Once upon a time, far away in the deep ocean where the water was very clear and blue, a king ruled the underwater world and the sea people. In the underwater world, beautiful trees and colorful flowers grew. There were also beautiful animals and all kinds of fish. The sea people lived in harmony.
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One day in early spring, a mama duck was impatiently walking around the eggs in her nest, waiting for all her ducklings to hatch. Suddenly, she heard the first “crunch”. One of the yellow ducklings was coming into the world. And soon, she heard the cluck a second and a third time. Only the fourth, the biggest of the eggs, still nothing. The mama duck circled around it, pecking at it with her beak to urge it on, but the duckling in the egg had yet to hatch.
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Once there was a poor farmer who had a bunch of children. He no longer had anyone in the village to ask to be the godfather of his last, newly born son. So he decided to sit down by the road and ask the first person who passed by to be his son’s godfather.
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Once upon a time there were three little pigs who lived in a meadow by the forest. They were happy for a long time, and lacked nothing. Until one day the youngest pig came with bad news. He heard from a wise owl, who always kept track of everything, that a wolf was in the area.
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In a lovely little house by the forest there lived a goat with her baby goats. The goats were very mischievous and often did not want to obey their mother. One day the mother goat had to go out to graze and before leaving she told the baby goats, “Keep the door closed until you hear my voice. I’ll bring you an udder full of milk.”
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At the edge of a small village, a poor widow and her daughter lived in a house with a flimsy thatched roof. They had nothing but a modest roof over their heads and a few chickens. Mostly they ate only what their mother gathered in the woods in the summer, and the only money they had was what their daughter earned by selling eggs at the market. At least it could buy bread and warm shoes for the winter.
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Once upon a time there was a little boy called Smolíček who lived with a deer with golden antlers. The deer took care of Smolíček, but always warned him not to open the door to anyone when he was home alone.
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Once upon a time there was a little girl whom everyone called Little Red Riding Hood – after the little red velvet bonnet she wore. She lived happily with her mummy and daddy, who loved her very much, as did everyone else, because she was sweet and obedient. Little Red Riding Hood had a grandmother who lived at the edge of the forest.
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It was the first birthday of the baby bear. Bear mum, bear pup and all the others were very busy, arranging the party. All the animals and fairies in the fairyland were invited for dinner. They all had come with their Sunday best for the party. After dinner, all the fairies started singing and dancing.
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Dear children, you must remember the beautiful Princess Aurora who lived in the castle with her father, the mighty and proud King Ohrnos. However, the princess saw the good in her father and wanted very much to open his frozen heart. She knew she had to change that, because she didn’t want everyone in the castle to be afraid of him.
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