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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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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

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 ten 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.

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 ten 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

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Love the woman s voice so soft and she doesn't rush the story .I listen to this when I need to call a sleep you can visualise you are there with the light sounds in the back ground i use this again and again .Will look out for more of these light story's

So chilled out

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Lovely gentle and soothing. Not over wrought with sound scapes or patronising instruction. Interesting stories effectively delivered so i can’t actually tell you how they end!

Really works.

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As someone who often wakes up in the night I've never found anything as good as this to get me back to sleep.

highly recommended

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relaxing and chill, had trouble getting off to sleep and this book fixed that, usually out by the second story, only wished it was a longer book but that's a minor gripe.

fantastic gets you to sleep

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I have no idea what these stories are about - that's how quickly they put me to sleep.

I've tried loads of these types of stories in the past and sure they are calming but don't send me to sleep.

With this, I set a 15 minute sleep timer - which is how long the stories last - and I'm never still awake when the timer runs out.

Better than Headspace

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