Starfall Sky Bedtime Stories
By Starfall
Categories: Fiction, Arts, Books, Kids & Family, Stories for Kids
Gentle stories read aloud at bedtime, for grown-ups and children alike. Cozy, unhurried tales that end somewhere warm and settled, some of them from the world of Starfall. A new story every night, and every one can be read along at starfallsky.com.
44 episodes indexed on podsearch.
Recent episodes
- The Jar Marked Sable Losing
On the last windy evening of the season, Pip Underweather climbs Whistling Ridge with two empty jars: one for the long note the ridge sings once a year, and one for the sound of Sable losing at cards, which nobody has heard in three years.Pip Underweather collects sounds in jars and has missed the…
- The Hare Who Borrowed a Shell
A hare so fast that he says everything twice has never seen a sunset all the way to the end, so he knocks on the slowest door in the meadow and asks to borrow some slowness.Dash the hare lives in a meadow where every animal has a front door in one long hedge. He has seen the start of every sunset…
- Snow by Parcel Post
In Rosie’s valley the first snow comes by post in brown paper parcels, and the very last one has lost its label to the drips except for one big smudgy R.Rosie helps her mom, the postwoman, deliver the winter’s first snow. She carries every drippy parcel up every path as carefully as a birthday…
- Too Much Kettle for Little Cloud
Mo has promised to keep Aunt Tilda’s pet cloud the same size all day, but one more puff of kettle steam keeps turning into another.Aunt Tilda makes the weather for the valley below her crooked cottage on a windy hill. While she is away at the Weather Fair, Mo minds Little Cloud, who rains when he…
- Hattie and the Hundred and Twelve Steps
Hattie is a very old tortoise who lives at the bottom of a lighthouse, and she has spent a whole winter working out how to get up a hundred and twelve steps to watch the star come down.Every evening a small, kind star flies down into the lighthouse lamp and turns the sea gold, and Hattie the…
- The Comet’s Cart Goes Uphill
Corvin the Tinker fixes the Wandering Comet’s cart so it will never roll into the pond again, and it rolls uphill instead, off across the meadow with the Comet walking briskly behind and insisting the Comet does not hurry.At the Meadow Pond, the Wandering Comet’s leaning handcart has tipped the…
- Poppy’s Blanket Went to the Bear
On washday the West Wind brings a small fox the wrong blanket, one the size of a meadow, so she and her dad go up the path by lantern to find her own.Poppy is a small fox who can’t sleep without her old blue blanket and its chewed corner, the Ear. When the West Wind mixes up the wood’s washing…
- The Bear Who Counted Sheep
A very sleepy bear promises to count an old shepherd’s twelve sheep into the barn, but one of them, Lumpy, walks backwards.Nan the shepherd goes over the hill to see her new grandbaby and leaves Bear a letter in giant chalk letters on the barn door. When the first snow comes, Bear has to count the…
- That’ll Do Nicely, Thank You
A boy borrows his grandma’s magic porridge pot to make his mom a secret birthday breakfast, but he has lost the card that tells him how to stop it.Seven-year-old Leo has spent a month planning his mom’s birthday breakfast, with a map, all by himself and without waking her. Grandma has lent him a…
- Did Not Need It
A fallen star fleck gets caught in Purl’s best polishing cloth, and it won’t let Maren walk past a single knocker, lamp or milestone without stopping to shine it.Maren’s field notes follow her home from Lantern Hollow with Purl’s cloth, which now polishes everything it is carried near in the same…
- Duchess and the Runt Cloud
After five dry weeks, the largest pig on Hill Farm tiptoes up to the weather-mill at night to steal herself a rain cloud, and keeps bringing home the wrong one.Duchess, a very dignified pig who walks everywhere on tiptoe, wants a puddle. But the farmer won’t send for rain until his hay is in. Mrs…
- Two Miles by Starlight
When a cart wheel knocks the foot off Ivo’s two-mile stone so that it reads seven, Ivo has to recut it by night before the morning walkers come up the road, and a lamp with hardly any oil in it isn’t going to last.Ivo the Milestone-Mender is oiling chisels when Hobb the Carter pulls up with a…
- The Breeze That Wouldn’t Be Folded
Molly can fold anything, until the last and smallest breeze of the summer refuses to stay in its drawer.On the longest night, Molly is putting the summer away by herself at Grandpa’s weather house on the hill, folding each resting breeze into its labelled drawer. Every one must be put away by…
- Mo and the Very Long Stairs
Mo gets out of bed after lights-out to deliver Dad’s birthday card, and in her house that means going as small as a thimble, with three twisty flights of stairs between her and the kitchen.Mo lives at the top of Button Lane in a tall, thin house whose stairs go round three times. She wants the…
- A Warm Cup for the River
Pim carries everything on his head, and to cross the cold, splashy River to his best friend Dot, he has to bring it one thing it has never felt before.Pim lives in a village by a wide, quick River, and every evening his best friend Dot waves to him from the mill on the far side. The River offers a…
- Post for the Middle of the Bay
Bea rows the island post across a wide grey bay, and lately the trip has been getting faster in a way that no current can explain.Every morning Bea loads the letters into her little green rowing boat and reads each address out grandly to the sea, the goat’s letter included. For weeks the middle of…
- The Night the Well Rested
One night a year nobody may draw from the meadow well, and the well keeper has a chalked sign, a dishcloth and one kettle of tea to get the whole valley through till dawn.Once a year the meadow well rests from dusk to first light, and the well keeper sits up beside it with her stool, her tin stove…
- Bun Says Goodnight to the Mountain
Bun is the smallest, sleepiest dormouse in the valley, and this year she means to stay awake for the Echo Contest, where the mountain sends back every shout as a bead of coloured glass.Every summer the valley’s animals climb to the Echo Gap to shout at the mountain, and the biggest call wins a…
- The Long Way to the Sofa
When Grandpa’s stiff neck won’t let him turn round, Bea sets off at night to carry him her pillow for ideas, through a house that has stretched to its full night-time size.Bea has two pillows, one for her head and one for her ideas, and Grandpa, who is sleeping on the sofa downstairs, has a lumpy…
- Rosie Lends the Moon Her Scarf
Rosie has fallen asleep three Novembers running before the geese fly over, and this year, when she should be watching the sky, she spots a shivering Moon and gives it her grandma’s scarf, which is three times too long.Rosie lives on a farm at the top of a hill and notices everything, which is…
- The Night the Tide Came Up the Lane
One evening the tide forgets to stop at the beach and sits down on Grandma’s doorstep, and Bo, who can’t sing a note but can whistle anything, has to get it home before bedtime.In a fishing village beside a cold grey sea, the tide rolls right up the lane and makes itself at home on Bo’s doorstep…
- The Door That Needs a Shoulder
Pip Underweather walks four days west to put the famous sound of Maren’s door in a jar, and then finds the door won’t make it.Pip Underweather collects sounds in jars on Whistling Ridge, and every traveler from the west talks about Maren’s door, the one that needs a shoulder. So Pip sets off for…
- Up You Come, Moon
Every evening Rosa winds the Moon up out of the castle well in a silver bucket, but tonight the Moon is too full to fit.Rosa is the smallest person in a hilltop castle, and she is the Keeper of the Moon Bucket. Every evening she turns the handle forty-two times to bring the sleeping Moon up out of…
- Slow Feet, Flat Water
Nell has never done anything slowly in her life, but tonight she has to carry the moon up a hundred steps in a bucket.Nell lives at the top of a hundred steps above the harbor, and she always goes two steps at a time. Her baby brother Tip has never seen the real moon, so Nell sets out to scoop it…
- The Moon’s Quiet Bucket
On the giggliest night of his life, Moss and his mom sneak out to the square in slippers to ask the moon for a place to put his giggles.Every night in Hush-by-the-Hill, the moon lets down a tin bucket, and everyone puts in the noises they won’t need till morning: Dad’s snore, the gate’s creak, the…
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