Stories of Books
Stories of Books
List of educational resources for parents and teachers to read online, to download in PDF format, or to listen to as audio stories
Our stories are a great tool to improve the education of your children and enhance your family atmosphere. Whether in family or in the classroom, as audio or as reading, using pictures or simple text, parents and teachers will discover with them a new way to successfully teach values to children, while enjoying each and every learning minute.
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List including all our stories about Books . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
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Educational Value
- Cooperation and positive attitude
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| Regretting the past won’t solve anything. What is required is to change one’s situation and seek the necessary help to do so.
| An old city | A storybook, an inkwell, and a swan’s feather |
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Once upon a time, in a small city, there was an empty storybook. The book looked great, with an impressive cover, but all its pages were blank. Children and grown-ups would pick up the book with anticipation...
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Educational Value
- Initiative and the love of reading
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| Being bored is always your own doing, all you need is a good book to kill boredom and feed your spirit. | A mountainous country with 7 palaces | 7 Princesses and 7 knights |
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When the evil Witch of the Summits imprisoned the seven Princesses in the seven castles of the seven mountains, guarded by seven falcons, seven ogres and seven dragons, no one thought they would ever return alive...
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Educational Value
- Love of reading and imagination
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| A fun way to encourage kids to read and use their imagination | A fancy-dress shop | A boy and a fancy-dress storeowner |
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Raymond didn't want to learn how to read. So many letters stuck together seemed like an enormous bore to him. He couldn't understand why so many adults and other children enjoyed reading...
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Educational Value
- Avoid bullying, harrassment in school
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| Children who at first seem strange often turn out to be very special. We should help them to find their own individual talents. | A school | A teacher and his pupils |
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Once, a group of schoolchildren were on an outing. Almost all of them were playing ball; except Monty, who was seen as a bit of a fool - only good for poking fun at. He didn't like fights, or sports, or anything really. He wouldn't even defend himself...
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Educational Value
- Communicating and listening
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| When we open ourselves to communicating with others, we enjoy getting to know them, because we all have things of value to share. | A new home | Peggy Pigtails, a book, and some animals |
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Peggy Pigtails was a good girl, and she was quite quiet and reserved. Not many words passed her lips, partly due to shyness, and partly because she sometimes felt she had nothing interesting to say. But that all changed when...
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Educational Value
- Passion for reading and imagination
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| A story to help children discover the joys of reading, and the torrent of experience and imagination it releases | A normal house | A boy, his father, and a book |
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Martin was now so old that for his birthday that year his father gave him a book without any pictures in it! Martin's father noticed his disappointment, and told him ...
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Educational Value
- Self motivation
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| Originality, creativity, and games, are the best ways to motivate yourself to doing the jobs which require more effort | A house at homework time | A boy and some elves |
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"Charlieeeeeeee, do your homework now!" Wow, his mother was really bellowing at him.
Charlie thought, "Well, she doesn't have to do it. It's so boring", and he spent hours with his books, hoping that time would pass and it would soon be time for supper. As usual, he was...
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