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DREAMLAND ADVENTURES 5-Minute Bedtime Stories - for Older Children Ages 8-12: Tales of Courage, Magic & the Long Way Home Book Two: Twelve Dramatic Fa
Paperback
Series: Dreamland Adventures
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 17 2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Your child has outgrown simple bedtime stories. They want dragons with real fire, heroes who might actually fail, and endings that cost something. This book was written for them.
Dreamland Adventures Book Two is a collection of twelve original fairy tales for children aged 8-12 - stories with genuine stakes, moral complexity, and the kind of dramatic tension that keeps older kids listening long after the lights go down. Every story is expertly crafted to bring children to a place of peace before sleep.
Brave stories. Peaceful endings.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Part One: Kingdoms and Curses - A girl who trades her voice to save her village and discovers a different kind of language. A prince locked in a tower for 43 days - not by a dragon, but by his own refusal to say two words. A weaver's daughter who outwits the Goblin King with nothing but cleverness and a spool of impossible thread. A lighthouse keeper's son, alone in a storm, keeping a light burning for strangers he will never meet.
Part Two: Wilderness and Wild Magic - A mapmaker whose imaginary maps turn out to be real places she somehow drew into existence. A girl who walks into a dangerous forest to ask the wolf directly what everyone else has only feared. A boy who can steal time from the sea and learns the hard way that power without judgment is the most dangerous thing of all. A Storm Girl who learns to read her own weather instead of fighting it.
Part Three: The Long Way Home - A clockmaker's daughter who stops every clock in the workshop after her father dies, and the one unstoppable clock that teaches her to let time run forward. A thirteen-year-old carrying his whole family alone until the moon comes to listen. A merchant who needed fifteen years and a compass pointing home to finally turn around. And the Last Fairy Tale - a story about why stories exist at all, and why we need them most at the end of the day.
WHY OLDER CHILDREN NEED DRAMATIC STORIES AT BEDTIME
Over the years, I have worked with families whose children lie awake with anxiety, restless minds, and the low hum of worries that seem loudest in the quiet. What I have found - and what the research consistently confirms - is that older children don't need softer stories to sleep. They need stories that acknowledge the complexity of their inner lives, give their active minds something worthy to follow, and arrive at resolution.
Stories that are too safe don't satisfy the developmental need for meaning. Older children need real problems, real choices, and the reassurance that comes not from the absence of difficulty, but from the presence of courage.
Every tale in this collection ends in peace. But it earns that peace the honest way.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Greg Martins Oji is a practicing pediatrician in Los Angeles County, California, with 37 years of experience and more than 2,000 families guided through childhood and adolescence. His sleep methodology has achieved an 87% success rate within the first week of implementation. He is also the author of Dreamland Adventures Book One: Bedtime Stories That Help Little Ones Sleep, The Big Book of 650 Silly Jokes, Sleep Training Made Simple, and The Complete First Year: Your Baby's Development Day by Day.
This book is the perfect gift for:
- Children aged 8-12 who love fantasy, fairy tales, and adventure
- Families looking for meaningful read-aloud stories that spark real conversation
- Parents of children who struggle to wind down at night
The first Dreamland Adventures collection is also available for younger children aged 3-8.
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