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Penguin Sleep Tales

Ten Stories to Help You Relax at Night and Encourage Better Sleep

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Penguin Sleep Tales

By: Penguin
Narrated by: Sally Scott
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How often do you think about your bedtime routine?

Almost half of people in Britain say they're kept awake at night due to worry and stress - so making time to switch off in the hour before bed is more important than ever.

Penguin Sleep Tales are 10 specially designed descriptive audio tales to help you wind down and relax before you drift off.

Developed with The Sleep Council, each track will transport you to a different location, encouraging you to visualise calming settings and landscapes to ease away the day's anxiety or worry and get you in the right frame of mind for sleep.

Lie in a hammock on a tropical beach, relax by a campfire or shelter from a distant thunderstorm. These mindful tales are read slowly and soothingly, accompanied by relaxing sounds of nature.

One has been specially designed to appeal to those with auto sensory meridian response (ASMR), a physical reaction to sound which can be particularly relaxing.

Create a focused, peaceful environment so you can get a deep, natural night's sleep and wake up refreshed in the morning. The perfect de-stressor after a long day.

Penguin Sleep Tales are designed exclusively for audiobook apps. Clearly labelled for easy navigation, each track is 15 minutes long, so you can put your sleep timer on for any duration with no need to return to the screen. So dim the lights, and get ready for a good night's rest.

Includes 10 relaxing tales: 'Wakarango Mai', 'Hammock on a Distant Shore', 'The Purring Temple', 'Pegasus in the Night Sky', 'Dancing Flames', 'A Bothy in a Storm', 'The Warm Smell of Hay', 'Travel on the Overnight Train', 'The Magic Bookshop' (ASMR story) and 'Yara's Song' (inspired by the Brazilian folk tale 'The Story of Yara').

The Sleep Council offered information and advice around the development of this product. Search for 'Ladybird Sleepy Tales' and 'Puffin Sleepy Tales' to see our collections for children.

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Her voice is soothing, her pronunciation is excellent, the whole quality of her soft voice along with the sounds of enunciating each word puts me in a trance. The stories are real and modern, reflective and based on sensations and thoughts. The content makes me gently contemplative and helps me sleep.

Beautiful Voice

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I love this audiobook for when my anxiety affects my sleep. No matter how stressed out I am, I'm out within a chapter. Amazing, love it.

Insomnia Saver

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Perfect narration. So relaxing to listen to. Put me to sleep in no time.

Perfect narration

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The narrator's dull voice was excellent to put me to sleep. The topic was also perfect to put me to sleep.

narrator's dull voice

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Apparently I've listened to the whole thing 10 times, but I don't know what the story is as I'm fast asleep in minutes.

Actually works.

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Nice boring stories. Fell asleep quickly. Would like another audio book of short bedtime stories with same narrator please.

Dulcet tones of narrator

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I loved all the stories, though I have my favourites. I'm a 72yo active woman, a chronic insomniac resistive to medication, I set the listening timer to 45mins and drift off to sleep, with desired efficacy I sleep peacefully

Penguin Sleep Tales, excellent to promote Sleep, calm and reassuring narrator

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My only complaint is that I want more!
They're so relaxing and calming. The narrator's voice and additional sound effects adds to the atmosphere. I love listening to these and imagining along with the story. Always puts me right to sleep.

I want more of these stories

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really loves these sleep stories. they make me feel so cozy and I always drift off immediately.

so relaxing

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Not for me unfortunately, although the stories are nicely-read the background noises in some of them are distracting and too loud, I kept wondering what was going on.. Also there isn’t a huge amount of preparation getting you settled for sleep, or cuing you up for sleep, they’re just reading a story. Overall not a win for me.

Kept me awake

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