Big adventures for the little things kids go through
Growing up comes with a lot of firsts, feelings and challenges. Nighttime Nathan turns the everyday things kids experience — making friends, feeling nervous, trying something new, dealing with disappointment and learning to speak up — into funny, imaginative adventures they actually want to hear.
Browse by what your child is going through
Pick whatever is going on this week. Each one opens three or four episodes where that is the story underneath the dinosaurs.
- Feeling nervous First days, presentations, tests, and rooms full of people they don't know yet. 3 episodes
- Being brave Facing the scary thing and finding the courage to take the next step. 4 episodes
- Making friends Meeting new people, fitting in, and finding out you're not the only one worried about it. 3 episodes
- Kindness & speaking up Noticing how somebody else feels, and finding the words to say something about it. 3 episodes
- Big feelings Arguments, disappointment, losing your cool, and the way back afterwards. 4 episodes
- Sharing & teamwork Taking turns, listening to each other, and getting something done together. 3 episodes
- Sports & trying again Practice, competition, getting hurt, losing, and going back out anyway. 3 episodes
- Fears & bedtime worries Bad dreams, spooky noises, and finding out the scary thing is manageable. 3 episodes
- Trying something new Taking a chance on something unfamiliar, and being patient while you learn it. 4 episodes
- Safety & self-care Rules, rest, water, breaks, and asking for help before you need it. 3 episodes
Feeling nervous
First days, presentations, tests, and rooms full of people they don't know yet.
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🏴☠️🗺️ The Map to New Adventure 🦜⛵
For kids who are nervous about the first day of school and everything they can't picture yet.
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🦖👑 The King and Queen of Dino Beach 👸🏝️
For kids who feel nervous about speaking or performing in front of other people.
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🥋🦍 From Nunjaku to Giraffrica 🦒🪵
For kids with a test, a belt grading or a tryout coming up that they aren't sure they're ready for.
Being brave
Facing the scary thing and finding the courage to take the next step.
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🏴☠️🦜 The Pirates of the Wooden Parrot 🌊⚓
For kids working up the nerve to try again after a fall, a wipeout or a scraped knee.
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🌙🎢 The Grand Reopening of Lunar Landing 🚀🧀
For kids standing at the top of the diving board wondering whether they can actually jump.
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🌈🦄 The Rainbow Popcorn Unicorn 🍿✨
For kids who hang back when a job needs doing, and would like to be the one who steps up.
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🦖🏝️ The Mean King of Dino Beach 👑🌋
For kids who could use the reminder that courage doesn't disappear just because you haven't used it lately.
Making friends
Meeting new people, fitting in, and finding out you're not the only one worried about it.
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🐊🎶 The Big Bayou Boogie 🐢🌿
For kids navigating a new experience, meeting new people and making friends.
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🏴☠️🦜 Back Aboard the Wooden Parrot 🌊🐸
For kids with a friend who tells tall tales, and no idea what to believe any more.
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❄️🧙 The Weather Wizard’s Blizzard 🛷❄️
For kids learning that the odd one out is usually just somebody hoping to be included.
Kindness & speaking up
Noticing how somebody else feels, and finding the words to say something about it.
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🤠🪱 The Quick Draw at Cactus Ridge 🖍️🌵
For kids who watched somebody get teased and wish they had said something.
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👑✨ The Royal Cape of Kindness ✨👑
For kids who came home stung by an unkind comment about something they loved.
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🍄🍓 The Mushroom Jelly Jam 🧌🫙
For kids certain that somebody is being unfair, before anyone has heard the whole story.
Big feelings
Arguments, disappointment, losing your cool, and the way back afterwards.
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🎭🌽 The Big Act 🐞🕷️
For kids disappointed with the part they got, the team they're on or the turn they didn't get.
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🚀🪐 The Intergalactic Space Game Tryouts 🚲🏁
For kids who have fallen out with a brother, sister or cousin and need a way back.
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🥷🐒 The Golden Egg of Blublablu 🐱🥷
For kids working on staying calm when they're wound up, excited or itching to win.
Sharing & teamwork
Taking turns, listening to each other, and getting something done together.
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🌵🤠 The Showdown at the Cactus Corral 🐎🌵
For kids who didn't want to hand over the good toy, and felt funny about it afterwards.
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🌈🧌 The Fantastical Troll Feast 🧌🌈
For kids in a group project where everybody talked and nobody listened.
Sports & trying again
Practice, competition, getting hurt, losing, and going back out anyway.
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☁️🏎️ The Cloud Cruiser Grand Prix ⚡🌪️
For kids who came home from a game they lost and didn't feel much like playing.
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🌊🐚 The Great Sea Race 🐚🌊
For kids who think they aren't the fastest or the strongest, on a day when that feels like it matters.
Fears & bedtime worries
Bad dreams, spooky noises, and finding out the scary thing is manageable.
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🌲🦉 The Spooky Woods of Lake Alele 🐻🕷️
For kids who hear something at the window and can't talk themselves out of it.
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😴🦇 The Spookylooper of Monster Valley 👹🔍
For kids who woke up from a bad dream and couldn't get back to sleep.
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🎵👾 The Grumpus of Monster Valley 👾🎵
For kids sure there's a monster, right up until the monster asks them to dance.
Trying something new
Taking a chance on something unfamiliar, and being patient while you learn it.
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🐳🎶 The Underwater Ukulele Festival 🪕🧜♀️
For kids frustrated that they aren't good at something yet, a week after starting it.
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🦷🚰 The Lost Baby Tooth 🌧️🧚
For kids at a growing-up milestone that's exciting and a little bit sad at the same time.
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🐉🥷 The Lost Dragon of Blublablu ☁️🌴
For kids facing a change they didn't ask for, like a friend or a pet moving on.
Safety & self-care
Rules, rest, water, breaks, and asking for help before you need it.
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❄️🫎 Jean-Luc's Cocoas and Soups ☕🥣
For kids learning to listen to their bodies, take breaks and ask for help.
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🚀🪐 The Safety Line of Space Planet 9 ☄️🤖
For kids learning why safety rules matter — even when they feel ready to do something themselves.
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🕵️♂️👖 The Case of the Missing Blue Jeans 🧺🧦
For kids whose room has swallowed the one thing they need tomorrow morning.
Adventure first. Something meaningful underneath.
- Imagination firstDinosaurs, pirates, monsters, space planets, magical creatures and ridiculous situations. The adventure always comes first.
- Relatable underneathThe fantasy usually mirrors something Nathan — and the child listening — is working through in real life.
- Positive without preachingCharacters discover things through the story. We never stop the adventure to lecture anybody.
- Made for kids 3–10Age-appropriate stories written to entertain kids, and to give the grown-up in the room something they feel good about playing.