Best of Girls’ Stories

Kate had no friends in the neighbourhood. She watched the children get together in the evening and go to the park to play.“Kate, your cousin Nora is coming here for the holidays,” said Kate’s Mummy, “Aunt Gwen has to go and look after her sister. so, Nora will stay with us. Please look after her […]

Once there was a rich nobleman who lived in a castle with his kind wife and two lovely children, a son and a daughter. Unfortunately, his wife died and the nobleman married again.His new wife was a wicked and cruel witch who hated the two children. One day, as they were playing in the garden,

The King and the Queen were really fed up. They had a daughter who was always eating! She was always munching away at something. All the royal physicians and the doctors were called in. They gave her medicines. But the next day, they found her munching a slice of cake!The King called all the wise

Once upon a time, there was a miller who had grown old. He had no children but he had three apprentices. So, he said that he would leave his mill to the one who brought him the most beautiful horse.The three apprentices set off to seek horses. But the two elder ones left Eric, the

Little Red Hen was scratching the ground in the farmyard, looking for nice juicy worms to eat. Instead, she found a grain of wheat. She showed it to her friends—the duck, the goose and the cat.“I could eat it right away,” she said, “Or we could plant it and have wheat to feed all of

Tina had just moved to a new house with her parents. It was a large rambling house with a garden and an apple orchard. She had fun wandering all over it and discovering all kinds of secret cupboards and rooms.Tina now had a room for herself too. The best thing was a large shelf for

Once upon a time, there was a tall sunflower plant in a garden that belonged to an old lady.It always had one flower on it and that was a beautiful bloom. Every day, a gorgeous black and gold butterfly came to the sunflower. The sunflower would sway in the breeze and the butterfly would flit

Mattie was looking for an adventure, but she couldn’t find any. All that happened was that she went to school, sat in the classroom, did lessons, came home, did homework, helped her mother and fell asleep after dinner. How boring her life was!But she did not know that among her toys was a magical clown.

Once upon a time, a queen had to send her beautiful daughter far away to marry a prince. She sent her with a lot of treasure and her talking horse, Falada, and with a maid to attend her.The maid was jealous and unkind. So on the way, she waited for the princess to get down

Whenever Mr Hake came to a party, people began to go away quickly to other rooms. He loved to tell stories and most of his stories had been told so often that everyone knew them off by heart! Now, it was terribly boring to listen to his uninteresting stories again and again.One day, however, something

Pretty Miss Lorna had a dozen parrots as pets. Whenever anyone visited her, they would begin to screech. There was such a din that nobody could talk or hear anything! Her hair was always filthy and untidy; the hem of her dress often ripped and hanging loose. She wore socks of different colours! She always

Honey had just joined her new school. She stayed in the hostel with the other girls. Each girl was allowed to bring one pet to hostel if she could take care of it properly. Honey had no pet but she was always collecting birds and squirrels to feed!Honey was a small girl with laughing eyes