Best of Girls’ Stories

For some reason that no one knew, everyone called Grace ‘Magic’! She was a helpful little girl. That day she had to study for a geography test, but there was other work to be done.Her mother wanted her to look after her little brother, Charlie, because she was busy. So, she sat with him singing

Once upon a time, a woman had a very lazy daughter who wouldn’t spin. So one day, her mother beat her. The girl howled loudly.The Queen who was passing by heard her and stopped to ask what the matter was. The woman was so frightened that she lied to the Queen.“My daughter spins beautifully,” she

Taffy was a very naughty rabbit. He thought that he was very clever and could do exactly what he wished. He lived with his parents in a burrow in Mr Gerald’s garden.Some days ago, Taffy had sneaked into Mr Gerald’s house and tied all his shoelaces together. The next morning, Mr Gerald got late to

There was once a nobleman who had three sons. The two elder sons were very clever. The eldest son knew the whole dictionary and the second one knew all the laws. But they were both very boring young men. The third son was known as Jack, the Idiot.One day, the king announced a competition to

Once a merchant, setting off on his travels, asked his three daughters what they wanted. The eldest daughter wanted pearls and the second wanted diamonds. But the youngest asked for a singing, soaring lark.The merchant got the pearls and the diamonds. As he was about to reach home, he found a lark sitting on a

In a farmyard, the chickens scratched around for seeds and at sunset, they all perched in the hen house to roost comfortably.One hen had speckled feathers and as she flew up to roost, a feather fell out. She didn’t mind that, but she remembered a joke. “Which side of a hen has more feathers? The

Mr Morris was a poor farmer, but he had a car that he loved dearly. It was old and the paint was faded, but he had had it for many years and did not wish to change it. He had even given it a name: Miss Lucy.One day, Mr Morris took Miss Lucy to the

On the edge of a forest lived a poor woodcutter with his wife and three daughters. One day, he was going deep into the woods. So, he asked his eldest daughter to bring his lunch. He would mark the way by dropping millet seeds which he carried with them.But some birds pecked the millet seeds

Once, a poor servant girl went to the woods to gather herbs and got lost. As she sat crying, frightened and exhausted, a white dove flew down to her and dropped a little golden key in her lap.“In the trunk of that big tree is a door,” said the dove, “Open it with this key.”When

Harry, the dragon had not slept the whole night. He had groaned and moaned and tossed and turned. He had a toothache.In the morning, he tied a scarf around his face and went to Dr Ward, the dentist. He hated to go to the dentist because he was frightened of him and Dr Ward was

Bertie was a small mouse who lived in a field of corn. He would collect corn in the morning and bring it home. On the way, he had a wonderful time playing in the field and looking at all the wonderful things on the way.One day, Bertie saw a beautiful butterfly and chased it across

Once upon a time, a king and a Queen longed for a child. They had a child but it was a baby donkey. The King ordered that he should be brought up as a prince. All the mirrors in the palace were removed, so the prince would never see that he was a donkey.The donkey-prince

Once upon a time, a kingdom became so dry that even the King and the Queen had nothing left to eat in the palace. They were forced to send the princess away to seek her fortune. Wandering around, she came to a castle where an old woman in a blue dress and a hat invited

Snowdrop lived with her father in a cottage on the mountainside. One day, a strange old woman came to their cottage and said that she was her aunt. “I have come to take care of you,” she said.But Snowdrop found her to be a nasty old woman, rude and cruel. one day, her father vanished.

Long, long ago, there lived a princess who had made a beautiful garden in the palace. In the middle of the flower beds was a very tall tree. Its branches seemed to go right up into the clouds, and it always had one pink blossom at the top.A young gardener was in love with her