Tag archives for Literature
Puss In Boots
Once upon a time . . . a miller died leaving the mill to his eldest son, his donkey to his second son and . . . a cat to…
Snow White ant Rose Red
A poor widow once lived in a little cottage with a garden in front of it, in which grew two rose trees, one bearing white roses and the other red.…
Cinderella
Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl called Cinderella and she had two ugly step sisters who were very unkind who made her do all the hard work.…
The Princess and the Pea
ONCE upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He traveled all over the world to…
The Frog King
In olden times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen…
The Lion and The Mouse
One day a Lion lay asleep in the jungle. A tiny Mouse, running about in the grass and not noticing where he was going, ran over the Lion's head and…
Sleeping Beauty
Once upon a time, there was a King and Queen. And when their baby daughter was born they were so happy they decided to have a big party. They invited…
The Hare and the Tortoise
Once there was a Hare who used to laugh scornfully at a Tortoise because he plodded along so slowly. "You never can get anywhere with those short legs of yours.…
The Ugly Duckling
Once upon a time . . . down on an old farm, lived a duck family, and Mother Duck had been sitting on a clutch of new eggs. One nice…
The Little Golden Bird
once upon a time . . . several Buddhist monks lived in a great temple that stood in a magnificent garden full of flowers and rare plants. The monks spent…
The Little Pear Girl
Once upon a time, a peasant worked hard to make a living from his land. Every year his pear tree produced four basketfuls of fruit which had to be given…
The Tongue Cut Sparrow
In a little house in a little old village in Japan lived a little old man and his little old wife. One morning when the old woman slid open the…
The Wise Little Girl
Once upon a time . . . in the immense Russian steppe, lay a little village where nearly all the inhabitants bred horses. It was the month of October, when…
The Clouds
When the dawn's heart begins to beat, the high little clouds come down to breakfast in the trees. * Behind the masked clouds playing the big drum, real clouds, still…
Schooldays
Thursday is always pleasant with frost and a naked girl on the country's palm. The merchant of clouds counts the precious stones of the amazing house: an inviting lamp. The…
Fable
A village bell-tower was sleepy. It wrapped itself in a little band of trees, counted to three and fell asleep. When it woke up, there were no more than a…
The Nobleman of Bellgourd
The nobleman steps down from his carriage. It's a district in the mountain valley. The white shapes of old hands knit caps for thousands of spice-boxes. At the manor, the…
The Elephant’s Spectacles
The dormouse was an ice-floe of the mammoth era. The wind turned leaves in the washed linen. They heard the sun approach and withdraw, with a solemn step, like organ…
Bob
He gently does his angelic work. The school has four walls and its windows play dominoes. Daytime opens its laughing drawers: yellow battles, slow cards, wise measures, sleeping gloves. Then,…
Summer
After exhausting itself with white dust on the roads and bilberries in the wood, great summer, disarrayed and weak, is pulled in through the roof, through its wicker hall shaped…