Pinocchio, The Island of the Busy Bees
A collar and a kennel by a henhouse, a pigeon crossing the open sea, and a harbour town where everybody works and one puppet decides to try.
Retold for sleep from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, first published in 1883 and long out of copyright. The story is Collodi's; every sentence here is our own.
Low, slow and spacious, a gentle cadence with long pauses, tuned for the dark and made to be drifted off to.
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About this session
Pinocchio, The Island of the Busy Bees is a sleep story from Salūs, a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace by Charles Holt.
Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.