Short Stories Fairy Tales

Children love a good story. Even more so when their mom or dad reads it to them. Reading bed time stories to your child is a delightful way to bond with them, as well as a good tool to encourage their love for reading and learning. And if that’s not amazing enough, reading to your child helps sharpen their memory, improve their vocabulary, and boosts their creativity. Another great benefit to reading bed time stories to your little one is that it gets them in a calmer state, just in time for bed.

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Quattro racconti tratti da uno dei libri più letti al mondo. Le vicende di seduzione amorosa, di tradimenti e d'inganni si svolgono in luoghi orientali o medio-orientali...

So you think you know the story of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl with the unfortunate name and the inability to tell the difference between her grandmother and a member of a different species? Well, then, try your hand at answering these questions: Which character (not including Little Red herself) is the most fashion challenged? Who (not including the wolf) is the scariest? Who (not including Granny) is the most easily scared? Who is the strangest? (Notice we’re not "not including" anyone, because they’re all a little off.) Who (no fair saying "the author") has stuffing for brains?

Sarah Sutton, the Midwife of Donbridge, faces a great evil from her past. The plagues foretold by the Witch of Tamarack Hill have begun. Drought, illness, and unwelcome creatures have overwhelmed the town. Many bleak moments have placed families in peril, but the courageous Midwife, armed with her knowledge and steadfast will, intends to rid this evil from Donbridge for good. During her quest, she is faced with two foes of wicked power which many have believed to be mere fables.

"El experto observador de fantasmas sabe que debe optar por una mirada indiferente, nunca directa, aceptar esa percepción imprecisa, de costado, sin tratar de apropiarse de un significado evanescente que se deshace entre los dedos: textos translúcidos, medusas del sentido." Así arranca este espléndido volumen de micro-relatos de la mano de una de las mejores creadoras del género, la escritora argentina Ana María Shua. Van Gogh y Tarzán, sirenas y pájaros azules, filtros de amor y mapas del tesoro.

Tano è un ragazzo intelligente e acuto nelle sue osservazioni. Precocemente maturo per la perdita del padre, ucciso in un agguato da due malviventi, vive con la madre. Di lui si occupa anche una tata perché la madre è molto assorbita dal lavoro: è infatti avvocato penalista. In una bella giornata estiva, mentre gioca sul prato contiguo al giardino della sua villa, Tano trova interrato un fucile, che comincia ad intessere un dialogo col fanciullo il quale, allibito, deve accettare il fatto che "alcuni fucili parlano".

Le "Leggende sarde" scritte da Grazia Deledda sono notti buie e misteriose, popolate da baroni decaduti, cavalieri erranti, fraticelli furbastri, rigattieri con il terrore di un dio pagano, timide madonne, maghe prefiche, donne dispensatrici di doni e fantasticherie popolane da restare ammaliati. Si dà voce ai pastori erranti divorati da strani omini dispettosi, forniti di corna e falce. Ombre che paiono vivide nei crepuscoli di ogni vita, a metà tra il sonno e la veglia, che s'aggirano inquiete per campi e valli e vanno ad assolvere o maledire.

The stories told, the mother fell to musing, and the result is the little book here presented to the judgment of children other than her own - a few new fairy tales, on the old, old pattern!

Ben Loory returns with a second collection of timeless tales, inviting us to enter his worlds of whimsical fantasy, deep empathy, and playful humor, in the signature voice that drew listeners to his highly praised first collection. In stories that eschew literary realism, Loory's characters demonstrate richly imagined and surprising perspectives, whether they be dragons or swordsmen, star-crossed lovers or long-lost twins, restaurateurs dreaming of Paris or cephalopods fixated on space travel.

Welcome to this journey, a love letter from the Earth filled with exquisite nature visuals to enjoy with the whole family.

A magical wintery book for all ages. This story takes you and your loved ones on a snowy adventure that invites you to discover the magic of winter.

This "fractured fairy tale" is the result of Mrs. Burns' first attempt to step out of the comfort zone of writing from experience in her memoir and knock on the door of her imagination for her writers' group's meeting in November 2017. This work was actually inspired by a remark made by her husband, as she struggled with the topic for that month's meeting. In keeping with the memoir genre, this tale is set using names familiar with the locals, and to satisfy the assignment of writing fiction, it brings "Little Red Riding Hood" to Northern New York.

There are many versions of the Cinderella story. Not one of them, however, points out that one does not have to wear the glass slipper—even if it fits.

En esta interesante obra nos adentramos en los encantos y misterios de las dríades. Es todo una aventura imaginar cómo sería nuestra interacción con esas impresionantes criaturas.

Way up in the highest, most private part of the forest, a small family of giant pandas made their home. This panda family loved to tell stories to each other. Sometimes the stories were true. Sometimes they weren't. That was part of the fun - guessing which stories were true and which weren't.

What if the Little Mermaid took a moment to reconsider her deal with the sea witch, and decided to change the course of her life her own way, on her own terms? Listen to this charming, alternative story!

Missing people. Stories of monsters lurking in the shadows. When Mason hikes into the woods searching for clues as to what happened to his father, he gets so much more than he bargained for. The real world is about to be uncovered.

I love the woods. I live in California, and I drive an old beat-up white van; I use this van all the time. This van is my go-to sleeping headquarters, because I’m always doing research on bigfoot. Now, I want to share my bigfoot findings, and I want to share it with the world. This audiobook will be a brief listen, but I believe it will make you scratch your head and think a little differently.

Gruselsagen über den Höllenfürsten und seine Geisterwesen. Für die Menschen früherer Jahrhunderte ist er das personifizierte Böse: Luzifer, der Teufel. Er verführt zur Sünde und bringt Krankheit und Verderben. Doch eine Hoffnung kennen die Sagen: Man kann manchmal mit dem Teufel handeln, einen Pakt eingehen, ihn im besten Fall sogar überlisten. Ebenfalls nicht von dieser Welt sind Naturgeister, Gottheiten vorchristlichen Glaubens oder Verstorbene, die keine Ruhe finden. Sie begegnen den Menschen mal trügerisch, mal rachesuchend, mal gütig und hilfreich, immer aber geheimnisvoll.