The Ugly Duckling

A Fairy Tale for Children - The Ugly Duckling

One day in early spring, a mama duck was impatiently walking around the eggs in her nest, waiting for all her ducklings to hatch. Suddenly, she heard the first “crunch”. One of the yellow ducklings was coming into the world. And soon, she heard the cluck a second and a third time. Only the fourth, the biggest of the eggs, still nothing. The mama duck circled around it, pecking at it with her beak to urge it on, but the duckling in the egg had yet to hatch.

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About Disobedient Goats

Nighttime story for kids - Bedtimestories About disobedient goats

In a lovely little house by the forest there lived a goat with her baby goats. The goats were very mischievous and often did not want to obey their mother. One day the mother goat had to go out to graze and before leaving she told the baby goats, “Keep the door closed until you hear my voice. I’ll bring you an udder full of milk.”

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Thistle is a saviour

Nighttime story for kids -  Thistle is a saviour

Once upon a time there was a beautiful sunny spring day. The children were playing happily in the park playground, the squirrels were jumping from branch to branch and the dogs were playing happily on the grass with a ball. But a little abandoned dog, Thistle, was walking sadly alone in the park, watching from a distance the happy faces of the dogs who had a home. He longed so much to be one of them.

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