Where this all began
Long before this page, there was childrenstory.com — a little site built in 1998 with a black starry background, a looping MIDI tune, and stories you could actually hear. Children clicked a small icon and a warm voice read them The Night Before Christmas, Frosty, and a shelf of fairy tales. It was one of the very first places on the web where a story read itself aloud to you.
The domain was lost over the years, but the Internet Archive remembered every page. We brought the original back, exactly as it was — black background, MIDI and all — and you can still wander it today:
📼 Visit the original 1998 site →
This site you’re on now is the next chapter: the same love of read-aloud stories, rebuilt for today. Hundreds of fairy tales, fables, and nursery rhymes from the public domain — and a grandmotherly voice, built right into your browser, ready to read any of them. No MIDI required (though we kept the warmth).