Once upon a time, there was a very beautiful village. In this village, there was a little family. Mother, Father, and two little pretty girls called Lora and Mary.
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Short Bedtime Stories
Fairy tales for children, young and old to read. Enjoy online fairy tales by different authors. Feel free to post comments, send pictures, share links over the internet.
The Story of the Planets
The Sun King and Moon queen had eight kids. The name of those kids was Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The Sun wakes up early in the morning and starts working. The sun King wakes his children before he goes to work.
Continue reading →Five Friends and the Cruel Witch
A long time ago there was a small village near the forest. There lived five best friends named Meral, Shehan, Supun, Kaveen, and Rose. One evening they played hide and seek. Kaveen thought to hide in the forest as no one is able to find him. He ran to the forest and hidden behind a tree.
Continue reading →Grandmother’s Little Friends
Once upon a time, there was a very small house near the forest. An old lady lived there all alone. One day, it started raining heavily. The wind was making deep noises and all the surrounding was wet and cold. The old lady looked away from the window. “oh! I haven’t seen much rain in years!” she whispered.
Continue reading →The Rabbit on the Moon
At the beginning of the world, the sun was the king of the world. Sun appears every morning and it is called daytime. But the sun was always angry and his clothes were fire flames. The tiny little animals were very scared of the sun. They thought if the sun got angry, he would burn all the whole world.
Continue reading →A Tale Without End
There was one shepherd and he was in charge of many sheep. The golden sun was setting behind the mountains in the evening, and he was still tending his sheep behind a swollen stream.
Continue reading →Cinderella
There was once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she felt her end drawing near she called to her only daughter to come near her bed, and said, “Dear child, be pious and good, and God will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from heaven, and will be with you.” And then she closed her eyes and expired. The maiden went every day to her mother’s grave and wept, and was always pious and good. When the winter came the snow covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came in the early spring and melted it away, the man took to himself another wife.
Continue reading →The red shoes
There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, and in winter wear very large wooden shoes, which made her little insteps quite red, and that looked so dangerous!
Continue reading →Rumpelstiltskin
There was once a miller who was poor, but he had one beautiful daughter. It happened one day that he came to speak with the king, and, to give himself consequence, he told him that he had a daughter who could spin gold out of straw. The king said to the miller: “That is an art that pleases me well; if thy daughter is as clever as you say, bring her to my castle to-morrow, that I may put her to the proof.”
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