Stories of OVERCOMING
Stories of OVERCOMING
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 OVERCOMING . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
Educational Value
- Humility and generosity
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| Humility and generosity can help to achieve a lot, more than those who set conditions to do the same task. | The Christmas sky | Two stars and the angels of heaven |
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Of all the stars that shine in the sky, there had always been one that was brighter and more beautiful than the others. The whole sky's planets and stars looked on in admiration, wondering what could be the important mission...
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Educational Value
- Optimism and enthusiasm
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| If we’re forever thinking about the past we can miss the fact that the future can always be better than what went before. | The countryside | A lizard and his tail |
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Johnny the Lizard lived between some rocks out in the country. Like all lizards he loved to quietly sunbathe, laid out on some flat stone. He felt so relaxed doing so...
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Educational Value
- Friendship, overcoming
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| Friends are the greatest help for overcoming difficulties and taking us to where we couldn’t reach alone. | Forest of the fairies | A fairy and the forest animals |
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Adalina was no ordinary fairy. No one knew why, but she had no wings. And, what’s more, she was a Princess, daughter of the Great Fairy Queen. As she was so tiny, like a flower, life was just a series of problems for her...
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Educational Value
- Perseverance and effort
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| What some highly trained people cannot achieve due to giving up too soon, can be achieved by less trained people who apply persistent effort. | A King’s palace in olden times | The King, a girl, a wizard, and a harp |
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There was once a King who adored music so much that he searched the world for the best instrument there was. One day, a wizard offered the King a harp...
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Educational Value
- Detachment from things, generosity
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| Things change, and we have to adapt to this and make the most of the new opportunities this brings; even when that means renouncing what we already have. | A museum | A spider |
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Once upon a time, there was a painting spider, one of those artistic species of spider, that live in the basements of museums and galleries. They live there alongside paintings left and forgotten for years...
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Educational Value
- Overcoming shyness and acceptance of oneself
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| If we want to overcome shyness, it is important to accept ourselves the way we are, and to have the courage to show that to the world.
| The land of the fairies | Two fairies |
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When you go to the land of the fairies and ask who is the most beautiful fairy in history, they'll all answer without hesitation that it is Pionina. Everyone, that is, except Pionina herself...
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Educational Value
- Effort and good work
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| Trying hard to do things well is much more satisfying than doing them just to an ordinary standard. | The life of a young puppet-maker | A young puppet-maker, and his puppet |
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There was once a young man who liked puppets so much that he became an apprentice to a master puppet-maker. Sadly, the young man was very clumsy, and his teacher and the other apprentices were always telling him he had no ability...
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