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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.

 

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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Princess Susie really wishes she had a baby brother, and goes on a quest to find one.

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Stripy Elephant and his friends have a BIG problem... they never hear the end of the bedtime story! So Stripy Elephant decides he will learn to read...

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A collection of autumn rhythm poems by artist-illustrator Clancy.

A big boy tricks a little boy into giving him his cake by comparing it to the moon.

Leah, Emmie and Tim are going trick-or-treating... but they don't count on encountering some spooky Halloween cats!

Bear wants to catch some fish for his fish bowl, but those cheeky fish make it impossible!

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The origin story for Santa Claus, and how he came to spread kindness throughout the land.

A little girl goes on a journey to help stop a war between plants in the jungle.

Four brothers each learn a very important skill that they use to save a Princess from a dragon.

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Best friends Ollie the Octopus and Sukey the Spider win trophies with all their legs!

Mama Chick feels sad... luckily her little chicks are about to make her Easter a happy one!

A baby loves their Mumma to sing.

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A Dad takes his family for a walk through the forest, to find chestnuts and other natural treasures.

Being happy is not a size or a shape. There are so many things about a person to love!

An acorn falls on Chicken-licken's head, and the sky falls down!

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A multi-cultural collection of children's myths and legends from all over the world.

The tale of a brave boy samurai, and his adventures with his animal friends.

When Henny Penny is hit on the head, she thinks the sky is falling down!

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A boy keeps meeting a rat who promises they will soon be married.

A tailor kills seven flies with one blow. See how he uses that to succeed in life!

Janet must trust a fairy named Tamlane, in order to return him to human form.

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Thuli really wants to share her cookies with her pet cow, Special.

This active little baby wants a lot of things!

Senzo can do all sorts of things... can you?

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The warm and wonderful tale of Santa Claus's adventures.

Dorothy finds herself in a new and wonderful land when a cyclone picks up her house.

Angel is given a doll for her 12th birthday. But there is something creepy about her...

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If three royal children won't go to sleep, the dragons will be sent in!

Carrot gets his friend Pepper to the big potion contest... but what a potion!

Newmon keeps stealing people's pens... but then the bully is bullied. What is the best solution?

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The man in the moon came tumbling down. ..

I love sixpence, pretty little sixpence...

A rhyme for remembering the days of the month!

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A person finds great pleasure in seeing a field of daffodils.

Miss O'Blair is pretty and fun and smart and has no hair.

There's a time when kids get too grown-up for dolls... Or is there?

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Victoria invents a fork, and presents it to the King!

A moving poem of history and the Australian outback.

A girl creates an army, to fight a wicked man who started war.

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Stories for children 10-11 years old

Stories for children 10-11 years old - read for free online

. Here you will find works for extracurricular reading for every taste, you can download and print them. Guys at 10-11 are smart and quick-witted, able to evaluate the actions of others. This period of development is special, because a new stage of growing up begins - adolescence. At this time, it is important to give a reliable moral base for the student. On the example of the main characters of the stories, the guys learn to keep their word, value their friends, be fair and honest.

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The Mysterious Box - Mikhail Prishvin, read online

Mikhail Prishvin

"The Mysterious Box" - a short but fascinating story by the Russian writer Mikhail Prishvin, which describes the case of hunting wolves: how a man, left alone with predators, using ingenuity managed to stay alive and unharmed. The story "The Mysterious Box" teaches us that wolves, despite their strength and dexterity, are just animals, and a person in any situation must remain a person, smart, resourceful and courageous. Then he is not afraid of any danger.

Reading time: 4 min.

In Siberia, in an area where there are a lot of wolves, I asked a hunter who had a large reward for guerrilla warfare:

— Do you ever have cases where wolves attack a person?

“There are,” he replied. — Yes, what of it? A man has a weapon, a man has strength, and what a wolf! Dog and nothing else.

— However, if this dog is attacking an unarmed person…

— And then nothing! The partisan laughed. “A man’s most powerful weapon is intelligence, resourcefulness, and in particular such resourcefulness as to make a weapon out of any thing.

Once upon a time, a hunter turned a simple box into a weapon. Partizan told a case from a very dangerous hunt for wolves with a piglet. On a moonlit night, four hunters got into the sleigh and took with them a box with a piglet. The box was large, made of half-timber. They put a pig in this box without a lid and went to the steppe, where there are a great many wolves. And it was in winter, when the wolves were hungry. Here the hunters went into the field and began to pull the piglet by the ear, by the leg, by the tail. From this, the pig began to squeal: the more they pull, the more it squeals, and louder and louder, and all over the steppe. Packs of wolves began to gather from all sides at this pig squeal and overtake the hunting sled. When the wolves approached, suddenly the horse sensed them - and how enough! So a box with a piglet flew out of the sleigh, and, worst of all, one hunter fell out without a gun and even without a hat.

Part of the wolves rushed off after the enraged horse, while the other part attacked the piglet, and in an instant there was nothing left of it. When these wolves, after eating a piglet, wanted to approach an unarmed man, they suddenly look, and this man has disappeared and on the road only one box lies upside down. So the wolves came to the box and saw: the box is not simple - the box is moving from the road to the side of the road and from the side of the road into deep snow. The wolves carefully followed the box, and as soon as this box fell into deep snow, before the eyes of the wolves, it began to lower and lower.

The wolves were timid, but after standing still, they recovered and surrounded the box from all sides. Wolves stand and think, and the box is lower and lower. The wolves come closer, but the box does not sleep: lower and lower. The wolves think: “What a wonder? So we will wait - the box will go completely under the snow.

The elder wolf dared, approached the box, put his nose to the crack...

And as soon as he put his wolf nose to this crack, he would blow from the crack! Immediately, all the wolves rushed to the side, which one hit where, and immediately the hunters returned to help, and the man came out alive and healthy from the box.

“That's all,” said the partisan. “And you say that an unarmed man cannot go out against wolves. That's what a person's mind is for, so that he can make protection for himself out of everything.

— Excuse me, — I said, — you just told me that the man from under the box blew something.

- What did you blow? The partisan laughed. - And with his human word he blew, and they fled.

— What word did he know against wolves?

"An ordinary word," said the partisan. - What words are said in such cases: "You fools, wolves," he said, - and nothing more.

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