Children

Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Rasha. Her hair was always messy, and she wore torn clothes and worn-out shoes. She lived in an old house with her parents. They often went to sleep hungry. Despite that, she never complained. She was characterized by striving to improve her life and her family’s life. Sometimes Rasha would share food with her favorite friend Jad, whose family was also poor. He would do the same as her when food was available to him. ...

A child named Ziyad tells the story: “Can you see me? Of course, you can see me. For several days, it was difficult to see anything. Do you know what happened? One night, all the lamps disappeared from the house and from the entire town. Darkness was everywhere. It was a terrible and frightening matter. Everyone felt fear. We searched everywhere and didn’t find the lamps. All the town’s residents gathered, asking where the lamps were and who stole the lamps.” ...

One day, after the mother breastfed her little daughter Marjorie and she slept, she placed her in her crib. She said to herself, “I will go to my neighbor to give her these things and return in one minute before the girl wakes up and feels my absence.” The mother hadn’t seen her neighbor for a while, so when she went to her, the neighbor stood to talk with her about some matters. While the mother was talking with her neighbor, they heard a fire alarm and the smell of smoke throughout the area. ...

Majid is very happy. He’s spending his vacation at his grandfather’s village. Everything in the village seems beautiful, even the moon, whose color was red that night. While Majid was drawing in his room, he heard a strange noise. He ran toward his grandfather. “What’s the matter, Grandfather?” His grandfather said to him as he was preparing to go out, “The village residents are waiting for my first signal to bang on pots and tour the village to scare whoever is strangling the moon and make him leave it.” ...

Richard looked at his face in the mirror with some disgust. There was something obvious in his face that made him never smile again. He would keep his lips pressed together all the time. Richard was an eleven-year-old child who was very happy and smiled a lot until that day when he was playing with his siblings and smiling while they were getting ready to go to school. When their mother told them that the school bus had arrived, his brother Dick snatched his backpack and his clarinet, and they all ran toward the stairs. ...

Ricky loved to make funny expressions on his face, hoping his friends would be happy. However, Ricky had another face that could make his friends scared and run away from him. This face appeared when he felt angry. One summer day, Reggie went to look for his friends to tell them he wanted to play with them, and he would be able to keep his face smiling and never show them the angry face no matter what happened. He wanted his friends to love him and never be angry with him. ...

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Rebecca. She loved her grandfather very much. Usually, children had to travel long distances to reach their grandparents’ homes, but Rebecca was very lucky because her grandfather and grandmother’s house was in the same village where she lived. The school bus even dropped her off at her grandfather’s house every day, and she would stay there until her mother returned from work. ...

Once upon a time, in ancient times, there was a man who committed many sins and crimes. He would drink wine, play music, and worship idols, and he would do other things many times, but God would forgive him and his family. On a day of the days, this man repented to God to leave all sins and work righteously to please God Almighty and to give him a paradise in which there is no eyes have seen, nor ears have heard, nor has there fallen on a human heart the thought of it. ...

In the depth of the forest, there lived a small phoenix in a hot, kind place where the shining sun and gentle winds blew upon its feathers. It was fond of tall trees and would look at them from above because they were the first to say to the birds: Surround me, for I am very small, and I don’t see anything until it harms me. So I wish I would fly until I see the planets and the world around me. ...

The judge said the wise one to the ministers until he opened the court of the judges to look at a case, so all were silent. He ordered the guard to call upon the plaintiff of the first case, so the guard called: The honest man and the rooster. The judge said: Wait until I leave so I can distinguish between you two which one is the man and which one is the rooster. ...