Favorite Bedtime Story

[cherrylipgloss]

What’s your favorite bedtime story? My papa reads me to sleep every night, and I’m trying to find new stories for him to read, please suggest! ^-^

[Alaskan Daddy]

has he read "Corduroy"?

[princessbrittykitty]

The Gruffalo is mine and Daddy's go to story 

[Guest Aces]

Um... I’m a librarian, I’m pretty sure I can help. Lol. What type of books do you like? Pig the Pug is very popular right now at my elementary school and Pig the Elf which even I laugh at when I’m at work. But for bed I would recommend any of the classics like Hidi, Little House On The Prarie, Alice, The Nutcracker, Velveteen Rabbit, Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, Madeline, I Need My Monster (not scary,) Pinkalicious series (highly recommend,) Dragons Love Tacos, Where the Wild Things Are, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, The Book With No Pictures, The Gruffalo, The Great Nirsery Rhyme Disaster, anything by Mercer Mayer.

 

My all time favorite book is The Bear Under the Stairs but it might be hard to find as it was published in the 90s, I read the copy I had as a kid to at school a few times a year. The key to story time especially for bedtime is fluency, if a story is read well it will do the trick, trying chapter books might help stretch things out between picture books so you won’t have to search for new things as often. Some of the books I recommended are a little silly but sometimes you need that before bed to go to sleep happy.

 

Happy reading!

[Mr. Grinch]

Saved for later hehe!!

[cherrylipgloss]

The Gruffalo is mine and Daddy's go to story 

Will def try this one out!

 

Um... I’m a librarian, I’m pretty sure I can help. Lol. What type of books do you like? Pig the Pug is very popular right now at my elementary school and Pig the Elf which even I laugh at when I’m at work. But for bed I would recommend any of the classics like Hidi, Little House On The Prarie, Alice, The Nutcracker, Velveteen Rabbit, Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, Madeline, I Need My Monster (not scary,) Pinkalicious series (highly recommend,) Dragons Love Tacos, Where the Wild Things Are, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, The Book With No Pictures, The Gruffalo, The Great Nirsery Rhyme Disaster, anything by Mercer Mayer.

 

My all time favorite book is The Bear Under the Stairs but it might be hard to find as it was published in the 90s, I read the copy I had as a kid to at school a few times a year. The key to story time especially for bedtime is fluency, if a story is read well it will do the trick, trying chapter books might help stretch things out between picture books so you won’t have to search for new things as often. Some of the books I recommended are a little silly but sometimes you need that before bed to go to sleep happy.

 

Happy reading!

Omg! So many good ones, thanks!

[LittleKitten13]

What’s your favorite bedtime story? My papa reads me to sleep every night, and I’m trying to find new stories for him to read, please suggest! ^-^

YOU CALL YOUR DADDY PAPA TOO?!  I don't think I've seen any other littles who call their caregiver papa.  Mine is papa.  He reads to me sometimes.

I really like The Snow Queen fairy tale...and all kinds of fairy tales, to be honest.  I found a website at one point with fairy tales.  If you'd like, I could get you the link to it.  They're all just written out kinda like a blog post, so you can read them.

[Mr. Grinch]

Please link the stories i have a story-time thread where I have a dozen or so stories recorded!  

[cherrylipgloss]

YOU CALL YOUR DADDY PAPA TOO?!  I don't think I've seen any other littles who call their caregiver papa.  Mine is papa.  He reads to me sometimes.

I really like The Snow Queen fairy tale...and all kinds of fairy tales, to be honest.  I found a website at one point with fairy tales.  If you'd like, I could get you the link to it.  They're all just written out kinda like a blog post, so you can read them.

YES! I never see anyone else call their caregivers papa, we like it because it's much more affectionate for us!! Omg, please link! We've been using storyberries and then there's always bedtimeshortstories so I can listen when he's not around

Edited November 15, 2017 by cherrylipgloss

[cherrylipgloss]

Please link the stories i have a story-time thread where I have a dozen or so stories recorded!  

Here's a couple of my favorites!

 

http://storyberries.com/the-three-doof-doofs/

http://storyberries.com/the-lion-who-wouldnt-try/

http://storyberries.com/the-gingerbread-man/

http://storyberries.com/princess-rose-and-the-golden-bird/

http://storyberries.com/my-shadow-robert-louis-stevenson/

[Guest Babycee]

Corduroy! It's my favorite childhood story, it's a classic :3

[Guest Prima-Donna]

The rainbow fish, Arnie the doughnut, the birthday monsters, and the hungry caterpillar are some of my all time favorites!

[Guest The Phantom]

The Velveteen Rabbit is a story I cherish with all my heart.

[Lilkitten12]

I like skippy Jon jones! He's so funny- he's a Siamese kitten that thinks he's really a chihuahua.

 

I liked reading long stories with my Daddy so I could snuggle up and use my imagination- we read all the Chronicles of Narnia books- that was really fun - I love those books

[LittleKitten13]

YES! I never see anyone else call their caregivers papa, we like it because it's much more affectionate for us!! Omg, please link! We've been using storyberries and then there's always bedtimeshortstories so I can listen when he's not around

That is super awesome!

Here's this. https://americanliterature.com/short-stories-for-children

Then I also found this one because I forgot what the website was, and it looks good as well!  https://www.worldoftales.com/

Good luck!

[CallMeDaddyLG]

There was once a couple who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. They had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world. http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/images/rapunzel.gifOne day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion - rapunzel, and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, and had the greatest desire to eat some. This desire increased every day, and as she knew that she could not get any of it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable. Her husband was alarmed, and asked, "what makes you sad, dear wife." "Ah", she replied, "if I can't eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die". The man, who loved her, thought, sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself, let it cost what it will. At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife. She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. It tasted so good to her - so very good, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before. If he was to have any rest, her husband must once more descend into the garden. In the gloom of evening, therefore, he let himself down again. But when he had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him. "How dare you", said she with angry look, "descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief. You shall suffer for it". He answered, "let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity. My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat". Then the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him, if the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world. It shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother. The man in his terror consented to everything, and when the woman was brought to bed, the enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her. Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under the sun.

When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had neither stairs nor door, but quite at the top was a little window. When the enchantress wanted to go in, she placed herself beneath it and cried, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me".

Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.

After a year or two, it came to pass that the king's son rode through the forest and passed by the tower. Then he heard a song, which was so charming that he stood still and listened. This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound. The king's son wanted to climb up to her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found. He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it. Once when he was thus standing behind a tree, he saw that an enchantress came there, and he heard how she cried,

"If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune". thought he, and the next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair". Immediately the hair fell down and the king's son climbed up. At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man, such as her eyes had never yet beheld, came to her. But the king's son began to talk to her quite like a friend, and told her that his heart had been so stirred that it had let him have no rest, and he had been forced to see her. Then rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for her husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought, he will love me more than old dame gothic does. And she said yes, and laid her hand in his. She said, I will willingly go away with you, but I do not know how to get down. Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you come, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and you will take me on your horse. They agreed that until that time he should come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day. The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, tell me, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young king's son - he is with me in a moment. Ah. You wicked child, cried the enchantress. What do I hear you say. I thought I had separated you from all the world, and yet you have deceived me. In her anger she clutched rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground. And she was so pitiless that she took poor rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.
 

http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/images/rapunzel-02.jpg

On the same day that she cast out rapunzel, however, the enchantress fastened the braids of hair, which she had cut off, to the hook of the window, and when the king's son came and cried, rapunzel, rapunzel, let down your hair, she let the hair down. The king's son ascended, but instead of finding his dearest rapunzel, he found the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks. Aha, she cried mockingly, you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest. The cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well. Rapunzel is lost to you. You will never see her again. The king's son was beside himself with pain, and in his despair he leapt down from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes. Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries, and did naught but lament and weep over the loss of his dear wife. Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness. He heard a voice, and it seemed so familiar to him that he went towards it, and when he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell on his neck and wept. Two of her tears wetted his eyes and they grew clear again, and he could see with them as before. He led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully received, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented.

[CallMeDaddyLG]

The Fox and The Grapes

Long long ago there lived a fox who loved to eat. He lived close to a vineyard and he used to stare at the lovely grapes that hung there.

 

"How juice they look. Oh I am sure these are stuff that melts in the mouth when you have them. If only I could reach them".

 

http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/images/fox_grape.gifOne sunny day, the fox woke up and saw the grapes glistening by the sunlight. The vineyard looked heavenly and the grapes looked so luscious that the famished fox could no longer control itself. He jumped to reach them but fell down.

 

He jumped again. No, they were much higher.

 

He jumped even more. But they were still out of reach.

 

He jumped and stretched and hopped but to no avail. Those yummy grapes hung higher than the fox could reach. No matter how hard he tried, the fox could not reach the grapes. He panted and began to sweat out of exhaustion.

 

Giving up finally, he looked up in contempt and said as he walked away, "Those grapes surely must be sour. I wouldn't eat them even if they were served to me on a golden dish."

 

It's easy to despise what you cannot have.

[Bluebells]

I think the one above is one of Aesop's fables. There's a whole book of them, they're old stories (Ancient Greek I think but I could very much be wrong) and each story has a message / moral behind it.

 

I'm not sure what you'd think of them as bedtime stories but I've always liked them, especially because each one has a theme.

[cutelittlevixey]

i like Grimm's fairytales.

[Angel24]

Robert Munsch books are favourites of Daddy and I

[Guest grumpystrawberry]

Short, sweet and simple: "Goodnight Moon", any Dr. Seuss book, "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day", Winnie the Pooh books, Madeline series, "Rainbow Fish", Arthur book series

 

More than one night: "Charlotte's Web", "The Borrowers", anything by Roald Dhal, "Sideways Stories from Wayside School"

 

These are just some of the ones I like. : ) 

[CallMeDaddyLG]

Princes Rose and the Golden Bird by Sergey Nikolov

Many, many years ago, in a kingdom far, far away there lived a beautiful princes. She had long red hair and loved roses so much that everyone called her Princes Rose. Every evening after dusk, Princes Rose went out on the balcony and clapped her hands. A golden bird came flying out of nowhere and alighted on her shoulder. Instantly, the princess's hair began to shine, ablaze with brilliant red light.

When the bird started to warble an enchanting tune, Princess Rose joined it in a song, and everyone in the kingdom fell asleep and had sweet dreams till the break of dawn.

http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/images/princes-rose-golden-bird-01.jpg

Thus passed the years. Every evening Princess Rose, along with the little golden bird, sang a loving lullaby, so that all people fell asleep and had sweet dreams till the break of dawn.

http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/images/princes-rose-golden-bird-02.jpg

Until one day something terrible happened. A wicked witch learned about Princess Rose and decided to curse her. "Abracadabra, Sim-Sala-Bim, may the rose's color dim!" the witch said, and Princess Rose's hair instantly turned as black as tar.

http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/images/princes-rose-golden-bird-03.jpg

That evening, too, Princess Rose went out on her balcony and clapped her hands. But when the golden bird appeared, her hair glowed black instead of red. The bird warbled its enchanting melody, and Princess Rose sang her lullaby.

Everyone in the kingdom fell asleep, but that night they only had bad dreams and nightmares.

On the following day, the saddened princess asked the bird, "Tell me, golden bird, how can I make my people's dreams so sweet again till the break of dawn?"

"Black hair in rose water," the bird chirped in reply.

The princess wondered at this counsel, but abided by it, nevertheless.         

http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/images/princes-rose-golden-bird-04.jpg

She filled up a basin with water and sprinkled rose petals on its surface. Then, she dipped her hair into the rose water, and it instantly turned red again.

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That evening, when the bird perched on her shoulder, the radiant red glow of her hair lit up the night sky once more. The Princess sang her lullaby, and everyone in the kingdom fell asleep and had sweet dreams till the break of dawn.

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The wicked witch was so very angry that her curse had been broken that she decided to cast it again.
"Abracadabra, Sim-Sala-Bim, may the rose's color dim!" And the princess's hair turned as black as tar again.

Only this time the witch also picked up all of the rose blooms in the entire kingdom.
"Let's see how you'll break my curse now!" she sneered, filled with rage.

http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/images/princes-rose-golden-bird-07.jpg

Once again, the saddened princess asked the bird, "Tell me, golden bird, how can I make my people's dreams so sweet again till the break of dawn?"

"Black hair in rose water," the bird chirped in reply.

"But where should I find a rose?"

"Black hair in rose water," the bird chirped and flew away.

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The princess didn't know what to do. So great was her anguish that her eyes filled with tears, one of them falling to the ground below. At that very moment, a young and handsome prince, who had stopped under the balcony of the princess, took out a little box and a single red hair from within it.

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He bent down and placed the hair atop the princess's tear. And then, a miracle happened. Suddenly, the red hair turned into a red rose.

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The prince picked the rose and took it up to the princess. Upon seeing the rose, she immediately brushed off her tears and plucked its petals to add to the water in the basin. Then, she dipped in her hair, and the curse was broken. Everyone gasped in astonishment, and the King asked the prince, "Young man, where did you find that red hair?"
"When the princess and I were both children, I picked a single strand of hair from her head as a sign of my loyalty to her. And she did the same to me, pulling out a strand of my own hair."

"It's true, father," the princess confirmed and took out  a little box. She opened it to reveal a single hair from the prince's head inside.

http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/images/princes-rose-golden-bird-11.jpg

Everyone was delighted with this news. The prince and Princess Rose got married on that very same day.

http://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/images/princes-rose-golden-bird-12.jpg

Upon learning that her curse had been broken again, the wicked witch's evilness swelled so much that she exploded into a thousand tiny pieces. Eventually, rose blooms sprang up in every garden in the kingdom once again. And so it went: each evening Princess Rose sang her loving lullaby, so that all people fell asleep and had sweet dreams till the break of dawn.

 

 

 

[Misha]

Pete the Cat

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[Guest DaddysCubbie]

Wreck-it-Ralph book Daddy bought me from Barnes and Noble. I especially love it because it Daddy's all time favourite movie!!

[Guest DaddysCubbie]

Also I love the Berenstain Bears!!!! They are so nostaglic as I read them all when I was growing up!