✦ Story-Weaver · About
Stories worth growing up with
Story-Weaver was born from a simple wish: that a child in Riyadh, Tokyo, Berlin, or Cape Town could hear the same beautiful folk tale read aloud in their own language, illustrated with the care of a real picture book. Stories don't belong to one country. They belong to everyone who's ever held a small hand in the dark and said, Once upon a time.
We pick public-domain folk tales from across the world. We rewrite each one with cultural authenticity, not Hollywood gloss. We illustrate each scene like a watercolour picture book. We narrate each scene in nineteen languages. And we give it all to families who care that their children grow up knowing where they come from — and where the rest of the world comes from too.
Bader
The maker
Bader Alqahtani
Bader Alqahtani is the founder of Story-Weaver. A builder and a parent, he started this project because he wanted his own children to grow up hearing the stories their grandmother told — and the stories that other grandmothers tell, half a world away. He believes the best software is quiet and warm: it just gets out of the way and lets the story happen.
Our principles
What we believe
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Cultural authenticity
Every story is rooted in its source tradition. We don't flatten folklore into a universal soup — we keep the names, the landscapes, and the moral weight of each culture intact.
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Read together
Stories are better shared. Every NightTales story is designed to be a parent-and-child experience — listen together, talk together, imagine together.
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Listen anywhere
Nineteen narration languages mean no child is left out. Whether you speak Arabic, Japanese, or Filipino, the story sounds like it was made for you — because it was.
Behind the page
How a story is made
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Curated
An editor selects a public-domain folk tale, writes a faithful synopsis, and locks the cultural and historical references before a single scene is written.
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Illustrated
Watercolour scenes are produced page-by-page. Character cast sheets keep faces, costumes, and colour palettes consistent from the first scene to the last.
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Narrated
Each scene gets a slow, warm narration in nineteen languages — pre-recorded once, served at zero latency forever. No TTS. Real voices, real warmth.
Say hello
Questions, feedback, school or library licensing — we'd love to hear from you.
hello@nighttales.app