Dinosaur bedtime stories
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Length
2–120 min
4 spreads, written as you read
Mood
gentle third-person narration, a timeless setting, a small kindness at its heart. Unhurried and warm, like a story that has been told for years.
Pictures
Drawn as you reach each one, in the cover's style.
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Free to start. Just a first name, no card. Or read one first
Made on Nightstory
Real stories, written and drawn the way yours will be. The child's name has been changed in each.
The Sound in the Garden Shed at Dusk
When a soft thumping drifts from the garden shed at dusk, Wren takes her sketchbook and follows the clues — a knocked-over paint pot, a trail of leaf prints, and a very polite stegosaurus who only wants a quiet place to draw. A gentle, cozy mystery that ends with everyone tucked in.
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Rue and the Little Triceratops
When Rue finds a lost baby triceratops in a ferny valley, she helps it find its herd before bedtime. A gentle, timeless story about small kindnesses and big prehistoric friends.
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The Meadow of Moonlight and Moss
A gentle bedtime story where a child discovers a unicorn and a dinosaur sharing a quiet friendship under the stars, and together they return a lost star to the sky.
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A child who loves dinosaurs does not love them a little. They know the names, they correct you on the names, and they want the diplodocus in the story to be the right size. A good dinosaur bedtime story takes that seriously: real dinosaurs, doing dinosaur things, in a world big enough to be exciting and calm enough to sleep after.
Ours are written fresh for your child each night. Tell us their name and age, say that they love dinosaurs, and tonight's story might have them helping a lost baby triceratops find its herd, or sharing a picnic with a very polite brachiosaurus. Tomorrow's story remembers who they met.
Written by the people who make Nightstory.
What makes it work at bedtime
Let the dinosaurs be kind
The trick at bedtime is a T-rex who turns out to be shy, not scary. Every story here keeps its dinosaurs friendly by design, so the biggest one in the story is the one who helps.
Use the names they know
Add a favourite in the story request: "a stegosaurus called Spike". The story will use it, and a child who hears their own dinosaur's name listens twice as hard.
End at the nest
Dinosaur stories can run all evening. Ours always land the same way, with the dinosaurs settling down for the night and your child tucked in beside them.
Questions parents ask
- Will a dinosaur story keep my child awake?
- Not the way we write them. Every story keeps to the same rules: no fear, no villains, no cliffhangers, and an ending where the child is safe and sleepy. The dinosaur part is the adventure; the last page is always the wind-down.
- Can it use the dinosaurs my child actually knows?
- Yes. Put them in the request: "an ankylosaurus and a very small pterodactyl". The story uses the dinosaurs you name and does not swap in generic ones, which matters enormously to a child who knows the difference.
- What does it cost?
- The first page is free, with no account. A free account finishes that story and brings one more free story. After that, a story costs 20 stars, and Nightstory Plus brings 840 stars a month, enough for a story every night.
Make tonight's for your child
Their name is all it takes. The first page is free, with no account.
Create tonight's story