It was a hot summer day. The crow was flying around the countryside, just returning home, he was very hot. The midday sun was beating down on his black feathers and the crow soon became thirsty.
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Fables about Animals
Everybody has read a fable about animals at least once in their lives. Animals are the best ones to explain us how to behave and what not to do. A bear, a hare, a fox, a crow, a stork – they all speak to our soul in animal fables.
Animals and robbers
In one village there was a mill on the bank of a river where a clever donkey helped the miller with his hard work for many years. But as time went on, the donkey grew older and did a little less work each year. Eventually the miller decided that the old donkey was no longer of any use to him, and instead of thanking him for his years of help, he drove the donkey out, saying: “Get out of here, you’re no use to me anyway.”
Continue reading →The Fox and the Grapes
There was once a fox who always liked to feast on anything she could find. One day she was walking past a vineyard where some beautiful large grapes of wine had just ripened. They were so blue that the fox got a terrible craving to taste them. They looked very sweet.
Continue reading →The hare and the tortoise
Once there were a hare and a tortoise who lived in a forest. The hare boasted that he was the fastest animal in the whole forest. Everyone knew the tortoise was the slowest. The hare often taunted the tortoise.
Continue reading →The lion and the mouse
Once upon a time there was a great lion who was the king of the animals. One day the lion was sleeping under a tree in the shade when a little mouse ran over his head. It tickled the lion’s whiskers and woke him up. The lion was angry.
Continue reading →Armida is looking for an ice tiger
Armida went in search of the Ice Tiger, the sorcerer who alone could lift the curse from her land and create spring again. But his castle was far away, and before her stretched white and endless fields of snow. Armida was frozen to the bone, the wind leaning against her and slowing her down, and on top of that she was sinking into the snow that was falling at the moment.
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Once upon a time there was a kingdom in which there lived a king and a queen. To them a girl was born. At night, as is the way of things, two good fairies appeared at her cradle.
Continue reading →A bell for a cat
Once there were mice who lived in a house, in constant fear of the cat. So one day a little mouse called all the mice in the neighbourhood together to present them with a plan he had devised himself. It was a plan to get rid of the fear of the cat.
Continue reading →Bulls and frogs
Once there were two bulls which lived in a green meadow where many beautiful flowers were blooming. And they were always wrestling each other, trying to drive each other out of the meadow. Their wrestling was watched by the animals around them. The rabbits hopped with excitement, the squirrels cheered the bulls from the high branches of the trees, only the sheep chewed the grass quietly, not seeming to care much about the wrestling.
Continue reading →Bing Bunny has a toothache
Somewhere behind seven mountains and seven lakes, little bunny’s tooth aches.
Bing bunny was hiding under the bench and didn’t want to come out at any cost. This morning at breakfast time he bit into a carrot and it gave him a toothache. Flop told him he had to go to the dentist. But Bing was very, very afraid of her.
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