Ages 6-8
Stories suggested for ages 6–8, including short adventures and trickster encounters. They can be read together or independently according to reading confidence. Check the individual guidance, and leave room to discuss whether a clever character’s actions were also fair.
Norse Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Husband Who Was to Mind the House
A grumpy husband who thinks his wife never does anything right agrees to swap jobs for a day, but the housework soon turns into one disaster after another.
Norse Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Cat on the Dovrefell
A traveler leading a great white bear to the King of Denmark asks for shelter on Christmas Eve, the one night a whole pack of trolls always comes to feast.
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Whom the King Honours
While his fellow students feast in the woods, a plain country scholar stays behind to guard the college shrine, never guessing that the King is watching.
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Tokgabi and His Pranks
Deep in the warm, sooty flues beneath the floor lives a black goblin who hates anything white, hides the laundry sticks and makes the rice-pot lid dance.
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Sneezing Colossus
Sent out by his wife to find food for the family, lazy Mr. Kim spots a giant pear growing from the head of a huge stone Buddha high on the mountain.
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Renowned Maing
Sheltering from the rain in a roadside pavilion, a proud young scholar lectures a plain old traveler on poetry, never guessing that he is a famous minister.
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Propitious Magpie
A poor friend of King T’ai-jong builds a fake magpie nest in the King’s path, and the writer Yi Ryuk tells how real magpies brought his own family luck.
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
A Story of the Fox
Alone at night in his father’s garden pavilion, a governor’s young son is visited by a pretty stranger he suspects is really a shape-changing fox.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Sprightly Tailor
Dared to sew a pair of trews by night in a haunted church, a cheerful tailor keeps stitching while a huge, roaring thing rises bit by bit from the floor.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Squirrel and the Spider
Spider steals Squirrel’s farm by claiming a farm needs a road, then loses the whole harvest to a crow who uses the very same kind of argument.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Robber and the Old Man
A wise old man teaches a thief to escape the judge by pretending to be mad and answering only “Moo,” and is paid back with the very same trick.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Leopard and the Ram
A ram and a leopard unknowingly build the same house and share it, until the leopard learns how rams hunt and panics when the ram slips backward.