Read aloud
Where these traditions actually come from, retold to be read out loud at bedtime. Four or five minutes each. Every one says plainly whose story it is.

How a man with money and no idea what to do with it invented giving in secret.
5 min read · ages 4–9

A woman with a broom says no to an invitation, and spends the rest of her life going anyway.
4 min read · ages 5–10

Three animals meet a hungry traveler. Two of them bring food. The third has nothing.
4 min read · ages 5–10

A village works out what the monster is afraid of — and then makes a great deal of noise.
4 min read · ages 4–9

She waits all year for him. Every year, she falls asleep about ten minutes before he arrives.
4 min read · ages 6–11

A boy king loses a tooth, and a mouse takes him somewhere he has never been.
4 min read · ages 5–9
Free, always
Every keeper in these tales will write to your child — the Tooth Fairy, Saint Nicholas, La Befana, the Moon Rabbit, Amu Nowruz. Free to write and free to print, with a free account.
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