All Stories
Browse our complete collection of folk tales, Panchatantra stories, and moral stories from around the world.
Aesop's Fables
Ages 6-8
The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
A wolf hides in a sheepskin to slip into the flock, but the disguise works too well when the shepherd reaches into the fold for meat.
Aesop's Fables
Ages 3-5
The Crow and the Pitcher
A thirsty crow finds a pitcher with water too low to reach, so she drops in pebble after pebble until the water rises to her beak.
Aesop's Fables
Ages 3-5
The Dog and His Reflection
A dog carrying meat across a stream snaps at his water-reflection and loses the piece he was already holding in his jaws.
Aesop's Fables
Ages 3-5
The North Wind and the Sun
The North Wind and the Sun argue over who is stronger and test it on a traveller's cloak. Fierce gusts fail where gentle warmth wins.
Aesop's Fables
Ages 6-8
The Goose That Laid Golden Eggs
A couple's goose lays one golden egg each day. They kill it hoping to find gold inside, but find ordinary flesh and lose the daily eggs.
Aesop's Fables
Ages 3-5
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
A country mouse visits his cousin in town and tastes rich food, but every opening door sends them fleeing, so he goes home to simple peace.
Aesop's Fables
Ages 6-8
The Oak and the Reed
After a gale uproots an oak, it asks the reeds how their frail stems survived. Their answer contrasts bending with resisting the wind.
Aesop's Fables
Ages 6-8
The Bundle of Sticks
A father tired of his sons' quarrels hands them a bundle of sticks none can break, then shows how easily the sticks snap one at a time.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts
Chanticleer and Partlet feast on mountain nuts, then pick up a duck, a pin and a needle on their way home to a very unlucky innkeeper.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes
A rooster, a hen and their unusual travelling companions visit Mr Korbes and arrange a series of painful traps in his house.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief
When Partlet chokes on a nut, Chanticleer seeks help through a chain of requests, followed by a disastrous funeral journey.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ashputtel
Birds sort peas from ashes and a hazel-tree dresses Ashputtel for three royal feasts—until a golden slipper exposes her stepsisters' bloody cheat.