Stories For Kids

एक भिखारी किसी स्टेशन पर पेँसिलोँ से भरा कटोरा लेकर बैठा हुआ था। एक युवा व्यवसायी उधर से गुजरा और उसनेँ कटोरे मेँ 50 रूपये डाल दिया, लेकिन उसनेँ कोई पेँसिल नहीँ ली। उसके बाद वह ट्रेन मेँ बैठ गया। डिब्बे का दरवाजा बंद होने ही वाला था कि अधिकारी एकाएक ट्रेन से उतर कर भिखारी के पास लौटा और …

बंदर का कलेजा (बन्दर और मगरमच्छ) पंचतंत्र की प्रसिद्ध कहानियों में से एक है जिसके रचयिता आचार्य विष्णु शर्मा हैं। एक नदी किनारे हरा-भरा विशाल पेड़ था। उस पर खूब स्वादिष्ट फल उगे रहते। उसी पेड़ पर एक बंदर रहता था। बडा मस्त कलंदर। जी भरकर फल खाता, डालियों पर झूलता और कूदता-फांदता रहता। उस बंदर के जीवन में एक …

Crash! “What was that noise?” Rohan and his mother dashed out of the kitchen. As they reached the stair case leading up to the terrace, they stopped. Sitting comfortably on the stairs and staring at them was a big, fat monkey. Broken pieces of the matka lay all around him and water was streaming down the staircase. “Shoo, shoo”, said …

Once there was a king named Satyapriya. His queen was called Suhasini. They lived in a lovely palace with a big garden. Their son Sarvapriya was everyone’s darling. The king and queen were very fond of Sarvapriya. They never left him alone. There were servants to look after him. Prince Sarvapriya had everything he wanted. But he had no friends. …

Old Rupert was sitting in the shade of a big apple tree in front of his house. His grandchildren were busy eating the beautiful apples and they were never tried of praising the delicious fruit. Their grandfather said to them: “Now I’ll tell you how this tree came here. More than 50 years ago I was standing lazily in an …

The night of February 14, 1980 was cold and dark. The moon had tried to break through the mass of black cloud, had tried and given up. An icy wind from the hills carrying the smell of fresh snow, swept through the deserted narrow lanes of the little Harijan village of Ramnagar in Uttar Pradesh. It rattled the heavy, planked …

“Where is that good for nothing boy?” Aladin’s mother yelled as she looked up from her spinning. “There is not a scrap of food in the house, and here I am, working all day long to keep us two alive.” Meanwhile, Aladin was in the bazaar on the other side of the town of Baghdad, drinking mint tea and chatting …

I anxiously waited for the school to begin, so that I take my class and start the work. I was excited to put my new plan into practice: to bring about peace and order in the class,  to make classroom teaching interesting and win over my pupils. My heart was full of excitement and I could feel my pulse throbbing. …

Long ago, in the City of Bagdad, in the land of Persia, there lived a merchant called Ali Cogia. Over the years, Ali Cogia had saved one thousand pieces of gold. He put this gold into a big jar of clay. On top he put some olives. He sealed the jar and took it to a merchant friend who had …