Kindness & Compassion
Explore 106 folk tales celebrating kindness and compassion. These heartwarming stories show how simple acts of mercy — feeding a hungry animal, helping a stranger, forgiving an enemy — can change the course of events in miraculous ways. These moral stories about kindness for children teach that compassion is never wasted and that the smallest gesture can have the greatest impact.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Ages 6-8
The Frog Prince: A Promise Kept, A Curse Broken
The Frog Prince: A Promise Kept, A Curse Broken: In a kingdom where crystal towers caught the sunlight and turned it into rainbows, there lived a princess
Indian Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Magic Drum: A Lesson in Purity of Heart
The Magic Drum: A Lesson in Purity of Heart: The Drum That Sang With Abundance In a remote village nestled in the foothills of the Vindhya Mountains, there
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Sun and the Moon: A Mother’s Love Reaches Heaven Itself
The Sun and the Moon: A Mother's Love Reaches Heaven Itself: The Sun and the Moon: How a Mother’s Devotion Changed the Sky Forever In ancient times, when the
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Heungbu and Nolbu: Virtue Rewarded and Greed Punished
Heungbu and Nolbu: Virtue Rewarded and Greed Punished: Heungbu and Nolbu: The Tale of Two Brothers and the Seeds of Fortune In a village where mountains met
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Tale of Shim Cheong: Filial Devotion and the Dragon King’s Blessing
The Tale of Shim Cheong: Filial Devotion and the Dragon King's Bless: The Tale of Shim Cheong: A Korean Folk Story of Love and Sacrifice In the depths of
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden: A Love Between Two Worlds
The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden: A Love Between Two Worlds: The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden: When Love Transcends the Stars High in the mountains
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 3-5
The Glass Mountain: A Polish Tale of Cleverness Over Strength
The Glass Mountain: A Polish Tale of Cleverness Over Strength: In a distant kingdom of Poland, there stood a mountain unlike any other in all the world.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 3-5
Baba Dochia and the Coming of Spring: A Romanian Tale of Humility
Baba Dochia and the Coming of Spring: A Romanian Tale of Humility: High in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, where snow fell thick and heavy for months on
Arabian Nights
Ages 9-12
The Wise Girl of Turkey
The Turkish telling of the clever-girl tale (ATU 875): a poor weaver's daughter answers a padishah's impossible riddles, performs his paradoxical tasks, and at the last carries off the sleeping king himself as the one thing she holds most dear.
Arabian Nights
Ages 9-12
The Enchanted Horse
The Enchanted Horse, or Ebony Horse, from the Thousand and One Nights - a Persian prince masters a flying mechanical horse, wins a princess, and outwits the inventor who steals her away.
Arabian Nights
Ages 9-12
The Prince and the Sphinx
The Prince and the Sphinx: In ancient Egypt, when the pyramids were still bright with polished limestone and reflected the sun like beacons to the gods, there
Arabian Nights
Ages 9-12
Nasreddin Hodja and the Smell of Soup
Nasreddin Hodja and the Smell of Soup: In the bustling streets of Aksehir, a small town in Anatolia, there lived a man of great wit and humble wisdom named