Five-minute bedtime stories, gently narrated
Every evening DreamStories deals a fresh handful of stories — animals, space, the sea, history, the people and machines that came before us — and reads the one your child points at, aloud, in a calm voice. Each story takes about five minutes: long enough to settle into, short enough to end before sleep does.
Tonight's stories
Jane Goodall: The Friend of the Chimpanzees
She sat still in a forest until the chimpanzees stopped hiding, and rewrote what we knew about tools.
Rain
Where rain comes from, and where the puddles go when they dry.
A Cat's Whiskers
Whiskers tell a cat how wide a gap is, even in the dark.
T-Rex
The biggest teeth of any land animal that ever lived, and very small arms.
The Moon
The moon changes shape each night, but it is always the same moon.
A Long Time Ago
Before cars, before shops, people walked everywhere and made everything by hand.
Baby Hermes and the Lyre
The Greek god Hermes as a mischievous baby invents the lyre from a turtle shell and trades it to Apollo for the job of messenger
Thank You
Small ways of saying thank you, at meals and at bedtime.
How it works
A fresh handful every evening. Open DreamStories at bedtime and it deals a few stories chosen for your child's age — true stories and imagined ones, about animals, the earth, space, history and the people who shaped it. Tap one and it begins.
Read aloud, or read yourself. Every story is narrated in a calm, unhurried voice, with an illustration for each page. Turn the narration off and it is a picture book on the screen.
Something to talk about after. Each story ends with one gentle question — a way to say goodnight that is also a conversation. Stories are about five minutes long, for listeners from one to twelve, in thirteen languages.