All Stories
Browse our complete collection of folk tales, Panchatantra stories, and moral stories from around the world.
Norse Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Tyr and the Binding of Fenrir
Tyr and the Binding of Fenrir: In the time before Ragnarok, when the gods still believed they could prevent the end times through cunning and sacrifice, there
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Adzanumee And Her Mother
Adzanumee And Her Mother. A girl chooses between magic and memories. Learn why love and memories are worth more than anything else in the world.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Anansi And Nothing
Anansi And Nothing: Near Anansi’s miserable little hut there was a fine palace where lived a very rich man called Nothing. Nothing and Anansi proposed, one
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Anansi The Blind Fisherman
Anansi the Blind Fisherman: A Tale of Cleverness and Justice In a village near a great river in Africa, there lived a spider named Anansi. Unlike...
African Folk Tales
All Ages
Farmer Mybrow And The Fairies
Farmer Mybrow And The Fairies — a tale of justice and vindication. Farmer Mybrow faces cruel accusations, but justice arrives through supernatural intervention.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Honourable Minū
Honourable Minū: It happened one day that a poor Akim-man had to travel from his own little village to Accra - one of the big towns on the coast. This man
African Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
How Beasts And Serpents First Came Into The World
How Beasts And Serpents First Came Into The World: The famine had lasted nearly three years. Kweku Tsin, being very hungry, looked daily in the forest in the
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
How Mushrooms First Grew
How Mushrooms First Grew — a tale of brothers, trickery, and transformation. Two brothers with bad habits deceived their community, changing the land.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
How The Tortoise Got Its Shell
How The Tortoise Got Its Shell: A few hundred years ago, the chief Mauri (God) determined to have a splendid yam festival. He therefore sent his messengers to
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
How We Got The Name ‘Spider Tales’
Anansi the spider climbs to the Sky God to buy the world's stories — and almost every folk tale in Africa now wears his name.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
How Wisdom Became The Property Of The Human Race
How Wisdom Became The Property Of The Human Race. Long ago, wisdom belonged only to a few. Learn how one person changed everything by sharing knowledge.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
King Chameleon And The Animals
An African folk tale about how the animals once chose a king by race — and why a clever little chameleon beat the swift hare to the stool of power.