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The term "bedtime story" was coined by Louise Chandler Moulton in her 1873 book, Bed-time Stories.The "ritual of an adult reading out loud to a child at bedtime formed mainly in the second half of the nineteenth century and achieved prominence in the early twentieth century in tandem with the rising belief that soothing rituals were necessary for children at the end of the day.
Residents of Care UK’s Cavell Court home in Norfolk read Cinderella, The Three Bears, Jack And The Beanstalk, and The Three Little Pigs. Pensioners film themselves reading bedtime stories for ...
Storybook Dads is a non-profit charity in the UK founded by Sharon Berry and first launched in HM Prison Dartmoor in 2003. The charity enables serving prisoners and detainees to record bed time stories which can then be sent home to their children, and aims to maintain connections between serving prisoners and their families. [2]
He is patron of several organisations including Storybook Dads, a UK charity which allows prisoners to send recordings of themselves reading bedtime stories to their own children, to help stay connected to some of the 200,000 children affected by parental imprisonment each year.
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I spent many hours holding our babies and reading bedtime stories, slicing up grapes and cantaloupes for little hands to hold, and getting the kids strapped into their car seats to go visit their ...
She said she sought to offer a platform to people like herself to break the stigma. She has also volunteered for a nonprofit that records imprisoned fathers reading bedtime stories to their children.
Go the Fuck to Sleep is a satirical book written by American author Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortés.Described as a "children's book for adults", [1] it reached No. 1 on Amazon.com's bestseller list a month before its release, thanks to an unintended viral marketing campaign during which booksellers forwarded PDF copies of the book by e-mail.