Litte, a small drømsle with a little glowing light on the tip of its head, waving

Pitte, the smaller drømsle, saying hello

New bedtime stories.
Read aloud in Norwegian.

Under the bed live Litte and Pitte, two drømsler: small night creatures whose heads glow like little lanterns. When the bedroom light goes out, theirs come on, and they listen to the story with your child. Drømsle reads new fairy tales aloud, or you read them yourself, like a picture book.

For iPad and iPhone. Either one will do.

iPad and iPhone · iOS 18 or later · Free to try · In Norwegian

For Norwegian families

Drømsle is in Norwegian. The 60 stories are new, written in the spirit of the folk tales collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe, Norway’s answer to the Brothers Grimm, and they are read aloud in Norwegian. There are no English versions. Drømsle is made for Norwegian children, at home or abroad.

Learning Norwegian?

Every story is read aloud, and every story has its full text in I’ll read (Jeg leser), so you can listen first and then read it yourself. Short stories, a calm voice and words that keep coming back make good listening for children, and grown-ups, who are learning Norwegian.

Eight books. 60 stories.

About six minutes each. Just long enough before lights out.

Once upon a time there was a troll with hiccups, a bear who missed his own snoring and a robot hoover that ate a Lego man. The stories are new, but they sound like the old ones: things tend to happen in threes, and it all ends well. The book of old tales retells favourites such as The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Pancake, a Norwegian cousin of the Gingerbread Man. All 60 are illustrated and read aloud.

**Litte and Pitte**Life under the bed: a woolly sock, a night light and a door left ajar.

**The farm under the mountain**The animals, the nisse (the farm’s little gnome) and a bear who cannot sleep.

**The forest**A forgetful squirrel, a fox in disguise and a hare who turned white too early.

**The valley**A troll with hiccups, a fiddler in the waterfall and little folk under the floor.

**Grandad’s crooked house**Cinnamon buns, an old book and a troll under the kitchen table.

**The town**The ice-cream van, the night train and the hoover that ate the Lego man.

**The island kingdom**Princesses, a raven who stole the crown and a sea serpent with toothache.

**Old tales**The Billy Goats Gruff, The Pancake, The Cat on the Dovrefell and ten more, retold.

Two ways to read

You choose how. Your child picks the book.

Read to me Les for meg

A picture from Den ene ullsokken (The odd woolly sock)

A calm voice reads, like a parent on the edge of the bed, and the book turns its own pages. The pictures drift slowly, and now and then a leaf or a snowflake floats past. Your child can lie still and listen.

I’ll read Jeg leser

Hun mente at hun skulle vende den selv. Men det var ikke det hun sa. Og pannekaka hørte det.

Da ble pannekaka redd. Rett som det var, vendte den seg selv og ville hoppe ut av panna. Men den falt ned igjen på den andre siden. Så spratt den ut på gulvet og trillet av sted som et hjul.

Here you read aloud yourself, in Norwegian. Your child sees the picture, you see the text, and you turn the page when you are both ready.

The end means the end.

Nothing starts by itself at bedtime.

Snipp, snapp, snute, så er eventyret ute.
Snip, snap, snout, this tale’s told out.

That is how Norwegian fairy tales end. The book closes, and Litte and Pitte fall asleep on the back cover, lanterns side by side. No next story lining up, no countdown to one, and no other sounds. Night gets to be night.

Litte and Pitte asleep, curled up together

What Drømsle won’t do

No ads
No subscription
No account and no tracking
No points, badges or streaks
No internet needed. Everything is in the app

Try it for free

The first story in each of the eight books is free, so you can listen before you pay. Free to try, one purchase unlocks everything, shared with your family: all 60 stories, and any new ones as they come.