THE NAUGHTY BOY

Short Story written by Emmanuel Castañeda Cardona.

There was a child called Peter who really loved playing. One day he found a bag of gold coins and started spending the money without telling his parents.

After a week, Peter heard on the radio that somebody had lost a bag of gold coins. When Peter heard the news he told his mother what was going on and that he had spent half of the coins.

 

Short stories - Lawrences-toy

 

Continue reading…

THE UNBEATABLE FOOTBALL TEAM

Short Story written by: an 8 year old boy

Once Upon a time there was a football team that used to win every match because they were very good players.

They were about to play in the football World Cup final, but they weren´t nervous because they were better than the rival team, or at least that´s what they thought.

 

football

 

Continue reading…

THE MOON AND THE BIRD

In Space where the stars shine exist planets, and some smaller spheres that rotate around those planets. These spheres are called satellites.

The protagonist of this story is a satellite that rotates around planet Earth, and is called “The Moon”.

moon, bird

The moon is a big sphere, that used to be very arrogant and vain. She thought that she was the only moon in the universe, and she always thought: “I am the best! The only one chosen by the universe to exist!”. Continue reading…

PAUL, A BOY WITHOUT COMPLEXES

Once upon a time there was a boy who had felt inferior to others ever since he was small. His results in class were worse than the rest, and everybody in school used to make fun of him because he was so clumsy.

Sometimes he fell over playing football, and the other children used to laugh and say: “Paul you are so clumsy!

CHILDREN

This kind of thing was not good for Paul as every time somebody made fun of him, Paul went on the defensive. Continue reading…

THE RETURN OF FERKUS, THE EVIL PRINCE

Short Story writen by: Jorge (17 years old)

On a faraway planet, far from our galaxy, there was a civilisation called “Trock”. The Trock were stronger than humans and had different colour skin. They were, red, green and blue, and had special powers.

At the time of this story, the “Trock” were being attacked by invaders called “The Kalk” who were very bad and cruel. They had been thrown out of their planet because of their behaviour and so they wanted to control Trock planet and dethrone King Philip.

So King Philip and his soldiers made a plan that, if it worked, would lay a perfect trap to catch the “Kalk”

king, soldier

The plan consisted in making soldier figures wearing armour and putting them behind the door  so they looked as if they were going to attack the Kalk´s army, in which his brother, the evil Ferkus was the commanding officer. But Ferkus suspected that something strange was going on. Continue reading…

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

A short version of the story written by Marc Twain, The Prince and the Pauper.

Once upon a time there were two twin brothers from a Royal family that were separated at birth because their family could only take care of one of them.

The one that stayed in the kingdom became a Prince and Tom, the other child ended up as a beggar.

palace, castle

Neither of them knew the other, but one day, when they were six years old, they met in the street and couldn’t believe what they saw, it was like having a mirror in front of each other. Continue reading…

THE GOOD WOMAN AND THE THREE KIDS

Short Story writen by Laura, 10 years old.

Once upon a time there were three kids that were poor and lived in a town near a big river. They were called Nicole, Charly and Mike and everyday they went out to beg for food.

rio

The kids were really good and always helped their parents. One day a young woman passed by and saw the children. Continue reading…

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess named Snow White. She grew up and became ever more beautiful. Her stepmother was very jealous. She couldn’t stand that Snow White was more beautiful than her.

One day she ordered a huntsman to take Snow White to the forest and kill her. But the huntsman was not that cruel and freed her, saying, “Snow White, find somewhere to hide and stay there”.

Cuentos-infantiles-blancanieves-y-los-siete-enanitos

Snow White was really sad to be wandering around the forest on her own, but she found a little house and went inside. There was nobody inside, only seven tiny beds in one bedroom and she was so tired that she lay down on one of them and fell asleep. When the seven dwarves came home they found Snow White sleeping.

Her stepmother who was actually a witch, found out that Snow White was still alive and was living with the seven dwarves in the woods. She disguised herself as an old woman and went to the woods carrying a poisoned red apple. Continue reading…