Short For Kids

Every year, different animals from all over the huge Sahara desert gather at the lakes of Ounianga for a very exciting event! The Sahara is the world's largest desert and is one of the hardest places to live on the planet. Some of the animals travel across the dry, hot desert for days and days to get to the oasis. By the time the animals who will take part in the competition arrive at the lakes of Ounianga, they are very tired and hungry. Some will dance, some will sing, and others will run a race. The question is who will win? And what lessons do they learn along the way?

We once knew a beautiful Labrador Retriever named Karma. Yes, Karma is a retriever. Whatever we threw out, Karma was happy to bring it back. It didn't matter what it was; she always brought it back. It's the same in life. We reap what we sow. Whatever we send out is what we will get back. Our Karma for Kids Books hope to instill this simple lesson into the lives of young children everywhere. Life can be amazing!  

Humble Heron flapped his big, blue wings as fast as he could. He knew he shouldn't have flown so far away from Fala Forest on Gathering Day. Especially not the day before the festival. But he really, really wanted to see the sparkly white beach his good friend, Jolly Blue Jay, told him about. The sand sparkled like diamonds and the waves crashed to the shore with loads of bubbly bubbles. But now he needed to hurry home. He didn't want his family to worry. His wings began to tire out. But he didn't want to be late. So he beat them faster, again, and again, and again.

Listen to these bone-chilling Halloween stories from the best-selling author, Arnie Lightning! These Halloween short stories are quick and easy to understand and enjoy. You and your children will enjoy these scary tales!

Words can be such a powerful force and if used correctly, they have the ability to shape who we are. This is such a vital time in children’s lives because they are busy laying down the foundation of who they will become. With books such as this one, you can control the lessons that your child consumes. Watch your little one explores the limits of their imagination, while you guide them through the experience. Mold memories that will last forever.

Mindfulness and meditation have helped millions to get to sleep with much more ease than ever before. Something that many parents haven’t considered is how these things can help their little ones to wind down, get ready for sleep, kick nightmares from their headspace, and settle in for a long night’s rest. Teaching meditation to your children might seem like an impossible feat, but many have found that their children are remarkably receptive to it when it’s presented like a story.

Studies have shown that if you meaningfully communicate with your child, they will gradually become attuned to you. True education begins when parents impart valuable life lessons to their child in a way that they understand. An amazing transformation occurs within such children when they are told fantastic stories on topics that involve hope, courage, patience, and empathy. This wonderful book is a collection of many short stories on various positive themes that are specifically crafted to help children relax and become more restful.

Never before collected in one volume, here are Pete Hamill's stories about Brooklyn, the borough in which he was born and grew up, and the one closest to his heart. A young boy with a mysterious past forever transforms the lives of the neighborhood toughs. A man returns to his old haunts to avenge the death of his brother. A couple chooses to embrace their memories of a bygone era rather than live in a diminished future. These are stories of a New York almost lost but not forgotten.

Everyone loves ghost stories but this book of true ghost stories is only for kids! Whether you're huddled under the covers with a flashlight, camping out with your family or having a sleep-over with your friends you'll get a shiver out of these spooky stories.

Welcome to the busy, industrial port city of Steamkettle Bay, the second-largest city in all of Industralia. It's filled with manufacturing factories, airship docks, inventors, artists, and lots and lots of streetwise, clever kids. It's a warm Saturday in the summer of 1872, and somewhere in Steamkettle Bay, bad things are happening. Can Paisley Pockets and Christopher Cogan stop a crime in progress? They may be just a couple of kids, but where there's a will, and some smarts, there just might be a way.

'Romance in the Roaring Forties' & 'The Lemon Drop Kid' from from The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour. Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of 20th-century America. Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; he’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.

10 Short Children Stories is a beautiful piece by Jacob Battersby to help entertain and educate your child. Works great as an audiobook for helping your child get to sleep. The book travels from unicorns, to plastic bottles, all the way to issues with deforestation and overconsumption of electricity.

The first installment of the Russian Collection for Kids series includes stories of strange creatures and fascinating journeys through unlikely places. Volume two invites its young listeners to visit with all sorts of animals and to explore different professions.

Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; he’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe. Runyon described himself as 'being known to one and all as a guy who is just around'. That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.

Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the help of his gallant Knights of the Round Table. There was Sir Lancelot the Great, Sir Kay the Loyal, Sir Bedivere the Just, and others, including young Givret, who was known for being...well, short. Poor Givret: His size makes him so easy to overlook. But there’s more to knighthood than height, and before long, Givret’s quick thinking lands him a place at the famous Round Table!

In this second book, Autumn knows unicorns have a unique ability to find magical objects in nature with their horn. She recruits Gwyn, her friend from the magic realm, with a plan to find the vanishing and reappearing gem around her town. Autumn’s plan is to find the gem and give it to Abe Undertree, a boy who recently moved into Stillbrook and owns a wizard staff, but has no way of powering it. Autumn wants to be his friend and hopes this gift will help him join their ground. So Gwyn, Autumn, and Sky all set out on an adventure that leads to a wild goose chase all over Stillbrook.

This collection of five stories will heighten your child's imagination at bedtime. Prefect eight-minute stories to calm your child before bed. Add these stories to your bedtime routine, and your child will be more excited about bedtime! Learn about Iris and her friends, as the painting fairies of the Cotton Cottages make paint and learn to paint dreams for children all over the world.

Roppit Poppit: A Flying Boy is a short bedtime story for kids about bravery, friendship, self-love, and achieving the impossible, designed to help restless kids fall asleep and have soothing dreams of flying. The story is about a boy who embarks on an epic adventure to find his father in the sky. His friend, a pot-bellied, flying circus pig, gives Roppit the encouragement, bravery, and self-confidence to pursue his dream of learning to fly.

They give you just enough to keep you comfortable and quiet...if you're willing to put up all the burdensome regulations and intrusions into your private. And most people do. But is it worth it? At long last, William Oudeis didn't think so. But then it cost him everything. "SlumberJoy, a global matress-manufacturing company, had its largest US plant in Doulosville, Oklahoma, where William Oudeis lived. And William worked there, had for the past 30 years. He was a forklift operator. Out of a hopeless sense of irony, his co-workers called him 'Billy the Kid.'"

In this book, Autumn learns of a rumor being spread around through school about another unicorn. Thinking it could be a unicorn Gwyn knows, Autumn shares the rumor with the unicorn. Together, Gwyn and her friends wander through the town, heading to the location where the rumored unicorn was seen. As they walk, Gwyn wonders if she truly is the only unicorn in this world and tries to not get her hopes too high about another unicorn. But a small hope remains, and she grows just as excited as her friends.