Literature

In the rude days of King Richard and King John, there were many great kinds of wood in England. The most famous of these was…

An Eagle, swooping down on powerful wings, seized a lamb in her talons and made off with it to her nest. A Jackdaw saw the…

Everyone knows Anansi the spider always has a trick or two, and sometimes three, up to his sleeve. He wants to be the most powerful…

A good many years ago there lived in Italy a little boy whose name was Antonio Canova. He lived with his grandfather, for his own…

There was a lion who feared nothing except the crowing of cocks. A chill would go down his spine whenever he heard a cock crowing. …

The Tortoise, you know, carries his house on his back. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot leave home. They say that Jupiter punished…

Four friends live in a village which has been struck by famine. Three of them are extremely clever and learned and consider their friend Shivanand…

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

Once upon a time, in a faraway forest, a little fir tree sprouted and began to grow. The sun beamed down upon his slender branches.…

In former times, when God himself still walked the earth, the fruitfulness of the soil was much greater than it is now; then the ears…

In Rome, there was once a poor slave whose name was Androclus. His master was a cruel man, and so unkind to him that at…

A shoemaker, by no fault of his own, had become so poor that at last, he had nothing left but leather for one pair of…