All Stories
Browse our complete collection of folk tales, Panchatantra stories, and moral stories from around the world.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage
A mouse, a bird, and a sausage keep house in comfort—until jealousy makes them swap jobs, and none of them can do the work.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Pink
A queen bears a wishing-child; a cook steals him, walls her in a tower—and years later the boy comes home with a pink in his pocket.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 6-8
The Queen Bee
A kind dwarf stops his brothers from harming ants, ducks, and bees—then those creatures help him free an enchanted castle and win a princess.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
The Raven
A mother's impatient wish turns her daughter into a raven; a traveller must stay awake three days—or climb the glass mountain of Stromberg.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Robber Bridegroom
A miller's daughter follows ashes into the forest to her betrothed's house—where a caged bird warns her it is a murderers' den.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Salad
A huntsman loses a wishing-cloak and a magical bird heart, then uses two kinds of salad to transform those who took them.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Seven Ravens
A father's angry wish turns seven sons into ravens; their sister walks to the world's end and opens a glass-mountain with her own finger.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
A youth who cannot shudder survives frightening encounters and a haunted castle, then finally trembles when cold fish are poured over him.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
A straw, a coal, and a bean flee an old woman's hearth, try to cross a brook on a straw bridge—and only the bean lives to tell why beans have a seam.
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The Three Languages
A count's son learns only what dogs, birds, and frogs say—then those "useless" languages save a tower, a country, and make him pope.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 6-8
The Travelling Musicians
An old donkey, dog, cat, and cock set out for Bremen as town musicians—and their midnight concert drives robbers from a forest house.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Turnip
A poor gardener’s giant turnip wins the king’s favor; his rich brother’s envy ends with a “sack of wisdom” swinging in a tree.