What a day it has been. Everyone is tired, especially moms and dads, but the children still want to hear a fairy tale. What to do? It’s easy. In such cases, short fairy tales that flow quickly and yet lose none of their magic will help. If you’re already looking forward to bed, read a short fairy tale, give a goodnight kiss, and off to sleep you go. There will be time for a long fairy tale again next time.
Once there was a careful gardener who took care of a garden. He watered all the beds regularly, pulled the weeds, and as far as the eye could see, the grass grew green and colourful flowers bloomed. Yet it happened that the vegetables became unhappy.
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Once upon a time there was a little boy called George. There would be nothing unusual about that, there are plenty of little boys like that in the world. But this George did everything the other way round.
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Adele was a little girl. Most of all, she liked to play at home in the morning before lunch, and in the afternoon after lunch she would go to the garden where her friend the snail and the black cat were waiting for her. What did the three of them talk about? About how their day was going.
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In a forest there lived a little grey mouse. The little mouse liked colours, he liked flowers, but most of all he liked birds. He liked robins best. They had such beautiful red feathers. The mouse envied them so much. He was just grey himself, and that’s such a boring colour. He really wished he had a red coat like the robin’s feathers.
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In a faraway kingdom, a wise king ruled. He also had a wise queen who always gave him the right advice, and so the people in that kingdom prospered. One day, however, the king decided that it was time to hand over the rule to his son, Prince Aldric. The prince wanted to marry a princess, but he couldn’t decide which one. The king did not know how to advise the prince which princess would be the best, so he decided to go to an old wizard for advice.
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A little mosquito was flitting about the countryside. He liked to fly over the ponds where he could look at his reflection. This mosquito was very conceited. As he flew past a fly that was resting in the shade, he fluffed up his snout and the few hairs on his head.
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A grasshopper and an ant lived in a meadow. The grasshopper spent her days jumping in the sun, while the ant worked hard and was always carrying something somewhere. The grasshopper was amazed, and came up to him and asked him questions:
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Once upon a time there was a kingdom where everyone was sad. Their beautiful princess was kidnapped by an evil witch who made her her maid. In her house, the princess had to sweep and wash the floors, brush the cobwebs, cook, chop wood and take care of the animals.
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It was a hot summer day. The crow was flying around the countryside, just returning home, he was very hot. The midday sun was beating down on his black feathers and the crow soon became thirsty.
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In one village there was a mill on the bank of a river where a clever donkey helped the miller with his hard work for many years. But as time went on, the donkey grew older and did a little less work each year. Eventually the miller decided that the old donkey was no longer of any use to him, and instead of thanking him for his years of help, he drove the donkey out, saying: “Get out of here, you’re no use to me anyway.”
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