Fairy tales Stories For Kids

Dutch Folk Tales - Kees van Bommel was a boy from Holland, 12 years old, who lived where cows were plentiful. He was over 5 feet high, weighed a hundred pounds, and had rosy cheeks. His appetite was always good and his mother declared his stomach had no bottom. His hair was of a color half-way between a carrot and a sweet potato. It was as thick as reeds in a swamp and was cut level, from under one ear to another. The Boy Who Wanted More Cheese Story Image martimajor.blogspot.com Kees stood in a pair of timber shoes, that made an awful rattle when he ran fast to catch a rabbit, or scuffed slowly along to school over the brick road of his village. In summer Kees was dressed in a rough, blue linen blouse. In winter he wore woollen breeches as wide as coffee bags. They were called bell trousers, and in shape were like a couple of cow-bells turned upwards. These were buttoned on to a thick warm jacket. Until he was five years old, Kees was dressed like his sisters. Then, on h...

Danish Folktales - Is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a tin soldier's love for a paper ballerina. After several adventures, the tin soldier perishes in a fire with the ballerina. The tale was first published in Copenhagen by C.A. Reitzel on 2 October 1838 in the first booklet of Fairy Tales Told for Children . New Collection. The booklet consists of Andersen's "The Daisy" and "The Wild Swans". The tale was Andersen’s first not based upon a folk tale or a literary model. "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" has been adapted to various media including ballet and animated film. Danish Fairy Tales and Legends illustration ilasu.deviantart.com There were once five-and-twenty tin soldiers, who were all brothers, for they had been made out of the same old tin spoon. They shouldered arms and looked straight before them, and wore a splendid uniform, red and blue. The first thing in the world they ever heard were the words, "Tin...

Swedish Folk Tales for Children - A farmer's haymeadow was eaten every year on the Eve of the Feast of St. John the Baptist, also Midsummer. He set his sons, one by one, to guard it, but the older two were frightened off by an earthquake. The third, Boots [Cinderlad], was despised by his brothers, who jeered at him for always sitting in the ashes, but he went the third year and stayed through three earthquakes. At the end, he heard a horse and went outside to catch it eating the grass. Next to it was a saddle, bridle, and full suit of armor, all in brass. He threw the steel from his tinderbox over it, which tamed it. When he returned home, he denied that anything had happened. The next year, the equipment for the horse was in silver, and the year after that, in gold. Read the full story at listfairytales.info Swedish Folk Tales and Legends The Princess on the Glass Hill play.google.com Once on a time there was a man who had a meadow, which lay high upon the hill-side, an...

Norwegian Folk Tales and Legends - The White Bear tactics a poor peasant and inquires if he'll give him his prettiest and youngest daughter; in return, the bear is likely to make the guy wealthy. The woman is reluctant, or so the peasant asks the bear to return, and meanwhile, persuades her. The White Bear takes her off to a rich and enchanted castle. At night, he takes off his bear form to be able to come to her bed as a man, even though the shortage of light signifies that she never sees him. Read the full story : Norwegian Fairy Tales agartaa.deviantart.com Once upon a time there was a poor peasant who had so many kids that he didn't have enough of either food or clothes to give them. Pretty kids they all were, but the most adorable was the youngest kid, who had been so lovely there was no limit for her loveliness. One day -- it was on a Thursday day late in the fall -- that the weather was wild and rough out, and it had been cruelly dark. The rain was falling ...

English Fairy Tales - Tom Thumb is a character of English folklore. The History of Tom Thumb was published in 1621, and was the first fairy tale printed in English. Tom is no bigger than his father's thumb, and his adventures include being swallowed by a cow, tangling with giants, and becoming a favourite of King Arthur. The earliest allusions to Tom occur in various 16th-century works such as Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft (1584), where Tom is cited as one of the supernatural folk employed by servant maids to frighten children. Tattershall in Lincolnshire, England, reputedly has the home and grave of Tom Thumb. The History of Tom Thumb Illustration by Scott Gustafson pinterest.com It is said that in the days of the famed Prince Arthur, that had been king of Britain, in the year 516, there dwelt a wonderful magician, called Merlin, the most learned and skilful enchanter on earth at that time. This great magician, who could assume any form he pleased, was...