Stories of Islands
Stories of Islands
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 Islands . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
Educational Value
- Initiative and proactivity
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| You don’t achieve things by waiting for them to happen, but by actively working to bring about everything that would help these things to happen. | An island in a lake | Two princesses and a monster |
Story intro
Once upon a time there were two beautiful Princesses whom, when still young, had been kidnapped by a hostile King. The King arranged to have them taken to a forgotten lake where they were abandoned...
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Educational Value
- Decision and dissent
Basic elements
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| We should always try to improve, not giving in to the kind of fear shown in people who have never attempted what they want to do in life. Specially designed for those thinking of starting something new. | An island | A couple in a tribe |
Story intro
The Mokoko tribe lived on the wrong side of the island of two faces. The two sides, separated by a great cliff, were like night and day. The good side was watered by rivers and was filled with trees...
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Educational Value
- Patience and wisdom
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| Patience helps to solve problems at the right time, although this sometimes obliges us to endure great pressure.
| A volcanic island | A tribe, a chief and a beast |
Story intro
When young Nerino was made chief of the tribe, everyone expected that – as was the custom on the island – he would direct his attention to fighting the great fiery-eyed beast; a horrible creature that had terrorised...
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Educational Value
- Justice and fairness
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| Three brief adventures to illustrate the nature of justice | A journey through an ancient kingdom | A Prince and a wise old man |
Story intro
There was once a very unfair Prince, although he seemed like the perfect Prince: handsome, brave, and intelligent. Prince Lapio gave the impression that no one had ever explained to him the nature of justice. If two people came to him over some dispute, expecting him to resolve the matter, he would decide in favour of whichever...
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Educational Value
- Bravery, fear control
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| The only way to successfully deal with a life and death situation is to face up to the fear it brings. | A desert land with a big mountain | A tortoise and a monster |
Story intro
Once upon a time, there was a tortoise on a ship, and the ship sank. Some time later the tortoise made it to a desert land surrounded by water on all sides except for one. The landward side led up to a big, steep, craggy mountain. To avoid starving to death, the tortoise decided to...
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Educational Value
- Having goals and dreams as motivation
Basic elements
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| 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...
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