Los mejores cuentos infantiles
Educational Value
- Patience and spirit of sacrifice
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| The spirit of sacrifice helps you to put up with difficult circumstances until things improve. |
A house |
Two doors in a house full of children |
Story intro
Había una vez dos puertas en la misma casa. Una era una bella puerta de salón, mientras que la otra era una puerta de baño del montón, pero en lo que coincidían ambas era en que llevaban una vida de perros...
Educational Value
- Generosity and teamwork
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| Many depend on collaboration and compromise to do well in life |
A garden |
A tree and the vegetables on a patch |
Story intro
Había una vez un precioso huerto sobre el que se levantaba un frondoso árbol. Ambos daban a aquel lugar un aspecto preciosos y eran el orgullo de su dueño. Lo que no sabía nadie era que las verduras del huerto y el árbol se llevaban fatal...
Educational Value
- Collaboration and teamwork
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| Tasks that look impossible for individuals can be achieved by working together as a team |
Noah's Ark |
Animals from Noah's Ark |
Story intro
Inside Noah's Ark animals were kept for so long that they started to organize games and activities for fun. But they were not very careful, and while playing one of the games, a woodpecker ended making a hole in the bottom of the ark...
Educational Value
- Courage and overcoming
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| Every child can overcome the fear of the dark by modifying his/her own thoughts and expectations |
A large enchanted castle |
A child and a ghost |
Story intro
A child travels on vacation to a big castle, where he walks all rooms and corridors but one, due to his darkness fear. Right in that area of the castle inhabits a colorful ghost who ...
Educational Value
- Having goals and dreams as motivation
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| We must give ourselves great goals in life, because with effort and perseverance we can achieve even more than we had hoped to. |
Any house |
A young inventor and his inventor friends |
Story intro
The first time Luca heard talk of the Island Of Inventions, he was still very young, but the wonders he heard about sounded so incredible to him that they were forever engraved in his memory. Ever since he was a little boy, he never stopped searching for clues to investigate. Clues which might lead him to...
Educational Value
- Generosity, nature caring
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| The stubbornness and selfishness of a tree are remedied with tenderness and generosity |
The forest |
A tree, a girl, and the Spirit of the Forest |
Story intro
There was once a grumpy tree. It was the biggest tree in the forest, and it didn't need its shadow for anything. However, the tree would never share its shadow with any of the animals, and...
Educational Value
- Respect for Nature and Sustainability
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| It is up to us to live in a sustainable world |
A class in an everyday school |
A teacher and his pupils |
Story intro
One day, Mister Arnold was teaching a lesson, and things were going as normally as ever. He was explaining the story of mankind to his pupils. He told them that, in the beginning, men were nomads; that they never stayed in the same place for very long...
Educational Value
- Generosity
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| Generosity can often be rewarded in the most unexpected and impressive ways |
The countryside and its animals |
A bunny, a wizard, and other animals |
Story intro
Once upon a time there was a place where animals were suffering greatly from drought and hunger. A very poor bunny was walking sadly through the fields when, all of a sudden, a wizard appeared in front of him. The wizard offered the bunny a bag filled with...
Educational Value
- Overcoming and adaptability
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| Changes are not a bad thing, it is up to ourselves to open the eyes and make something positive of them |
A house in a town and a river |
A pen string and a flower |
Story intro
Once upon a time there was a spring who lived happily and safely inside a pen. Although he heard many noises coming from outside, he lived believing that outside his world inside the pen, there was nothing good. Even just to think about ...
Educational Value
- Forgiveness
Basic elements
| Moral of the story |
Setting |
Characters |
| There is no limit beyond which we should stop practicing forgiveness |
A hand |
The fingers of a hand |
Story intro
There was once a hand whose fingers were great friends. The owner of this hand started a dangerous job and, despite the care he gave the rest of the fingers, the thumb always came off worse, with lots of cuts and...
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