Have you ever thought why the sky is so deep blue while the grass is green? Why is the sun so bright while the moon is not?
Jeannie Kirby wonders about the same things in this poem. She too doesn’t know the answers, but she expresses her amazement through this poem instead.
Level: Grade 8 Genre: Short Stories
An emperor wants his three questions answered. All over the kingdom, the announcement is done. People come from far and wide to please the emperor with their answers to the three questions, but all in vain. Does the emperor ever find the answer to his questions in the way that he wants? This is what this story by Leo Tolstoy is all about.
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Henry Wardsworth Longfellow wrote, in October 16, 1845, “The Arrow and the Song, which came into my mind as I stood with my back to the fire, and glanced on to the paper with arrow’s speed.”
Read this poem and find out what Henry Wardsworth Longfellow wants to say through this poem.
Eleanor Farjeon fights with her brother one day. She knows it is not good to quarrel, but she can’t help it. What happens after the quarrel? Do they make up? Do they talk to each other? Recite this poem and find out.
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Level: Grade 2 Genre: Fables And Folktales
Just like Pinocchio, this shepherd tells lies to the villagers plenty of times. But unlike Pinocchio, it was not his nose that grew longer. Something worse happened to him. What happened to him? Poor shepherd! He shouldn’t have lied at all.
Level: Grade 6 Genre: Myths And Legends
Beliefs of how the world started differ from country to country and from religion to religion. Yet, each story is spellbinding and mystic in its own. Read this lesson to understand how civilization in Egypt started, according to their myths.
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Level: Grade 6 Genre: Short Stories
When I was small, I always insisted my mom that she tell us a story before we went to bed. She was our storyteller, and each night, she filled our sleepy heads with fairies, and angels.
In this story, some children are travelling in a train; and a storyteller keeps them occupied with his story throughout the journey. What kind of story does he tell? Let us find out from this story, The Storyteller, by Saki, the master of short stories.
Level: Grade 1 Genre: Fables And Folktales
‘Hard work always pays’ is a very popular proverb. Do you know what this means? In this beautiful story ‘The Little Red Hen’, the little red hen knows it already. Let’s see if the red hen can teach that you too.
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Shape poems, or pattern poems, are poems whose shape refers to their subject: a poem about an altar in the shape of an altar, a poem about an egg in the shape of one, a poem about an umbrella which outlines a raised umbrella. It is an old genre. The earliest shape poem we know of is by the Greek poet Simias of Rhodes, who flourished about 300 B.C.
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Have you ever been to a farm? Well, I have. And how much I enjoyed! I chased the ducklings all over the farm, and rode on horses. I fed the cows and collected the eggs. I watched the donkeys work and the fishes swim. Have you been to a farm? Has the poet been to a farm? Find out from this poem.
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