JOSH AND THE AMAZING SHADOW

Short Story written by: Ana Clara de la Barrera.

Josh was a lonely man who used to spend most part of the day sleeping. His shadow, used to make the most of it during the night, and when Josh was sleeping deeply, the shadow used to go out and have fun.

One night, he was not able to sleep and saw his shadow going out through the window. He waited angry for her, until she came back home.

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When the shadow saw Josh, tried to run to the door, but Josh shut her up inside a glass jar.

Josh was sleeping while his shadow was suffering inside the jar.

 

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NAUGHTY KID

Short Story for Kids written by: Cynthia de los Santos.

Once upon a time there was a very naughty boy, he used to hit and treat his class mates badly. One day, he went for a walk with his parents, he took lots of toys before going out and they went to the park; which had many games, lots of trees and a lake.

There were ducks and fishes in the lake, and he was having so much fun.

 

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He was there without obeying his dad and mom, Hitting people and saying swear words (that is not right).

He went running somewhere to hide, so his parents could not see him, they were very worried, thinking something had happened to him.

 

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MY MAGIC SHOES

Short Story for Kids written by: Lucre, Agustina, Melisa y Julieta.

Once upon a time there was a girl that was ballet dancer. Until one day, her favorite shoes broke.

On her way home remembered that she could buy the same shoes at the shop beside her house. So ran to the shop; but when she was going to pay realized that did not have enough money from her savings, and so, she left.

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A friend gave her money for her birthday, so she had money to buy a new pair of dancing shoes.

But, when she went to the shop, there were no more shoes like those left. All the pairs had been sold. She asked the woman of the shop and she said that only had a pair of magic shoes left; the girl was confused; but she bought them anyway because was in a harry, saying:

-“Oops! It´s too late!”

 

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ROAD OF CANDIES

Short Story for Children written by: Stefani.

It was a usual day when, suddenly, started to rain. I went inside my house and, suddenly an earthquake started. The house was getting destroyed too fast.

A tornado came taking Susie with it. The girl had fallen asleep, but when she woke up, saw a beautiful place made of sweets. Began to eat until was full. Then she continued walking through a road of bonbons.

 

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A pretty woman appeared and told her that the road of bonbons was delicious, and the chocolate road was worst. The girl did what she said and continued walking through the bonbons road. She arrived at a candy forest, it looked ugly and did not want to continue.

 

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MAGIC CARTONS

Short Story for Kids written by: Rosa Maria Martin-Moreno.

Christian was living in a little town, he gathered up cartons every night. His family was very poor, they needed everything they could pick up to eat.

He was just going to school some days a month, he was learning very slowly, because could not go to school daily. He had not learnt too much, and barely had time to do his homework.

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One day, when he was gathering up some cartons, heard a voice from the bottom of the trash can, saying:

– “Read me, read me”.

 

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THE KID AND THE JOKER

Short Story written by: Angel Eduardo Espino A.

Long, long time ago, there was a sad kid living in a small village, he was so sad because nothing made him laugh.

One day, his sister called different jokers and comedians from all over the world, but none of them was useful. The kid was bored of their jokes, until his sister called the best comedian of  the world.

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The comedian told him some jokes, but none of them was useful either, finally, the kid pushed the joker, tired of his jokes, and he fell inside a trash can being wounded.

 

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HI, MOM VENUS! (FOURTH PART)

Short Story written by: Jose Manuel (Spain)

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…I´m going to explain you how is our daily life. We are always exercising, we move non stop around our grandfather, the Sun. We play two games, one is called “Rotate, rotate…” and the other one is called “Move fast”.

 

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As they are so funny, we use to play both games at the same time, and we have so much fun! In the first game we dance always rotating around our own axis, and sometimes, when we are tired of going round and round the same place, we play the other game, which helps us to know other places by moving around our parents, without going too far. We have to follow the ways (orbits) they tell us; you might think they are boring, but I m going to tell you more about them.

 

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HI, MOM VENUS! (THIRD PART)

New Short Story for Kids written by: Jose Manuel (Spain)

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Mom venus kept explaining the girls how was her family.

-“My family is too big, like yours, I have many cousins, which are my siblings´ children, who are living around their parents, and you can see them often, they are called Satellites. 

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My cousin, the Moon is the one you know more, she is always near your planet, the Earth, you see her at night, not always, because she likes to play hide and seek and some days you can see full moon, other days she hides and you can only see half moon, because she is very playful.

 

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HI, MOM VENUS ! (SECOND PART)

Short Stories for Kids written by: Jose Manuel (Spain)

Click to read: HI, MOM VENUS! (FIRST PART)

We had never wished the sun setting behind the mountains that much, but that meant that the night was arriving and, usually we had to separate to go home to sleep, but that night was different, we were all anxious to see the sunset and Venus appearing.

 

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-“Look! Can you see her?” – I said.

– “Where is she?” – Gemma Screamed.

– “There, I think is that one!” – Yelled Adele.

-“Yeeees! That´s her! can you see how shiny she is! I told you ! she is the first appearing at the sky and the most brilliant! – I said.

 

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HI, MOM VENUS! (FIRST PART)

Short Story written by: Jose Manuel (Spain).

My name is Lauren, and I am very young, your age, more or less. For some time now, mostly during summer; when I´m on holidays, I like to see de sky. The mix of colors that gives us is wonderful, the oranges, blues, also ochres, browns, dark colors, etc.

There is a moment, in such a range of colors, that the sun sets behind the mountains, and that is my favorite light moment. Is a strong light, blazing, full of strength, the only light I can see in the sky, there is no other like that.

 

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After so many times waiting and looking at her, we are now friends, although we can only stay together for a short time, she leaves pretty fast because her cousin, the moon, comes with her pijamas saying is time to go to bed.

 

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