Educate and Have Fun with Short Stories
- Hundreds of short stories for children teaching values
- Audiostories in English and Spanish
- Modern stories with fairytale characters
- Educational resources for Parents and Teachers
- An entry into the world of educational stories
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For teachers
Don't miss the Workbook of Values, a great selection of short stories with coloring pictures that you can download for free. The best way to enter the world of educational stories.
- Audio stories, for lessons on values
- Stories in Spanish, short and simple, for your language lessons
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Stories have an incredible educational value due to the their influence on memory, but also because... children love them!
Our aim is to support and help you with this task. In this site:
- You will find hundred of stories.
- We will help you to teach values.
- You can listen to a thousand audio stories.
- Enjoy time with your children even more.
- You will learn to tell stories.
- We also offer you...
- And create your own.
- ... losts of educational resources.
If you are an education pro, you know about the benefits of stories better than anyone,
Browse this site at your leisure. Your children will really enjoy our varied and top quality resources. Thousands of teachers are using them right now!
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Stories for children
At Bedtime Stories, we have a great collection of short stories to educate children about values, with all sorts of characters and situations.
We offer them as a great educational resource for parents and teachers.
New stories and themes are frequently added: you will never be short of new educational stories!
There was once a farmer who devised a competition between his dog and his rabbit. He made a hole in one of his biggest fields, and hid a carrot and a bone in it. He wanted to see which animal would find them first.
The rabbit was very cheerful and optimistic, and he threw himself into looking for the carrot, digging here and there, totally convinced that he would find it. But the dog was pessimistic, and after sniffing around for a bit, he lay down on the ground and began to complain how difficult it was to find one bone in such a big field.
The rabbit dug for hours, and with every new hole the dog complained even more about how difficult this was, even for the rabbit. The rabbit, on the other hand, thought that each hole dug was one hole less that needed digging. When there was no place in the whole field left to dig, the rabbit dug a tunnel to right under where the dog had been lying all that time. There he found the carrot and the bone.
And this is how it was that the dog lost due to his pessimism. Because, thanks to his great instinct, he had already found the right place at the very beginning!