Truck Bedtime Stories for Kids

Your child would rather talk about diggers than bunnies, and the usual soft animal tales get waved away as babyish. Bedtime still needs to end with a sleeping kid, though, and you need something that actually slows them down.

Press play and the day winds down on a quiet construction site, a farm and a harbor at dusk. Max the digger and his friends, a sleepy dump truck, a tired old tractor and a fire engine rolling home, finish one last slow job, cool their engines and park side by side. These six sleep stories move at a rumbling, steady pace, and each one closes with every machine tucked in for the night, so there is nothing left to worry about or wait for.

By the time the stars come out over the yard, your child is usually breathing slow and heavy beside you. Start a story tonight and let the engines idle down together.