Rachel Field was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for the Newbery Award–winning Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.

Prayer for a Child is a 1944 book with artwork by Elizabeth Orton Jones, which won a Caldecott Medal in 1945, an award that recognizes the previous year's most distinguished American picture book for children. 

The book is told with the voice of a little girl, but it is meant to represent children as a whole, with their love, gentleness, and care for the world.

The first in our long form series of stories, this reading encompasses the fifth and sixth chapters of Frances Hodgson Burnett's work The Secret Garden.  First published in 1911, this book has been read for generations.

It is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made, and now it can help you fall asleep thanks to a soothing reading by Richard Huskisson.

Mary Lennox continues to explore the outside, learning more about Misselthwaite, and meeting one of her new friends again. Then inside she hears a strange sound and determines to explore her new home more.

Helen Beatrix Potter, better known as Beatrix Potter, was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist. She is best known for her twenty-three children's books beginning with this story.

One of the best-selling children's books, with 45 million copies sold, and originally printed in 1901 privately by author and illustrator Beatrix Potter,  it has been translated into 36 languages, and continued to delight children for over a century.

The story follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he gets into, and is chased around, the garden of Mr. McGregor.

The first in our long form series of stories, this reading encompasses the second two chapters of Frances Hodgson Burnett's work The Secret Garden.  First published in 1911, this book has been read for generations.

It is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made, and now it can help you fall asleep thanks to a soothing reading by Richard Huskisson.

Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor to find it not at all like the home she left. She also discovers no one here is anything like the people she knew. All of this combines to leave her feeling terribly lonely; until she learns of a secret garden, and meets an unexpected friend.

Alan Alexander Milne, better known as Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne, famously wrote this poem about the ceremony of the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. It is one of London’s most famous ceremonies, with immaculately turned-out guards, stirring music and military precision drills combining to create a stunning spectacle.

In this tale Christopher Robin, based on the author's own son, and Alice go to see the ceremony every day. 

This and many other poems, were bundled into a book called "When We Were Very Young," and published in 1924. You can expect to hear more of these poems in the future.

The first in our long form series of stories, this reading encompasses the first two chapters of Frances Hodgson Burnett's work The Secret Garden.  First published in 1911, this book has been read for generations.

It is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made, and now it can help you fall asleep thanks to a soothing reading by Richard Huskisson.

Join Mary Lennox as she discovers her old life disappearing quite suddenly, and her world shifting as she heads toward her new life at Misselthwaite Manor. Then come back to hear part two; the next two chapters in the next episode in this series.

This bedtime story to help you sleep is the story that inspired this podcast. A simple short story to read to children at bedtime.

There are many people who have trouble falling asleep at night, from babes in the crib all the way to grown ups in bed, and this story has helped many fall asleep for most of a century. 

Published in 1947 and written by Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon is the second in Brown and illustrator Clement Hurd's "classic series." It entered the public domain in Canada in 2002, 50 years after Brown's passing.

But her legacy of helping people fall asleep with this story continues and comes into a new format with this reading by Richard Huskisson.