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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.

Milo the Ant and the Big World

Milo is the smallest ant in the colony, but he sets out when three strong scouts go missing. This ant bedtime story follows him past a puddle and a spiderweb, where help from a ladybug and his own ideas turn being tiny into an advantage.

Bessie and the Lost Tail

Bessie the cow comes home with a new dress but leaves her tail at the shop. In this funny cow bedtime story, mosquitoes send her searching for a replacement, and her farmyard friends lend a hand. Will any of their tails feel right?

Pencilina, Rubert, and the Drawing That Came to Life

What if the forest in your sketchbook started to move? In this magical drawing bedtime story, Lily, Pencilina the pencil and Rubert the eraser step into a world with two suns and a dragon named Articus. Drawing a path and erasing thorns will help them rescue a frightened creature before Lily returns home for bed.

The Three Pennies

A disguised king meets a cheerful stonebreaker who lives on three pennies a day - one to repay, one to lend, and one to keep - and uncovers a lesson wiser than all his counsellors.