Fear of the dark
Every night, thousands of children lie awake staring into the darkness. When the world grows quiet and the lights go out, a mysterious train appears — arriving only when a child needs it most.
The series · Four books
The Luminous Train
To give children more than a story for sleeping. The train comes at night, only when a child needs it — and in each book it stops at a different station of childhood.
All four
One journey, four stations of childhood
Believing in your own ideas
They remember their mistakes. They wonder if their ideas are good enough. They think about all the times they tried, but no one noticed. At each stop Oliver learns that every effort matters, that mistakes are part of growing, and that he does not have to carry the pressure to be perfect.
Your own unique gifts
When the moment comes to step forward, even when fear is still present, the train appears once again — arriving exactly when a child is ready to grow. Courage is not the absence of fear, but moving forward with it.
The Timeless Realm
The train arrives once more, exactly when a child needs to slow down. Oliver travels to a place where time does not push and nothing important is ever lost: where slowing down is not a mistake but a way to truly notice life, where quiet moments are full rather than empty, and where a child begins to understand that their own rhythm is enough.
Inside the first journey
Three stops, three things left behind
Oliver never leaves a station empty-handed. He comes back with glowing footsteps, then a stone, then a key — small proof that he was somewhere, and that he can go back.
The Underground of Silence
Oliver steps onto a dark platform and asks who else is there. “You,” the conductor answers. “The part of you that’s hard to hear when the world is noisy.”
Each step he took shimmered gently for a moment before fading like a small star. “So I’m not getting lost?” “No. You’re leaving a trail.”
He leaves with glowing footsteps behind him.
Station of Shadows
The train is late, and the darkness grows bored and begins to play: the chair becomes a beast, the branches become long fingers. The darkness is never cruel here — only alone.
The darkness was not cruel. It was simply alone. And when it is alone, it likes to imagine.
He leaves with a small stone beneath his pillow.
Station of Dreams
A great field of pillows, some of them slowly breathing. It appears only when a passenger is tired — not in body, but in thoughts.
“Where are the tracks?” “In dreams, tracks aren’t needed.”
He leaves with a small key, still warm.
The complete journey
Take all four, and the bookmarks come with them
Each book in the set arrives with its own bookmark — printed on both sides, in the same gold and night as the covers. On the front, the thing the story leaves behind. On the back, the stations that book stops at.
Book one
the key
“Dark doesn’t mean dangerous.”
Book two
the lantern
“Every effort matters.”
Book three
the seedling
“Courage is not the absence of fear — but moving forward with it.”
Book four
the timepiece
“Your own rhythm is enough.”
Given only with the complete series. Not sold separately.
Editions
Le Train Lumineux
The first book also exists in French, as Le Train Lumineux — une histoire du soir apaisante pour aider les enfants à surmonter la peur du noir, calmer leurs inquiétudes du coucher et s’endormir en se sentant en sécurité. 43 pages. A Ukrainian version is being prepared.