Short Stories for Children: Bedtime Stories and Classic Fairy Tales to Help Your Kids Fall Asleep & Relax. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Ugly Duckling, Aesop's Fables Collection, and More!

By Kids Club, Jacob & Wihelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen and 5 more

If you’re looking for enthralling, magical fairy tales to help your child relax and find comfort at night, then keep reading!

Are you looking for a great bedtime routine for your child that will help them wind down after a hectic day of school and play?
Do you want to cultivate your child’s creativity and sense of wonder using some of the great classics of our time?

Every parent wants two things for their children: One is to live richer, more imaginative lives; the other is to get everything they need to be physically healthy.

Well, as far as colorful lives and staying healthy are concenrned, “Short Stories for Children” by the Kids Club has just the thing!
With the help of the most iconic children’s stories of all time – including Aesop’s fables, The Little Mermaid, The Ugly duckling, and so many others – this book helps your child enrich their life through the magic of storytelling and ensure they have a wonderful, gadget-free sleeping routine that helps them recharge and recover from long, hectic days!

In this faboulus book, your child will:

• Be etertained and appreciate the magic and wonder that only the best classic stories can offer
• Increase their sleep quality while helping their body reset and heal from a busy day
• Start memoriable family traditions with mom and dad as the whole family winds down to bond and cuddle

And more!

Kids need to be nourished in every area of their life.
Through “Short Stories for Children”, your child gets highly imaginative and prolific stories from some of history’s best authors told in a very soothing and relaxing way.

Help your child have the best sleep of their life while appreciating the beauty in the small things with "Short Stories for Children".

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Kids Club
• Release date: Dec 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9791222043463

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Short Stories for Children

Bedtime Stories and Classic Fairy Tales to Help Your Kids Fall Asleep & Relax. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Ugly Duckling, Aesop's Fables Collection, and More!

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Kids Club

Authors

Jacob & Wihelm Grimm

Hans Christian Andersen

Beatrix Potter

Andrew Lang

Charles Dickens

Abbie Phillips Walker

Joseph Jacobs

Aesop

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Publisher

Kids Club

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Collected, Edited, Rewritten by

Kids Club

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Illustration

NightCafé

(https://creator.nightcafe.studio)

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Cover

Giovanni Antonelli

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Book Formatting

Giovanni Antonelli

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Copyright © 2022 by Kids Club - All rights reserved.

No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

Contents

Acknowledgments

. Chapter

Introduction

1. The Tale of Peter Rabbit

2. The Ugly Duckling

3. The Wolf and The Seven Little Kids

4. The Little Mermaid

5. The Three Dwarfs

6. The Snow Man

7. The Pea Blossom

8. The Queen Bee

9. The Hare and The Tortoise

10. The Crow and the Raven

11. The Fox and the Crow

12. The Ant and the Dove

13. A Child's Dream of A Star

14. Where the Sparks Go

15. The Good Sea Monster

16. Tearful

17. Why the Morning-Glory Sleeps

18. The Lion and The Shepherd

Final Words

. Chapter

Also By

Acknowledgments

To My Dad,

Because He Taught Me to Dream Big Dreams!

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Introduction

The book you are about to read summarizes the experience we have gained in working with toddlers, preschool and elementary school-aged children, and also draws on an experiment conducted with adults about using fantastic or analogical languages to understand kids inner journey touching their emotions and to develop children's creativity.

In this volume we have looked at the fable as an expressive language that helps children grow and improve their ability to talk about their own inner experiences. From a purely technical point of view, you will find in it material based on the tradition of the fairy tale, with its imaginary worlds, its multiple events and characters in which magic, conflict, wonder and passion merge.

The less discriminatory use of the term fable or fairy tale is more akin to lexical vulgarization, though the word vulgarization is intended not so much to take on a derogative tone as to acknowledge that fable and fairy tale are equivalent in common usage today. Since our work is aimed at an audience of parents and children, it seemed right to retain this ambiguity and to use either term to refer to any fantastic tale. It is precisely this definition that we are happy to embrace and respect, because it is precisely the imaginary, the fantastic, that is the key element we will use to listen to children's inner world and teach them to tell about themselves.

The reader who picks up this book must be prepared to rediscover fragments of his own childhood, perhaps a little dormant, but always ready to be revived by the attention given to the language of the imagination. By reading old but still current stories, he can above all shake himself, reliving events and adventures that can still thrill. The parents who want to use the tool of storytelling must first reconstruct this connection with their own childhood.

Over the years, I have led several training groups where working with fairy tales has been of great benefit to parents and children. Through storytelling, intense emotions emerged, old and new experiences that were very involving, new awareness, reflections on one's own way of being and one's own style of relating. The fairy tale can especially make adults who come close to them grow up.

I recommend you to fully enjoy the fairy tale literature that we have: the work of Kids Club is fundamental, which gathers a collection of short stories like those of Aesop, typical of the fairy tale, but also the classic collections of Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. Rereading fairy tales in adulthood is a literary experience of great importance that can lead us to discover the inner wisdom of messages that we internalized more immediately and spontaneously in childhood.

The first important effect of reading fairy tales is the fact that we spend time with children using their channel of communication, imagination, as well as the fact that we dedicate time to them. So use the fairy tale first and foremost to be with the child or children.

Allow yourself a slow and long time to read (or listen, if you are listening to an audiobook), without haste. A time to observe yourself and the baby. It will be a time of human growth from which you both, adult and child, you will emerge more capable of observing, understanding and acting on yourself and the world outside. With this wish I give you these pages with reflections on the valuable work that can be done with the instrument of the fairy tale.

In this collection of bedtime stories, your child will meet different friends in fun and different adventures! Your child will listen until they embark on a magical journey to a peaceful and natural sleep. Each story has a moral, and your child will calm down while relieving stress and learning valuable life lessons.

The first years of life are the best opportunity to help your child grow into a wise and gentle adult. Through encouraging stories, they can learn how to improve their self-esteem and confidence. They will understand how to manage their emotions and communicate them effectively.

All of this will be shared with you as you laugh and experience incredible moments together.

P.S. This version of bedtime stories for kids includes something special. All the illustrations you will find have been created by an artificial intelligence (Night Café)...

..I promise, this magic A.i. will make your reading a truly unique experience!

I wish you a good reading (or a good listening), your best fan...

- Kids Club!

Chapter one

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

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Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter.

They lived with their mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir tree. Now, my dears, said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "You may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden.

Your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.Now run along and don't get into mischief. I am going out. Then old Mrs. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella and went through the wood to the baker's.

She bought a loaf of brown bread and five currant buns. Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail who were good little bunnies went down the lane together to gather blackberries. But Peter who was very naughty, ran straight away to Mr. McGregor's garden and squeezed under the gate!First he ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes; and then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley.

But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor!

Mr. McGregor was on his hands and knees planting out young cabbages, but he jumped up and ran after Peter, waving a rake and calling out, 'Stop thief!'

Peter was most dreadfully frightened; he rushed all over the garden, for he had forgotten the way back to the gate.

He lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

After losing them, he ran on four legs and went faster, so that I think he might have got away altogether if he had not unfortunately run into a gooseberry net, and got caught by the large buttons on his jacket. It was a blue jacket with brass buttons, quite new.

Peter gave himself up for lost, and shed big tears; but his sobs were overheard by some friendly sparrows, who flew to him in great excitement, and implored him to exert himself.

Mr. McGregor came up with a sieve, which he intended to pop upon the top of Peter; but Peter wriggled out just in time, leaving his jacket behind him.

And rushed into the tool-shed, and jumped into a can.