehog in the fog. Tales
Kozlov Sergey Grigorievich
"Hedgehog in the Fog" - one of the most famous works of Sergei Kozlov. However, in addition to it, there are dozens of fairy tales and works on which more than one generation has grown up. The author is unique, his stories are interesting to people of all ages, and children can read them before bedtime from birth, because intricate plots help develop imagination and make dreams brighter.
All the greatest fairy tales in the world
The book contains the main fairy tales, which absolutely everyone should read. A big bonus for parents will be the fact that fairy tales are divided into thematic sections - about animals, about love and friendship, about princes and princesses.
This allows you to quickly navigate in accordance with the desire of the child. Great for reading to kids of all ages before bed.
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Bedtime stories for children. Read online with pictures.
In this section we have collected interesting fairy tales from all over the world that are suitable for reading before bed. These small instructive and kind stories will help children calm down after a stormy day and tune in to rest.
In bedtime stories you will not find cruelty and frightening characters. Only light plots and pleasant characters.
At the bottom of each fairy tale there is hint for what age it is intended, as well as other tags. Be sure to pay attention to them when choosing a product! You do not have to spend time reading a fairy tale to find out if it suits your child or not. We have already read everything, sorted and compiled short descriptions of fairy tales.
Enjoy reading and good dreams :)
bedtime stories for children read
An interesting fairy tale is that part of childhood that stays with us forever, even when childhood is gone. This is a magical world that is wide open in front of the baby, and acquaintance with it begins with a short and sweet bedtime story.
At what age to read fairy tales to a child
There is no strict age limit in reading fairy tales to a child. Reading for a child is primarily an opportunity for emotional intimacy with an adult. Even if not a word is clear yet, the familiar timbre of the voice, the measured rhythm soothe the baby and stimulate its development. That is why psychologists recommend reading fairy tales even to babies. The main condition: the process should bring pleasure to both the adult and the baby.
The benefits of reading fairy tales
A bedtime story read by a parent is a powerful stimulus for the development of the child, the child has wide opportunities in the following areas:
- imagination;
- fantasy;
- creative thinking;
- speech skills;
- emotional development;
- the ability to find a way out of problem situations.
Unlike cartoons, a fairy tale does not present the child with ready-made images and the world invented by the artist, but invites him to think, think out and imagine what is not in the illustrations.
Simply put, we read to children at night and at the same time unleash their creativity. The next step is the first children's tests of themselves as an author and artist, but that will come later. And now such familiar and at the same time amazing short bedtime stories come to the aid of parents.
Bedtime stories - what should they be?
It often happens that every day a baby asks for the hundredth time to read a familiar fairy tale to him, not wanting to listen to any others.
Do not argue and try to read something new - a bedtime story exists for this, to cradle and give pleasant dreams. So, it should be:
- short;
- calm;
- kind;
- without dynamic details in the plot, but with a happy ending.
The repeated repetition of the same situation (a familiar room, a favorite blanket and a soft toy, next to it is a mother reading a familiar fairy tale) turns into a kind of ritual for the baby, which has a calming effect.
It helps relieve the emotional stress that has accumulated over a long day.
Short stories on our website
The Short Bedtime Stories section presents famous works by Russian and foreign authors that have become favorites for children all over the world.
Magic little men created by Astrid Lindgren, Donald Bisset's kind tigers, Sergey Kozlov's inseparable Hedgehog and Bear cub - these and other characters are looking forward to meeting young readers.
Here you will also find folk tales and illustrated works by Vladimir Suteev. Kids will be delighted with simple instructive stories and colorful pictures created by a real Master.
Tips on the website
The free bedtime stories presented on our website are so diverse that sometimes it can be difficult to find the right one. To help parents, we have developed a convenient search engine that allows you to view the parameters of a fairy tale without opening it:
- age of readers;
- reading time;
- short description;
- popularity indicator;
- illustration.
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