Bed-Time Stories: A collection in verse and in prose

The title says it all: this is a book meant for the hush of bedtime, when the world grows small and safe. Collected anonymously, these verses and tales carry the timeless weight of oral tradition, passed down like a secret between parent and child. Here are gentle stories of wonder and quiet adventure, poems that slip off the tongue like lullabies, and prose tales that end just as eyelids grow heavy. There are rhymes about animals, whispers about dreams, and small dramas resolved with kindness. Nothing frightens, nothing disturbs - these are stories designed to send little listeners drifting toward sleep with a smile. The anonymity of the collection adds to its universality; these could be anyone's stories, told in any household, for any child who needs to believe, even briefly, that the world is gentle and full of light.