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  • Rosy’s Journey | Moral Stories

    Rosy’s Journey | Moral Stories
    2025/04/21
    "Rosy's Journey" follows a kind and brave young girl, Rosy, who is left orphaned and penniless. Determined to find her father, a gold miner far away, she embarks on a long and perilous journey. Along the way, her compassion leads her to help a stranded fish, an injured mouse, and a trapped fly, each promising to repay her kindness. These seemingly small creatures prove invaluable, summoning powerful allies—a whale, a lion, and an eagle—to help Rosy overcome major obstacles like crossing the sea, a desert, and mountains. Ultimately, her animal friends even help save her father and his colleagues from disaster at the mining camp just as he finds gold, demonstrating powerfully to young readers the themes of courage, perseverance, and how acts of kindness, no matter how small, can yield significant and unexpected rewards.
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    19 分
  • The Fox And The Stork | Aesop Fables

    The Fox And The Stork | Aesop Fables
    2025/04/21
    In this fable, a mischievous Fox plays a trick on a Stork by inviting her to dinner and serving soup in a flat dish, knowing the Stork's long beak can't reach it. Later, the Stork gets her revenge by inviting the Fox to dinner and serving food in a tall, narrow jar, which only her long beak can access, leaving the Fox hungry and angry. The story teaches a clear lesson about reciprocity and fairness: do not play mean tricks on others unless you are prepared to endure the same treatment yourself, highlighting the importance of treating others with the consideration you expect.
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    2 分
  • Nicko and the Ogre | Fairy Tales

    Nicko and the Ogre | Fairy Tales
    2025/04/21
    In "Nicko and the Ogre," a river town suffers because a greedy ogre monopolizes the river's fish and disturbs everyone's sleep. A brave young man named Nicko seeks help from a witch and learns the secret to defeating the ogre lies with a mermaid. Disguising himself as a fish, Nicko meets the mermaid underwater, discovers she is actually a princess cursed by the ogre, and breaks the spell by falling in love and agreeing to marry her. Once freed and back on land, the princess arranges for the witch to transform the ogre into a harmless rock, restoring peace to the town while Nicko and the princess return to her kingdom to live happily ever after.
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    13 分
  • The Origin of Rubies | Bedtime Stories

    The Origin of Rubies | Bedtime Stories
    2025/04/21
    This story follows a spoiled prince who, against his mother's advice, commandeers an abandoned ship and discovers giant rubies near a sea vortex. He secretly keeps one, which attracts a king's attention, leading the king's demanding daughter to want more. On his quest to find more rubies, the prince discovers their magical origin in an underwater palace guarded by Shiva, where they flow from the severed head of a beautiful woman. After accidentally reviving her, he falls in love, escapes with her and the treasure, and ultimately marries both the sea woman and the king's daughter, achieving a happy ending despite his initial recklessness and greed.
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    6 分
  • Hickory, Dickory, Dock! | Moral Stories

    Hickory, Dickory, Dock! | Moral Stories
    2025/04/21
    This story provides a narrative backstory for the nursery rhyme "Hickory, Dickory, Dock," featuring a widowed Mamma Mouse caring for her three children, Hickory, Dickory, and Dock, after their father died in a trap. While Mamma is out foraging, the curious children disobey her instructions to stay in the nest and explore the house, eventually encountering a large grandfather clock. Adventurous Dock climbs the clock but is terrified when it strikes one ("Bang!"), causing him to run down hastily, mirroring the rhyme. Upon returning, Mamma uses their frightening experience not to scold, but to gently teach them the importance of obedience and awareness of danger, a lesson the young mice learn effectively.
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    9 分
  • The Silent Princess | Fairy Tales

    The Silent Princess | Fairy Tales
    2025/04/21
    "The Silent Princess" tells of a spoiled prince cursed by an old woman he mistreated to fall in love with a princess who never speaks. Lovesick years later, he journeys to her palace, where suitors face death if they fail to make her talk. The prince cleverly uses a talking nightingale, hidden during his visits, to tell stories and pose riddles; by engaging in staged debates with the nightingale about the riddles' solutions, he successfully provokes the intelligent princess into interrupting and speaking three times to correct their flawed reasoning. Having broken her silence and won her hand in marriage, the story concludes with their happy life together, emphasizing themes of consequences, cleverness, perseverance, and redemption, as the initially wronged old woman finds joy caring for their children.
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    11 分
  • Lazy Jack | Fun Stories

    Lazy Jack | Fun Stories
    2025/04/21
    "Lazy Jack" tells the story of a very lazy boy who is finally spurred into working by his mother. Each day, Jack earns a different payment (a penny, milk, cheese, a cat, mutton), but he mishandles each one by literally following his mother's advice from the previous day's mistake (e.g., putting milk in his pocket after being told to pocket the penny). This pattern of foolishness culminates when he tries to carry a donkey home on his shoulders, following advice meant for carrying mutton. The ridiculous sight makes a rich man's deaf and mute daughter laugh for the first time, curing her, and as a reward, Jack marries her, becoming wealthy and living happily with his wife and mother.
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    4 分
  • The Lad Who Lost The Christmas Cake | Christmas Stories

    The Lad Who Lost The Christmas Cake | Christmas Stories
    2025/04/21
    In "The Lad Who Lost The Christmas Cake," young Peter is entrusted by his mother to deliver a precious, specially baked Christmas cake to his aunt in another village, armed with elaborate instructions on how to conceal its contents. Distracted by a captivating roadside juggler, Peter momentarily leaves his bag unattended and inadvertently swaps it with an identical bag containing a heavy grindstone. When confronted by the grindstone's angry owner, confusion ensues until the juggler reappears and, through a supposed magical spell (though likely just correcting the accidental swap), restores the cake to Peter, allowing the relieved lad to finally complete his mission, forever convinced he witnessed real magic.
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    11 分