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For those spending time at home, looking for a cozy adventure or bedtime story for kids, we offer this imaginative rhyming picture book, read by the author, Daniel Errico. Follow the Marmabill on her quest through the rainforest, where she meets fantastical creatures like wugs, tankadiggies, and flying fluthers. As her journey takes her from treetops to glowing underground caves, the Marmabill finds out for herself the true meaning of home. Remember, our stories for kids are here for you to read at any time. And remember, Dream Big!
Gemma is a middle grade novel that follows a curious explorer and her ring-tailed lemur, Milo, as they hunt for the “most greatest treasure in the world”. Solving riddles, battling a bell-wearing jaguar, and traveling the Eight Seas, Gemma’s adventures take her from a young girl to a brave captain, whose only limits are the stars.
While drawing in class at Stagwood School, 12-year old Cal sees a frog staring at him through the window. Stranger than that, is the fact that this frog happens to be wearing glasses.
Cal and his best friend, Soy, learn that the frog (who prefers the name Deli) has sought them out for a reason. When a school administrator named Ream reveals himself to be a dragon, the boys discover that fairytales are real, and that there is magic afoot in Stagwood.
With Ream on their tail, the trio must unearth a powerful tool protected by riddles and rile (the magic that fuels nightmares) to save the fate of all fairytales past. But, before Cal can defeat Ream, he has to deal with Soy's knack for arguing with magical creatures, discover the truth about Deli's identity, and earn his place as the hero of the story. The Guardians of Lore is a middle grade novel that centers around two life-long friends, infusing humor and fantasy-based riddles into a modern fairytale.
This quirky tale is about our most infamous character of all. If you don’t have a soufflé-baking, trumpet-blaring, sleigh-riding friend, then maybe it’s time that you met Ms. McKay. Told as a monorhyme poem. “Say what you will or say what you may, you’ll remember the day that you met Ms. McKay…”
Mr.
McKay is a most mischievous fellow. His hair and eyes have been known to change color with the seasons. If you ever feel a warm breeze on a very cold winter day, be sure to keep your coat on, because it may be Mr. McKay playing his trick! A light-hearted, rhyming bedtime story about keeping your coat on when it’s awfully cold outside.
“The wolves in the woods, grow as wild as trees. They do not say Thank You. They do not say Please.”
A rhyming story book about a young wolf pup unlike any other. When the moon is full and all the wolves are howling, Warren turns into a mild-mannered boy, eating sandwiches with the crusts cut off, and going to bed early. That’s because Warren is secretly a wereboy. But when the rest of his pack finds out the truth, Warren has to show them that sometimes our biggest differences are our greatest strengths.
Ages 3-8, Narrated, Read Along
Explore the ocean floor and discover the location of Orangebeard's Treasure in this series of adventure stories for kids! Each location that you visit under the sea reveals a unique story from the gnarble. Piece together the clues with reading comprehension and reasoning skills to solve the mystery!
The Journey of the Noble Gnarble is a number one best-selling ebook that has been adapted into a hardcover book and play. Through rhyming verse and engaging illustrations, the Noble Gnarble teaches kids about perseverance and determination in the face of obstacles. Dream Big!
Ages 3-5, Narrated, Read Along
One of our most popular children’s stories, this is the tale of a group of robots winding down for the night.
The Robot Bedtime Book is a playful bedtime story that encourages interaction, imagination, and a fun bedtime routine.
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The Classic fairytale of Cinderella: a young girl, mistreated by her step-mother and step-sisters, who finds out that dreams really can come true.
The Classic Fairytale Story of Snow White with a Modern Twist: Who is the “fair”est of them all? Snow White of course!
A Bedtime Story of Honesty, Courage and Truth. If Pinocchio is to become a Real boy he needs to learn how to be honest, brave and true.
A Grimm’s Brother Tale: A miller tells a tale that his daughter can turn straw into gold.
A strange little man is willing to help…for a price. Guess his name and he will be gone…but what is his name?
Goldilocks and the Three Bears ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids. Goldilocks finds the three bears cottage in the woods. Should she make herself comfortable?
Hansel and Gretel Bedtime Stories for Kids. When Hansel and Gretel go in search of food, they find a gingerbread house. But who is inside?
A Story of Friendship, Love and Courage. Rapunzel’s Story ~ A Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale. An evil witch has trapped Rapunzel in a tower. Can her long hair or love save her?
A Story of Courage, Justice and Self-Awareness. Merlin the Magician places a magic sword in a stone…whomever can pull it out is the rightful king.
A Bedtime Story of Acceptance and Self-Awareness. A Mama Duck is proud when her six ducklings hatch from their eggs. But one duckling does not look like the others? Is he truly an Ugly Duckling?
The classic Brother’s Grimm fairytale that sparked the Disney adaptation.
A Story of Courage, Learning and Love. The Classic fairy tale: The Little Mermaid falls in love with a prince on shore and she makes a deal with the Sea Witch to become human. But without her voice, how can the prince fall in love with her?
This Classic Folktale is adapted from the original story of “Aladdin” from The Arabian Nights. Aladdin, the Genie and the Magic Lamp work to impress the princess who wishes to be a commoner.
A Story of Courage, Kindness to Animals and Learning. The Classic Tale of a male deer, Bambi, his mother and his adventures learning in the woods.
A Story of Charity, Compassion and Justice, from England. Robin Hood takes part in an archery contest thrown by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Will he realize its a trap before it is too late? One of the many Tales of Robin Hood.
This is the Legend Tale of Maui the Demi-God from Moana. It is part of our Classic Bedtime Stories for Kids Collection. It has been adapted from the Tales of Maui as well as Disney’s version of Moana.
A Bedtime Story in Simple English for Kids. A toy rabbit learns that through a child’s love it can become real.
The Classic Tale of the Snow Queen: Gerda and Kai struggle to fight the Snow Queen and find the balance between Good and Evil.
The Classic Fairy Tale of Sleeping Beauty. Princess Aurora has been cursed by Maleficent. When she pricks herself on a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday, she is put into a deep sleep for 100 years. Who can save her?
Bedtime Story for Kids: The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Story. Della and Jim wish to give each other the perfect Christmas present, but how will they come up with the money?
A Bedtime Story of Friendship, Courage and Acceptance. . The story tells of the time Pocahontas saved the life of settler John Smith from her father, Powhatan.
A Cinderella Story ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids
The Classic fairytale of Cinderella: a young girl, mistreated by her step-mother and step-sisters, who finds out that dreams really can come true.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Story ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids
The Classic Fairytale Story of Snow White with a Modern Twist: Who is the “fair”est of them all? Snow White of course!
Pinocchio Story ~ Fairy Tale Bedtime Stories in English for Kids
A Bedtime Story of Honesty, Courage and Truth. If Pinocchio is to become a Real boy he needs to learn how to be honest, brave and true.
Beauty and the Beast Classic Tale ~ Fairy Tale Stories for Kids
The classic fairy tale of a beautiful woman and the monstrous beast.
Rumpelstiltskin ~ A Fairy Tale Bedtime Story for Kids
A Grimm’s Brother Tale: A miller tells a tale that his daughter can turn straw into gold. A strange little man is willing to help…for a price. Guess his name and he will be gone…but what is his name?
Goldilocks and the Three Bears ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids
Goldilocks and the Three Bears ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids. Goldilocks finds the three bears cottage in the woods.
Should she make herself comfortable?
Hansel and Gretel ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids
Hansel and Gretel Bedtime Stories for Kids. When Hansel and Gretel go in search of food, they find a gingerbread house. But who is inside?
Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm ~ Bedtime Stories
A Story of Friendship, Love and Courage. Rapunzel’s Story ~ A Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale. An evil witch has trapped Rapunzel in a tower. Can her long hair or love save her?
The Sword in the Stone: a King Arthur Legend of the Sword Story
A Story of Courage, Justice and Self-Awareness. Merlin the Magician places a magic sword in a stone…whomever can pull it out is the rightful king.
The Ugly Duckling Story ~ Fairy Tale Story for Kids in English
A Bedtime Story of Acceptance and Self-Awareness. A Mama Duck is proud when her six ducklings hatch from their eggs. But one duckling does not look like the others? Is he truly an Ugly Duckling?
The Frog Prince: The Story of the Princess and the Frog ~ Bedtime Stories
The classic Brother’s Grimm fairytale that sparked the Disney adaptation.
The Little Mermaid Story ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids in English
A Story of Courage, Learning and Love. The Classic fairy tale: The Little Mermaid falls in love with a prince on shore and she makes a deal with the Sea Witch to become human. But without her voice, how can the prince fall in love with her?
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from The Arabian Nights ~ Bedtime Stories
This Classic Folktale is adapted from the original story of “Aladdin” from The Arabian Nights. Aladdin, the Genie and the Magic Lamp work to impress the princess who wishes to be a commoner.
Bambi Story: A Life in the Woods ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids in English
A Story of Courage, Kindness to Animals and Learning. The Classic Tale of a male deer, Bambi, his mother and his adventures learning in the woods.
Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow Story ~ Legend Stories for Kids
A Story of Charity, Compassion and Justice, from England. Robin Hood takes part in an archery contest thrown by the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Will he realize its a trap before it is too late? One of the many Tales of Robin Hood.
Maui from Moana: Tales of the Demi-God ~ Legend Stories for Kids
This is the Legend Tale of Maui the Demi-God from Moana. It is part of our Classic Bedtime Stories for Kids Collection. It has been adapted from the Tales of Maui as well as Disney’s version of Moana.
The Velveteen Rabbit Story ~ Bedtime English Story for Kids
A Bedtime Story in Simple English for Kids. A toy rabbit learns that through a child’s love it can become real.
The Snow Queen Fairy Tale Story ~Bedtime Story for Kids
The Classic Tale of the Snow Queen: Gerda and Kai struggle to fight the Snow Queen and find the balance between Good and Evil.
Sleeping Beauty Fairy Tale Story ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids
The Classic Fairy Tale of Sleeping Beauty. Princess Aurora has been cursed by Maleficent. When she pricks herself on a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday, she is put into a deep sleep for 100 years.
Who can save her?
The Gift of the Magi Story ~ A Holiday Story for Kids
Bedtime Story for Kids: The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Story. Della and Jim wish to give each other the perfect Christmas present, but how will they come up with the money?
Pocahontas and John Smith Story ~ Folktales Stories for Kids
A Bedtime Story of Friendship, Courage and Acceptance. . The story tells of the time Pocahontas saved the life of settler John Smith from her father, Powhatan.
The Emperor’s New Clothes Story ~ Bedtime Stories
A Bedtime Story in Simple English for Kids. The Emperor is fooled into believing he is wearing magic clothes which can’t be “seen”.
Mulan Story ~ Tale of Hua Mulan Bedtime Stories | English Story for Kids
A Bedtime Story in Simple English for Kids. Based on the “Ballad of Mulan” and Disney’s Mulan, this is a legend tale about a girl who goes in disguise as a boy and joins the army in her brother’s place.
Short Stories for Kids ~ Folk tales, Fairy Tales, Riddles, Legends, Poems
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The history lesson in the sixth "b" was the last one. Inna Ivanovna took the children to the hall, from where they were supposed to move as a whole class ninety million years ago to the Mesozoic era, at a time when dinosaurs roamed the planet like ordinary animals.
In the transfer hall, the students were instructed and put under a protective transparent cap, under which even midges from the past could not penetrate. But the boys have long known how to get out from under the cap. In order not to fall under the force field, it was only necessary to cover yourself with a briefcase like an umbrella and jump out. This is exactly what one of the students, Petka Sentsov, was going to do. nine0003
Petka studied poorly, if not worse, but he was a very proud person and loved to show off his prowess to his classmates.
True, there were no predators or robbers at school, but here he had the opportunity to turn around to the fullest and become the hero of the week, or even the month.
As soon as the class moved into the distant past of the Earth, a one and a half meter dinosaur formed next to the protective hemisphere. The mouth of the lizard was littered with sharp teeth, its eyes looked at the aliens without blinking, and its front paws with long claws greedily grabbed the air all the time. nine0003
“This is a Velociraptor,” Inna Ivanovna said calmly and poked a pointer at the dinosaur. - Write it down, otherwise you will later call it a bicycle or a bicycle scratch. Pay attention to his claws. With such a weapon, a predator easily cracks down on its herbivorous prey.
And the velociraptor was galloping around the protective cap, snapping its jaws and poking its terrible muzzle into the force field.
“Probably he thinks that this is a feeder, and we are cutlets,” said Tanya Zueva and took out a notebook.
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“He should be kicked,” Sentsov casually threw in and added: “Is this a predator? Last week was an Allosaurus. Ten times more. Here is the beast.
“No one will be crutching anyone,” Inna Ivanovna said when she heard Petka. - You can’t hurt animals, even if they are tyrannosaurs.
Inna Ivanovna continued the lesson, and Sentsov pushed his desk mate Pavlik in the side, wiped his nose with his fist and pointed to a stone that lay ten meters away from the cap under a huge tree fern. nine0003
— Bet three clicks I'll run out and fetch that rock over there?
— We bet — Pavlik caught fire, but immediately got scared and said: — What if this auto-cutter grabs you?
“We have seen such motor adapters,” Petka declared boastfully. He went to the transparent wall, covered himself with his briefcase and jumped out.
Outside the hemisphere, Sentsov felt a little scared. Eerie sounds came from the dense Mesozoic forest: either the hungry roar of some dinosaurs, or the death cries of others.
Because of this, it seemed to Petka that the predators were just waiting for him to move away from the protective cap in order to rush at him. He already wanted to return, but he saw Pavlik's mocking smirk and made up his mind. Throwing the briefcase, he rushed headlong to the stone, grabbed it and at that moment heard the battle cry of a dinosaur. He noticed the student, carnivorously snapped his jaws and rushed to his victim. In one second, the velociraptor cut off Sentsov from the cap. Petka had no time to think, and with a plaintive cry he jumped into the Mesozoic bushes. nine0003
Sentsov was lucky. Behind the dense thickets of horsetails, he discovered someone's hole. Its hole was wide enough for him to crawl through on all fours. The dinosaur was a moment too late. He clicked his mouth in front of the entrance and roared offendedly.
In the meantime, a real panic arose under the cap. Inna Ivanovna even staggered in horror, and two students had to grab her by the arms.
The girls squealed deafeningly and pointed fingers at the velociraptor, the boys shifted from foot to foot in embarrassment. And the culprit of the commotion crawled into the hole, but soon stopped, because he saw in front of him someone's round burning eyes. nine0003
- Mommy! Petka cried out strangledly and stepped back. On trembling knees, he climbed out of the hole and turned around. The predator, with his briefcase in his teeth, was already rushing towards Sentsov at full speed.
Petka himself did not understand how he flew up to the tree fern. He barely had time to pull up his legs, and the unlucky dinosaur missed again. Huge jaws clicked just a millimeter from the heel.
- Daddy! cried Sentsov, clinging convulsively to the branches. But here, too, an unpleasant surprise awaited him. Glancing up, Petka saw burning round eyes in the dense dark crown and, in horror, almost fell down right into the mouth of the velociraptor. nine0003
Inna Ivanovna quickly came to her senses and immediately began to act.
The miniature history teacher covered herself with her daddy and jumped out from under the cap. She bravely rushed to the edge of the forest, on the run tore horsetail as thick as her arm from the ground, and the whole Mesozoic forest screamed:
"Hold on, Sentsov!" I'm going to help!
The dinosaur was taken aback by such impudence. He looked at little Inna Ivanovna in confusion and roared again, but his roar was immediately drowned out by the many-voiced cry of the sixth "b" class.
- Give me a dinosaur! shouted Zueva Tanya and jumped out.
— Hurr! - picked up the girls and all as one followed their friend.
- Forward to the assault on veloricinpopins! barked Pavlik and, together with the boys, rushed forward.
Velociraptor obviously did not expect such a turn of events. Having received from the fragile teacher several times a horsetail in the face, he recoiled in fright and shook his head. But when a whole horde of screaming students ran up to him, the dinosaur saved.
The huge predator fled from the battlefield like a hare, and the class followed him with whoops for some time. They waved their briefcases, and the girls squealed so piercingly that all living things for many kilometers around calmed down respectfully. nine0003
Petka came down from the tree as pale as a wall. At first, he could not even speak, but only mumbled something. It immediately became clear that the predator had thrown Sentsov's briefcase somewhere, but they did not look for it in such dense thickets.
- All march under the cap! - adjusting her glasses with her finger, Inna Ivanova ordered. - The lesson continues.
Since then, Petka has become quieter and more modest. And a month later, he even began to study better. This happened after the class was taken on an excursion to the paleontological museum. The lecture was very interesting, and at the end the guide led the children to the window, pointed to the petrified briefcase and said:
- And this is the latest sensational discovery of paleontologists.
She changed our understanding of dinosaurs. The briefcase was found in a cave next to the bones of a Velociraptor. This means that these dinosaurs were intelligent and attended school. Scientists sawed through the petrified briefcase and found several notebooks and a school diary there, which are about a hundred million years old. Now we even know the name of this velociraptor. His name was Sentsov Petr. But I must say that the dinosaur Sentsov was not entirely intelligent. In his petrified diary and notebooks, we found only deuces. Thanks to this, scientists concluded that dinosaurs became extinct because they did not want to learn. nine0003
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Science fiction is a genre of literature that has been a leader in popularity for several decades. Unusual worlds, events impossible in reality - all this attracts not only adult readers, but also children.
Books for adults are not always suitable reading for children and teenagers. In the 20th century, fantastic works began to appear, written specifically for children and youth audiences. Children's fiction is distinguished by the absence of scenes of cruelty, sex, and not such global problems. Unlike books for adults, books written for children always have a happy ending. nine0003
The choice of fantasy literature for children is huge. There are books that have stood the test of time and are classics:
- V. Guborev "The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors";
- L. Carroll "Alice in Wonderland";
- D. Tolkien "The Hobbit";
- K. Bulychev "The Adventures of Alice";
- N. Nosov "The Adventures of Dunno";
- E. Veltistov "Adventures of Electronics";
- C. S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia.
Read children's fiction by the best authors online at B-Reading. ru for free. nine0003
Among modern Russian authors, it is worth paying attention to the following writers:
- A. Zhvalevsky, E. Pasternak “Time is always good”;
- T. Kryukova "Repetition of the past";
- N. Shcherba Chasodei;
- D. Yemets "Tanya Grotter";
- E. Gagloev "Zertsalia".
Read books by Russian writers and popular foreign authors on B-Reading.ru without registration.
Best Children's Contemporary Foreign Fiction:
- D. Rowling Harry Potter series;
- F. Pullman, The Dark Materials trilogy;
- D. Townsend, Nevermoor Series;
- K. Clare Magisterium;
- John Colfer "Artemius Fowl";
- Neil Gaiman Coraline.
This is a small part of children's fantasy that deserves attention. There are many more good works.
