Genre/Topic: Poetry
Many people have this bad habit of teasing animals. Just because the animals are defenseless or caged doesn’t mean making fun of them doesn’t cause damage. They don’t like being mocked at, but not many people understand that. This is what the poet Kenn Nesbitt wants to teach those people. Hope you learn that it […]
Genre/Topic: Classics
Meg, Joe, Beth and Amy are sisters. One day, Joe and Amy get involved in a fight. How does the fight trigger? Do they make up their fight? Or do they end up in a furious temper? Read this extract from the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and find out.
Genre/Topic: 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.
Genre/Topic: Fables And Folktales
What will happen when the sky falls? Will it fall through our homes and schools and destroy everything? Will it fall in drops or will it fall as a whole? Will the sun, moon and the stars fall along with it? Will it fall at all? Read this story of the falling sky.
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Genre/Topic: Short Stories
An income tax is a tax imposed on the income of individuals or businesses. Individual income taxes often tax the total income of the individual and deduct according to the income. Read this witty story, The Income Tax Man by Mark Twain and find out how the writer gets trapped.
Genre/Topic: Short Stories
This giant is selfish because he does not let children play in his lovely garden. He scares them off, and the children have nowhere to go and play. They are disheartened. What will these poor children do now? Where will they go to play? Will the selfish giant ever learn a lesson? Will he turn […]
Genre/Topic: Short Stories
Rip Van Winkle is an amiable person who enjoys solitary activities in the wilderness, but is also loved by all in town—especially the children to whom he tells stories and gives toys. However, a tendency to avoid all gainful labor, for which his nagging wife (Dame Van Winkle) chastises him, allows his home and farm […]
Genre/Topic: Drama, Play
Matilda is a genius, but she can play nasty tricks. She puts glue all over her father’s hat. When the father returns home from his work, all the family members try to take off the hat, but all in vain. What happens then? Is Matilda caught and punished? Read this amusing story by Roald Dahl.
