Famous Bedtime Stories
This is a list of the most popular and well known bedtime stories in our day.
What makes these bedtime stories so popular? Like any good story, these famous folktales resonate with something deep inside us. We feel the struggles of these characters. We experience what they experience. And we take joy in sharing their victories at the end of the story.
Enjoy this time to unwind with your children, and to process the day and life's complexity in the safety of a story.
Read Time: 9 minutes
The Town Musicians
Summary: A Donkey, a dog, a rooster, and a cat leave their farms and their masters to become musicians in the big city of Bremen. On the journey, they find a house of robbers. The band of animals come up with a plan to scare away the robbers and to......
Read Time: 12 minutes
The Three Little Pigs
Summary: One pig builds his house with straw, another with leaves, and another with bricks. the wolf easily blows down the staw house and the leaf house, but must use trickery if he wants to eat the pig in the brick house...
Read Time: 8 minutes
The Frog Prince
Summary: A little princess meets a talking frog in a fountain. The frog offers to help her retrieve her golden ball if he can join her in the castle. The princess is repulsed by the frog, but with her help the frog transforms into a prince...
Read Time: 12 minutes
Sleeping Beauty
Summary: A party is thrown for a little princess, but the queen forgets to invite one of the fairies. This evil fairly puts a curse on the princess, so that one day her and the whole kingdom sleeps until she is awakened by a prince's kiss....
Read Time: 15 minutes
Puss In Boots
Summary: A young man named Jack inherits his father's talking cat. This cat is very clever, and promises to make Jack a rich man in exchange for boots and a bag. Thanks to Puss and his genius plans, Jack becomes more weathly than the King himself....
Read Time: 8 minutes
Little Red Riding-Hood
Summary: A little girl's mother sends her through the woods to grandmother's house. Along the way, the meets a wolf, who runs ahead of her to grandmother's house. There the wolf pretends to be the grandmother in order to eat Little Red Riding-Hood....
Read Time: 19 minutes
Jack and The Bean Stalk
Summary: A poor boy in England trades his mother's cow for some magic beans. One bean becomes a beanstalk that reaches into the sky, where there is a magical country with a giant. Jack sneaks into the giant's castle and takes the treasure that once belonged to his father....
Read Time: 7 minutes
Goldilocks And The Three Bears
Summary: A selfish little girl wanders in the woods and finds an empty house. She does not know that the house belongs to three bears. She helps herself to their chairs, their food, and their beds. Goldilocks is surprised when the bears return home....
Read Time: 18 minutes
Cinderella
Summary: A poor girl called Cinderella is forced to work for her cruel stepmother and stepsisters. The prince throws a ball (dance party), but Cinderella's stepmother does not allow her to go. Her fairy godmother provides Cinderella with rich clothes and a carriage, so that she wins the heart of......
Read Time: 16 minutes
Beauty And The Beast
Summary: A Father is forced to marry one of his daughters to a hideous beast in an enchanted castle. His daughter, called Beauty, wins the heart of the beast and he transforms into a handsome and kind prince. her cruel sisters are jealous, yet Beauty's love heals them as well....
Read Time: 29 minutes
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
Summary: A poor boy named Aladdin meets a magician claiming to be his uncle. The magician tricks Aladdin into helping him retrieve a magic lamp. Aladdin uses the lamp to get everything he and his mother could ever need, but one day the magician returns....