Once upon a time, a king ruled over a large kingdom. He was fascinated with new clothes and modern fashion. One day, two fraudulent weavers came to the king’s minister and claimed, “We can weave a marvellous fabric from which we can make marvellous clothes.” They asserted in front of the king, “Such clothes cannot […]
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An old woman had seven children. One day, she made a big pancake. The children said, “We want that big pancake.” The pancake heard the children. It said, “The children shall not eat me.” And it rolled away. The old woman with seven children ran after it. The old woman said, “Stop pancake! My children
Once, there was a little red hen which lived alone in the woods. Just above the rocks, therelived a sly and crafty old fox with his mother. The sly fox would plan and plan how to lay his hands on the little red hen and make her his meal. After a lot of thinking an
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After staying at home for several months, Sindbad once again went to the sea in search of thrill and adventure. After a month’s journey he set ashore on what appeared to be an island. But the island proved to be a gigantic sleeping whale on which trees had taken root ever since the world was
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A pack of wolves was wandering in the forest. Suddenly, they noticed a child lying in thewoods. They thanked the Almighty because Sherkhan was not near the child. They picked the child and brought him to their cave. It was not difficult to understand that his parents fell prey to Sherkhan. The wolves christened him
Once a Princess was playing with a golden ball near a spring. Accidentally, the ball fell into the spring. The Princess began to cry and said, “Alas! I could only get my ball again. I would give all my fine clothes and jewels to the one who brings my ball back.” Suddenly, a frog appeared
A lovely wife expected a child. The pregnant wife insisted that her husband should bring rapunzel(a salad leaf) and fruit salad. She liked its taste. She forced her husband into stealing rapunzel from the garden of an enchantress who lived near by. The husband loved his wife very much. He wanted to fulfil the wish
Once upon a time, there was a miller who lived with his three sons, adonkey and a cat. Before his death he divided his property among his sons. His eldest son inherited the mill. Thesecond son took the donkey and set off in search of his fortune. The youngest son received a cat only. He
A long time ago, a girl-child with very fair skin and blue eyes was born to a queen. She was named Snow White. The queen died when Snow White was a baby. The girl’s father, i.e. the king married again. The new queen was very pretty but she was also very cruel. She wanted to
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Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, lived with her Uncle and Aunt at their farm in Kansas. One day, a terriblecyclone blew up. Everyone ran to hide in the cellar. Before Dorothy could go there, the house whirled around and blew away. It landed with a crash in the land of Oz far away. Dorothy
Billy Bones, a mysterious stranger, was living in a rented room at Jim Hawkin’s inn. He had set out tolook for the treasure buried on Caribbean Island by Captain Flint, chief of sea pirates. Hardly had Billy arranged for the ship and the sailors and got ready to head for the Island when he was
A lonely little cottage stood on the edge of a forest just outside the village. It was known as RoseCottage, because two beautiful rose bushes grew outside it, one with roses as white as snow, and theother with deep red ones. An old widow lived in the cottage with her two lovely daughters. She had
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In a large town, Alicia lived with her mother Mrs Dacia. One day, they found a boy, Benjamin,lying outside in the freezing cold. They brought him home. Since then, Alicia and Benjaminbecame good friends. Mrs Dacia loved Benjamin and Alicia very much. One day, she told Benjamin aboutthe Snow Queen and her ice-palace. One cold
Once there lived a king with his queen. They were very sad because they had no children. One day, the queen gave birth to a lovely baby-girl. All the fairies reached the palace to bless the baby. The king had a great celebration. He forgot to invite an old fairy. The old fairy came to
There was a beautiful town named Hamelin, situated on the bank of River Weser in Germany.But the people of this town were scared of rats. The rats were destroying clothes, books and the food of the town people. The town people had grownreally tired of rats but were unable to do anything. The Town Mayor
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