Stories for 5+ years old

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Mio and his classmates are off on a school trip to a historic palace where there is a very special clock. But that isn't the only fascinating thing they find – they also enjoy listening to all the different languages the other visitors are speaking. Why don't you join them and find out which languages they hear!

Hana Do

Dinosaur Adventures Part 3: Diplodocus

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Who will Meg introduce Alex and Tinka to this time? Well, another dinosaur, of course! But not just any dinosaur, a Diplodocus who has the sniffles… Luckily their mum has entered the scene and joins them in the latest adventure. But afterwards, the three of them realise that the dad is missing-out and decide to invite him to partake in their future travels.

Colombian Tale

Brave Santiago

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Ages ago, in a Colombian village, the young inhabitants decide to evict all the elderly, forcing them to find another settlement elsewhere. Only one young man objects to this idea. As a result, he joins the old folks and they establish a fine new village. But when Santiago goes back to the old village to find love, he discovers turmoil. Do the young people realise what they have done?

Hana Do

The Magic Rings and Death Valley

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Ellie and Annie are inseparable sisters. When they choose sparkly new rings at the fair, they have no idea that the rings hold a mysterious power. Where will the rings take them that night? To a place with an ominous name that is actually rather beautiful. Embark on a journey around the world with these girls to visit all sorts of unique places in this geographical story series.

Nature stories

Hans Christian Andersen

The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep

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In this story by Hans Christian Andersen you will read about two porcelain figurines—a shepherdess and a chimney sweep—who love one another. But a third figurine, an old man from China, gets in the way of their happiness and so they decide to run away. Where will their big adventure into the outside world take them?

Ukrainian Tale

Sirko the Faithful Dog

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Sirko is a faithful farm dog, but he is sad because he is so old he cannot be useful on the farm any more and so the farmer drove him away. He finds an unlikely companion to help him out – a wolf. This Ukrainian tale is about the pranks the two furry friends get up to, but it also tells us about mutual help and gratitude.

Animal stories

Polish tale

Sir Twardowski

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This Polish tale takes us to Krakow. There we find a nobleman whose curiosity for learning new and exciting things ends up bringing him face to face with the devil himself. The clever nobleman manages to turn the devil’s powers to good use, helping those around him. Although the devil tries to put an end to his good deeds, the nobleman’s prayers eventually free him from the devil’s clutches.

Vietnamese Tale

How the Tiger got its Stripes

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The tiger noticed that the big, powerful buffalo obeyed his master, a weak and helpless farmer. It was bugging him that everyone was talking about the farmer possessing something called wisdom. He was keen to find out what ‘wisdom’ actually was, where it comes from, and how to get it. In this fairy tale, that wisdom is revealed. And you’ll see just how it is connected to the tiger obtaining its stripes.

Marian Dyno Buric

Discovering the Emotions: Anger

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Young Martin doesn’t understand what emotions are and decides to undertake a search. What are these so-called feelings and where are they located? He sets out on this exploration in the apartment building where he lives, very much hoping that his neighbours can help him unravel the mystery...

Emotions and empathy

Korean Tale

The Village That Bought the Moon

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Just because someone is rich, that doesn’t mean they are wise. When a venerable magistrate arrives in a modest, country village and steps out of his shiny carriage, he is completely stunned by the dark sky. It is sprinkled with thousands, even millions of twinkling stars, but the moon is nowhere to be seen. No respectable village can be without a moon, can it? And so he decides to put everything right.

African Tale

Crocodile Skin

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The African folk tale reveals why crocodiles have such a rough and scaly skin. It wasn’t always like this though. The story teaches that much pride can be harmful.

Vietnamese Tale

The Toad Who Asked for Rain

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The whole earth is afflicted by a huge drought and so a little toad decides to go and ask the gods for rain. The gods don’t take his visit seriously at first, but he comes up with a clever plan to attract their attention.

Dominika Sakmarova

Walter the Water Sprite and Christmas

Christmas stories for kids

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When little Wally goes down to the pond with his father to look for a place to catch a Christmas fish, a very unusual surprise awaits them. Instead of a fish, they meet a water sprite there! The water sprite is not at all pleased that they’re thinking of catching one of his fish. Will they manage to come to an agreement?

Eva Bubniakova

Seed Town

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Seed Town is a place where the inhabitants desire nothing more than to nestle into the ground and grow up. But they cannot achieve this on their own. When a schoolgirl called Anna visits Seed Town, she makes friends with the little seeds and eventually figures out a way to help them. Can she manage to achieve it? This story imparts a thing or two about plants and Nature.

Vietnamese Tale

The Impatient Peasant

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This is the story of a farmer who was too impatient. He didn’t like how slowly the seeds he had planted in his field were growing, he thought they were lazy. So he decided to help them so that he would bring in his harvest sooner. But all he managed to do was damage the plants and in the end his impatience meant there was no harvest at all. Patience and thoroughness always pay off.

Marian Dyno Buric

The Monster

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When a family with children and their friends goes to a cottage, it seems that they are in for a fun trip. In the early evening, children have fun playing a game of monsters. But when night falls, mysterious sounds indicate that a real monster is hiding in the cottage in the middle of the forest...

Mel Candea

The Animal Menagerie

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In this story, you will meet the Polish scientist Simona Kossak and her extraordinary animal family, who lived together in the Białowieża Forest. Simona was a biologist and an expert on animal life, and in her household there really were many of them - for example, a small crow, a wild pig and a lynx! Read the story to learn more about this extraordinary family.

Nature stories

Korean Tale

The Man Who Lived Three Thousand Years

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This Korean folk tale tells the story of cunning Mr Tong, who was given a short life. In the end, he managed to live a hundred times longer and he hoped that thanks to his cunning he would be able to live forever. However, he had much too high an opinion of himself, and the messengers from the underworld who were looking for him managed to outwit him. A fairy tale about how no fate is unchangeable and even misfortune can be avoided.