Genre/Topic: Poetry
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 […]
Genre/Topic: 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.
Genre/Topic: Biographies
Mt. Everest, in Nepal is the highest mountain in the world. Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, and Edmund Hillary were the first people to conquer the Everest. Let us read Tenzing Norgay Sherpa’s story here.
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Genre/Topic: Short Stories
Enid Blyton was a British children’s writer and was also known as Mary Pollock. Her work involves children’s adventure stories, and fantasy, sometimes involving magic. Her books were and still are enormously popular throughout the world. I bet you will love this story.
Genre/Topic: Short Stories
Vera is a young girl of fifteen. She is youthful, but her innocence deceives everyone. Vera is too good at making up stories. In this lesson, The Open Window by Hector Mugh Munro or Saki, you will learn how Vera scares Framton Nuttel and makes him run for his life out of her aunt’s home.
Genre/Topic: Classics
Davie sets off to his uncle’s place to the House of Shaws near Cramond after the death of his father. People on the way dissuade him from his going to the house. They tell him that the house is cursed. Indeed, from far, the house looks creepy and spine-chilling. Are the people right? Does Davie […]
