Fairy tales, fables and folk tales

The Good Children

Intermediate

7 min read

The Lord was angered at mankind, and for three years there was a great famine over all the world; nowhere in the world was even a grain of corn produced, and what people sowed failed to come up from a drought so great, that for three years there was not a drop of rain or […]

The King who Married the Cock's Daughter

Elphinstone Dayrell
Nigerian

Advanced

6 min read

King Effiom of Duke Town, Calabar, was very fond of pretty maidens, and whenever he heard of a girl who was unusually good-looking, he always sent for her, and if she took his fancy, he made her one of his wives. This he could afford to do, as he was a rich man, and could […]

The Ploughman and His Sons

La Fontaine
French

Easy

1 min read

The farmer’s patient care and toil Are oftener wanting than the soil. A wealthy ploughman drawing near his end, Call’d in his sons apart from every friend, And said, “When of your sire bereft, The heritage our fathers left Guard well, nor sell a single field. A treasure in it is conceal’d: The place, precisely, […]