The Luminous Train

The Luminous Train — Book One

A calming bedtime story to help children overcome fear of the dark, quiet nighttime thoughts, and fall asleep with confidence.

Ages 5–9
Pages 44
Read aloud 10–12 min

14,00 €

Cover of The Luminous Train, book 1 by Agnesa Mirabel: a boy holding a lantern beside the Conductor, watching a glowing train cross a stone viaduct under a starry night sky

How it begins

What if the thing your child fears most could become their greatest source of courage?

Where the train stops

The journey

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.

What it helps with

For the evenings that take longer

ease bedtime anxiety
understand their dreams
turn fear into curiosity
strengthen the parent–child connection
build a calming nighttime ritual

Written to be read aloud, in the voice you use when there is no hurry left in the evening.

Signed by hand

A copy with your child’s name in it

Give the first name with your order and Agnesa writes the dedication in before the book is posted — the same way she signs them at book fairs.

And the story leaves something behind too:

On the pillow, right beside him, lay the same small key. Warm. As if someone had just been holding it.

About this book

In full

What if the thing your child fears most could become their greatest source of courage?

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.

A signed copy

Agnesa dedicates copies by hand. Give the child’s first name and she writes it in before the book is posted — the same way she signs them at book fairs.

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