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Our podcast offers a selection of the best bedtime stories for kids, your little one's passport to dreamland. Each tale is a warm, gentle lesson, perfect for setting a calming bedtime mood. Join us nightly for delightful adventures with charming characters. It's bedtime made serene, a soothing end to your child's day. Our podcast weaves a lullaby of imagination, heart, and wisdom. Tune in and let us add a dash of magic to bedtime. Our Bedtime Stories Podcast is produced by Babybus. Email us at babybusaudio-en@babybus.com and leave your suggestion and idea!

Hitching a ride cross-country, Reacher manages to thwart an unsavory criminal hiding out in a sleepy backwater town in rural Texas …

Ali Rain: Sometimes I think to myself, "How did I get here?" Then the pain hits and I remember...it's because she's gone. I now live in a new town, go to a new school, and I'm supposed to be moving on with my new life. Only, I no longer know who I am anymore. Dancing is all I have left and every day I feel completely alone. Silence has become the theme song to my life. She said to find some joy and light, but I don't know how. Mostly, I feel surrounded in darkness...that is, until I meet him.   

This is a collection of 40 short (some VERY short) stories from Christian author Pansy. They seem to have been taken from her magazine for children, The Pansy (1873–1896). Some are pure fiction; some are historical fiction, and some are true accounts of historical events. (Summary by TriciaG)

Published in 1916, this third installment with The Friendly Terrace girls places them in The Girl’s High School, with an array of new characters, and a few peripherally known from the first book. A heavier edge of drama comes through via a new student with a superiority complex, another student whose diligent scholastic achievements mar her socially, and an odd tradition of affectionate favouritism between Freshman and Seniors which proves to be awkward and disruptive to more than just the students. Peggy, Amy, Priscilla and Ruth are again faced with new challenges, and complicated scenarios...

The order of the poems has been arranged according to age from first through eight grade. The collection of poems in part 1 begins with the simplest nursery rhymes. Grade II begins with The Sleepy Song by Josephine D. Bacon, Grade III begins with Willie Winkle by William Miller. Grade IV begins with John Gilpin by William Cowper. Grades V - VIII are contained in part 2. - Summary by Linette G

This is a collection of stories in verse for children. Published in 1866 by an author only known by the initials F.F., these poems teach children the virtues, their duties, and what happens to ill-behaving little boys and girls. - Summary by Carolin

A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity’s uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row For fifteen years, the Wilcoxes have been a family in name only. Though never the picture of happiness, they once...

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The bestselling author of Mosquitoland brings us another batch of unforgettable characters in this tragicomedy about first love and devastating loss. Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco have a story to tell. It begins with the death of Vic’s father. It ends with the murder of Mad’s uncle. The...

This collection of poems, selected by Sara Teasdale, a talented poet in her own right, is made to appeal to children, both girls and boys. They are not poems about children, but for children. Neither does this mean that they are childish, but rather that they capture the imagination of children both in subject matter and the richness of the lyrical language of the poems themselves. They range through the great classical poets from Milton to Poe, in all of their variety and vigor. What child could not be captivated by Blake’s, The Tiger, or enchanted by Lanier’s Song of the Chattahoochee? ...

A small collection of short stories for children, written by the Catholic Jesuit priest, Fr. Finn. Some of his most well known characters make an appearance - Tom Playfair and Claude Lightfoot. (Summary by Maria Therese)

After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book, John Rae began imagining what that girl would have gotten up to if he had done so. Telling these stories to his children over the years, where they were enthusiastically received, he finally decided to share them with the world. And here they are! The New Adventures of Alice (Summary by Phil Chenevert) Narrator: Lydia Mother: Michele Eaton Betsy, Alice's Sister: Amanda Friday Alice: Haili Snipe: Shakira Searle Man in the Moon, Snowman, Snail Doorman: ...

Journey back to the "brick house" for a further look into the life of young Rebecca Randall during her adventures and scrapes in the small town of Riverboro, Maine. A companion story to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Cast List: Narrator: TJ Burns Rebecca Randall: JayKitty76 Miranda Sawyer: Christine Lehman Jane Sawyer: Laura Riley Emma Jane Perkins: Jasmin Salma Adam Ladd: Will the Ninja Jeremiah Cobb: Greg Giordano Sarah Cobb: Devorah Allen Abijah Flagg: Alan Mapstone Abner Simpson: Donald Gilmore Additional characters voiced by ambsweet13, Andrew Gaunce, Andrew James, Arnaldo Machado, B L ...

Remember the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper? the Fox and the Sour Grapes? The Boy who Cried Wolf? These wonderful tales and hundreds more have been passed down to us over the centuries. The man credited with writing them, Aesop, was an Ancient Greek slave born about 620 B.C. Aesop is known as a fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables shining glaringly true light on our human foibles now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling ...

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story follows the fortunes of the four Beverley children who are orphaned during the war, and hide from their Roundhead oppressors in the shelter of the New Forest where they learn to live off the land.The story begins in 1647 when King Charles I has been defeated in the civil war and has fled from London towards the New Forest. Parliamentary soldiers have been sent to search the forest and decide to burn Arnwood, the house of ...

In this ninth book in the classic Elsie Dinsmore series, the family finishes their summer at the seaside and returns to Ion. The narrative turns from Elsie to Violet's family, particularly her step-children Max and Lulu as they adjust to life in their new family. - Summary by GabrielleC

What was growing up like for a seaside country girl in 1800’s New England -- her expectations, occupations, education, and opportunities? What was it like working at the Lowell Textile Mills in Massachusetts, from age 11, to help support her family (see Loom and Spindle for that story), who then went on to edit magazines, teach at Wheaton College, and write many charming books, this one chock full of a girl’s hopes, dreams, recollections, poetry, and brilliant reflections on life such as: "This we working-girls learned from the webs of cloth we saw woven around us. Every little thread must...

A short, simple New Testament Bible History for children, but which can also be enjoyed by adults alike. Starting with St. John the Baptist, and running through the beginning years of the Church, the sections cover Our Lord's birth, public life, miracles, death, resurrection and more. This is the companion volume to My Bible History: New Testament - by the same author. (Summary by Maria Therese)

Mildred's New Daughter is one of the children's Christian novels in a series by Martha Finley that follows the lives of four orphaned Eldon siblings through their lives with Uncles' families, building a business and home of their own, and the marriages of Ethel and Blanche. (Summary by Deon Gines)