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Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
The Story of the Blue Jackal is one story in the Panchatantra One evening when it was dark, a hungry jackal went in search of food in a large village close to his home in the jungle . The local dogs didn't like Jackals and chased him away so that they could make their owners proud by killing a beastly jackal.
The Greek version of the story tells of a woodcutter who accidentally dropped his axe into a river and, because this was his only means of livelihood, sat down and wept. . Taking pity on him, the god Hermes (also known as Mercury) dived into the water and returned with a golden
1823 (English) [3] [20] A Visit From St. Nicholas: Clement Clarke Moore: 1823 [3] Tales of Peter Parley About America: Peter Parley (pseudonym) 1827 [3] The Three Musketeers: Alexandre Dumas, père: 1844: Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen: 1846 (English) [3] The Children of the New Forest: Frederick Marryat: 1847: Slovenly Peter: Heinrich ...
The story was likely intended as a literature primer for young readers, but departed from highly moralistic, often religious stories written for the same purpose. Adaptations throughout the 1880s incorporated appealing illustrations in order to hold the reader's attention as interest became more relevant to reading lessons.
Collected Stories for Children is a collection of 17 fantasy stories or original fairy tales by Walter de la Mare, first published by Faber in 1947 with illustrations by Irene Hawkins. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] De la Mare won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. [ 4 ]
The story's popularity was further assured after it appeared in La Fontaine's Fables (I.18). [7] It then began to be applied on a number of domestic items, including buttons, [ 8 ] firebacks, [ 9 ] snuff graters, household china and tiles, [ 10 ] and on wallpaper. [ 11 ]
The story is recorded in both Greek and Latin sources. In the former, the farmer dies reproaching himself "for pitying a scoundrel", while in the version by Phaedrus the snake says that he bit his benefactor "to teach the lesson not to expect a reward from the wicked." The latter sentiment is made the moral in Medieval versions of the fable.