Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago
A gentle, collage-illustrated bedtime read about the often mysterious and always beautiful experiences to be found in nighttime spaces.
In the night garden fireflies look like fallen stars.
Moonflowers unfurl and release their intoxicating perfume.
In the night garden you can lie
on the cool grass and look up to the
millions and trillions of stars…
In the night garden, nothing is as it seems and everything is made new. Blinking stars and pale moonlight might reveal a lone cat tiptoeing across a roof, luminous flowers unfurling in the cool air, a mama fox escorting her sleepy cubs home. Listen closely and you might hear the wind blowing through the trees, the murmur of a slow stream, or the gentle song of crickets and bullfrogs, lulling you to sleep.
Carin Berger is the award-winning author of The Little Yellow Leaf, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. With soothing words and spectacularly detailed, hand-cut collage artwork, she has fashioned a bedtime book like no other. Curious readers will be rewarded when they look for the mysterious cat that appears on every page!
About Read Aloud Edu:
Read Aloud Edu provides authentic, human-narrated read-aloud experiences designed to support children’s literacy and language development. My readings encourage active listening while helping children build vocabulary, comprehension, listening skills, emotional awareness, and a love of reading.
When appropriate, I incorporate educational guidance such as vocabulary explanations, comprehension questions, and prompts that encourage children to think, listen, and engage with the story. These readings also provide children learning English as an additional language with opportunities to hear and engage with natural English through children’s literature.
My educational background includes a degree in Hearing, Speech and Language Science, TEFL certification, and experience teaching English as a second language and working with individuals with disabilities. This background informs my focus on language, communication, listening, and accessible learning experiences.
Read Aloud Edu is an educational resource for families, educators, homeschoolers, and English-language learners. Each reading is my own narration and presentation, created to provide an engaging learning experience around children’s literature, not to replace the books themselves.
I encourage families to borrow or purchase the books featured on the channel and explore more books from their authors and publishers. Nothing beats having a story in your hands, flipping through the pages, and sharing a book together.
Stories are read without mid-roll ads, so children can enjoy the reading from beginning to end without an advertisement interrupting the story.
A gentle, collage-illustrated bedtime read about the often mysterious and always beautiful experiences to be found in nighttime spaces.
In the night garden fireflies look like fallen stars.
Moonflowers unfurl and release their intoxicating perfume.
In the night garden you can lie
on the cool grass and look up to the
millions and trillions of stars…
In the night garden, nothing is as it seems and everything is made new. Blinking stars and pale moonlight might reveal a lone cat tiptoeing across a roof, luminous flowers unfurling in the cool air, a mama fox escorting her sleepy cubs home. Listen closely and you might hear the wind blowing through the trees, the murmur of a slow stream, or the gentle song of crickets and bullfrogs, lulling you to sleep.
Carin Berger is the award-winning author of The Little Yellow Leaf, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. With soothing words and spectacularly detailed, hand-cut collage artwork, she has fashioned a bedtime book like no other. Curious readers will be rewarded when they look for the mysterious cat that appears on every page!
About Read Aloud Edu:
Read Aloud Edu provides authentic, human-narrated read-aloud experiences designed to support children’s literacy and language development. My readings encourage active listening while helping children build vocabulary, comprehension, listening skills, emotional awareness, and a love of reading.
When appropriate, I incorporate educational guidance such as vocabulary explanations, comprehension questions, and prompts that encourage children to think, listen, and engage with the story. These readings also provide children learning English as an additional language with opportunities to hear and engage with natural English through children’s literature.
My educational background includes a degree in Hearing, Speech and Language Science, TEFL certification, and experience teaching English as a second language and working with individuals with disabilities. This background informs my focus on language, communication, listening, and accessible learning experiences.
Read Aloud Edu is an educational resource for families, educators, homeschoolers, and English-language learners. Each reading is my own narration and presentation, created to provide an engaging learning experience around children’s literature, not to replace the books themselves.
I encourage families to borrow or purchase the books featured on the channel and explore more books from their authors and publishers. Nothing beats having a story in your hands, flipping through the pages, and sharing a book together.
Stories are read without mid-roll ads, so children can enjoy the reading from beginning to end without an advertisement interrupting the story.
