Tilibou: Bedtime Stories for Kids · Calm Sleep Stories for Toddlers

A small, sad, grey map arrives on the Royal Sardine. That is unusual, because Tom's maps normally spill over with colour. This one comes from Tickle Island, the funniest place in the whole archipelago, where the sand goes heehee under your feet and sets off fits of giggles. Except that the island has lost its laugh. Off to the island where the sand laughed out loud, the laughter has run away, go and bring it home. When Tom and Moustache land, the sand is grey, dull and silent. The island explains that once the boats stopped calling in, it was left on its own for days and then weeks, and after being alone that long, it forgot how to laugh. A laugh needs somebody to laugh with. Moustache, by now a proper little pirate after a whole season at sea, tries to get the island going with funny faces, jokes and a handstand on two arms. Nothing works. You cannot force anyone to laugh, and the harder he tries, the less it happens. What the island needs is not jokes, it is company, and plenty of it. So Tom goes off to fetch people. The pelican, a loyal friend since the very first episode, calls the invitation out from high in the sky, and the whole archipelago comes running, right down to a shy little crab whom Moustache reassures like a big brother. When all those happy feet go racing across the sand, the laughter comes back bit by bit, in one great contagious cascade, and the sand turns golden again. The island offers a laughing grain of sand for the chest: the thirteenth keepsake. A bright bedtime story about friendship. Nobody ever really laughs on their own. When someone is a bit sad or a bit lonely, going to play with them is sometimes all it takes to bring the laughter back: a lovely lesson in kindness to end the day with a light heart. A screen-free adventure and bedtime story for children aged 3 to 5, good to share at bedtime, in the car, or before a nap. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, with no music, and it leaves your child wanting to go and see the people they love tomorrow. 🌙 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

A bedtime story for children. Tomorrow is the village festival in Bellhill, and the fire station is going to parade with Big Red, lights flashing and siren blaring. Everyone is thrilled, except one: Pompon, the station's dog, who slips all the way to the bottom of his boot the moment he hears the word siren. His ears flatten, his nose trembles, and he refuses to come out. Because Big Red's real siren, the one that wails, hurts his ears. A dog hears much farther and much louder than we do: what sounds just a little loud to us becomes, for him, a wall of noise. And tomorrow, that wall is going to sweep through the whole village for a whole hour. They try petting him and giving him treats: Pompon takes the treat, and goes straight back into his boot. They try ear protectors: he shakes his head until they fall off, and hides even further away. So everyone falls quiet, and Nino asks the question no one had thought to ask. What if it wasn't up to Pompon to get used to the noise, but up to the noise to adapt to Pompon? With Marco, he turns the volume down, rounds off the sound, slows the rhythm, until they get a soft little nee-naw, closer to a lullaby than an alarm. As the story unfolds, your child understands that you never force a frightened heart, and that you can change the world around someone instead of asking them to be braver. This is also the episode that tells the story of the birth of Bellhill's famous soft nee-naw, the very one you hear in every other story in the collection. The next day, Pompon marches at the front, ears held high, proud as can be, to the sound of the very nee-naw he himself inspired. And that evening, back at the fire station, the boots line up from the biggest to the smallest, while Pompon curls up at the bottom of his, this time without trembling. No one tells Pompon he's overreacting, and no one asks him to be a big brave dog. They listen to him, they search, they try something else: this way of taking a fear seriously instead of playing it down is the whole spirit of Tilibou bedtime stories. And all the while, outside, the new soft nee-naw crosses the whole village without waking a single baby. A screen-free firefighter story for children from age 3, perfect to enjoy warm and cozy at bedtime, in the car, or before a nap. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, without music, so your child can drift off to sleep without waking anyone up. 🚒 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, Nino the Little Firefighter, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

That evening, in Pumpkin Hollow, the fog was very soft and the air smelled of cold, the kind of cold that nips the tip of your nose and announces that winter is arriving on tiptoe. And in the Hollow, when the cold arrives, there is only one thing to do: the famous Night-Warming Soup, the one that warms you right down to your toes, even the toes at the very back. Zélie and Réglisse are already delighted… but Granny Brindille, the old witch, is pacing about, quite distraught. «I've lost my recipe!» The recipe for the Night-Warming Soup, learned from her own granny, who had it from HER granny. Granny Brindille has known it by heart for a hundred years, but tonight, poof, the magic words have flown away. She remembers the cauldron, she remembers the fire… but the recipe itself has vanished from her head, and the panic is beginning to rise. Rather than searching harder and harder, which muddles everything up, Zélie invites Granny Brindille to sit down, to breathe, to remember gently the gestures, the smells, the memories of all those evening soups. And there, once calm has returned, the recipe surfaces all on its own, like a little fish rising quietly back up to the top. This story shows your child something very useful: when you search too hard and panic, you find nothing, but when you calm down and breathe, your memory and good ideas come back all by themselves. A lovely message about calm, self-confidence and patience, slipped into the warmth of an evening soup. And when the great Night-Warming Soup finally simmers in the cauldron, a good smell fills the whole house, and everyone is warm right down to their toes. The story ends gently, by the fireside, a spoonful of warmth in your tummy, right in time to close your eyes. Zélie doesn't scold Granny Brindille for forgetting, and she doesn't make fun of her muddle. She reassures her, she helps her find her calm again, and she reminds her that the recipe is still there, deep inside: helping someone regain their confidence rather than rushing them is the whole spirit of Tilibou bedtime stories. And in the hearth, the fire crackles softly while the cauldron begins to sing. A gentle, screen-free Halloween story for toddlers from age 3, lovely at bedtime, at nap time, or on the road. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, without music, so your little one can settle down calmly. 🎃 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The map that arrives this evening smells of warm cake, and its letters wobble a little. It comes from Granny Coquille, the oldest and wisest turtle in the sea, whose shell carries a seashell for each thing she has learned. She has forgotten something important: a treasure hidden not at the bottom of the sea, but somewhere inside her own head. Tomorrow is the smallest baby turtle's very first birthday, and for a hundred years it has been Granny who bakes the big cake everybody looks forward to. Except the recipe has flown out of her memory like a flock of little birds. Moustache wants to go fast and mixes everything any old way: flour, salt, pepper, jam. The result is grey, sticky, and tastes of wet sock. Nothing is urgent, nothing is ever urgent, smiles Granny: a good cake will not be hurried, and you do not find a treasure by running. Then Tom has an idea. The recipe is not lost at all, it is scattered through the memories of everyone who has tasted that cake over a hundred years. So they set off to visit their friends. Marée the mermaid remembers the golden honey. The Keeper of Lost Socks, who counts everything, is certain about the three eggs and the pinch of salt. Boum-Boum recalls that the cake was as fluffy as a cloud, because it was beaten for a long time and very gently. Back at Granny's, the recipe lights up again piece by piece, and she offers a little seashell for the chest: the twelfth keepsake. A loving bedtime story about the grandparents we adore, who sometimes mislay the small things. Your child understands that they can help with remembering too, and that what we believe is lost is never really gone, so long as it lives in the memory of the people who love us. A screen-free adventure and bedtime story for children aged 3 to 5, good to share at bedtime, in the car, or before a nap. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, with no music. The loveliest memories are the ones we keep together. 🌙 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

A bedtime story for children. In Bellhill, in the evening, once class is over, a small group of children always stays behind at after-school care, waiting to be picked up. That evening, right at the top of the school's pointy roof, something round, striped red and yellow, glints in the last light: the class's big ball has flown off all by itself, carried away by a mischievous gust of wind, and tomorrow is the big game. At the fire station, Nino and Marco are polishing Big Red when the phone's little bell rings. Bruno the mayor is already there, his sash trailing on the ground as always, convinced it's about to rain that very night and that every fire station in the country must be called. Captain Marta asks him to breathe for a moment: first, they'll take a calm look. The big ladder reaches the edge of the roof, but the ball is farther off, on the steep slope where the tiles turn fragile. Marco tries the pole and the net, takes aim three times, and only sends the ball rolling further away. So Nino looks at the school differently: not the roof, but the back wall, and its tiny round skylight hidden behind a branch of ivy. Too small for a grown-up. Not for him. And up there, right beside the ball, he discovers something else: a nest, with three sleeping baby swallows. As the story unfolds, your child learns that helping isn't only about getting back what was lost, it's also about protecting whoever is smaller than you. Nino doesn't rush for the ball: he rolls it inch by inch so as not to shake the nest, and then Bruno ties a piece of his sash around the skylight, so everyone knows to pass gently through here this season. Back at the fire station, Marco takes out his cloth to polish Big Red, and Nino comes to help with a little cloth of his own. They rub away in silence, each on their own side, until the truck shines like a mirror. Then the boots line up, from the biggest to the smallest, and Nino takes his time setting his own down neatly with his fingertips, thinking one last time of the three little birds. No one in this story gets scolded for failing. Not Marco, not Bruno, not the child who kicked the ball too hard. You try, it doesn't work, you breathe, and you look elsewhere: this way of treating failure as a step forward rather than a fault is the whole spirit of Tilibou bedtime stories. And all the while, in the garage, Big Red blinks his headlights softly, pleased with his evening. A screen-free firefighter story for children from age 3, perfect to enjoy warm and cozy at bedtime, in the car, or before a nap. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, without music, so your child can drift off to sleep without waking anyone up. 🚒 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, Nino the Little Firefighter, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

There is a little village you won't find on any map: Pumpkin Hollow. And tonight is a very special night, the funniest night of the year, Halloween night. On Lantern Square, all the pumpkins are grinning their big gap-toothed grins, the fog is as soft as candyfloss, and the dead leaves, when you step on them, giggle! High up in the biggest pumpkin lives Zélie, the kindest little apprentice witch in the world, with her far-too-big hat, and Réglisse, her round black cat, the most easily scared in all of Pumpkin Hollow. But tonight, in the bedroom, a funny little tremble rises from under the bed. Réglisse is sure it's a horrible monster. And it is one, a real one… except that this monster, Boubou, doesn't want to frighten anyone. All he'd like, deep in his big furry heart, is a friend, so he doesn't have to stay all alone in the dark, under the bed. So, instead of screaming or running away, Zélie does something very simple: she holds out her hand, she says hello, and she listens. And little by little, the fear melts on both sides, because poor Boubou was just as afraid of children as the children were of him. Out of this big, gentle misunderstanding grows the loveliest of friendships. This story helps your child understand that what frightens us often hides something kind, and that a monster under the bed is sometimes just someone who feels lonely. A lovely way to tame the fear of the dark and of imaginary monsters, by turning the worrying unknown into a reassuring friend. And when Boubou and Réglisse finally become friends, the bedroom turns soft and reassuring again. The dark holds nothing frightening anymore, it is even rather cosy, and the story settles gently down, right in time to slip under the covers and close your eyes. Zélie never makes fun of Réglisse, who is afraid of everything, and she forces no one. She takes the time to listen both to the scaredy little cat and to the shy big monster, and she shows that a friend is often found where you least expected: welcoming what frightens us with curiosity rather than with screams is the whole spirit of Tilibou bedtime stories. And on Lantern Square, the pumpkins keep watch, smiling in the soft fog. A gentle, screen-free Halloween story for toddlers from age 3, lovely to share at bedtime, in the car, or at nap time. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, without music, so your child can drift toward sleep without anyone being startled awake. 🎃 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

A bedtime story for children. In Bellhill, a small round town tucked between the market square and the fields, stands an old red fire station with a pointy roof and a big bell right at the top. Tonight, the whole station is having dinner around the big table, and at the end of the bench, so small in his big uniform, sits Nino. In one corner, curled up at the bottom of a boot far too big for him, Pompon, the station's dog, snores softly, dreaming of a great big bone. Then the phone rings, light as a little bell. On the village square, Praline, Rosa the baker's little cat, has climbed all the way to the top of the big oak tree, frightened by a test firecracker for the festival. She has gone so high she no longer dares move, clinging to the very last branch, tiny in the night. Bruno the mayor wants to call every fire station in the country. Captain Marta, though, never runs: she asks him to breathe first, and to take a good look. The big ladder rises, and rises, and stops: three branches too short. Marco grabs the megaphone and calls out loudly, and Praline climbs even higher, terrified. So everyone falls silent. And in that silence, Nino looks at the tree differently: not its height, its branches. The thinnest ones cannot hold the ladder or a grown-up, but they can hold a small boy. He climbs without a sound, sits just below the cat, asks nothing of her, and talks to her softly for a long while, until she comes down on her own, branch after branch. As the story unfolds, your child discovers that being small is not a problem to solve, but sometimes exactly what is needed. They also learn that you don't help someone who is scared by shouting louder, but by sitting down beside them and waiting. This is the founding episode of the collection: the fire station, the characters and the little rituals that return in every story are all gently introduced here. At the end, everyone heads back to the fire station. Lena, the village nurse, puts a little star-covered bandage on Nino's scraped elbow and adds a kiss right beside it, because the two always work better together. Marco polishes Big Red while telling him all about the mission. Then the boots line up, from the biggest to the smallest, and the smallest of them all finally finds its place. Captain Marta never scolds Marco for shouting too loud, and never laughs at Bruno's panic. She has everyone breathe, together, the way you blow out a birthday candle, then she listens to the small idea of the smallest one among them: this way of taking an emotion seriously instead of brushing it aside is the whole spirit of Tilibou bedtime stories. And all the while, outside, Bellhill's nee-naw doesn't wail, it whispers, like a lullaby drifting down the street. A screen-free firefighter story for children from age 3, perfect to enjoy warm and cozy at bedtime, in the car, or before a nap. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, without music, so your child can drift off to sleep without waking anyone up. 🚒 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, Nino the Little Firefighter, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This morning, on the bluest sea in the world, a fog has settled so thick that Moustache cannot even see his own arms. Tom holds out a hand and they hold on tight, so as not to lose one another. Then a map arrives, damp with mist and almost impossible to read. Where the fog hides the sea and the sky, close your eyes, listen, and you will find what counts. A family of seals has got lost in the fog of the Lost Cove, and little Pilou has been separated from his dad. With their eyes no use to them, Tom and Moustache edge forward by ear, and eventually catch Pilou's small voice, calling out as he goes round in circles. The first idea is to shout the father's name as loudly as possible. But in fog, sound bounces off everything and you can no longer tell where anything is coming from. The more everyone shouts, the more lost the father seal becomes. They need something else: a sound that Pilou and his dad would know among a thousand others. So Tom asks Pilou to sing, not his father's name, but the low little song that belongs to just the two of them, the one a dad picks out from every other sound in the world. And the old lighthouse, who is never asked for anything, is delighted to be useful: his light cannot cut through the fog, but his foghorn sends out a long, low, steady note, always from the same spot, like a heart beating in all that white. Guided by his child's song and by the horn that never moves, the father seal swims closer and closer, until they are together again. Pilou leaves a fine baby seal whisker for the chest: the eleventh keepsake. A reassuring story for children who are a little afraid of the dark. Even when you cannot see a thing, you are never truly on your own. You only have to listen: the sea, the wind, the breathing of the people you love, right there beside you. The whole adventure is solved by listening, without seeing a thing. A screen-free bedtime story for children aged 3 to 5, good to share at bedtime, in the car, or before a nap. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, with no music, so your child feels safe before falling asleep. 🌙 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This morning Moustache has a genuine crisis on his hands. With eight feet he needs sixteen socks, and he can only find three, none of them matching. Where do lost socks actually go? That, they say, is the greatest mystery in the whole sea. And just then, a map starts to shiver at the tip of the sail. Sail to the cove where everything that gets lost comes back. So there really is, at the far end of the archipelago, an astonishing beach made not of sand but of socks: whole mountains of them, dunes with spots, with stripes, with stars. Every sock in the world that ever went missing washes up there. Little Léa has lost the red and white striped sock belonging to her teddy Nounours, who now has one cold foot. But an old crab watches over all of it: the Keeper of Lost Socks, who has been sorting and filing for a hundred years. Moustache plunges his eight arms into a dune at random, sends socks flying everywhere and ends up squirting ink across the Keeper's whole filing system. Among forty-two thousand red and white striped socks, rummaging like that finds you nothing at all. So Tom changes tack. He asks for help from the expert, the one who knows every single sock by heart. In a few seconds the Keeper lifts a dune and produces Nounours' very small sock, with its tiny bow on the side. His careful sorting was never there to annoy anyone, it was there so that lost things could be found and given back. Léa puts the sock back on her teddy, and the Keeper slips the smallest sock in the world into the chest: the tenth keepsake. The lightest and funniest episode of the season, and a comforting bedtime story too. When you lose something you loved, you are allowed to be sad about it. But nothing is ever truly lost: it is simply tidied away somewhere else, safe and warm, waiting for someone to come and fetch it. A screen-free bedtime story for children aged 3 to 5, good to share at bedtime, in the car, or before a nap. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, with no music, to soothe the small sorrows of the day before the night. 🌙 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

That evening, the sky was turning all orange, like a mandarin: it was the end of the day. And in front of the school's big blue gate, someone was waiting, right on time, as always, as promised. Do you know who? Mum. When the little bell rang and the gate opened ever so gently, a tiny little girl with a slightly-too-big backpack ran across the yard: Lila, throwing herself into her arms. Mum hugs her tight, tight, and breathes in her hair, which smells of school: pencil, paint, and a little bit of snack. «I missed you, you. Come on, let's go home, I'll hold your hand. And tell me, as we walk… was school good today?» So, one by one, Lila takes out of her pocket all the little treasures of her day. There's the slide and taking turns, the paint that stains, the tiny crumb tasted on the tip of the spoon, the shy friend who became a real one, the zip finally done up on her own. Telling her day, putting it into words in Mum's hand, is like living it a second time, more softly, and tucking each little feeling into its place before night. This story, the last of the school season, helps your child build the bridge between school and home, by putting their day into words. It shows how good it feels to tell what you've lived, the big joys as well as the little worries, and how that reassures and soothes before evening. A lovely message about sharing and connection. And when Lila has told everything, the whole day tucked warmly into her pocket and into her heart, all that's left is the softness of the evening and Mum's hand. The story then settles gently down, like a lovely day coming to a good close, right in time to close your eyes. Mum doesn't just ask «was it okay?»: she truly listens, she lets Lila tell it at her own pace, the lovely moments as well as the little sorrows. Taking the time to listen to a child's day, without judging it, is the whole spirit of Tilibou bedtime stories. And in the mandarin sky, the very first stars light up softly above the big blue gate. A gentle, screen-free school story for toddlers from age 2, lovely at bedtime, at nap time, or on the road. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, without music, so your little one can settle down calmly. 🎒 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The sky turns black above the archipelago, and it starts to grumble. Boom. Then boom-boom. Every night the same storm comes back and frightens everybody. But Granny Coquille, the oldest and wisest turtle in the sea, sends Tom the Pirate a reassuring map: go up and take a look, this is no nasty storm. When the sky goes boom and the sea takes fright, climb up to the giant: he wants to play, not to steal. The Royal Sardine cannot sink, so the crossing turns into a fairground ride: up she goes on the wave, whee, and down the other side, whee. And between claps of thunder, you can even hear somebody laughing up there, inside the big black cloud. It is Boum-Boum, an enormous giant made of clouds who claps his hands to make the thunder and blows to make the wind, purely for the fun of it. When Tom asks him to stop, everything gets worse: a sad cloud giant cries, and that makes an even bigger storm. You cannot simply order someone to stop playing. Granny Coquille arrives at her own unhurried pace and whispers the secret: a little one making too much noise usually just wants to be noticed and played with. So Tom invents the cloud game. Instead of clapping, Boum-Boum blows very softly and draws a fish, then an octopus with eight arms. The rain stops, the wind dies down, and the storm becomes a parade of gentle clouds. Boum-Boum offers a small cloud that never melts: the ninth keepsake. The story to reach for on stormy evenings. Thunder makes a great deal of noise, but it means no harm at all, and that alone can turn a big fright into a cuddle. Your child also picks up something useful for the playground: someone who is very loud is often just asking for company. A screen-free adventure and bedtime story for children aged 3 to 5, good to share at bedtime, in the car, or before a nap. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, with no music, so the day can close on a reassured note even when it rumbles outside. 🌙 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

That morning, at Lila's school, the sun comes softly through the window. Lila hangs her coat under her own little-sun label and sings a bit of the morning song. But this morning, there's something different: near the big blue gate, there's a child Lila has never seen before. A little boy, a brand-new jumper, a backpack clutched tight against him. He doesn't run, he doesn't play, he just stands there, right at the edge, against the wall. «Here's a new friend,» says Miss Lou. «His name is Sacha, and it's his very first day.» But Sacha says nothing, he looks at his shoes and holds his backpack a little tighter still. All morning, he stays in his corner: he doesn't go to the blocks, nor the cars, nor toward anyone. He's far too shy, and his little heart is surely beating very fast. Lila remembers her own first day very well, and the big lump she had in her tummy. So, without rushing Sacha, she comes over ever so gently, she sits down beside him without asking anything, she holds out a block, then a smile. Little by little, without being pushed, Sacha dares to look up, then to reach out, and a first little laugh finally comes. This story teaches your child to reach out to others gently, and to welcome the one who is shy or new without forcing them. It shows that a smile, a toy held out, a place beside you are often enough to melt shyness, and that everyone has their own pace to dare. A lovely message about friendship and kindness. And when Sacha, at last, laughs and plays with Lila and the friends, you'd never guess he was the little boy stuck to the wall that morning. The day ends with one more friend, and the story settles gently down, heart all warm, right in time to close your eyes. Lila doesn't force Sacha to play and doesn't make fun of his shyness: she gives him time, she comes beside him without demanding anything. Respecting a shy child's pace and reaching out gently is the whole spirit of Tilibou bedtime stories. And in the reading corner, Doudou-Hibou watches this new friendship with a fond eye. A gentle, screen-free school story for toddlers from age 2, perfect for talking about friendship and shyness, lovely to share at bedtime, in the car, or at nap time. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, without music, so your child can drift toward sleep without anyone being startled awake. 🎒 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Since the middle of the night, a deep rumble has been shaking the whole archipelago of the Thousand Coves, and nobody is sleeping. Moustache recognises the sound straight away: it is the Kraken, the largest creature in the sea, so huge that all anyone ever sees of him is his arms, and every sailor is frightened of him. The map that arrives is soaked through, as though it had been crying. Head for the big one who scares you in the dark, it says, because the biggest of giants is carrying a great sorrow tonight. On the Royal Sardine, Tom works it out quickly: the Kraken is shouting go away, and weeping at the same time. Someone who is crying is not someone who wants to hurt you, they are someone who is hurting. The giant has lost Étoilette, a tiny pink starfish who sings him a lullaby every evening and without whom he cannot fall asleep. And the more he churns up the sea searching for her, the further out he risks pushing her. Tom's first idea is to look by lantern light. But at night the sea glitters everywhere, and there are far too many little lights to pick out a single star. So Tom puts out the lantern and suggests searching with their ears instead. In the great dark silence, they can hear Étoilette's tiny lullaby, all alone at the far end of the bay. Following that small song, they find her and set her down on the Kraken's nose. He closes his enormous eyes at last, and smiles. Étoilette leaves one of her little points for the chest: the eighth keepsake. A very tender adventure, made for the bedtime routine. Your child discovers that a cuddly toy comforts and reassures even the biggest, most impressive giant of them all. And that whatever rumbles loudest is often hiding a big sadness, better listened to than run away from. A screen-free bedtime story for children aged 3 to 5, good to share at bedtime, in the car, or before a nap. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, with no music, and the episode closes on someone falling asleep: just the moment to hold a cuddly toy very tight and close your eyes. 🌙 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

That morning, at Lila's school, the sky was all grey with a little chilly wind: proper coat weather. And Miss Lou has just clapped her hands: they're going out to play in the yard! Everyone runs to fetch their coat from their hook. Lila puts on her lovely yellow coat, one sleeve, then the other. Just one thing left to do: close the zip. «And that, I can do all by myself, like a big girl.» Except the zip does not agree. It jams, it catches, it refuses to go up. Lila pulls, pulls again, gets a little cross… but nothing works. And up comes the big lump in her throat, that urge to cry when you can't do it and you'd so said you were a big girl. Asking for help, that's almost harder than the zip itself. So, ever so gently, Lila learns something very important: asking for help isn't being a baby, it's even very clever. She goes to Miss Lou, who doesn't do the zip for her, but SHOWS her: you hold the bottom firmly, you line it up, you pull straight. And the next time, Lila almost manages all on her own. Then she even helps Noé, in turn. This story helps your child understand that it's fine not to get it right the first time, and that asking for help is a strength, not a weakness. It also shows the lovely chain of helping hands: you get a bit of help, then you give some in turn. A precious message about perseverance and solidarity. And when the yellow coat is finally done up right to the chin, all cosy, Lila dashes off to play in the yard, proud of herself and proud to have helped Noé. The day ends in good cheer, and the story settles gently down, right in time to close your eyes. Miss Lou doesn't scold Lila and doesn't close the zip for her: she shows her how, so she'll manage on her own next time. Helping a little one learn rather than doing it for them is the whole spirit of Tilibou bedtime stories. And on the coat rack, the little-sun labels wait patiently for the return from the yard. A gentle, screen-free school story for toddlers from age 2, lovely at bedtime, at nap time, or on the road. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, without music, so your little one can settle down calmly. 🎒 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

That morning, at Lila's school, the sun comes softly through the window. Lila has hung her coat under her own label with the little sun, she's sung the morning song, and she knows now that Mum always comes back. But there's a tiny something in her tummy this morning that she's pretending not to hear: a need to wee, very small at first, like a polite little «knock-knock». «Not just yet. Later,» Lila tells herself. Because to wee at school, you have to go to THE school toilets, and that's not like home. Over there, everything is new, and there's above all… the flush, with its big noise that makes you jump. So Lila squeezes her knees a little and waits, while the little «knock-knock» grows stronger and stronger. Luckily, Doudou-Hibou is watching, and shares a very simple trick: when the little «knock-knock» in your tummy comes, you tell someone straight away, you go without waiting, and for the scary flush, you can cover your ears and blow out a big breath. Reassured, Lila finally dares to go, all by herself, like a big girl. This story accompanies your child toward independence, gently taking the fear out of the school toilets and the noise of the flush. It teaches them to listen to the little signals of their body and not to wait: a reassuring and very useful message for little ones learning to do things «like the big kids». And when Lila comes back out of the toilets, so proud to have managed all by herself, she feels bigger than ever. The day carries on, light and joyful, and the story settles gently down, right in time to close your eyes, proud to have been so brave. No one makes fun of Lila's fear, and no one scolds her: Doudou-Hibou just gives her a little trick to manage on her own. Giving a child a tip to tame an everyday fear, rather than making light of it, is the whole spirit of Tilibou bedtime stories. And in the reading corner, the little owl nods his head, so proud of his Lila. A gentle, screen-free school story for toddlers from age 2, lovely at bedtime, at nap time, or on the road. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, without music, so your little one can settle down calmly. 🎒 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Another sung map for Tom the Pirate and his friend Moustache, aboard the Royal Sardine. This one is crumpled all over and, oddly enough, it smells of pepper. Course set for the island that goes atchoo all day long: find whatever is tickling it, and you will be back by night. An island that sneezes, atchoo after atchoo, from morning until evening? Moustache does not believe a word of it. And yet, somewhere in the Thousand Coves, a perfectly round island with a hill shaped like a nose really does have an itchy nose, and nobody for miles around is getting any sleep. It was an exhausted little seagull who sent out the call. Something is tickling the island right at the top, in the one place it cannot reach. Tom and Moustache try to climb up, but with every atchoo the ground heaves, the sneeze flings them into the sky and drops them back in the water. There is simply no climbing an island while it sneezes. In the end it is the little seagull who owns up, rather embarrassed: while building her nest up there, she lost one big feather, and that feather is what has been tickling it. What matters is not never making a mistake, it is owning up, so that things can be put right together. Then Tom has an idea. Instead of fighting the sneezes, you let them carry you. Moustache, who is terrified of flying, glides ever so gently this time and picks up the feather with the tip of his longest arm. The island lets out an enormous sigh of relief, and the seagull offers a small feather for the chest: the seventh keepsake. A funny, soothing bedtime story with one plain lesson for your child. Little worries, and the ticklish thoughts that stop you falling asleep, are chased away far faster when there are two of you. Often, telling someone you love about it, very quietly, is enough to make things feel better. A screen-free adventure and bedtime story for children aged 3 to 5, good to share at bedtime, in the car, or before a nap. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, with no music, so your child can settle down calmly. 🌙 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

That morning, at Lila's school, a warm, green smell is drifting down the corridor: it comes from the canteen. Lila lifts her little nose, she sniffs once, twice, and before she even knows what it is, she blurts out a big «yuck!». Her too-big backpack clutched to her, with her cuddly's ear poking out, Lila has already decided she won't like it. In the reading corner, before the canteen, someone is listening: Doudou-Hibou, the cuddly who never moves in front of grown-ups. And when the teacher steps away toward the window, the little owl opens one eye and asks, ever so gently: what if, before saying «yuck», we tasted just one tiny crumb, no bigger than nothing, on the tip of the spoon? So, ever so brave, Lila dips the little green spoon into the mysterious dish and tastes just a tiny bit. And there, surprise! It's not so terrible after all. It might even be rather good. And if she doesn't like it, that's perfectly fine: you have every right not to like something, as long as you've tasted it first. This story helps your child dare to taste, to get past the automatic «yuck» we say before even trying. It carries a lovely, nuanced message: you can taste one tiny mouthful to find out, and you have the right not to like it, without it being a drama. Perfect for mealtimes and fussy little eaters. And when Lila puts down the little green spoon, proud to have tasted like a big girl, she's smiling, whether she liked it or not. The meal ends in good cheer, and the story settles gently down, right in time to close your eyes, tummy content. No one forces Lila to finish her plate, and Doudou-Hibou doesn't tell her «it's delicious»: he only invites her to find out for herself, one crumb at a time. Inviting a child to taste the world at their own pace, without forcing them, is the whole spirit of Tilibou bedtime stories. And in the reading corner, the little owl closes his eye again, so pleased with his little trick. A gentle, screen-free school story for toddlers from age 2, lovely at bedtime, at nap time, or on the road. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, without music, so your little one can settle down calmly. 🎒 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Tom the Pirate is like no other pirate. Aboard his tiny Royal Sardine, he is not after gold: he looks for lost treasures so he can hand them back to whoever is missing them. This morning a soaking wet map floats up from the bottom of the sea, drawn in fish scales, its letters blowing little bubbles as they go. The sail shivers, and the map sings its song: dive straight down where the sea turns blue, listen to the silence, and you will find something better. It comes from Marée, a mermaid who has lost her voice just before the great Concert of the Waves, the evening when the dolphins, the whales and the baby fish all wait for her to sing the highest, loveliest note in the world. Tom and Moustache go down to where everything turns blue and calm. They head first to the crab pharmacist, who mixes a potion with a pinch of sea pepper. Bad idea: Marée sneezes so hard that every jar in the shop goes flying. You cannot bottle a voice, sighs the crab. So Tom listens to the map properly. If Marée's voice is not lost but simply worn out from singing too long in the cold, then what she needs is gentleness, not effort. Moustache's eight arms bring a warm herbal tea, wrap her in a scarf of seaweed and give her a little massage, and the whole ocean goes quiet to let her rest. In that great hush, a small humming comes back. At the Concert of the Waves, Marée finds her finest note again and gives Tom a fish scale that goes ting like a tiny bell: the sixth keepsake. A tender underwater adventure that reassures small children about something they meet every winter. When you have a cold or you are very tired, you do not force your voice: you rest, you stay warm, and it all comes back after a good night's sleep. And it is Moustache who says so out loud, because he knows better than anyone that his own voice always comes back if he gives it time. A screen-free adventure and bedtime story for children aged 3 to 5, good to share at bedtime, in the car, or before a nap. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, with no music, so the little aches and sniffles of the evening lose their sting and sleep can come. 🌙 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

That day, at Lila's school, the morning has been busy: painting, blocks, the name song, snack. And now the classroom light is all soft, Miss Lou has half-closed the curtains: it's quiet time, nap time. Everyone goes to their little bed with their cuddly… all the children rest, all of them, except one: Lila, eyes wide open, heart beating a little fast. «I don't sleep at school,» whispers Lila. «I only sleep at home, in my bed, with Mum not far away. Here, I can't.» Closing your eyes far from home is all new, and it's a little bit scary. Luckily, in the quiet of the nap room, a friend is watching close by: Doudou-Hibou, the cuddly from the reading corner, who gently opens one eye. Very softly, Doudou-Hibou tells Lila a lovely secret: resting is not the same as sleeping. You don't have to sleep; you can just close your eyes, listen to your breathing, and put your hand on your heart, where the little cuddle-button keeps Mum's love close by. Little by little, Lila's body relaxes. This story helps your child approach naps and rest gently, especially when closing their eyes far from home feels hard. It takes away all the pressure of «having to sleep», by showing that resting quietly is already doing yourself a lot of good. A precious, soothing message about calm and letting go. And as Lila breathes ever so softly, hand on her heart, her eyelids grow heavy all on their own, without her even noticing. The nap room is calm and warm, and the story settles gently down too, like an invitation to rest, right in time to close your eyes. Miss Lou doesn't force Lila to sleep and doesn't tell her «it's nothing»: she welcomes her worry, and Doudou-Hibou gives her a little trick to reassure herself all on her own. Giving a little one a tool to tame their fear, rather than an order, is the whole spirit of Tilibou bedtime stories. And in the dimmed light, the little owl keeps watch, like a soft nightlight. A gentle, screen-free school story for toddlers from age 2, perfect for naptime or bedtime, lovely to share in the car or at quiet time. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and quiet, without music, so your little one can settle down calmly. 🎒 👉 All the Tilibou bedtime stories at tilibou.com 💡 Tip: to listen to one world back-to-back, choose its season (Noisette, Léo, Cassie, Marin, Tom the Pirate, or the Christmas, Halloween and School seasons). ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. It helps other families find our bedtime stories. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Gently preparing for the arrival of a little brother or sister. That evening, in the Great Cozy Forest, inside the big hollow oak, Mommy Bear places Noisette's paw on her round tummy and shares a secret: a baby is growing in there, all warm. A little brother. In Noisette's heart, first comes a big joyful « oh »… then a small cold shadow: what if he takes all the room? The whole house, all the love? That worry, so tender and so real, is one many children feel before a new baby arrives. Here it is never mocked: it is welcomed, named, and soothed. With Mommy, and then the old Stag of the firefly clearing, Noisette discovers a very simple image: when you light a new firefly next to Lulu, the first one shines no less brightly. There is just more light in the house. Love doesn't split in two, it multiplies. Then comes the waiting, the seasons going by, the tiny slippers tucked in a corner, and at last the night when Pinpin arrives, so small, his paw wrapped around Noisette's finger. The cold shadow has melted like snow in spring, and Noisette has become a big sister: the finest job in the whole forest. A perfect episode to prepare an older child for a new baby, put words to sibling jealousy, and reassure with tenderness. The gentle ending invites your child to do Noisette's magic breathing before closing their eyes. A screen-free story for toddlers from age 2, to enjoy at bedtime, in the car or at nap time. As always with Tilibou, the ending stays soft and calm, with no music. 🌙 👉 tilibou.com 💡 Perfect before a new baby arrives: listen together, more than once. ✉️ Contact: contact@tilibou.fr ⭐ Enjoying Tilibou? Leave 5 stars and a review in your podcast app. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.