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Category: Medium (6–20 min)

These bedtime stories have estimated reading times from six to twenty minutes. Choose the time shown on each card to fit your evening, from a short adventure after a busy day to a longer story with room for surprises. Animals, magical visitors and everyday family moments offer different places to begin. Reading aloud, looking at pictures and talking about the story may take longer than the estimate.

The Lost Bone on Halloween

At the village Halloween dance, Bonesy shakes one bone loose. With Bertha and Pipo beside him, a funny search leads to a surprising discovery—and one last sleepy dance.

Bonesy and Bertha the Pumpkin

A cheerful Halloween story about a little skeleton who could not be scary and his clumsy pumpkin friend—with silly dressing mistakes, one enormous sneeze, flying socks, and a brand-new dance.

Tappy the Pumpkin

Ollie and Suzy name their pumpkin Tappy, bake with Grandma Betty and dress up for trick-or-treating. This Halloween bedtime story follows their family from a foggy morning to a quiet night, when Tappy's candle goes out and the children settle down to sleep.

The Magic of Golden Autumn

Nina and Timo miss summer until Rusty the squirrel and Roly the hedgehog show them what autumn can do. This playful autumn bedtime story for preschoolers follows a day of leaf piles, puddle splashes, chestnut treasures and kite flying. Read it together, then save the activities at the end for another day outdoors.

Bounceville

Ela wishes the whole world could bounce like her trampoline—until breakfast, hugs, and bedtime become impossible in a town that never stands still.

Tilly the Little Ranger in Australia

Tilly helps Auntie Kylie care for water stations in an Australian park, meeting kangaroos, koalas, wombats and other wildlife. This interactive animal bedtime story invites children to copy hops, laughs and yawns. A cheeky cockatoo adds a missing-hat mishap before Tilly heads home to bed.