The Story of the Magic Key

Martin felt that his father gave him a book as a gift on his birthday this year. For his father had given him a book as a gift, but without any pictures in it appropriate for his age as a child. His father noticed a mark of anxiety on his face, so he said to him: My son, this is not just an old book. It is a magic book, but its magic is secret, and knowing its secret will be difficult for you when you read it first. ...

A Beautiful Spring Morning

In the morning, the spring sun spread its brightness over the earth. In the morning, the children woke up and opened the windows to the spring sun. In the morning, the little birds emerged from their mothers’ wings. In the morning, the animals in the large animal zoos and the small animals woke up. Thus, the spring sun awakened all the creatures. The Spring Sun Awakens All the Creatures: The creatures that fly, and the creatures that don’t fly that live in the burrows, and those that live in the large and small trees, the weak and the strong, the tall and the short. The lion with his roaring, the birds with their chirping, the rooster with his crowing, the horse with his neighing, the bees with their buzzing, the donkey with his braying, the bull with his bellowing, the dove with her cooing, the wolf with his howling, and thus all creatures were awakened by the spring sun. ...

The Story of the Prince of the Bees Mountain

There was a young prince, not the most handsome, but the most kind and pure. One evening of the summer evenings, the prince was walking on the bank of the river. When he looked up, he saw in the horizon the three planets in the space, three beautiful satellites, not stars but three beautiful girls. The girls spread their wings and descended to bathe in the lake. The gentle young man prepared to get two wings and hid. After the beautiful girls finished spending some time in the water and put on their clothes all of them, the youngest girl did not find her wings, while her two sisters had put on their wings. In the end, they agreed that the two girls would fly to the sky, and they would make two wings for the small one, who remained crying alone. ...

The Story of the Violinist and the Mermaid

Years ago, a dance troupe gathered in Prasta, a village located near Stora Milosas in Sardinia, to hold a grand celebration in honor of the birth of the feast. People from the villages and their cities flocked to the village on that specified day, for that occasion, great and small. When they learned that the famous violin player Nurnabis would participate with his violin, which would make them enjoy an amazing melody. It was said that he was not an ordinary violinist, but was extremely talented, and when he heard the word “play” in simple tones, he would organize himself and raise his bow to the heavens. ...

A Beautiful Spring Morning

In the morning, the spring sun spread its brightness over the earth. In the morning, the children woke up and opened the windows to the spring sun. In the morning, the little birds emerged from their mothers’ wings. In the morning, the animals woke up in the large animal zoo and small animals. Thus, the spring sun awakened all creatures. Spring and Its Awakening of All Creatures: The creatures that fly and the creatures that don’t fly that live in burrows, and those that live in large and small trees, the weak and the strong, the tall and the short. The lion with his roaring, the birds with their chirping, the rooster with his crowing, the horse with his neighing, the bees with their buzzing, the donkey with his braying, the bull with his bellowing, the dove with her cooing, the wolf with his howling, and thus all creatures were awakened by the spring sun. ...

An Unimportant Task

One day, the teacher assigned tasks to the children. This was one of the most exciting activities for them in the classroom. On that day, each boy and girl was given a task that they would be responsible for for the rest of the school year. As is the case with everything, some tasks were more exciting than others, and the children were eager to get one of the best tasks. ...

Humility in Islam

Several tales and proverbs are narrated about the virtue of humility in Islam, and the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, preceded us in this. He is the one who gave and taught all Muslims the virtue of humility in Islam. After him, the commanders of the faithful and all Muslims followed his approach. The Humility of the Prophet, Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him: It is narrated that one day, Adi bin Hatim, who was a Christian, came to the Prophet, upon whom be the best prayers and finest greetings, while he was in Medina. He took him to his home. While they were on their way, an old, weak woman met the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and stopped him for a long time, asking him about some of her affairs. He stood for her until she finished. Adi was amazed at his humility. ...

The Story of Congratulations and Excellent

A story from the wonders of international children’s stories, collected and formulated by Toshio Ozawa. The story of Congratulations and Excellent is a tale from old Japanese stories, or more precisely, it is Japanese folklore from past times, which is taught to Japanese children until the end of elementary school. The story of Congratulations and Excellent is told as follows. A Newborn: Once upon a time in ancient days, in ages of old, in one of the countries, there were two farmer couples. Their firstborn was a son, and they rejoiced greatly with him, saying to each other: As for the name, we must find him a beautiful name! And they named him Congratulations. ...

Fear Leads to Failure

Once upon a time, there was a mouse who was extremely shy. As soon as he heard the slightest sound, he would flee. He was very afraid of cats. Once, he was gathering some grains of rice and pieces of coconut with great difficulty. He was not destined to enjoy his meal in peace, and the reason was his extreme fear of cats, so he was always thinking from where the cats would come and when they would pounce on him to eat him. ...

The Wonderful Wild Car Racing

In a distant land, there was a type of small wild cars that drove freely around the countryside. They didn’t need highways or gasoline because all they needed to move was good ideas and good desires from their strange inventor. Those cars became truly famous, and wild car racing was everyone’s favorite hobby. Every boy dreamed of driving one car because their light weight and the racers’ truthfulness and dedication to work made their drivers perfect. ...