World Stories
Story Collections:
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Please send us stories, pictures, poems and responses. We’ll display your work in our World Stories Gallery.
Selected Stories
Turtle and Monkey
Language: English/Filipino Origin: Philippines
Monkey stood at the edge of the river and watched Turtle swimming against the torrent with a tree that he had caught in the flood: a young tree...
The Legend of the Mafumeira
Language: English/Portuguese Origin: Brazil
Deep within the forest there lives the tallest of all trees. They stretch their thick branches full of leaves up into the blue skies and give us oxygen to breathe. Their trunks are very wide and many of these beautiful giants have been in the forest for hundreds of years...
Enjoy this story in: English Portuguese
Adem's Baba Embarrassed Him
Language: English/Turkish Origin: Turkey
Adem has an English mother and a Turkish father. Growing up in England, Adem wants to adhere to the English culture without losing any of his Turkish roots, however this isn’t always as easy as it seems.
How The Tortoise Got His Crooked Shell
Language: English/Yoruba Origin: Nigeria
A long time ago, a terrible famine hit an ancient animal kingdom. It had not rained for two whole years and all of the crops were dying...
The First Sunrise
Language: English Origin: Australia
A traditional tale from the Dreamtime about how the world became warm and light and why dawn is greeted with birdsong
Enjoy this story in: English
