Truck and digger bedtime stories
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Age
Loves
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Who else is in it?
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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.
Anything else for this one?
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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.
A child who loves trucks wants the right truck. Not "a vehicle": a digger with a bucket, a dumper that tips, a crane that lifts the last beam into place. A good truck bedtime story is a job well done, and a job well done is one of the most satisfying ways to end a day.
Ours are written for your child by name. Tonight they might drive the little yellow digger that finishes the new playground, or help a tired tractor bring the hay in before the rain. Tomorrow's story remembers which truck is theirs.
Written by the people who make Nightstory.
What makes it work at bedtime
Give every truck a job
Trucks in stories are happiest working. Ask for a big job with lots of small parts and the story has a natural shape: start, work, finish, rest.
Let the trucks talk
A digger that gets nervous about deep holes, a dumper that hums while it drives. Children love a machine with feelings, and it makes the ending gentle.
Park up for the night
The last page of a truck story is the depot at dusk: engines off, headlights dimming, and your child asleep in the cab of their favourite.
Questions parents ask
- Will a truck 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 truck part is the adventure; the last page is always the wind-down.
- Will it get the trucks right?
- Say which ones. A child who loves diggers will not forgive a story that calls one a lorry, so name the truck in the request and the story keeps its bucket, its tracks and its proper job.
- 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