A.A. Milne
The Hundred Acre Wood, where the worst that happens is running out of honey.
No catalog author offers a safer world than A.A. Milne. In the Hundred Acre Wood the weather is the main antagonist, every expedition ends at home, and the worst outcome on record is an empty honey jar. Adults put Pooh on at bedtime for the same reason children do: nothing in it can go wrong.
Winnie the Pooh, from 1926, is the start, and both Elizabeth Grace and Andrew Bond have readings of it, on The Sleepy Bookshelf and Send Me To Sleep respectively. The House at Pooh Corner brings a new friend bouncing into the Wood and carries the series to its quietly famous ending; Elizabeth Grace reads it. If childhood associations run strong for you, expect the occasional lump in the throat near the final chapter, though nothing that will keep you up.
A. A. Milne Short Stories shows the other Milne, the light comic writer he was before the bear took over. It suits nights when you want his wit without the nostalgia.
