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42) Don't Cry Wolf
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This story has been told for hundreds of years. It was written by a man called Aesop, and it has a lesson to teach us. Find out what we can learn from this story."
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Do you know the story about Goldilocks and the Three Bears? Goldilocks was a naughty girl. She went into the Bears' house when they had gone out for a walk. She ate their porridge and she sat on their chairs. She lay down on their beds. Look what happened to her…
44) The Ugly Troll
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The animals in this story were very hungry. The Three Billy Goats Gruff wanted to cross over a bridge to eat some delicious grass. But an ugly, hungry troll lived under the bridge. How could the goats get over the bridge?
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Había una vez un rey y una reina que, tras mucho tiempo intentando tener hijos, tuvieron una niña. Estaban tan contentos que dieron una fiesta magnífica a la que invitaron a siete hadas. Cada una de ellas le dio a la pequeña un don: una le dio belleza, otra buen carácter, otra...
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47) Rip Van Winkle
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An eighteenth-century idler who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakens to a much-changed world.
48) The Lost Colony
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Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the 8th family, the demons. The demons planned to lift their small island out of time until they had regrouped and were ready to wage war on...
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"Aru is only just getting the hang of this whole Pandava thing when the Otherworld goes into full panic mode. The god of love's bow and arrow have gone missing, and the thief isn't playing Cupid. Instead, they're turning people into heartless fighting-machine zombies. If that weren't bad enough, somehow Aru gets framed as the thief. If she doesn't find the arrow by the next full moon, she'll be kicked out of the Otherworld. For good. But, for better...
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Contenu enrichi (avec fichiers audio intégrés) En Afrique de l'Ouest, un baobab gigantesque s'élève au centre d'un village aux prises avec une terrible sécheresse. Il y a très longtemps, au commencement du monde, il était tombé amoureux de la terre. En y enfouissant profondément ses racines, il donna naissance à une histoire magique qui prit toutefois une tournure dramatique pour la nature, les hommes et les animaux. Au cœur de cette histoire...
52) Over the moon
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"Twelve-year-old Daisy knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. It wasn't always this way. Before the Dust came, they could weave starlight into cloth. They'd wear these dreaming clothes to sleep and wake up with the courage to seek adventure. Now nothing can penetrate Coal Top's blanket of sorrow. So when Daisy is chosen for a dangerous competition, she jumps at the chance. Maybe she'll change her...
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"Thor, mighty thunder god. Loki, trickster without equal. But once, they were kids. And like all kids, they needed...a babysitter! What? No one tells Thor what to do! Not even Sif, trained as a warrior from birth! Not even Fandral, Thor's best friend, whosees all of Thor's flaws! To prove that he can take care of himself, Thor decides to go on a Thor Quest. Along for the ride are a secretive Loki, a loyal Fandral, and an annoyed Sif--who has better...
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When Scheherazade marries a ruthless king known for taking a new bride each night only to have his wife killed the next morning, she comes up with a clever plan to survive. Each night, she tells the king a story. And each morning, the king postpones her execution so he can hear how it ends. Scheherazade's stories continued for one thousand and one nights. The text was first translated from Arabic into English in the early eighteenth century. In the...
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It is a mysterious world that this selection of stories from the treasure house of Irish myths and legends describes. Here the line between the fantastical and the real is blurred: mortals and immortals live strange entwined lives, nature and high magic exist side by side. It is Ireland under its old name, Erin, a country of ancient gods with fading powers, who dwell invisible in fairy mound palaces, waiting for a chance to meddle in the affairs of...
56) The Fowl twins
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One week after their eleventh birthday, the Fowl twins-- scientist Myles, and Beckett, the force of nature-- befriend a troll who has clawed his way through the earth's crust to the surface. Unfortunately the troll is being chased by a nefarious nobleman and an interrogating nun, who both need the magical creature for their own gain, as well as a fairy-in-training who has been assigned to protect him. As the trio get shot at, kidnapped, buried, arrested,...
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Todos los años, en Nochebuena, los señores Stahlbaum daban una gran fiesta. Fritz y Marie, los hijos de los señores Stahlbaum, esperaban impacientes que se abriera la puerta del salón. La puerta estaba cerrada porque allí dentro se encontraba el gran árbol de Navidad con los regalos para ellos.
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "King Arthur's Knights" (The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls) by Henry Gilbert. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic...
60) Barba Azul
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Había una vez un país en el que vivía una joven valiente y amable llamada Prímula. Un día su padre le dijo: Todas las chicas de tu edad ya están casadas. Un caballero de una ciudad vecina ha pedido tu mano y he decidido que te casarás con él.
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