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Dec 08, English. A Woman's Kingdom presents the world of Anna Akimovna. She is the rich factory owner whom everyone depends on for work and charity.

However, although she has everyone admiring her, she is lonely and unhappy. She longs to marry. In the hectic world in which we live, many do not stop to maintain traditions such as reading stories to the little ones of the house. Therefore, we bring you the best option if you have little time, our selection of short stories for children in PDF format , which you can read to them at any time from one of your electronic devices.

In other opportunities, we have talked about the benefits of reading stories to children, since they create emotional bonds, enrich their vocabulary, expand their imagination and a lot of other wonders. None of that is lost in this collection of short stories for children we have made with childhood in mind. Reading stories to children also has great advantages. As you may already know, children have a much shorter attention span than adults.

The younger they are, the less they can keep their attention in front of what they are told. Therefore, this is a great alternative for them, as you can make sure they hear the whole story and get the rest of the benefits.

Also, short stories usually have a condensed emotion, as in a few words you have to create the atmosphere and leave a complete sense of the story. Therefore, everything happens fast, and writers usually pour all their ingenuity into coming up with engaging mini-stories that grab the reader and leave them with a peculiar feeling at the end. Children will want to try more of these short stories. If you found this list useful, do not forget to share it on your social networks.

The little prince asked me many questions. But from his speaking, I slowly started to understand many things. And I was proud when I told him that I could fly. You fell from the sky? And the little prince started to laugh very loudly. I was angry. My situation was serious. How could somebody think that it was funny? What planet are you from? At that moment I started to understand more about him.

He only moved his head gently. He was still looking at my plane. And he started to think deeply. He was thinking for a long time. Then he took his sheep out of his pocket.

And he started to look at the sheep carefully. You can imagine that I wanted to know more when the little prince spoke about falling from the sky. Where is your home? Where do you want to take your sheep? He was quiet for a long time. Then you can tie the sheep during the day.

It is a funny idea! It is OK. Where I live, everything is so small. So, this way, I learnt a second very important thing. The planet of the little prince was very small. It was only a little bigger than a house. He calls it, for example, Asteroid I believe that the planet from which the little prince came is Asteroid B This asteroid was seen only once through the telescope. It was by a Turkish astronomer, in He spoke about his discovery at the International Astronomical Congress.

But nobody believed him because he was wearing Turkish clothes. Adults do such things. Fortunately for the reputation of Asteroid B, a Turkish leader made a law that people had to wear clothes like Europeans.

The astronomer spoke about his discovery again in He was wearing very elegant clothes. And this time everybody accepted his discovery.

I am telling you these details about Asteroid B and I am telling you its number because adults like numbers. When you tell them that you have a new friend, they never ask you questions about important things. What games does he like? Does he collect butterflies? How many brothers does he have? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? They will shake their heads, and they will think that you live in a dream. Adults are like that. Children have to be very patient when they speak to adults.

We like to tell a story like a fairy tale. This all happened six years ago. When I look at these memories, I feel sad. Not everybody had a friend. I will try, of course, to make my pictures as true to life as possible.

I make some mistakes on the size too. Here the little prince is too tall. Here he is too short. But I will try to do my best. In some other details I will make mistakes too. But here you have to forgive me.

My friend never explained anything to me. Maybe he thought that I was like him. I learnt about his departure from it, about his journey.

The information came very slowly, usually during moments when the little prince was thinking about his past. On the third day, I learnt about the problem with the baobabs. Baobabs are big trees. I learnt about the problem thanks to a question about the sheep that the little prince asked me.

But the little prince added,. The baobabs are right the opposite. They are trees as large as churches. And then I had to use my intelligence to solve the problem, without any assistance. So I thought that on the planet where the little prince lived, there were, as on all planets, good plants and bad plants. And there were also good seeds of good plants and bad seeds of bad plants. They sleep deep in the ground until one of them wants to wake up.

Then it begins to grow slowly to the sun. And you can let it grow as it wants. But if it is a bad plant, it is necessary to destroy the plant immediately, when you can see it. And the truth was that there were some terrible seeds on the planet of the little prince.

These were the seeds of baobabs. The ground of the planet was full of them. If you see a baobab too late, you will never be able to destroy it. It will go over the whole planet. Its roots will go right through it.

And if the planet is too small, and if there are many baobabs, they will tear the planet to pieces. This information will be useful to them if they travel one day. I knew a planet with a lazy man. He forgot to pull three little bushes. And, when the little prince described it to me, I drew this planet. But the danger of baobabs is so little known. And there is a great possibility that if you are lost on an asteroid, you will meet such danger.

So now I will tell you what you must do. I will say it in simple words. The lesson which I am teaching you now is very important. The answer is very simple. When I drew the baobabs, it was so important for me to give you this information. Source: newsinlevels. For a long time his only fun was watching beautiful sunsets. At first, he looked very surprised. Then he laughed. Everybody knows this. If you could fly to France in one minute, you could watch the sunset.

And you could watch the sun going down whenever you wished. Why does the flower have thorns if a sheep can eat it? At that moment I was very busy. I needed to repair my engine.

I was quite worried because my situation began to be very serious. I had so little water that I had to fear the worst. The little prince always wanted an answer to his question. Flowers have thorns because they want to upset others. The little prince was thinking for a while. Flowers are weak. They are naive. The thorns give them power.

Flowers believe that their thorns are terrible weapons. I answered you with the first idea which came to my mind. I am busy with serious things!

He saw me with my dirty hands. I was trying to do something with the engine, an object which looked extremely ugly to him. I knew that I made a mistake. You mix everything together! He only counts numbers. I am a serious man!

Sheep eat flowers. There is a war between the sheep and the flowers. And if I know a flower which is the only flower in the world, which exists nowhere, only on my planet, a flower which a little sheep can eat easily, you think that this is not important? He started to cry.

The night came. I left my tools on the ground. How important could my tools, my engine, my death be now? On one star, on one planet, on my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince who needed my attention. I took him in my arms. I held him gently. I will draw you something to protect your flower. I will draw you a fence. You can put the fence around you flower. I felt uncomfortable. I soon learnt more about the flower.

They grew in the grass in the morning, and they were gone in the evening. But it all changed one day. There was a different seed. It came from some place which nobody knew. Soon a new flower started to grow. First she was very small. The little prince watched her very carefully. The flower could be a new kind of baobab.

But she soon stopped growing, and she began to prepare for opening. The preparation for this moment took a long time. Then one morning, exactly at sunrise, the flower showed her colours. I am sorry. It will take same time before I am perfect. How beautiful you are! The little prince was surprised. The situation was new for him, but soon he brought water to the flower.

They can come. Do you have something to protect me from wind? But she stopped talking at this moment. She came here as a seed. She knew nothing about other worlds. She was embarrassed because the little prince could see that she was ready to lie to him. She quickly coughed two or three times. She wanted to show the little prince that she was cold and that he forgot about her.

Then the flower started to cough a little more. She wanted to show him how bad he was. So the little prince, even if he had a lot of love in his heart, soon stopped believing her. The way which somebody was speaking to him was very important to him. You must look at them and smell them. My flower made my planet beautiful. What was right, was to love the flower for her beauty and smell. She made my planet more beautiful. Flowers are so complicated. But I was too young to know how to love her.

I believe that for his departure from the planet, the little prince used the migration of wild birds. On the morning of his departure he put his planet in perfect order. He carefully cleaned his active volcanoes. There were two active volcanoes on his planet. And they were very good for warming his breakfast in the morning.

If they are correctly cleaned, there are no eruptions. Of course, on our Earth we are very small to clean our volcanoes.

The little prince also pulled, a little sadly, the last little baobabs. He thought that this was his last day on his planet. He gave water to his flower one last time, then he put her under glass. At that moment, he felt that he was very close to tears. The flower coughed. Try to be happy. He stood there quite confused. He was holding the glass in his hand.

But you were also as studid as I was. Put that glass down. The night air will do me good. I am a flower. I think that they are very beautiful. If there are no butterflies here, who will visit me?

You will be far away. And I am not afraid of big animals. I have my thorns. It makes me angry. You decided to leave. So, now go! She was such a proud flower.

The little prince was close to the asteroids , , , , and So he began to visit them. He wanted to be busy and learn something. There was a king on the first planet. The king had expensive clothes. He was sitting on a simple but big throne. He was very proud that he was a king for somebody now. The little prince looked around.

He needed a place where he could sit down. So he was standing. And because he was tired, he yawned. Come on! Yawn again! His face was red now. But, because he was a very good man, all his orders were reasonable. It would be my mistake. And he pulled a piece of his clothes so that there was some space for the little prince to sit down. The little prince was thinking about one thing. The planet was very small. The king looked at his planet, then at the other planets, and all the stars.

He was the king of all the universe. They do exactly what I want them to do. It was very interesting for the little prince. With such power, he could watch the sunset, not forty-four times, but seventy-two, or even a hundred, or even two hundred times on the same day.

And he could still sit in one place. At that moment he remembered his little planet which he left, and he felt a little sad. Please, can you order the sun to go down? If you order your people to jump into the sea, they will start a revolution. I have the right to control because my orders are reasonable. I will order it. Free short English stories: text and audio. Thanks for downloading the English Short Stories booklet. It includes the first 2 chapters of the English Short Stories.

Short audio stories for children: video, audio and transcript. Animated stories for kids: tales, fairy tales - easy beginner esl. The first volumes of Grimm's Tales were much criticized because, although they were called 'Children's Tales', they were not regarded as suitable for children, both for the scholarly information included and the subject matter. Many changes through the editions were probably made with an eye to such suitability.