Childrens bedtime stories are beneficial for both you and your little one in many ways.
Most importantly, it is a good way to take away the stress of the day, and a great way to bond with your kid.
Bedtime stories also help your child develop a reading culture from an early age.
Bedtime Stories are often packed with many of life’s lessons that children need to learn from an early age in other to survive and become successful later in life.
So, we have created a collection of some of the popular bedtime stories that feature characters that your kids will grow fonder of.
Jack and the Beanstalk
This is a story about a boy named Jack who traded his cow for some magic beans. He plants the magic beans which grow into a giant beanstalk.
The stalk leads into a kingdom where a golden harp houses an ogre with a hen that lays golden eggs.
Jack climbs into the kingdom and steals the golden eggs and escapes, after which he cuts the beanstalk.
This book helps children’s imaginations with their thoughts creating pictures of the chicken and golden eggs, the ogre and a giant beanstalk.
But the story teaches kids that there are consequences for their actions even if they may come with great rewards.
The Tortoise and the Hare
The story is about a tortoise and a hare that got into an argument about who is faster.
They decide to race.
The hare who is obviously faster than the tortoise gets ahead quite quickly and decided to take a rest under a tree, ruling out every possibility of the tortoise catching up.
The tortoise kept on racing till it slowly, but surely, wins the race.
This story teaches children to never give up and to always be humble even in the face of victory.
Pinocchio
This is one of the most popular children’s stories that have also been adapted to television.
It teaches children to always tell the truth at all times.
The story is about a puppet maker named Geppetto who carved a puppet from wood, he named it Pinocchio.
The man loved the puppet like he would love a son, but for Pinocchio to become human, he would have to earn it by being truthful and honest.
When he tells a lie, his nose extends.
He eventually became human.
The story teaches kids that it never pays to tell lies.
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood was sent on an errand to deliver some food to her grandmother who is sick.
On her way, she runs into a wolf, who asks her a series of questions but Little Red Riding Hood was unaware of the wolf’s intentions and the impending danger.
The wolf tricked Little Red Riding Hood, then ran to her grandmother’s house and devoured her.
The wolf put on her clothes and put on her cap.
Little Red Riding Hood and her Granny eventually get rescued by a woodcutter.
The story teaches children never to trust strangers.