LITTLE JOHNY AND THE BUBBLE BATH

Short Story written by Manjari Shukla

Little Johny was a cute and charming young boy who was loved by everyone. He never troubled his mother and played all day with his toys. He would spend the entire day playing on the floor and the dirt and dust on the floor would make him very dirty.

In spite of his mother’s repeated requests he wouldn’t take a bath. He always made excuses to avoid taking a bath.

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One day he looked particularly dirty and his hair was all shabby, so his mother kissed him gently and said-“Today I will give you a bubble bath.”

Little Johny gave many excuses so as not to have a bath. But in the end he replied “Only if I can take my big yellow ball into the bath tub.” His mother agreed happily and said -“Yes, you can take it.”  Continue reading…

ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION

Inside a crystal ball lived two colleagues that didn´t get along very well. They were called Addition and Subtraction.

Addition had a positive mind and was always counting numbers from zero: “zero, number one, number two, number three, number four…”- And Subtraction always asked her: “What are you doing?” – and Addition would answer: “I’m counting the numbers from zero”.

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Subtraction didn´t understand anything. She thought that Addition was crazy because for Subtraction everything was sad, because she had to count back: “10, 9, 8, 7, 6…” – and Addition asked her: “What are you doing?” – “I am subtracting the numbers from 10“. Addition thought that subtraction was crazy. Continue reading…

SCARY MOON FOR ONE NIGHT

Once upon a time there was a 5 year old boy called Gary who was scared of going out at night because he thought that the moon was going to fall from the sky.

His parents always said: “You don´t have to be scared, the moon won´t fall.”

Gary didn’t know why, but he was very scared and imagined the moon falling and crushing him.

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Halloween arrived and Gary´s parents insisted that he go out and have fun with his friends, Gary accepted this and went out but never took his eyes off the moon…  Continue reading…

JOHN THE GREEN GOBLIN

Short Story written by: Maria Sol Centurión

Once upon a time there was a boy called John. One day his mother asked him to go and buy some food for dinner.

On his way to the supermarket a fairy called Lily appeared and asked him: “Hi John, I am a magic fairy, would you like to be a goblin?”

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“Yes” – said the child.

 

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THE SWIMMER CLOWN

Once upon a time there was a clown who really loved swimming. He participated in important competitions all over the world.

He was a very good swimmer and he also dressed up as a clown in competitions, and that´s why everyone knew him as the swimmer clown.

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He was one of the best swimmers in the world, actually, and he won any competition he wanted, nevertheless, everybody knew what he did in every competition. Continue reading…

THE CRICKET AND THE TOAD

Short Story written by: Estefany Munera Gómez

Once upon a time there was a cricket playing hide and seek in the forest with his friends.

The cricket hid behind a tree where a toad lived. The toad had no friends because he was ugly and fat.

The toad was crying when the cricket arrived, “Why are you crying?” – it asked him.

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“I have no friends” – said the poor toad – “Do you want to be my friend?” – said the cricket.

“But don´t you see that I am ugly and disgusting?” Continue reading…

JAMES AND THE TEACHER´S WHISTLE

James was a peculiar boy who lived near a main square in London, he was 7 years old and what he most hated in the world was his sports class at school.

James didn´t like to practice sports at all  and when he had sports class he would tell his mother he was sick, but his mother knew him very well.

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His mother was worried, James was getting fatter and needed to play some sport. So she went to talk to the gym teacher. Continue reading…

THE INVISIBLE BUTTERFLY

Dory was the most colourful butterfly in the butterfly town of Aley. When Dory flew over the big fields of Aley everything turned colourful and bright.

She was a very happy butterfly, and everybody near her could feel her enthusiasm and optimism.

One rainy day a green lizard arrived in Aley looking for food, but unfortunately this lizard´s favourite food was butterflies.

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It didn´t take long for the butterflies to hear about the evil lizard’s arrival. Aley had been such a secure place for so many years that nobody in the universe knew about its existence. Continue reading…

THE GIRL AND HER SHORT STORIES

Short Story written by: Camila

Once upon a time there was a little girl with lots of imagination. Her voice and smile were so sweet and she lived with her grandparents helping them with everything they needed, and always took care of them.

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She would tell them short stories and sometimes they fell into a relaxing asleep during the storytelling. Continue reading…

PETER AND THE COCONUT

Once upon a time there was a woodpecker called Peter who lived in a big jungle full of trees including coconut palms.

Peter really liked coconut palms because of their big leaves and of course, because of their fruit: The coconut.

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Peter discovered coconuts thanks to a monkey that had thrown a coconut down to the ground which had broken into two pieces.  Peter approached the coconut to see what was inside… Continue reading…