40 Evergreen Bedtime Stories You Can Read To Your Kids
It’s late night and you need to tuck your little restless one in his warm and cozy bed. But, your darling is just too jumpy.
So what would you do at such an hour? A bedtime story can be your saviour. To help you on that here are our picks. Here we bring some evergreen children bedtime stories.
Our Collection Of 40 Classic Bedtime Stories For Kids:
Grab any one of these rhyming stories and see the lovely miracle! We are sure these kids bedtime stories will guarantee sleep and kisses from your kids.
1. Where The Wild Things Are By Maurice Sendak:
Max is punished to go to bed without supper, so he puts on his wolf suit and falls asleep. And, then the world opens into funny animals that just look scary. This will definitely help your kid get rid of any nightmares.
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2. Each Peach Pear Plum By Allan Ahlberg And Janet Ahlberg:
This rhyme filled book asks your little kids to identify the fairy tale heroes. This one is repetitive and engaging to surely interest and drain their restlessness by tapping their memory.
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3. Guess How Much I Love YouBy Sam Mcbratney:
Little Hare wants to prove to his Daddy Hare, that how much he loves his daddy. They decide to play the ‘I Love You more game’ which the little one just can’t win because Daddy loves him more, or will he win it at last?
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4. Peace At Last By Jill Murphy:
Mr. Bear just can’t sleep because Mrs. Bear snores aloud. He sleeps in the car, in other rooms and with his Baby bear. Will he finally get some peace? And How?
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5. The Gruffalloo By Julia Donaldson:
The witty little mouse plays a clever prank to escape from his predators. Instead his prank turns into a real monster. Now how does he get away from both predators and Gruffalloo?
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6. Winnie The Pooh Created By A. A. Milne:
Pooh goes for more adventures in his dream world, so you need to go to our own dream world to see Pooh and his funny animals to giggle with. There are several bedtime stories of winnie, which you can share with your little one.
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7. Goodnight Moon By Margaret Wise Brown And Pat Hancock:
Your little one should say Goodnight to each and everything inside the room. If his sleep has not come yet, then he should continue saying goodnight to the things in the house, outside his window. Whatever he can name till he fall asleep.
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8. Is It Bedtime Wibbly Pig?By Mick Inkpen:
The hyper and restless Wibbly pig refuses to nothing but bed. Its way past bedtime and his mommy is too sleepy when Wibbly decides to splash in the bath and count the stairs to the bedroom. So finally, how is Wibbly put to bed?
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9. Monkey Puzzle By Julia Donaldson And Axel Scheffler:
The little monkey has lost his mommy and now walks and bounces across the big jungle to find almost all animals having something to do with his mommy. Does he find his mommy at last?
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10. Goodnight Gorilla By Peggy Rathmann:
The zookeeper is sleepy and is waving goodnight to each of the animals in the cage. But, one naughty Gorilla is sleepless and released his friend right after.
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11. Pumpkin Soup By Helen Cooper:
The cat and the duck and the squirrel love their soup, one night this soup is messed up because of the wrong recipe. Who did it? And, more importantly, what did it do the cat, duck and the squirrel’s tummies?
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12. Peter Pan And The Wendy By James M. Barrie:
Peter Pan has been living in Neverland to have fun forever and hear all the cozy, sleepy bedtime stories of little kids. Does Peter Pan also end up living with humans?
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13. Burglar Bill By Thomas Anstey Guthrie:
Burglar Bill has stolen a bed and house and lives in it. One day, Bill steals a big box. He comes home to find a baby in it. Now, the next night when Bill is out for his regular patrols, Burglar Betty robs him. Who is Burglar Betty?
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14. Funnybones By Janet And Allan Ahlberg:
The two skeletons go for a walk one night to walk their skeleton dog. They bump into a chair, and Alas! They are broke. Will they fit themselves again and their lovely broken skeleton dog?
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15. Where’s My Teddy? By Jez Alborough:
Eddy loses his little teddy and furiously runs to find it in the jungle. He mistakes the big bear to be his little Teddy that has grown up. The big Bear helps Eddy’s find his little teddy. But the Bear thinks it’s his own teddy that is shrunk. What will Eddy do now?
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16. Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book By Julia Donaldson:
Charlie reads about the Captain at the sea who is reading about Goldilocks. And the tale goes on. So who is the final one reading about?
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17. The Rabbit Belongs To Emily Brown? By Cressida Cowell:
Emily loses her cuddly rabbit to Queen Gloariana, who has stolen her rabbit. What does Emily do?
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18. The Incredible Book Eating Boy By Oliver Jeffers:
Henry loves books, but accidentally he ends up loving its taste as well. He understands that his head is also growing with the knowledge. Does eating books cause Tummy trouble? Will Henry stop eating it?
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19. Rosie’s Walk By Pat Hutchins:
Proud Rosie is a red hen that walks around brilliantly to escape from the cunning old wolf in the farmyard. The fox unsuccessfully navigates through the obstacle that Rosie had led him through.
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20. The Snowman By Raymond Briggs:
A little boy makes a snowman, and overnight, it bursts to life and takes him on an amazing long journey to Father Christmas. What all can the Snowman do?
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21. Fantastic Mr. Fox By Roald Dahl:
Farmers Bunce, Boggis and Bean are furious with Mr.Fox for eating all their chicken and ducks and they try to trap him. Fantastic Mr.Fox outwits all three of them with his buddies. How does he do it?
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22. A Bear Called Paddington By Michael Bond:
Bear, Paddington is reading the bullet on the bulletin board about the adoption notice. How does Mr. and Mrs. Brown adopt him?
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23. The Smartest Giant In Town By Julia Donaldson:
The Giant of the town goes shopping and buys a completely new outfit for himself. But on the way home, he feels pity for other animals and gives little by little out of his gear for the need. What happens to the Giant?
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24. Mister Magnolia By Quentin Blake:
Mister Magnolia has everything. He has fancy shoes, fancy dresses, fancy trousers, skimpy shirts and glittering jackets and everything to match his whims and joy. But what will he do when he finds out he only possesses one boot?
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25. Meg And Mog By Helen Nicoll And Jan Pieńkowski:
The fun tales of the witches and their adventures has been all around for more than 30 years. Don’t let your little ones miss it!
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26. The Gruffalo’s Child By Julia Donaldson:
One night, the old Mister Gruffalo decides to tell his kid about his fate. Now, the little one wants to avenge the Wily old Mouse for his dad’s fate. What does he do? What happens to the witty mouse?
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27. Olivia By Ian Falconer:
This busy little piglet that Olivia is, she loves to dress-up, and put make-up, build sandcastles, paint and dance and only then end up in bed. What happens to Olivia’s little sleeping schedules?
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28. Thomas The Tank Engine By Reverend W. Awdry:
Train Mr. Thomas talks, talks forever about his adventures, hindrances and troubles that he has seen en route to reach this point in his life.
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29. One Snowy Night By Nick Butterworth:
Percy is very benevolent to the animals in his park. One fine night when it gets too snowy, he decides to safeguard them in his little house. Can they all fit in? Are they all safe inside?
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30. Charlotte’s Web By E. B. White:
Spider Charlotte helps the little piglet who has lost his way by writing up clues and hints to save his life from the deep and dark cave, and hence their friendship blossoms. But, How long can the spider live?
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31. Matilda By Roald Dahl:
Matilda is a genius girl who decides to run away from her horrible home with the help of her teacher Miss Honey. Why Matilda happen to be sad?
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32. Dogger By Shirley Hughes:
The toy Dog, Dogger is taken care well and good by his master Dave. They lose each other due to some extreme reasons. Do they find each other soon enough?
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33. James And The Giant Peach By Roald Dahl:
James is an orphan who comes across a bag of magic seeds which he drops one day in his aunt’s garden, and ends up going on a magic adventure with a zillion insects.
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34. I Love You Blue Kangaroo By Emma Chichester Clark:
Lily ends up forgetting her beloved blue Kangaroo when she gets heaps of other toys, which her little brother takes. Will Lily get jealous of seeing her favorite kangaroo with someone else?
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35. The Snail And The Whale By Julia Donaldson:
The curious little snail wants to travel high seas and discover the beauty of the nature and the world it is in. He hunts roads and distance and finally meets Mr.Whale, who takes the snail across all possible oceanic adventures. But, one day the whale is stranded on the beach without escape, when the snail comes and rescues him.
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36. Alfie Gets In First By Shirley Hughes:
Alfie hurdles too much and ends up locking his baby sister and his own mommy outside. Now, Alfie can’t reach the doorknob and neither can he open the door, as he does not know how to. The neighbors and the whole township get there to rescue Little Alfie. So does Alfie get rescued?
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37. Owl Babies By Martin Waddell:
Sarah, Percy and Bill and frightened to all extremes when they find their mommy is not around. They worry, whine, wail, weep and fret for their mommy all day. Finally mommy comes to food and the little ones leap and jump with joy.
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38. The Tale Of Peter Rabbit By Beatrix Potter:
Peter Rabbit is mischievous, hilarious and attracted to all troubles. One day when mommy goes to the market, Peter bounces off to his angry neighbor, Mr. McGregor’s land. McGregor spots him and chases him away. What happens to Peter?
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39. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory By Roald Dahl:
Poor li’l Charlie has a lot of dreams in his life. He finally wins an incredibly unlimited ride to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate factory. The story also features kids who are greedy, spoilt and lazy as well. How is Charlie’s ride in the Chocolate factory? Does he become one among them?
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40. Green Eggs And Ham By Dr. Seuss:
This infamous tale features the famous line ‘ Sam I am’. Dr.Seuss This funny little tale has all the rhymes and giggles to entertain your little one to jump into bed and sing till his sleep comes. This also is a great technique to make your little one like a new food.
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All these short bedtime stories for kids, together will give an incredible imaginations to never have insomnia in his life. Give a lot of hugs and kisses to your little one till he falls asleep.
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