Calming Sleep Stories for Kids

Calming stories are the ones that actively lower the temperature of the room. They use slower pacing, longer pauses, and imagery you can breathe with — moons stitching buttons back on, owls teaching the wind to be quiet, bunnies watching cloud parades drift by. Every story in this collection has a calm rating of four or five out of five. If your child is anxious at bedtime, going through a change (new school, new sibling, new bed), or just wired from the day, start here.