The Price of Nectar

Every morning, swarms of bees go out to gardens and farms, as is their habit every morning. They bring nectar from flowers. One of the bees found a beautiful flower that was blooming and stunning in beauty. The bee approached it, admiring its beauty. When the flower felt the bee, it closed its leaves before the bee. The bee was surprised at the flower’s action and said, “What happened? Why did the flower close its leaves? Did something happen to it?” ...

The Watermelon

Noura, Jamila’s beautiful daughter, loves watermelon. In the morning she eats watermelon, at lunch she eats watermelon, and at dinner she eats watermelon. One evening, the mother put food on the table consisting of chicken and molokhia. But Noura got angry and said, “I don’t like chicken and I don’t like molokhia. I only like watermelon.” Her father said to her, “Chicken is beneficial, Noura, and molokhia tastes delicious.” Noura shouted, “Watermelon, watermelon, I only want watermelon!” Her mother got angry and said firmly, “Molokhia first, Noura, then watermelon.” One evening, Noura entered the kitchen and saw a large watermelon on the kitchen table. She said, “I want to eat it all alone.” She carried it and put it under her bed to eat it after everyone slept. She slept thinking about the large watermelon under the bed. ...

The Red One Remembers Her Violet Sister

Many of you don’t know my name, but most of you know my shape. I am this tree whose large red flowers glow in summer. I become like a red umbrella in the color of flame, under which people take shelter from the heat of summer. God created me to be a shade tree in hot countries. I am the Poinciana tree. Original habitat: My original habitat is the island of Madagascar, but now I am widespread in the world, especially in hot countries. ...

Sasha and the Butterfly

The white cat Sasha asked her friend Farah to go out to play in the garden adjacent to their home—a garden where she often sat on the windowsill looking at it from afar. But Farah refused Sasha’s request and said to her, “Going out is dangerous for you, especially since you’re a cat raised in a house and don’t know the ways of street cats.” Sasha was angry and decided one morning to leave without Farah’s knowledge. She jumped from the window to the road to go to the garden, when a speeding car almost hit her, were it not for the driver pressing hard on the brakes. The car stopped near Sasha, who was very frightened and ran with great force into the garden. ...

Freedom and Slavery

The events of the story revolve around the difference between freedom and slavery, where two friends meet - a dog and a wolf. The dog’s condition was much better than the wolf’s. The dog was fat and healthier than the wolf, while the wolf was destitute, extremely thin to the point that the bones of his body protruded from the heavy burden and hunger. As soon as the wolf found his friend the dog, they talked about their conditions. Each confessed to the other what had happened to him. Despite the dog’s comfortable condition, when he invited the wolf to share in his work and prosperous life, the wolf refused strongly, for the reasons that will follow in the story. ...

The Farmer and the Apple Tree

One day, a farmer lived in a village near the forest. The farmer had a large garden, and in that garden was an ancient apple tree and many beautiful plants and flowers. Many pet animals lived in the garden. When the farmer was a small boy, he used to spend beautiful times with the apple tree, but now the tree had stopped producing apple fruits. The farmer thought it had become useless because it had remained for many years without bearing the delicious red apples. ...

The Snow Mouse

There was a mouse named Airez who lived in a small house in the forest. One day, the mouse woke up shivering from the extreme cold. He got out of bed, put on heavy clothes, and went back to bed, but he still felt very cold. He got up again and put on his woolen hat. The mouse went back to sleep in his bed, but he felt he was still shivering from the severe cold. He looked at the clock and saw it was eight in the morning. Then he looked out the window and the sun wasn’t shining yet. Instead, he saw snow completely covering the window. The mouse realized that heavy snow had fallen the previous night. The mouse decided to go and make hot vegetable soup to warm up. ...

Tana and Rana in the Land of Humans

The fairies used to go to the fields in spring to help crops grow and color them with beautiful colors, and to help the animals and insects that lived in the fields. However, it was forbidden for fairies to go to the land of humans. Next to the field where the fairies camped was a house belonging to a man who worked as an insect researcher. He would go there and take his little daughter Zizi with him to collect butterflies and conduct research on them. Zizi was a good and beautiful girl, but her father didn’t pay attention to her because he was always busy with his research. So Zizi built a small dollhouse and decorated it, and she would take it out to play in the fields. ...

The Story of the Funniest Creature in the World

The events of the story revolve around the visit of one of my friends to the underwater research center. I was surprised to find his son inside one of the rooms at the underwater research center, where he was able through his visit to pull out a drop of white water under the huge microscope. So he was amazed at what he saw, his eyes widening with astonishment! Is everything he sees true or false! ...

The Story: The Mystery of the Red Lake

The car moved away from the Senegalese capital Dakar, and after an hour on the difficult dirt roads, the car crossed a path through vast orchards of mango trees. The mango fruits were large, with a golden yellow color and red cheeks enticing to eat. The father, who was driving the car, said to his children: Of course you will tell me, “Let’s stop so we can taste the mango fruits.” But the children surprised him by refusing, saying in one voice: No no, we have eaten a lot of mango fruits in this country. We don’t want mango. We want to see the wonder! ...