Stories for my kids

Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni is a classic children’s book about a real mouse named Alexander who wishes to be a loved, mechanical toy mouse named Willy . After seeking a magic lizard to change him, Alexander instead uses a magic purple pebble to turn his discarded friend Willy into a real mouse, choosing friendship over his own desire to be loved.

A story about a magical peacock paradise and the adventure to keep it.

The story begins with a widow and her son, Jack, who are poor and need to sell their cow for money. Jack takes the cow into town and is offered magic beans in exchange for it. When his mother sees he's brought home beans instead of money, she throws the beans out the window and a great beanstalk grows into the clouds.

Henrietta?s two older sisters love to tease her. When they try to convince her that she?s actually a chicken instead of a little girl, it?s pretty hard to believe at first. But the evidence is all there: her legs are kind of yellow, and her toes are kind of long. The feathers she finds beside her bed the next morning settle it, and Henrietta heads off to the farm to find her real family. The chick...

A tale of canine fun and friendship inspired by Aesop’s “The Dog and His Reflection.”

Strega Nona—“Grandma Witch”—is the source for potions, cures, magic, and comfort in her Calabrian town. Her magical ever-full pasta pot is especially intriguing to hungry Big Anthony. Big Anthony is supposed to look after her house and tend her garden, but one day, when she goes over the mountain to visit Strega Amelia, he recites the magic verse over the pasta pot,

Hey, kids story about a family of mice living in an abandoned home. Soon they have visitors and they attempt to scare them. Can this group live together?

Bear is afraid of his reflection, water, the dark, heights, and more, and on their adventure Rabbit jumps across a river, goes through the woods, climbs a mountain, and patiently waits for Bear at every step of their trek. But when Rabbit needs help, it's Bear who needs to come to the rescue.

Owl and Rabbit are good friends and neighbors and live happily in two small houses next to each other...UNTIL Rabbit's garden grows a little too tall and blocks Owl's view. Now Owl isn't so happy. Maybe building a bigger house will solve the problem. But now Rabbit isn't happy. Maybe building his house taller will be the solution. And before long, there are two very tall houses and two very unhapp...

In the town of Chewandswallow, food falls from the sky three times a day. When the weather turns bad, citizens face a difficult decision: Should they stay in their town, where it is unsafe to step outside, or abandon their homeland and set off for another town?

Jasper Rabbit loved carrots, especially the carrots that grew in Crackenhopper Field. They were "fat, crisp and free for the taking". Jasper enjoyed these carrots "on the way to school, on his way to Little League practice and on his way home at night", until he started to imagine that they were following him. He first noticed something strange after his Little League game when he stopped at Crack...

Kids story about a sloth

A kids story about a sloth

A kids story about a baby bear

A kids story about a fox

Miss Hawthorn's room is neat and tidy, not a pencil or paintbrush is out of place. And that's how she likes it. And she likes trees that are colored green and apples that are painted red. Miss Hawthorn does not like things to be different or out of the ordinary. Into Miss Hawthorn's classroom comes young Willow. She doesn't color inside the lines, she breaks crayons, and she sees pink trees and bl...

When Goldie Locks comes down with chicken pox, she is teased by her brother and is unable to visit with Bo Peep, Little Red, and other friends.

Stick Man , written by former Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler , is a children's story about an anthropomorphic wooden stick who becomes separated from his family home and his Odyssey -like adventure to return there. He is eventually reunited with his family in the "family tree" as a result of his interaction with Father Christmas . It takes place in England.

Bernice is having a truly rotten time at her friend's birthday party. First, everyone else gets a piece of cake with a frosting rose. But not Bernice. Then, everyone else gets strawberry-melon soda. Bernice gets the prune-grapefruit juice. And it's warm. The last straw is the one lousy (squished) candy she gets from the piñata. So when the balloons arrive, Bernice knows just what she has to do: gr...

A story about a little girl and her adventure digging in the garden, listen to hear what she discovers.

Kids story about an elephant

Kids story about a lion

Story about a ladybug

Story about a grasshopper

Kids story about a flamingo