Stories of Music
Stories of Music
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 Music . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
Educational Value
- Taste in music
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| A story to encourage an appreciation of music in the youngest children | A rainless country | A group of musicians |
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There was once a tiny country that was suffering from a long drought. It had gone so long without rain that the people there were starting to go hungry because of the bad harvests...
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Educational Value
- Initiative and the love of reading
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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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
- Healthy family life
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| Not only children should get involved in eating more healthily. It is emphasised that the most elaborate, most processed, foods are usually the least healthy | A doctor’s surgery | A girl, her parents, and a doctor |
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Anna Dyatt was driving every doctor in the area mad. Her dad had a belly which he used to open doors with, and her mum was of similar proportions; but Anna was a very slim and svelte girl. Anna had always been very picky about food...
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Educational Value
- Respect and perseverance
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| There is always a good solution. If we persist in looking for it, we can end up achieving much more than we had envisioned. | A girl’s house and outer space | A girl who plays the drums |
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Brenda Bongos was a happy, artistic girl, a girl with one big ambition - to play the drums in a band. But one big obstacle lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band Brenda had to practice a lot, but she lived next-door to ...
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Educational Value
- Money management
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| A little money well spent can achieve a lot more than we had imagined, especially if it helps us to learn and develop ourselves. | A family get-together | A girl, her family, and a musician |
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Every month, Julia and her cousins would go for the big family meal at their grandparents' house. They would always wait excitedly for the moment their grandfather would give them a few coins, "so you can buy yourself something." Then all the children would run off to ...
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Educational Value
- Tenderness and kindness
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| The best way to deal with anger is to use tenderness, tact, and kindness | A kingdom, long ago | A giant, a king and a musician |
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George the Giant had lived for centuries in The Cave of Anger. The giants were peaceful, solitary beings up until the time when King Terry the Terrible accused them of ruining the harvest. King Terry then ordered that the giants be hunted down. Only George survived this, and since then...
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