Rune Breinholt Andersen is the creator and primary author behind BestBedtimeStory.com, a website dedicated to calming, imaginative, and engaging bedtime stories for children.
He writes original bedtime stories designed to help children relax, spark imagination, and create positive bedtime routines. His stories focus on gentle storytelling, emotional warmth, and age-appropriate adventures that make bedtime a meaningful daily ritual.
Through hundreds of stories across different lengths, themes, and age groups, Rune helps parents find the right story for every evening — from quick one-minute tales to longer immersive bedtime experiences.
Rune’s work focuses on:
• Bedtime storytelling for children
• Short bedtime stories by reading time
• Sleep stories designed to support relaxation
• Stories that support healthy bedtime routines
• Gentle storytelling that reduces stimulation before sleep
• Imaginative stories that encourage creativity
– Rune Breinholt Andersen
These featured bedtime stories highlight some of Rune’s most loved and widely read stories. Each story is carefully crafted to create calm bedtime moments, spark imagination, and support positive sleep routines for children.
Explore a selection of gentle, engaging stories designed to make bedtime easier and more meaningful.
The platform organizes stories by length, theme, and age group, making it easier for parents to quickly find the right story — whether they have one minute, five minutes, or more time before bedtime.
All stories are written with a focus on emotional safety, gentle pacing, and positive endings that help children wind down before sleep.
Rune started out writing bedtime stories in Danish on Godnat-historier.dk in 2020 and brought the idea to English with BestBedtimeStory.com. Many of his stories are also read aloud on the BestBedtimeStory YouTube channel and on Spotify. Read more about how the stories are written and checked on the About page.
Stories written by Rune Breinholt Andersen include:
https://youtu.be/alFKae6DFYY Watch more halloween stories on our YouTube channel. Milo didn’t believe in monsters. He didn’t believe in ghosts, witches, trolls, or living skeletons either. And he definitely didn’t believe in the black door behind the school. “It only...
https://youtu.be/Hed1hdjuf1A 👉 ▶️ Watch more bedtime stories on our YouTube channel. Once upon a time, there was a boy named Timmy who lived in a small town by the sea. Timmy loved playing with soap bubbles. He could spend hours blowing big, shimmering bubbles that...
https://youtu.be/0r7kb2wDAgI 👉 ▶️ Watch more bedtime stories on our YouTube channel. Once upon a time there were three goats who lived together up in the high mountains. They were all called Billy Goat Gruff. There was the little Billy Goat Gruff. There was the middle...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzQgy9IRGqA Watch more romantic bedtime stories on our YouTube channel. Every night at exactly eleven, the little lamp in the window across the street came on. Daniel had noticed it the first week he moved into his apartment. It was an...
https://youtu.be/68SNnQhhcUU 👉 ▶️ Watch more bedtime stories on our YouTube channel. Deep underground, where pipes twisted like secret passageways and machines hummed softly like a sleeping giant, lived a little pink monster named Milo. Milo was not like the other...
https://youtu.be/r2odLC_pRnk 👉 ▶️ Watch more bedtime stories on our YouTube channel. Viola sat on the edge of her bed, holding her teddy bear tightly against her chest. Outside, the moon shone between the clouds, and the wind made the branches of the trees sway...
Rune’s goal is to make bedtime easier for parents and more magical for children by providing stories that create calm, strengthen connection, and build a lifelong love of storytelling.
Discover Rune’s bedtime stories organised by length, theme, and age to help you find the perfect story for every bedtime moment.
Rune creates stories that match real bedtime routines, whether families need a very short story for busy evenings or longer, immersive stories for slower, more relaxed nights. Every story follows simple language, comforting structure, and reassuring endings that support a safe and peaceful bedtime experience.