Educational

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. ...

It is autumn, and tree leaves are falling. Qatqat the cat said to his mother: I will go out to the garden. His mother said to him: Good, my beloved Qatqat, but beware of the cold. Qatqat the cat answered: I will keep walking warm. The change of nature due to the autumn season: Qatqat the cat went out, and on the way, he said to himself: Oh, how cold it is! Then he continued walking in the garden. Qatqat noticed that everything looked different. The tree leaves were no longer green; there were brown, yellow, and red colors, as if a new color had come to them. ...

A new morning dawned, cold winds blew. It is autumn. The cat Mishmish put on warm clothes and went out to the garden. He noticed that tree leaves were falling quickly onto the ground. He went searching for the rabbit Arnub. Did he find him in his home? The cat Mishmish and the rabbit Arnub: Mishmish the cat knocked on the door of the rabbit Arnub’s home. He answered him from inside: Who is there? Mishmish the cat said to him: I am the cat Mishmish. The rabbit Arnub came out to him and said: Welcome, Qatqat. What do you have? Mishmish said: Nothing new. Do you want to stroll with me in the garden? Arnub said to him: No problem, wait a few minutes and I will be with you. ...

Once upon a time, in days of old, there was a king named Wardan. One day, a small princess was born to the king. On that day, the king prepared three golden plates, three golden spoons, and the most delicious food, and sent to call the forest fairies. The first fairy’s attendance at the palace and presenting the gift: There were three fairies in the forest, and each fairy would come to the small princess with a gift. The king said to himself: Which of them will bring the most beautiful gift for the princess, and what will the gift be? The first of the three fairies came, ate her food, and presented her gift. Her gift was a bag full of gold! So was the first fairy’s gift the most beautiful? The palace sage smiled and said: The bag of gold is not the most beautiful gift for the princess, because gold will be spent and become as if it never was. ...

There was a king living in a large palace with wonderful gardens. In those gardens lived thousands of creatures of hundreds of different species of animals and birds. There was great diversity in the gardens, turning that place into a kind of paradise that everyone could enjoy. But there was only one thing in those gardens that the king hated. Near the middle was the remains of a massive tree from centuries ago, but now it had withered and dried, and it had detracted from the color and beauty of its surroundings. This annoyed the king to the extent that finally he ordered it to be cut down and replaced with a beautiful series of fountains. Later, a wise nobleman was visiting the king in his palace and whispered in the king’s ear: Oh your majesty, you are the wisest of men everywhere. ...

Jamila was a young girl living in a small village with her grandmother. She had two cows and was accustomed to milking her two cows daily, carrying the milk container on her head to the city to sell it, then returning to her home in the evening. The girl took care of the two cows—she would feed them and clean them. The grandmother loved Jamila, and Jamila was always dreaming of becoming richer. ...

Knock, knock, the door knocks. Should I answer or not answer? Alright, I’ll open the door. I’m feeling bored and don’t know what to do. Who’s at the door? It’s Amal, and with her is a worm. I don’t like worms. But this isn’t just any worm. It’s a special type of worm, an extraordinary worm. Just take care of it and feed it, and you’ll love the gift. Amal placed the worm in a box with twigs and put tree leaves everywhere. The worm would eat and devour everything I put there. One morning, there was nothing in the box but paper and dirt. The worm had disappeared! I searched everywhere. I wonder if the worm is safe? ...