All Stories
Browse our complete collection of folk tales, Panchatantra stories, and moral stories from around the world.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Tale of Ivan
Ivan takes three pieces of advice instead of three years’ wages, and each one saves his life, his friends or his good name on the long road home.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Vision of MacConglinney
A wandering scholar cures a king’s endless hunger by tying him up, eating in front of him and describing a dream of houses and boats made of food.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Wooing of Olwen
To win the giant’s daughter Olwen, young Kilhuch and King Arthur’s strangest champions must find a lost prisoner and hunt a terrible magic boar.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Selkie Wife
A Shetland man hides the sealskin of a sea-maiden so she must stay and marry him, until one of their children finds the skin hidden behind a corn stack.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
Pied Piper of Hamelin | German Legend of Promises Broken (9-12+)
A piper in a red and yellow coat rids Hamelin of its rats, but when the mayor breaks his promise to pay, the piper plays a different tune.
European Fairy Tales
Ages 9-12
The Three Golden Hairs of Grandfather Knowitall
A king tries everything to stop a charcoal-burner’s son from marrying his daughter, even sending him to fetch three golden hairs from the Sun himself.
European Fairy Tales
The Glass Mountain
Where knights on fine horses have failed, a cheerful schoolboy with lynx claws on his hands and feet sets out to climb the slippery Glass Mountain.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Children of Lir
Their jealous stepmother turns Lir’s four children into swans, doomed to wander the lakes and seas of Ireland for nine hundred years.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Voyage of Bran
A silver branch and a stranger’s song call Bran across the sea to the Land of Women, but the journey home holds a terrible surprise for his crew.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Cuchulain and the Hound of Culain
Late for a feast at the smith Culain’s house, the boy Setanta must face a savage watchdog armed only with a hurley stick and a ball.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Salmon of Knowledge
Young Finn is told to cook the magic Salmon of Knowledge for his teacher and not taste a bite, but a burnt thumb changes everything for him.
Norse Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
On a stormy autumn night, a great white bear taps on a poor farmer’s window and offers to make the family rich if the youngest daughter will go with him.