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The Sleepy Stone: A Calming Bedtime Story for Busy Little Bodies: A Calming Bedtime Story for Busy Little Bodies
Paperback
Bedtime & DreamsGeneral Juvenile Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.99
ISBN13: 9781911837084
Publisher: Regulated Human Co
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Is bedtime feeling a little too busy?
For many children, the jump from a big, loud day to a quiet night is the hardest part of the whole day. The Sleepy Stone is a gentle wind-down story for exactly that moment - for wiggly legs, loud heads, and bodies that haven't heard the news that it's bedtime.
Little Bean's day was big. A day of stomping and splashing, of loud and fast and more. But sleep won't come - until Little Bean looks out the window and meets a very still, very patient stone, who has been practising stillness for a very, very long time. Through a quiet conversation in the moonlit garden, the stone shares what it knows: how to be heavy, how to breathe like the night breathes, and what to do with a thought that's too busy to sleep.
Why parents and caregivers love The Sleepy Stone:
It slows down on purpose. The sentences get shorter. The pictures get darker. Your reading voice will naturally follow - by the last page, you'll be whispering.
Real tools, softly taught. Gentle body-based settling techniques woven into the story - being heavy, slow breathing (cool air in, warm air out), and quiet listening - that children can practise right there in bed.
A place to put busy thoughts. The sleepy stone offers to hold Little Bean's busy thoughts until morning - a sweet, symbolic ritual many families adopt as their own.
Honest by design. No tricks, and no promises. This is not a book that claims to make your child sleep - it's a wind-down ritual that makes the path to sleep calmer, one quiet night at a time.
Made for ages 4-8. Minimal text, a soothing palette that dims with the story, and simple, warm characters. Read-aloud for little ones; early readers can whisper it themselves.
The Sleepy Stone is the settle book in The Little Signals Library from The Regulated Human Co. - quiet stories and tools that help small humans notice their signals and find their way back to steady. One book for slowing down, one for waking up, and one for settling into sleep.
Regulation before optimisation.
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