Readastorus - Classic Children's Stories
While they may seem prehistoric, the best children's stories never grow old. Readastorus presents classic tales for kids that have entertained for generations. These are the stories that our parents and grandparents enjoyed and they haven't lost their charm. Let the Readastorus "read a story to us."
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Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells - A...
Children around the world grow more excited by the day in December as Christmas approaches. Are you looking forward to Christmas morning? How would you feel if it was always Christmas? Well, that’s just what one little girl wondered over 100 years ago...
16 min
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Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas by Mary E. Wilkins ...
Being a scarecrow is a hard enough job in the best of times, but when winter comes, it can be miserable. Yet, for one scarecrow, a cold Christmas brought a wonderful opportunity.
15 min
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The White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett
27 min
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Little Brier Rose (Sleeping Beauty) by The Brot...
The story of sleeping beauty has been told many ways and was made into an animated movie by Walt Disney. The original story by the brothers Grimm was actually titled "Little Brier Rose" which is also the name of the princess who fell asleep.
6 min
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Monosyllabics by Laura E. Richards
This story isn't really a story. It's a poem. What makes it's both unique and fun is that every word has just one syllable.
Why don't you read along:
The black cat sat
In the fat man’s hat;
“Oh, dear!” the fat man said.
“May the great gray bat...
2 min
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The Night Moth With a Crooked Feeler by Clara D...
Sometimes when we look at others, we see our own imperfection magnified and think less of ourselves. However, while we we all have flaws and problems, its is how we treat others that really matters.
10 min
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A Noble Dog by Edith Nesbit
Everyone and everything has a purpose. In this story a Newfoundland shows his talent when it's needed most
3 min
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Dolly’s Voyage by L.L. Weedon
Sometimes kids can be a little too rough with their toys, but have you ever wondered how the toys feel about being tossed around. This is a story about how one doll felt about the abuse she received from her little girl's brother.
3 min
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Jack and the Beanstalk
One of the most famous stories of all time is about a boy who disobeys his mother and trades the family cow for a few beans.
7 min
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The Chicken Who Wouldn't Eat Gravel by Clara Di...
Sometimes it seems like parents tell us to do things that make no sense or to eat things that taste bad. Most of the time those things that we hate doing turn out to be really good fo us. That's just what a young chicken discovers in this wonderful...
12 min
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When We Were Very Young - Part Two by A.A. Milne
One of the world's favorite books of children's poetry was written by Winnie the Pooh creator, A. A. Milne in 1924. Generations have enjoyed these memorable verses and now the are available for anyone to publish or read without paying.
Over three...
9 min
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When We Were Very Young - Part One by A. A. Milne
One of the world's favorite books of children's poetry was written by Winnie the Pooh creator, A. A. Milne in 1924. Generations have enjoyed these memorable verses and now the are available for anyone to publish or read with paying.
Over the next...
7 min
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Tiny Little Things by Unknown
Even though the Readastorus is a huge mythical story telling dinosaur, he still cares about all the creatures in the world just as this little girl learned to do in this wonderful story by an unknown author.
7 min
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Bremen Town Musicians by The Brothers Grimm
As we get older we want to do new things and that's just what happened with the donkey, dog, cat, and Rooster in this wonderful old story from the Brothers Grimm.
8 min
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When We Were Very Young - Part Three by A. A. M...
Here is the final episode of our reading of one of the most famous books of children's verse by the author of "Winnie the Pooh."
7 min
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Thumbelina by Hans Christian Anderson
The story is about a tiny little girl and the struggles she faced along the path to her destiny.
25 min
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Winnie-the-Pooh: The Wrong Sort of Bees by A.A....
One of the greatest children’s stories of all time was written way back in 1925. Today, I’d like to introduce you the world's most famous bear, Winnie-the Pooh.
This was the very first story ever written about Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin....
15 min
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The Deliverers Of Their Country by Edith Nesbit
We really like stories written by Edith Nesbit. They are lots of fun and usually the kids save the day as they do in this story, set many years ago in Great Britain, when a little girl has a big surprise land in her eye while her brother has his turn...
28 min
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The Golden Windows by Laura E. Richards
Here’s a story about a little boy who sees one thing from far away and something quite different on closer inspection.
What we see with our eyes can change depending on where we are when we see it, just like what we think is true can be different...
6 min
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Mother Earth's Children by Elizabeth Gordon
Do you love fruits and vegetables?
Hmmm. Some of you seem to making icky faces.
You might like them better if you could see,
just how much much fun these plants can be.
So, I believe that it is time,
to tell their stories in a rhyme.
9 min
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The Aged, Aged Man by Lewis Carroll
Today we have a silly story, actually it’s a nonsense poem that was written by the author of Alice in Wonderland and included in his second Alice book “Through the Looking Glass.” In the book it is introduced to Alice by the Knight, so we allowed the...
5 min
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How the Moon Became Beautiful
Long ago, people did not much of what that you learn in school today. Even the sun and the moon were mysterious objects that were impossible to understand, so ancient people created stories to help explain the natural objects as is the case with this...
5 min
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Little Boy Blue by L. Frank Baum
Mother Goose wrote lots of great rhymes like:
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn.
The sheep 's in the meadow, the cow 's in the corn;
Where 's the little boy that minds the sheep?
He 's under the haystack, fast asleep!
But we didn’t know...
17 min
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Nursery Alice by Lewis Carroll
One of the most popular stories of all time is about a little girl named Alice and her adventures in Wonderland. While wonderful, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a very long and sometimes complicated story. That’s why Lewis Carroll decided to...
39 min
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The Lonely Little Pig by Clara Dillingham Pierson
Have you ever been ignored by others? Did you get angry or did it make you sad? Well, that’s just what happens to the little pig in our story. Find out what she does when the other pigs refuse to play with her after she arrives at a new farm.
10 min