Personalised Bedtime Stories in Your Own Voice: How It Works
All the fairy tales on ReadMeToDream are free to read aloud yourself. Some nights, though, you can't be there at bedtime, or you'd like a recording your child can keep. That's why we also make personalised audiobooks narrated in your own voice.
How it works
- Tell us about your child. Enter their first name and age and choose a fairy tale, such as Cinderella or The Three Little Pigs.
- Read a short passage aloud. On the page you'll see a short bedtime passage to read into your phone or computer microphone. Reading for 30 to 60 seconds in a quiet room gives the best result, and you can listen back and re-record.
- Add your email. We create an audiobook of the fairy tale narrated in a voice modelled on yours, with your child's name in the story, and email it to you.
Tips for a good recording
- Choose a quiet room without echo, background music or television.
- Hold your phone or sit about an arm's length from your computer.
- Read slowly and warmly, the way you would at bedtime.
Your recording and your privacy
Your voice recording, email address and your child's first name are stored on our own server. We use them only to create your audiobook and never share or sell them. You can ask us to delete them at any time.
Prefer to read it yourself?
You can read every story in our free fairy tale library online, with no account. Our tips on how to read bedtime stories aloud might help too.