Your child stars in a picture book that gets the last wiggles out first: shaking out glowing wiggles, stomping thunder, pushing a stuck moon up into the sky. Then it brings them all the way down, one page at a time, to heavy arms, slow breaths and a last page written to be whispered.
Free to start. See the cover and first three pages painted before you pay.
Most bedtime books ask a child to lie still and listen. But at lights-out, a lot of little bodies are still running, and “lie still” is the one instruction a running body cannot follow. So these books do not ask. They give the energy somewhere to go first, and then bring it down, page by page, in the order a body actually comes down.
Big, fast moves your child does while you read: stomp, shake, jump, swoop. This is where the giggles live. Better the wiggles come out on page three than at a quarter to ten.
Then push, pull, carry, squeeze. Slow, effortful "heavy work" like this is something occupational therapists often reach for to help a revved-up body settle rather than wind up further.
Then slow stretches and long breaths out: smell the flower, blow out slow, hum with the frogs, one big sigh with the dog.
Heavy arms, heavy legs, eyes closing. Every book ends on a page written to be whispered.
On every lively page the move word is set in large type, so even a child who cannot read yet knows what to do. Once the book turns quiet, the big type stops too.
Not one character tells your child to settle, lie still or go to sleep. The story does the settling, so you never have to.
Lively pages glow warm gold. As the moves slow, the paintings cool to lavender, and by the last page they are deep night blue with one small light left on.
Painted to look like your child on every page, in cozy pajamas from first page to last, with their toy or pet alongside and their name in the verse.
If bedtime at your house looks like this…
Seven stories your child does as much as hears. Each one moves first and settles last, and each one has a surprise waiting near the end.
Ages 3-6
Best for: The child who simply cannot lie still
Every wiggle shakes out but one. The last, stubborn tummy-wiggle only floats free when your child goes completely still.
A favorite toy catches the wiggles (optional)
Ages 3-7
Best for: The child who needs one big play before they can rest
Then the snow settles, one flake at a time: on the toes, the knees, the tummy, the eyelashes. Each part goes still with it.
Toy optional · they build their own snow friend
Ages 3-7
Best for: The loud one, and the child who is scared of thunder
Your child is the storm. Over the place they love most, they spot a little bird asleep, and the storm chooses to be gentle.
Toy optional · you name the place they love
Ages 3-7
Best for: The child who settles best with a real job to do
The moon nodded off before bedtime and rolled down behind the hill. Your wide-awake child is the only one strong enough to help.
Toy optional · you write the moon's goodnight words
Ages 3-7
Best for: The child who wants to be in charge of bedtime
They conduct the night from loudest to silent. Then, in the quiet, they find one sound still playing: their own heartbeat.
Toy optional · starts with your real night sounds
Ages 3-7
Best for: Dragon lovers, and practising slow breathing
A young dragon with the hiccups, popping sparks with every one. The first slow smoke ring is the breath that cures them.
Toy optional · your child names the dragon
Ages 2-6
Best for: Families whose pet gets the bedtime zoomies too
Your child asks your pet how it gets sleepy, and copies every step. When they whisper goodnight, your pet answers the only way it can.
Needs your real pet (dog, cat or other)
Ages 2-6
Best for: The child who is scared of the dark
Scary shadow on the wall? Give it polka-dot underpants. The sillier the scary things get, the smaller they get.
A gentler book for a different bedtime problem: not a body that will not stop, but a room that looks different once the light goes off.
A grown-up helps with the silly trick
More for the end of the day: Not There! Not There! · What the Rabbit Knows
Choose the one that sounds like your evenings. Every one is built on the same wiggle-to-whisper shape.
Upload a photo and we paint your child as the hero. Add their favorite toy, your pet, or a grown-up for the tuck-in.
We write the whole story and paint the cover and first three pages. Love it? Choose a PDF or a printed hardcover.
Read the line, then wait while your child does the move. The big printed word is your cue. Doing it with them is half the fun.
The first pages can be done sitting up or standing beside the bed. When the book turns quiet, that is the moment to lie down.
Let your voice follow the book: bouncy at the start, softer in the middle, and the last page in a whisper.
A routine works because it repeats. Most children ask for the same book for weeks, and the moves get easier to reach for on a hard night.
Start free and see the first pages before you choose.
$12.99
Instant download to read on any screen or print at home.
$46.99
A real hardcover picture book for the bedside shelf, with the PDF included free.
$74.99
Opens completely flat so every painting spans both pages. PDF included.
A bedtime picture book in which your child is the hero: painted to look like them on every page, with their name in the verse and their favorite toy or pet alongside. Enchantably bedtime stories come as a printed hardcover or an instant PDF.
By working with the body instead of asking it to stop. Each Bedtime Magic book starts with big moves your child does while you read, moves on to slow, heavy pushing and pulling, then long breaths out, and ends on a page written to be whispered. No book can promise sleep, but it gives you a routine to reach for instead of "lie still".
Most are written for children from about 3 to 7. Zoomies to Snoozies and Bedtime Bravery reach down to 2, and Catch the Wiggles is at its best from 3 to 6.
A favorite toy is welcome in every book but never required; with no toy, your child does everything themselves. Zoomies to Snoozies is the exception: it is built around your real pet's bedtime habits, so it needs a photo of your dog, cat or other pet.
Yes. Add a grown-up and they appear at the tuck-in at the end, so the adventure itself belongs to your child. Bedtime Bravery is written around a grown-up who helps with the silly trick.
Around ten minutes with the moves. The movement books have 16 pages of short four-line rhyming verse, and the last few pages are the shortest of all.
Yes. It is free to start: we paint your child's hero, write the whole story, and paint the cover and the first three pages before you choose a PDF or a printed book.
Bedtime Bravery, where every scary shadow gets something silly until it shrinks. For a child who is frightened of thunder, The Storm Who Got Sleepy lets them be the storm, and then put it to sleep.
Any of 17 languages, written natively rather than translated, including the sound words and the move words your child acts out.
Photos are used to paint your child's hero and are deleted after analysis, and they are never used to train AI. You can also describe your child instead of uploading a photo. How we protect your family
Pick the bedtime story that sounds like your house, and see your child painted into it, free.