Beautiful Bedtime Stories (focused on nature)
Blessings for Bedtime is a calming and joyful prose collection for the over-stimulated child. Bedtime can now be a time of peace and relaxation, also for parents. Organised by four seasons, the book offers night-time stories to inspire children to sleep well.
Empower children to feel safe, whilst building an emotionally healthy relationship. Whether you read one blessing to your child at night or many, you’ll both end the day with love and light. Take a peak at a few of the powerful blessings inside:
No more work and no more play, ended is the lovely day. In the night sky, stars are twinkling. To their homes mice are creeping. Your bed is made and ready for sleeping. Good night, my love, good night!
Dear Sun and Moon and Stars, bless my little one. May (they) sleep in peaceful dreams, all night long. And in the morning, let (them) wake with a smile, ready to greet the new day.
Beautifully designed and carefully organised, this lovely bedtime book has soothing illustrations of seasonal and nature imagery.
A Trilogy of Nature Bedtime Stories
Secrets of the Stars offers beautifully illustrated bedtime stories in this charming anthology of creatures that are guided by the light of the moon, when we are all asleep.
Based on real biology, meet a lost wolf pup who finds his way back to the pack, and a flying fox who goes for a midnight swim.
Children will be thrilled to meet the pineapplefish (whose mouth as a built-in torch) and marvel at dung beetles, who navigate by looking at the stars!
Other stories feature American alligators, wombats, snowy owls, bushbabies, flying frogs, luna moths and even a rat making his way across a sleeping city.
Also read Secrets of the Forest which features stories of elephants, wild cats, pangolins, badgers, foxes, monarch butterflies, otters, walking fish, penguins and a tree that can live for thousands of years.
Secrets of the Oceans features stories of swimming iguanas, diving penguins, deep-sea anglerfish, albatrosses in love, leaping dolphins, sleepy dugongs, majestic whales, hungry sea turtles, ancient sharks and marching crabs!
An Autumn Day for Bear
Autumn season in England casts a golden hue and chill in the air, as nights draw in, birds prepare for migration and animals prepare for winter hibernation. Trees lose their leaves and, and horse chestnut trees drop their seeds (keep conkers and leaf mould away from dogs).
An Autumn Day for Bear is a charming book, to teach children of the seasons. Bear and Mouse are best friends. But ready to go for a picnic, Bear is concerned when his little friend does not tap on his front door.
So he goes outside to find him sitting on a stump. Both agree that this is the worst day ever – the leaves are falling, the flowers are going and the birds are leaving..
But once they discover slippery puddles, wonderfully messy mud (and tea with pickles in front of a crackling fire), Bear and Mouse realise that this preposterous day, may not be so bad after all.
Bear liked the cold in the air.
He liked the wind in his fur.
He liked the rustle and tumble of the leaves.
He especially liked the feeling, that something was about to happen!
This beautiful story covers the triple themes of autumn, friendship and even bird migration. A charming read for rainy days!
Bonny Becker has written several award-winning picture books and lives in Seattle, USA. Kady Macdonald Denton has illustrated several children’s books, and lives in Ontario, Canada.
Rewild the World at Bedtime (a book for children)
Rewild the World at Bedtime is a beautiful keepsake collection of calming wildlife stories to read at bedtime, for children to learn about projects that are rewilding the world with animals, and saving our planet.
From Colombia to Indonesia, 40,000 unique species are threatened with extinction, and it’s never been a better time to teach children about conservation.
This enchanting read soothes little ones with 20 stories about nature healing itself, when animals are returned to their natural habitats, without human interference. The animals featured in the book include:
- The return of Eurasian beavers to Devon
- Saving Endangered Tigers in Nepal
- Water Buffalos Restore Ukrainian Wetlands
- Lynx Find Freedom in the Iberian Peninsula
- Majestic Humpback Whales Make a Comeback
- Rewilding Wolves in Yellowstone Park
- Rewilding Sea Otters in Canada
- England’s Rewilding Project Knepp Estate
Emily Hawkins was once a children’s book editor and now writes books herself. She holds a first-class degree from Nottingham University, and lives in Winchester.
