This Week · Imagination
For littler ones: What's the best thing you've ever imagined?
This week we're wondering about imagination — the places you go in your head when you lie still and start dreaming something up. It's a quiet, drift-off kind of week: three little poems, each one a child turning an ordinary bed into somewhere else entirely. So here's the question to turn over at bedtime: where do you go, when you go there? Everyone at your house will land somewhere different.
This week's stories
Classics
Robert Louis Stevenson's poem about a child home sick in bed, who turns the folds of his quilt into a whole country — hills and plains for his toy soldiers to march across, little ships sailing the sheets, cities planted all about, with himself the quiet giant looking out over it.
Classics
Another Stevenson poem, where a child climbs into bed and the bed becomes a little boat — pushing off into the dark, saying good night to the shore, sailing all night long until morning brings it safe back beside the pier.
Classics
Eugene Field's old lullaby, where three little sailors sail off in a wooden shoe to fish for stars in a sea of dew — until you find out the shoe is really a child's own bed, and the three sailors are two sleepy eyes and a nodding head.
Talk about it
Listen together in the app — short audio stories for kids 4–10, at bedtime, on the drive, in the drop-off line.
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