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Educational Value
- Generosity
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| Everything we give to others will, sooner or later, return to us, whether or not it be in a form we expected |
A town |
A rich man and a mathematician |
Story intro
Once upon a time, a greedy, rich man hired a great mathematician. The rich man wanted the mathematician to find the best way for him to make the greatest profit in everything he did. The rich man was building a huge safe, and his greatest dream was to fill it with...
Educational Value
- True friendship
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| True friendship goes much further than superficially knowing people, or getting on well with lots of people. |
A school |
A girl, her schoolmates, and her mother |
Story intro
Fiona Famous was a very popular girl at school. She was clever and fun, and got on well with everyone. It was no accident that Fiona was so popular. From an early age she had made an effort to be kind and friendly to everyone. She ...
Educational Value
- Patience
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| A boy who is exceptional at everything except at having patience, loses everything because of it |
A far off kingdom, where the King has no heir |
A king, a boy and a dog |
Story intro
A king who had no children convened to choose a crown prince. A child who excelled all others, while being excellent, was impatient, so that worried the king. The king then...
Educational Value
- Combat fear of the dark
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| Fear of the dark is not fear of anything real, and can only prevent you from discovering interesting things |
the sea |
A cockerel, a duck and the mermaids |
Story intro
A cockerel and a duck were arguing so much over whether mermaids exist or not, that they decided to settle the matter once and for all, by searching the bottom of the sea. They dived down, first..
Educational Value
- Shelf acceptance; making others happier
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| everything which makes us different makes us, at the same time, special, and there are always ways to benefit from these gifts |
a city and its areas of greatest child deprivation |
a boy and a clown |
Story intro
Pete Sparks was a sensitive boy. So sensitive that even his hair was ticklish. You only had to touch his hair a little bit and he would burst out laughing. And when this ticklish laughter started, no one could ...
Educational Value
- Gratitude and Bravery
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| Showing gratitude is one of the bases of friendship. Acts can overcome shyness. |
The sea |
An octopus, a little fish, and an enormous fish |
Story intro
Once upon a time there was a shy and quiet octopus. He nearly always went about on his own because, although he wanted to have lots of friends, he was too self-conscious. One day, the octopus was trying to...
Educational Value
- Moderation; restraint
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| Nothing is good when taken to excess |
An ordinary family |
A boy and an old magnifying glass |
Story intro
Once upon a time there was a little glutton who only ate sweets and candy. One day, in an antique shop he found an old magnifying glass. He liked it very much, and his parents bought it for him. He was so happy with his magnifying glass! As soon as he could, he used it to...
Educational Value
- Sincerity
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| Imaginative comparison to explain why you cannot achieve anything worthwhile with lies because, sooner or later, the truth will come out and the whole structure collapses. Also applies to adults! :-) |
World of the Spirits |
The Spirits and their palaces |
Story intro
Once upon a time all the spirits set about building two palaces; a palace of truth, and a palace of lies. Every time a child told the truth, a brick was created for the palace of truth. The spirits of truth would then...
Educational Value
- Cheerfulness y enthusiasm
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| Cheerfulness and enthusiasm are the best means of achieving things. They also have the advantage of being contagious and powerful |
A town |
A cheerful boy, and a whiner |
Story intro
Cheerful Charlie was a very special boy. When he was still tiny, and in his mother's tummy, she had had an accident, which meant that Charlie couldn't walk. But that had never been a problem for him; he had always been happy to be able to grow and become an older boy. They had started calling him Cheerful Charlie because his...
Educational Value
- Humility, ask for help when needed
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| We need to learn to be sufficiently humble to ask for help with problems we cannot solve on our own |
The sea |
A whale and a dolphin |
Story intro
Lola the Whale was big - very big - , and lonely - very lonely. For years she had wanted nothing to do with anyone, and she had become sadder and sadder. Whenever anyone tried to get close to her and cheer her up, Lola would...
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