Memaw’s 20 Bedtime Stories with Animal Friends: Melanie Lewis’s New Release Teaches Kindness, Courage, and Love of Nature Through Animal Tales
A new children’s book blends humor and heart to help kids build character at bedtime, now available in paperback, e-book, and audiobook.
Every family has its own bedtime ritual, and for most of them, it starts with a good story. Author Melanie Lewis, known to her grandchildren simply as “Memaw,” has turned that nightly tradition into a book with the release of Memaw’s 20 Bedtime Stories with Animal Friends.
The collection gathers twenty original tales, each built around a different animal character and an everyday challenge. Readers meet a llama with a flair for drama, a buffalo determined to rule the road, and a duck still learning to swim on her own terms, among many others. Every story wraps its lesson in humor rather than a lecture, so kids come away with ideas about kindness, courage, and care for the natural world without ever feeling like they are being taught something.
That personal touch runs through the whole book. Lewis grew up in a small Iowa town with a lifelong love of animals and the outdoors, and she wanted to pass that love on to her own grandchildren, great-niece, and the grandchildren still to come. “I hope they will learn to love animals and the outdoors as much as I do,” she writes in the book’s dedication, a line that sets the tone for everything that follows.
Parents and grandparents searching for stories that entertain without talking down to kids will find plenty here. The animals get into real trouble, make real mistakes, and work things out in ways young readers can relate to, whether they are hearing the stories at home or on the road.
Memaw’s 20 Bedtime Stories with Animal Friends is now available in paperback, e-book, and audiobook formats, so families can read together at home or press play and let Memaw’s voice carry the story on a car ride or a busy night.
About the Author
Melanie Lewis is a mother of five and grandmother of six, with a handful of nieces and nephews rounding out her family. Raised in a small Iowa town, she has always felt at home outdoors and among animals, a love she has carried into adulthood and now shares through her writing. Memaw’s 20 Bedtime Stories with Animal Friends is her first book, written for the children in her life and for any family looking for one more story before lights out.
Media Contact
Company Name: Book Publishers Hub
Contact Person: Melanie Lewis
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Country: United States
Website: https://memawstalltalltales.com/
