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When They Were Young: True Bedtime Stories About Famous People, for Kids

by DreamStories.com — Kids Bedtime Stories & Sleep Stories
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True bedtime stories for kids about the world's most remarkable people — when they were young. These are biographies, not fairy tales: real childhoods, gently told as five-minute sleep stories for children ages 2 to 8. Little Albert Einstein daydreams about riding a beam of light, Marie Curie notices rocks that glow in the dark, Rosa Parks finds her quiet courage, Mozart hears music in the rain. Every story is calm, true and short enough to end the day on. New bedtime stories about famous people from DreamStories.com — kids bedtime stories that read themselves aloud, with every story to read along at dreamstories.com/when-they-were-young.