https://readtoyourchild.com/themes/animals/Recent content in Animals on Read To Your ChildHugoen-usFri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-tale-of-2-caterpillars/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-tale-of-2-caterpillars/Two inseparable caterpillar friends face the scary idea of the cocoon, and learn that becoming who you're meant to be takes courage.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-thirsty-crows-clever-adventure/Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-thirsty-crows-clever-adventure/A thirsty crow finds water at the bottom of a pot he can't reach, and figures out a clever way to bring it to him.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-raven-and-the-swan/Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-raven-and-the-swan/A raven who envies a swan's white feathers tries scrubbing and changing his diet to turn white himself, with exhausting results.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/six-blind-men-and-an-elephant/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/six-blind-men-and-an-elephant/Six boastful old men of the Brahmaputra valley set out to settle an argument about what an elephant is really like, and each comes back certain he alone is right.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-boy-who-understood-the-world/Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-boy-who-understood-the-world/A count despairs of a son who spends three years learning only the language of dogs, of birds and of frogs, and never guesses where it will lead him.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-cunning-snakes-trick/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-cunning-snakes-trick/A clever snake tricks a brave mongoose into chasing off his rival, and claims the hunting ground for himself.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/how-the-rabbit-became-white/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/how-the-rabbit-became-white/Lost in a blinding snowstorm, the hunter Eye of the Eagle is guided home by a small brown rabbit, and rewards it with a gift of white fur.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/benny-the-rhino-beetle-and-the-scorpions-trick/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/benny-the-rhino-beetle-and-the-scorpions-trick/A trusting rhino beetle is tricked into helping a sly scorpion find treasure, until a clever firefly friend turns the trick around.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/how-people-learned-to-boil-water/Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/how-people-learned-to-boil-water/When sickness strikes a village's water supply, Rabbit and Owl discover that fire can make water safe to drink.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-stag-at-the-mirror-pool/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-stag-at-the-mirror-pool/A stag admires his magnificent antlers in a still pool and is ashamed of his thin spindly legs, until a panther comes through the bushes.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/rex-trixie-and-the-five-speckled-frogs/Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/rex-trixie-and-the-five-speckled-frogs/A mighty T-Rex and his little sister set out to hunt, and end up learning a game of Hop and Splash from five speckled frogs on a speckled log.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-race-between-the-rabbit-and-the-tortoise/part-3-the-third-race/Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-race-between-the-rabbit-and-the-tortoise/part-3-the-third-race/A night-time third race between Rocco and Tina ends with a surprising lesson about friendship over winning.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-race-between-the-rabbit-and-the-tortoise/part-2-the-rematch/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-race-between-the-rabbit-and-the-tortoise/part-2-the-rematch/Rocco the rabbit demands a rematch, but an eagle overhead has other plans for him.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-race-between-the-rabbit-and-the-tortoise/part-1-the-first-race/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-race-between-the-rabbit-and-the-tortoise/part-1-the-first-race/A boastful rabbit challenges a slow but steady tortoise to a race, with a classic lesson about overconfidence.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-oarfish-of-the-deep-blue-sea/Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-oarfish-of-the-deep-blue-sea/When a giant oarfish washes up in their bay, the fishermen believe it is a bad omen, but one young man decides to help it back to the sea.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-boy-who-cried-ankylosaurus/Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-boy-who-cried-ankylosaurus/A dinosaur-mad boy plays the same prank on his village once too often, and finds that nobody believes him on the day it turns out to be true.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-jealous-sole/Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-jealous-sole/A humble herring surprises everyone by winning a swimming race, and a boastful sole is left with a permanently twisted mouth.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-little-white-sharks-transformation/Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-little-white-sharks-transformation/A small shark's year-long, never-give-up search for Poseidon's lost ring earns his kind an extraordinary new gift.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-fox-who-lost-his-tail/Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-fox-who-lost-his-tail/Having lost his own splendid tail in a trap, a proud fox calls a grand meeting to persuade every other fox in the forest to cut theirs off too.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-fox-and-the-cat/Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-fox-and-the-cat/A boastful fox with a hundred tricks meets a humble cat with only one, and learns which trick actually matters.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-bull-the-goat-and-the-lion/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-bull-the-goat-and-the-lion/A bull escapes a lion by squeezing into a goatherd's cave, where a small goat decides that a trapped bull is a fine chance to try being the boss.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-bear-the-bees-and-the-big-splash/Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-bear-the-bees-and-the-big-splash/A hungry bear finds a hollow log full of honey, gets one small sting on the nose, and loses his temper very badly indeed.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/chickens-and-chickpeas/Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/chickens-and-chickpeas/A hen and a rooster find a bag of chickpeas and mistake them for lost baby chicks, with silly results.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/reek-and-the-hidden-treasure-of-the-reef/Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/reek-and-the-hidden-treasure-of-the-reef/A small blue fish who is terrified of the shark gang sets out to find a hidden treasure, and discovers that the real treasure is the courage he finds along the way.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-utahraptor-bully/Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-utahraptor-bully/A grumpy Utahraptor bully meets his match when a golden T-Rex named Rexie steps in to defend his victim.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-owl-and-the-seagull/Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-owl-and-the-seagull/An owl and a seagull set off to seek their fortune across the sea, and learn that friendship matters more than treasure.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-little-crab-and-the-big-lesson/Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-little-crab-and-the-big-lesson/A proud mother crab tells her son to stop walking sideways and to march straight ahead like a dignified crab, then tries to show him how it is done.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-wolf-the-shadow-and-the-giant-mistake/Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-wolf-the-shadow-and-the-giant-mistake/A wolf sees his own shadow stretched enormous by the setting sun, decides he must be the biggest beast in the forest, and goes looking for the lion.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-bell-on-the-cat/Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-bell-on-the-cat/The mice of a farmhouse hatch a brilliant plan to bell the cats, and discover that clever ideas are easy, brave ones much harder.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-thirsty-ant/Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-thirsty-ant/A magical tear gives a thirsty ant the power of human speech, which he uses to rally his colony and rescue a girl trapped by an ogre.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-shark-who-was-afraid-of-the-blue-whale/Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-shark-who-was-afraid-of-the-blue-whale/A young shark is frightened of the enormous blue whale in the deep water, until the day he needs her help to find a hidden treasure.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-camel-and-the-jackal/Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-camel-and-the-jackal/A cunning jackal tricks a kind camel into danger for a free meal, and gets a soggy lesson in return.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-donkey-in-the-lions-skin/Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-donkey-in-the-lions-skin/A donkey borrows a lion's skin to earn respect, until one roar gives him away. Aesop's fable on being yourself.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hagfish-who-wanted-to-explore-shallow-waters/Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hagfish-who-wanted-to-explore-shallow-waters/A hagfish tired of the deep sea's monotony hitches a ride with a sea turtle to explore the shallows above.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/where-spiders-go/Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/where-spiders-go/A reassuring bedtime poem about where spiders hide, and why it's best to simply let them be.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-three-stag-beetles-and-the-big-bad-rhino-beetle/Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-three-stag-beetles-and-the-big-bad-rhino-beetle/A retelling of the Three Little Pigs in miniature, as three stag beetle brothers build homes of leaves, twigs and bark, and a big bad rhino beetle comes to knock them down.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-boy-who-loved-his-dinosaurs-but-not-bedtime/Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-boy-who-loved-his-dinosaurs-but-not-bedtime/A boy's toy Stegosaurus comes to life for a night of dinosaur adventures, and teaches him why sleep matters.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-crows-challenge/Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-crows-challenge/Two crows race to fly the highest with sacks of cotton and salt, and the rain decides who was truly the cleverer flier.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-lion-and-his-partners/Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-lion-and-his-partners/A tiger, cheetah, and hyena agree to hunt as equal partners with a lion, and learn the hard way what his idea of "fair" really means.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-penguin-brothers-and-the-sea-lion/Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-penguin-brothers-and-the-sea-lion/Three penguin brothers who love school must use everything they have learned to outwit a hungry sea lion prowling outside Iceberg Academy.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hunting-dog-and-the-guard-dog/part-6-the-silent-hunter/Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hunting-dog-and-the-guard-dog/part-6-the-silent-hunter/Whiskers the kitten proves her worth when she takes on a pantry full of mice all by herself.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hunting-dog-and-the-guard-dog/part-5-a-stranger-by-the-fire/Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hunting-dog-and-the-guard-dog/part-5-a-stranger-by-the-fire/The master brings home a tiny, mysterious creature, and Bailey and Gus aren't sure what to make of her.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hunting-dog-and-the-guard-dog/part-4-walking-in-guss-paws/Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hunting-dog-and-the-guard-dog/part-4-walking-in-guss-paws/While recovering, a restless Bailey learns from Gus what it really takes to be a good guard dog.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hunting-dog-and-the-guard-dog/part-3-learning-to-hunt/Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hunting-dog-and-the-guard-dog/part-3-learning-to-hunt/Bailey trains Gus in the art of the hunt, and the two dogs discover they make a formidable team.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hunting-dog-and-the-guard-dog/part-2-guss-first-hunt/Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hunting-dog-and-the-guard-dog/part-2-guss-first-hunt/After a fox injures Bailey, Gus must try hunting for the very first time, with mixed results.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hunting-dog-and-the-guard-dog/part-1-a-fair-reward/Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-hunting-dog-and-the-guard-dog/part-1-a-fair-reward/A hunting dog and a guard dog compare their very different jobs, and learn that both matter just as much.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-fox-the-goat-and-the-deep-wet-hole/Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-fox-the-goat-and-the-deep-wet-hole/A careless fox falls into a well and cannot climb out, until a very thirsty goat comes along and offers him exactly the ladder he needs.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/toto-the-dino-who-didnt-want-to-go-to-school/Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/toto-the-dino-who-didnt-want-to-go-to-school/A little T. rex hides under his blanket every morning rather than go to school, until his best friend tells him what he has been missing.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-tale-of-the-brave-butterflies/Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-tale-of-the-brave-butterflies/When curious Emerald flies too close to a boy with a net, it takes all of careful Azure's cleverness to get her friend safely back into the sky.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-wolf-the-horse-and-the-field-of-gold/Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-wolf-the-horse-and-the-field-of-gold/A hungry wolf finds a field of oats he cannot eat, and generously offers the whole thing to a passing horse, purely out of friendship.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-lion-the-horse-and-the-monkey/Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-lion-the-horse-and-the-monkey/When drought dries up every stream in the forest, a lion, a horse and a monkey set out together to find water and save their home.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-golden-bird/Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-golden-bird/A gardener's youngest son follows a helpful fox across three kingdoms in search of the golden bird, and learns the hard way what happens when good advice is ignored.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/raffee-the-mischievous-rabbit/Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/raffee-the-mischievous-rabbit/A bored rabbit searches the meadow for a playmate, and ends up with a tumble, a bumped lip, and his famous buck teeth.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-eagle-and-the-arrow/Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-eagle-and-the-arrow/The proud king of the sky believes nothing can reach him on his cliff, until an arrow finds him and he sees what its flights are made of.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-bear-and-the-travellers/Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-bear-and-the-travellers/When a bear blocks the path, one friend climbs a tree to safety, and the other learns a hard lesson about true friendship.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-tortoise-and-the-ducks/Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-tortoise-and-the-ducks/A restless tortoise finally gets to see the world when two ducks fly him across the sky, on one condition: he mustn't open his mouth.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-frogs-and-their-royal-trouble/Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-frogs-and-their-royal-trouble/The frogs of the marsh grow bored of governing themselves and beg Jupiter for a proper king, and Jupiter obliges them twice over.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-little-red-fish-and-the-shark-gang/Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-little-red-fish-and-the-shark-gang/A small red fish delivering kelp to his grandmother outsmarts a gang of sharks who try to claim him as their prisoner.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-alligator-who-wanted-to-fly/part-3-the-alligator-gar/Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-alligator-who-wanted-to-fly/part-3-the-alligator-gar/High above her old swamp, Aggie meets an ancient, legless cousin: the alligator gar.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-alligator-who-wanted-to-fly/part-2-the-golden-t-rex/Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-alligator-who-wanted-to-fly/part-2-the-golden-t-rex/Aggie strikes a bargain to teach a golden T-Rex to fly an aeroplane, in exchange for a share of its treasure.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-alligator-who-wanted-to-fly/part-1-aggies-dream/Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-alligator-who-wanted-to-fly/part-1-aggies-dream/An alligator named Aggie is determined to fly, no matter how many animal teachers turn her away.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-dolphin-and-the-bragging-monkey/Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-dolphin-and-the-bragging-monkey/A dolphin rescues what he takes to be a young Athenian gentleman from a shipwreck, and finds out otherwise when his passenger claims to be great friends with a harbour.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-dog-in-the-manger/Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-dog-in-the-manger/A small dog makes his bed in the cattle's manger and will not let the hungry, hard-working cows eat the hay, even though he cannot eat a mouthful of it himself.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-grasshopper-and-the-ant/Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-grasshopper-and-the-ant/A cheerful grasshopper sings all summer while the ants store food for winter, and learns why planning ahead matters.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-proud-chicken/Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-proud-chicken/A quarrelsome, prideful rooster drives away his flock one by one, until his own boastful crowing catches an eagle's attention.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-flies-and-the-golden-trap/Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-flies-and-the-golden-trap/A jar of honey tips over on a kitchen table, and a swarm of flies dives in without a single thought for how they will get out again.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-9-the-sad-discovery-in-the-mariana-trench/Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-9-the-sad-discovery-in-the-mariana-trench/Exploring the deepest part of the ocean, the four friends find something far worse than monsters: piles of human rubbish.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-8-battle-in-the-deep/Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-8-battle-in-the-deep/Travelling home alone, Suri is ambushed by a giant sea serpent, until Masher, Max, and Oscar arrive just in time to save him.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-7-finding-someone-strange/Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-7-finding-someone-strange/Masher and Suri meet Oscar, a lost oarfish searching for his friend Max the mosasaurus, and help reunite the pair.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-6-the-mystery-of-the-deep-sea-eggs/Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-6-the-mystery-of-the-deep-sea-eggs/Masher and Suri find a clutch of giant eggs on the ocean floor and help a confused sea turtle get them safely home to the beach.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-5-the-icy-cave-and-the-baby-kraken/Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-5-the-icy-cave-and-the-baby-kraken/In a frozen northern cave, Masher and Suri come face to face with a grumpy mosasaurus guarding a mischievous baby kraken.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-4-meeting-bloop/Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-4-meeting-bloop/A strange, booming creature chases Masher and Suri through the ocean, but Bloop only wants one thing: to learn how to hunt.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-3-caught-by-the-fishermen/Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-3-caught-by-the-fishermen/Masher and Suri get too close to a fishing boat and end up tangled in a net, hauled up in front of a crew of terrified fishermen.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-2-orca-trouble/Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-2-orca-trouble/Suri visits the sunlit shallows and meets Masher's shark friends, but a pod of hunting orcas turns the day into a chase.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-1-deep-sea-adventure/Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/masher-and-suri-adventures/part-1-deep-sea-adventure/A mighty megalodon named Masher meets Suri, a giant squid, and follows her into the deep, dark ocean to see a whale fall.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-bullfrogs-and-the-raging-bulls/Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-bullfrogs-and-the-raging-bulls/A wise old bullfrog warns his grandchild that a fight between two giant bulls will end badly for the little creatures in the marsh below.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-best-king-in-the-forest/Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-best-king-in-the-forest/After the old lion king dies, the forest must choose a new leader, and learns the hard way what real leadership looks like.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-traveller-and-the-king-of-the-jungle/Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-traveller-and-the-king-of-the-jungle/A man and a lion argue all the way up a mountain about who is stronger, until they come upon a statue that seems to settle it once and for all.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-horse-and-the-revengeful-wish/Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-horse-and-the-revengeful-wish/A horse is so angry at the stag who ruined his meadow that he asks a hunter for help, and agrees to wear a bridle and saddle to get his revenge.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-three-little-sharks-and-the-big-bad-orca/Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-three-little-sharks-and-the-big-bad-orca/An underwater retelling of the Three Little Pigs, in which three shark siblings build homes of seaweed, shell and stone, and a big bad orca comes calling.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/how-the-panda-got-its-black-eyes/Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/how-the-panda-got-its-black-eyes/How a little white bear named Pao Pao got his famous black eye patches at a forest costume festival.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-war-between-the-flying-creatures/Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-war-between-the-flying-creatures/A silly quarrel between a bear and a woodpecker turns into a war between land and sky, until a mosquito and a hornet decide the whole thing.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-tortoise-and-the-sky-stone/Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-tortoise-and-the-sky-stone/A falling stone cracks Toby the tortoise's shell, and he asks around the forest for the right way to mend it.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/three-naughty-rabbits/Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/three-naughty-rabbits/Three little rabbits run off to play instead of helping their mother, and learn what she does for them while they're gone.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/hanil-the-hammerhead-shark/Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/hanil-the-hammerhead-shark/A hammerhead shark's unusual head shape becomes the key to rescuing his friends from a fishing net.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-brave-chicken-brothers-cluck-and-peck/part-5-henfi-and-vinny/Sat, 06 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-brave-chicken-brothers-cluck-and-peck/part-5-henfi-and-vinny/A hen named Henfi hatches a velociraptor egg and raises it as her own, right as Cluck and Peck cross her path.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-brave-chicken-brothers-cluck-and-peck/part-4-learning-to-count/Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-brave-chicken-brothers-cluck-and-peck/part-4-learning-to-count/Cluck, Peck, and their new friend Rexie invent a giant abacus to solve a very big counting problem before winter.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-brave-chicken-brothers-cluck-and-peck/part-3-the-river-ambush/Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-brave-chicken-brothers-cluck-and-peck/part-3-the-river-ambush/Battered and featherless, Cluck and Peck are ambushed again at a river, until a golden T-Rex named Rexie steps in.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-brave-chicken-brothers-cluck-and-peck/part-2-the-cave-trap/Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-brave-chicken-brothers-cluck-and-peck/part-2-the-cave-trap/Cluck and Peck track the wounded velociraptor to its cave, only to discover the sleeping raptor was faking.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-brave-chicken-brothers-cluck-and-peck/part-1-the-velociraptor-attack/Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-brave-chicken-brothers-cluck-and-peck/part-1-the-velociraptor-attack/Two small chicken brothers face down a hungry velociraptor with nothing but courage, claws, and beaks.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-fox-and-the-crow/Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-fox-and-the-crow/A crafty fox flatters a crow into singing, hoping she'll drop the tasty cheese in her beak.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-butterflies-go-to-school/Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/the-butterflies-go-to-school/Two butterflies enrol at Bug Academy and find the lessons harder than they expected, until a rainy morning shows them what learning is really for.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/rexie-and-marlo/part-5-the-mystery-of-the-missing-chickens/Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/rexie-and-marlo/part-5-the-mystery-of-the-missing-chickens/When a farm's chickens vanish along with the Big Bad Wolf, Rexie and Marlo track the culprit to a lonely troll's cave.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/rexie-and-marlo/part-4-rexie-and-marlos-search-for-treasure/Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/rexie-and-marlo/part-4-rexie-and-marlos-search-for-treasure/Rexie and Marlo discover an underwater treasure cave guarded by a surprisingly fierce golden piranha.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/rexie-and-marlo/part-3-rexie-and-the-three-little-pigs/Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/rexie-and-marlo/part-3-rexie-and-the-three-little-pigs/Rexie and Marlo help three little pigs defend their brick house against a pack of vengeful wolves.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/rexie-and-marlo/part-2-rexie-meets-a-mosasaurus/Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/rexie-and-marlo/part-2-rexie-meets-a-mosasaurus/Rexie meets Marlo, a mosasaurus who can walk on land, and together they face down a giant snake.https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/rexie-and-marlo/part-1-the-adventures-of-rexie-the-t-rex/Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://readtoyourchild.com/stories/rexie-and-marlo/part-1-the-adventures-of-rexie-the-t-rex/A golden T-Rex named Rexie teaches his fellow dinosaurs to swim, just in time to escape an angry gorilla.