Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault
There was once upon a time a little village girl, the prettiest ever seen or known, of whom her mother was dotingly fond. Her grandmother was even fonder of her still, and had …
Kids Stories
Little Mirandy and How She Earned Her Shoes by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
By the 1st of June Mrs. Thayer had the sun-bonnets done. There were four of them, for the four youngest girls—Eliza, Mary Ann, Harriet, and Mirandy. She had five daughters besides these, …
Little Ida’s Flowers by Hans Christian Andersen
My poor flowers are quite dead,” said little Ida, “they were so pretty yesterday evening, and now all the leaves are hanging down quite withered. What do they do that for,” she …
Little Girls Wiser Than Men by Leo Tolstoy
It was an early Easter. Sledging was only just over; snow still lay in the yards; and water ran in streams down the village street. Two little girls from different houses happened …
Little Claus and Big Claus by Hans Christian Andersen
In a village there once lived two men who had the same name. They were both called Claus. One of them had four horses, but the other had only one; so to …
Ladronius, The Prince of Thieves by Herodotus
Many hundreds of years ago, not long after the Greeks returned from the famous siege of Troy, there lived a king of Egypt, whose name was Rhampsinitus. So great a king was …