Stories for 5+ years old

4.5

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?

Indian Tale

The Poor Farmer and the Rich Miser

4.49

In this Indian story, we learn the fate of a poor farmer living in poverty and having almost nothing. He has to give everything to his neighbour, a money-lender. When he is given a rare magic horn that will fulfill his every wish, the greedy rich man finds out. Of course the neighbour wants to take advantage of the horn's power immediately. The farmer comes up with an idea, thanks to which he gets rid of the rich man's greed once and for all.

Katarina Gondova

Violet and the Snowflake

Violet cannot sit still. She's always running around, fidgeting, and even when she's sitting down, her thoughts always run through her mind. Adults only shrug their shoulders - until someone appears who can turn this apparent disadvantage into something useful...

Short stories

German Tale

The Offended Lion

A little bunny carelessly makes fun of the lion, the king of the animals. For this audacious offence, he is taken to court, where he faces a terrifying sentence. However, the lion behaves like a true king, and his judgment ends up teaching the little bunny a valuable lesson.

Short stories

Chinese Tale

The Man Who Didn't Want To Be Angry

Mr Wang steals his neighbour's duck and gets taught a really good lesson – he sprouts feathers! A Chinese god tells him that to get rid of the feathers, his neighbour must give him a good scolding. But what if that neighbour is a calm, kind person and doesn’t want to get angry with anyone? Read about Mr Wang’s struggles in this humorous Chinese fairy tale.

Czech tale

Jim and the Dragon

In this story, you will discover how life changes in one small town when a terrible dragon takes up residence in a nearby cave. What will the dragon do and who will be brave enough to challenge it?

Marian Dyno Buric

Discovering the Emotions: Anger

4.47

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

Hana Do

The Magic Rings and the Dead Sea

Where do the two girls with the magic rings go this time? It’s a very unusual place – the Dead Sea. They learn about why it has that name, and how a sea can be below sea level. If you go with them, you’ll learn that too. Plus, you’ll get to meet a friendly camel! Are you ready?

Readmio

Mio and the Astronomical Clock

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!

Readmio

Salt & Pepper — Part 2

Pepper and Salt, still intoxicated from their Italian adventure, longed to explore more distant lands. This time it involved travelling all the way to Istanbul to meet a relative of Pepper’s. They embark on a long journey that takes them to the homeland of the vivacious Turmeric. Will this be the end of their exotic adventures or will they soon be looking to explore more?

Stories for 3+ years old

Ukrainian Tale

Sirko the Faithful Dog

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

Readmio

Rocketman Saves the Flowers

4.45

There is a conflict on Earth that arised because of flowers. Flowers make people with allergies sneeze and wheeze and so they decide to ban them all. That gets the whole world into real trouble. There is only one person who can help them – rocketman! This story was written for you by Mel Candea.

Vietnamese Tale

How the Tiger got its Stripes

4.43

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.

Eva Bubniakova

Seed Town

4.42

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.

Marian Dyno Buric

The Monster

4.41

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...

Vietnamese Tale

The Impatient Peasant

4.4

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.

Dominika Sakmarova

Walter the Water Sprite and Christmas

Christmas stories for kids

4.39

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?

Polish tale

Sir Twardowski

4.39

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.