Fables and Fairy Tales for Kids

Once upon a time in the middle of a thick forest stood a small cottage, the home of a pretty little girl known to everyone as Little Red Riding Hood...

There was a poor but good little girl who lived with her mother. They had nothing to eat. One day, the child went into the forest, and there...

There was once upon a time a king who was so much loved by his subjects that he thought himself the happiest man in the whole world, and...

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it was neither in my time nor in your time nor in any one else’s time...

There was, some time ago, a gentleman who was very rich. He had fine town and country houses, his dishes and plates were all of gold or...

There were once a king and queen who had twelve children—all boys. Now, one day the king told his wife that if a daughter should be...

Once upon a time there was a fisherman who had a wife and three children. Every morning he used to go out fishing, and whatever...

Once upon a time there lived a man who had only one son, a lazy, stupid boy, who would never do anything he was told. When the father...

There were once upon a time three brothers; the eldest was called Jacob, the second Frederick, and the youngest Peter...

One day in the middle of winter, when the snowflakes fell from the sky like feathers, a queen sat at a window netting...

There was a miller who had three sons, and when he died he divided what he possessed among them in the following manner: He gave...

There was a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was considered very silly, and everybody used to mock him and make fun...

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In the days of King Alfred, there lived a poor woman whose cottage was situated in a remote country village, a great many miles from...

Three little Fairies sat in the fields eating their breakfast; each among the leaves of her favorite flower, Daisy, Primrose, and...

Eva nodded to the gay little ones, as they peeped from among the leaves at the stranger, and then she listened to the...

There were once a brother and sister who loved each other dearly; their mother was dead, and their father had married again a woman...

There was once a king who had three sons, all remarkably handsome in their persons, and in their tempers brave and noble...

DOWN in the deep blue sea lived Ripple, a happy little Water-Spirit; all day long she danced beneath the coral arches, made garlands of...

In a large and pleasant garden sat little Annie all alone, and she seemed very sad, for drops that were not dew fell fast upon the...

In a great forest, high up among the green boughs, lived Bird Brown-Breast, and his bright-eyed little mate...

ONCE upon a time, two little Fairies went out into the world, to seek their fortune. Thistledown was as gay and...

In the reign of the famous King Arthur, there lived near the Land's End of England, in the county of Cornwall, a worthy farmer, who had...

A sailor, bound on a long voyage, took along with him a Monkey to amuse him while on shipboard. As he sailed off the coast of Greece...