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.
Stories written by Rune Breinholt Andersen include:
https://youtu.be/XYwcXc7LIPA 👉 ▶️ Watch more bedtime stories on our YouTube channel. Far, far away in a rainbow-colored city lived a sweet little bear named Baloo. He loved playing under the big blue sky and eating honey cookies. Every corner of the city glowed with...
https://youtu.be/R2ZK3EfkiZI 👉 ▶️ Watch more bedtime stories on our YouTube channel. Once upon a time, there was a girl named Lily. She might have been the luckiest girl in the whole world, because she owned her very own candy shop. Lily was only 18 years old, but she...
https://youtu.be/I5M8vxRYuU8 👉 ▶️ Watch more bedtime stories on our YouTube channel. One beautiful, sunny day, a little grasshopper sat in a lush green meadow. He felt very safe in his surroundings because he had the same bright green color as the grass around him....
https://youtu.be/l_h3L2eZuMU 👉 ▶️ Watch more bedtime stories on our YouTube channel. In a small yellow house at the end of a winding gravel road lived an old woman and an old man. Their house lay between fields and a small forest, and in the morning you could hear...
https://youtu.be/lDngP4_jy4s 👉 ▶️ Watch more bedtime stories on our YouTube channel. Deep inside a quiet valley, where the clouds drifted slowly across the sky like lazy sheep, there once lived a unicorn. It was not like other unicorns. When the unicorn ran through...
https://youtu.be/wMkWZDuyj4c 👉 ▶️ Watch more bedtime stories on our YouTube channel. Once upon a time, three little pigs lived together with their mother in a small, sunlit clearing at the edge of a quiet forest. Around their home grew tall grass, wildflowers, and...
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.