A beautiful new tale lands in your inbox at six — snuggle up, read it aloud, and watch their face when the hero has their name.
Get tonight's story ✦︎Emma was almost asleep when she heard it — a soft hoo-hoo-oh-no outside her window. On the branch sat a round little owl, looking terribly worried.
"I've lost the moon," whispered the owl. "I put it somewhere safe, and now I can't remember where."
Emma pulled on her slippers. If anyone could find a whole moon, it was her…
— every story is new, written each day for your child's age, with their name woven all the way through.
Every evening around six, a brand-new original bedtime story arrives in your inbox, with your child's name woven all the way through. It takes about five minutes to read aloud, ends drifting toward sleep, and there's a fresh one every single night.
Because we don't want to complicate a ham sandwich. Everybody already has email — you don't need anything more for this. No downloads, no accounts to manage, no updates, no notifications begging for attention. We want to keep things simple and easy: open tonight's story, and read.
Each story is written fresh that day with the assistance of AI, following guidelines shaped by child-development thinking — gentle courage, honesty, kindness, naming big feelings — always lived through the story, never preached. Every story then passes two independent reviews (one for child-appropriateness, one for language quality) and is approved by a human editor — a parent — before it is sent to anyone.
There are three nightly editions — ages 2–4, 5–7 and 8–10 — with vocabulary, story length and themes matched to each. You pick the band at signup and can change it any time by replying to a story.
Just tell us — reply to any story email, or write to stories@thebedtimepost.com — and we'll move them up to the next edition from the very next night. Same subscription, same price, nothing to re-do. There's no rush, either: the bands are a guide, not a rule, so if your seven-year-old is happiest staying with the 5–7 stories a while longer, that's perfectly fine.
Only the pronouns. Every story is written so it suits any child — the adventures, feelings and interests are for everyone.
Not yet — but we're actively exploring it, and it's harder than it sounds. A story for a three-year-old and a nine-year-old has to be told in words the youngest can follow while staying interesting for the oldest, and each child needs their own real moments in the adventure — the big one leading the way, the little one spotting the firefly — rather than one hero and some names tacked on. Getting that right, every single night, to the standard we hold single-child stories to, is what we're testing now. For today, each story stars one child; if you'd like family stories, tell us — reply to any story email, or email stories@thebedtimepost.com to let us know, and you'll be the first to hear when they arrive.
Nothing to catch up and nothing to feel guilty about — it's email. Read it in the morning, save it for the weekend, or let it go; a new story comes tomorrow regardless.
One click on the link in any email. Stories keep coming until the end of the period you've paid for (or stop instantly, your choice) and nothing renews. Within the first 14 days you can get your first payment refunded in full — just reply to any email.
A first name, an age range, and boy/girl. That's the whole list — no surname, no birthday, no photos. It's deleted when your subscription ends, and your child's name is never sent to our AI provider: stories are written as templates and the name is placed in on our own server at the moment your email is sent. Details in our privacy policy.