All Stories
Browse our complete collection of folk tales, Panchatantra stories, and moral stories from around the world.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
The Six Swans
A witch-queen turns six brothers into swans; their sister must sew starwort shirts in silence for six years—even when fire waits at the stake.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats
A mother goat warns her seven kids of the wolf; he softens his voice and whitens his paws—yet the youngest, hidden in the clock, helps undo him.
Celtic Folk Tales
A Legend of Knockmany
The giant Fin M’Coul dreads a fight with the mighty Cucullin, so his clever wife Oonagh disguises him as a baby and bakes iron griddles into the bread.
Celtic Folk Tales
Andrew Coffey
Lost on a stormy night, Andrew Coffey shelters in a strange cabin where a voice demands a story, and a drowned neighbour appears with a blackthorn stick.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Beth Gellert
Prince Llewelyn comes home to find his faithful greyhound Gellert covered in blood and his baby’s cradle overturned, and he acts before he knows the truth.
Celtic Folk Tales
Brewery Of Eggshells
A Welsh mother suspects her twins have been swapped for fairy changelings, and a wise man’s trick with an eggshell makes them reveal who they are.
Celtic Folk Tales
Conal Yellowclaw
Caught stealing the King of Lochlann’s brown horse, Conal Yellowclaw wins his three sons’ lives one by one by telling of the narrowest escapes of his life.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Connla and the Fairy Maiden
An invisible fairy maiden calls Prince Connla away to the Plain of Pleasure, and even the king’s Druid cannot break the longing she leaves behind.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Dream of Owen O’Mulready
Owen O’Mulready has never had a dream, so his master tells him to sleep on the hearth, and that night he sets off for America on the back of a crane.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Elidore
A boy runs away from his strict monk teachers and is led through a cave into a sunless land of little people, until greed for a golden ball ends it all.
Celtic Folk Tales
Fair, Brown, and Trembling
Kept at home by jealous sisters, Trembling rides to church three Sundays in magic robes, loses a shoe to a prince, and then faces her sister’s worst treachery.
Celtic Folk Tales
Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree
A jealous queen asks a trout in a well who is the most beautiful, and when it names her daughter Gold-Tree, she sets out to destroy the girl.