Narrative

One day, one of the cold winter days, Juha was sitting in the king’s palace. The king said to Juha, teasing him: Can you Juha sit outside the palace in the open air, on one of the cold winter nights, with your chest bare? Juha answered him with utmost courage and challenge that he could do that, and increased in the challenge, leaving it also to the king to choose the night he wanted Juha to spend in the open air. The king was amazed and said to Juha: If you do that Juha, you will have a great reward, and I will give you a thousand gold dinars in return. ...

The story of Princess Rose and the golden bird is an ancient fantasy legend. It counts among the most beautiful beloved stories for children. The events of the story depend on magic, which helps in developing the child’s mental abilities and his powers of imagination. Events of the story: In ancient times, in a far kingdom, there lived a beautiful princess named Princess Rose. She was distinguished by her long red beautiful hair. Princess Rose loved roses a lot, and therefore she was named Princess Rose, meaning Princess of Roses. The princess used to look from her balcony every night, waving with her hands at a golden-colored canary bird, and it would stand on one of her shoulders. Her hair would transform to the beautiful golden color. ...

Every time I went to my grandmother’s house, I always saw a long wooden door, its length about three feet away from bookshelf in my grandmother’s house. She always warned me about approaching it, and despite that I was scared of it, I always felt a challenge to open this scary door someday. Since I was born, the door was always in my grandmother’s house waiting for someone to open it. When I asked my mother what was behind the dark door, her answer was always: “You mean the scary door?” She would turn silent, pretend to answer her phone call, then become silent. I knew she didn’t even want to think about its existence in the house. ...

In the garden of the king’s palace, there was a beautiful princess with lovely features, playing with her golden ball near the small lake. The ball was a gift from her mother the queen before she died. After hours of playing and having fun, the ball fell into the small lake. The princess was extremely sad about this and began to cry. A small frog heard the sound of her crying. He was ugly in face, strange in smell, and was at the bottom of the lake located in the middle of the garden. He asked her about the secret of her severe sadness. She told him about her golden ball and how it fell from her while playing. ...

In olden times, a great leader lived in a village close to the seashore, and in it he owned beautiful wide farms. This great leader had a handsome son, black-haired, tall in stature, and strong in build named Anwar. But the villagers nicknamed him Anwar the Brave, because they saw him one day wrestling with a wolf while he was twelve years old. The wolf had attacked his father’s pastures, so the boy killed it with an axe in his hand. ...

Karim was very eager to start the vacation, and his mother kept repeating that there would be a surprise during the vacation. Karim was very enthusiastic to know what this surprise was. After the exams ended and the summer season began, Karim felt that he was free like a small bird. He took his drawing book and got ready to draw and color in it. He was planning to play ball and watch television. Karim decided to do whatever he pleased during the vacation days. ...