Stories of Joy
Stories of Joy
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 Joy . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
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Educational Value
- Imagination and creativity
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| A beautiful dream journey to a land of fairies | A rainy day | A girl, her aunt, and several fairies |
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What I'm about to tell you happened a long, long time ago, when I went to visit my Aunt Nina. She lived in an old house, with a great courtyard and many flowers. I loved going to stay with Nina because I could play in her garden in the mornings...
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Educational Value
- Effort and joy, avoid tears
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| Children who cry to get what they want are missing out on a lot of great stuff. | Any city | Two boys |
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Teary Joe was a boy with a special ability: he could make himself cry in less than a second. If he disliked something, or things became difficult, or someone contradicted him, Teary Joe would not hesitate to put on a pitiful face...
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Educational Value
- Healthy life and joy
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| Obsession with weight and physical appearance is a sure way to put yourself in a bad mood and create health problems. | The jungle | The jungle animals and a set of scales |
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One day, in the jungle, a set of bathroom scales appeared. The animals played with it for quite some time until a parrot who had escaped from the zoo explained to them how it worked. All the animals took turns to weigh...
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Educational Value
- Joy and healthy life
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| You can change people’s lives by bringing them a little joy and good health. | The time of dragons | A knight and a dragon |
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There are many legends dealing with the extinction of dragons, but only one of them involves a certain Sir Emile, a brave knight who finished off the last thousand dragons...
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Educational Value
- Teaching to dress quickly, collaborate, obedience
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| A fun story to try to impress upon young children the importance of getting dressed quickly and properly. | A town | A boy, his parents, a pig farmer, and the farmer’s pigs |
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There was once a boy who would never get dressed when his parents told him to, nor would he put on what they wanted him to after his bath. He preferred to dress in a much stranger manner...
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Educational Value
- Joy and friendship
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| It is very important to transmit cheerfulness to others. | A magical land a long time ago | A trumpet, a girl, a wise old man, and a violin |
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There was once a land in which the sound of a magic trumpet could be heard everywhere. The music ensured that there would be happiness and joy for all...
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Educational Value
- Celebrate the true values of Christmas
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| Trying to rescue Christmas from modern-day materialism | A present-day Christmas | The Three Wise Men, Father Christmas, toymakers, and a boy |
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That year, the Christmas Present Conference was full to overflowing. In the audience were all the toymakers in the world, and many others who weren't toymakers, but who had lately come to be...
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