7 short stories for sleeping children
By: Everything Cj
Tags: Short Story, Short Fiction, Kids, Bedtime Stories, Storytelling

7 short stories for sleeping children

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Are you looking for short stories to read to your child before bed? I made a selection of a few short stories for sleeping children.

7 short stories for sleeping children

One of the best ways to spend time with children is to read them stories, preferably in the evening, before bed. We recommend you some short, beautiful and captivating stories, only good for putting the little ones to sleep.

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The Princess and the Pea

The Princess and the Pea

He was once a prince and that prince wanted to marry a princess, but a real princess. And he went about to find one that pleased him, and found none. There were enough princesses, but he couldn’t tell if they were really princesses, because everyone was missing something. And the prince returned home again and was very upset, because he really wanted to find a real princess.

One evening a terrible storm had just arisen, thunder and lightning, and it was raining buckets; it was awful weather. Suddenly there was a knock at the city gate and the king, the prince’s father, went to open it.

There was a princess at the gate. Alas, but in what condition it was because of the rain and bad weather! Water trickled down his hair and clothes and he slipped into his shoes at the toes and dripped back to his heels. But she said she was a real princess.

“Okay, I’ll see you right away!” the queen thought, but said nothing; he went to the bedroom, took all the mattresses from the bed, and placed a pea on the boards of the bed. Then he placed twenty woollen mattresses over the peas and twenty large down pillows on the mattresses.

This is where the princess slept. In the morning they asked her how she slept.

- Terribly stupid! replied the princess. I didn’t close my eyes all night. God knows what was in bed! I sat on something hard and now it’s all just bruises! Terrible!

And then they all saw that she was a real princess, if she felt a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty down pillows. Only a princess could be so gentle on her skin!

Star rain

Star rain

She was once a little girl whose mother and father had died, and she was so poor that she had no room to live in, no bed to sleep in, nothing but her clothes and the piece of bread she had. some merciful passers-by gave it to her from time to time.

But she was a good and faithful little girl. And, as she was abandoned by everyone, she left, with God in mind, in the field, at random. At one point he met a poor man who said to him:

- Give me some food, I’m starving. She handed him the last piece of bread he had with her, then said, “God bless you,” and left.

On the way he met a child who said to him:

- My head is really cold, give me something to cover. The little girl didn’t think long, took her hat off and handed it to him.

And again a naked child appeared, shivering with cold. She handed him her coat and left. He arrived in a forest in the evening; a poor woman came to her and the little girl gave her the shirt she still had, thinking: “It’s night, nobody sees me, I can stay naked.”

And, as she stood, she suddenly saw a rain of stars above her head, which, when they fell to the ground, turned into gold coins. A gold-threaded tunic and a precious ring fell from the sky. She put on her tunic, put her ring on her finger, then began to gather the gold coins; she thus became very rich and then lived in abundance and happiness all her life.

The rabbit and the snail

The rabbit and the snail

One day, the rabbit met the hedgehog and said:

You have them all beautiful, hedgehog, only your legs are crooked and they are a bit tangled.

The hedgehog is upset:

You laugh in vain; my crooked legs are quicker than yours straight. Let’s just go home for a moment and then compete!

The hedgehog passed by the house and said to his wives:

We had a misunderstanding with the rabbit and we want to compete to see which of us runs faster.

“You’re out of your mind!” the hedgehog told him. How are you going to compete with the rabbit? He’s quick on his foot, and your paws are crooked and blunt.

“He may be quick-footed, but I’m quicker-minded,” said the hedgehog. And you do what I tell you. Come to the field!

They arrived on the plow; the hedgehog said to his wife:

You hide at this end of the furrow, and the rabbit and I will start from the other end; when the rabbit has recovered, I will return to the place of departure; and when he comes to the end of you, get out of the furrow and say to him:

How long have I been waiting for you! He won’t be able to tell you apart from me and he’ll think it’s me.

The hedgehog’s wife hid behind the furrow, and the hedgehog and the rabbit ran away from the other end.

When the rabbit took off, the hedgehog returned to his place of departure and hid. The rabbit came in a great hurry to the other end of the furrow: and, what to see! — The hedgehog’s wife was waiting there. When he saw the rabbit, he said to her:

How long have I been waiting for you!

The rabbit did not distinguish the hedgehog from the hedgehog and thought, “Great miracle! How did you beat me? ‘

“If so,” he said, “let’s run one more time!”

The rabbit took her back as fast as she could, reached the other end, and what to see! — The hedgehog was there.

Hey, brother, you just came, I’ve been here a long time.

“They are wonderful! — the rabbit thought — I just ran away, how did I get over it? ‘

Let’s run one more time, now don’t overtake me.

Come on!

The rabbit ran away from his heels, but in vain! The hedgehog sat in front of him and waited for him. And so the rabbit kept running, from one end to the other, until his strength was exhausted.

Finally, the rabbit gave up and said that from now on he would not face anyone.

The bear fooled by the fox

The bear fooled by the fox

She was once a cunning fox, like all foxes. She had been looking for food all night and had found nowhere. As the day wore on, the fox came out to the side of the road and lay down under a bush, wondering what else to do so that he could find something to eat.

Sitting the fox with its snout stretched out on its front paws, it smells like fish. Then she raised her head a little and, looking down the road, saw a cart pulled by oxen coming.

Good! the fox thought. Here is the food I was waiting for. And immediately she comes out from under the bush and stretches out in the middle of the road, as if she were dead.

As the chariot approached the fox, the peasant who saw the ox’s hand saw it and, believing that it was really dead, shouted to the oxen: Ah! Aho! The oxen stop. The peasant comes to the fox, looks at her closely, and, seeing that he is not even blowing, says: Bre! yes, how did this fox die here ?! You! what a beautiful fox I am to make my wife out of this fox’s fur! Saying so, he grabs the fox by the head and, dragging it to the cart, resents it and throws it over the fish. Then he shouted to the oxen, “Come on! Joian, that one! Bourean “. The oxen start.

The peasant walked past the oxen and kept urging them to go faster, to get home soon and take out the fox’s skin.

But as the oxen started, the fox began to push the fish out of the cart with its feet. The peasant’s hand, the cart squeaked, and the fish in the cart fell.

After the fox thief threw a lot of fish on the road, good… shore! she also jumps out of the cart and, in a hurry, begins to gather the fish from the road. After gathering it in a pile, he takes it, takes it to his business and starts eating, because he was still hungry!

Just when she started eating, the bear came to her.

“Good meal, coward!” Ti !!! yes what more fish do you have! Give it to me too, because it’s yours! I feel like it!

“Put your appetite on the nail, for that matter, because I didn’t work for someone else’s taste.” If you feel like it, go and soften your tail in the pond, like me, and he would have fish to eat.

“Teach me, please, you know, I don’t know how to catch fish.”

Then the fox gritted his teeth and said: Alley, come on! yes, don’t you know that need takes you where your will is not and teaches you what you don’t even think? Listen, come on: do you want to eat fish? Go to the puddle at the edge of the forest in the evening, put your tail in the water and stay still, without moving, until about daybreak; then he rushes to the shore and you’ll take out a lot of fish, maybe bent and tripped over how much I took out.

The bear, without saying a word, runs in a great rush to the puddle at the edge of the forest and throws its whole tail into the water!

That night a cold wind had begun to blow, freezing his tongue in his mouth and even the ashes from under the fire. It freezes hard and the water in the puddle, and catches the bear’s tail like a pair of tongs. For some time now, the bear, no longer able to bear the pain of the tail and the cold, has been snatching it with all its might. And, the poor bear, instead of catching fish, is left without a tail!

He now begins to groan terribly and jump up in pain; and strangling the fox for deceiving him, he goes to kill her in a fight. But the sly fox knows how to avoid the bear’s wrath. She had come out of the bush and into the hollow of a nearby tree; and when he saw the bear without the tail, he began to cry out.

“Hey, boy!” But did the fish eat your tail, or were you too greedy and wanted to keep the fish out of the pond?

The bear, hearing that he was still laughing at him, became even more stubborn and hurried to the tree; but the mouth of the hole being narrow, the bear could not fit inside. Then he looks for a branch with a hook and begins to rummage through the hollow, to get the fox out, and to give him the expense. I don’t care, you’re pulling the tree… ”And when he hooked the tree hook, she shouted:“ Okay, come on! don’t shoot, you’re breaking my leg! ”

The bear was annoyed in vain, because its welds were flowing, because it still couldn’t get the fox out of the hollow of the tree.

And so the bear was fooled by the fox!

The three piglets

The three piglets

Once upon a time there was a piglet, which had 3 piglets, but did not have enough food for all three. So, when they were old enough, their mother sent them into the world to try their luck.

The first piglet was very lazy. He didn’t want to work at all and built a thatched house.

The second piglet was a little more industrious, but he had his moments of laziness. He built a house out of sticks.

The third piglet was the hardest working. He worked all day and built a solid brick house.

The next day, a wolf passed through the forest where the three piglets had built their houses. He saw the straw house, smelled the first piglet, and was hungry.

So he knocked on the door and asked the piglet to let him in:

Piglet, piglet, let me in!

But the piglet saw the wolf’s big paws and realized his intentions:

“Go away, wolf!” I won’t let you in!

Hearing this, the wolf bared his teeth and said:

“Then I’ll swell and blow, so I’ll put your house down!”

The wolf took a deep breath and tore down the piglet’s house. He opened his mouth as wide as he could and grabbed the piglet, but he escaped and managed to reach his brother, the one with the house in the sticks.

The wolf continued to walk through the forest until he reached the front of the house from the sticks. Here he smelled the two piglets, and his hunger hit him even harder. He knocked on the door again:

“Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!”

Looking through the keyhole, the piglets saw the sharp ears of the wolf and realized the danger:

“Go away, wolf!” We won’t let you in!

Hearing this, the wolf bared his teeth and said:

“Then I’ll swell and blow, I’ll knock your house down!”

The wolf took a deep breath, swelled and blew, tearing down the piglets’ straw house. Out of his greed, the wolf tried to catch both pigs, so they both escaped.

The wolf ran them through the forest and almost caught them, but they managed to hide in the brick house of their brother, the third piglet.

The three piglets were very scared, knowing that the wolf wanted to eat them. They were right to be scared, because the wolf, after running through the forest, was even hungrier than before.

So he knocked on the door of the third piglet:

“Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!”

Looking through the keyhole, the piglets saw the wicked eyes of the wolf and realized the danger:

“Go away, wolf!” We won’t let you in!

Hearing this, the wolf bared his teeth and said:

“Then I’ll swell and blow, I’ll knock your house down!”

The wolf swelled and blew once, twice, three times, but in vain. Seeing that he could not knock down the third house, he angrily decided to enter the chimney.

Cleverly, however, the third piglet quickly made a fire in the fireplace, and when the wolf landed it roasted in its tail.

Sensing the burning sting, the wolf fled eating the earth on the chimney back and disappeared into the woods.

Thus, the three piglets escaped unharmed and learned an important lesson.

Finger

Finger

A long time ago, in a distant land, an old woman was sitting in her seesaw and thinking about how much joy a child would bring her.

Then he heard a knock on the door and went to open it. A woman stood in the doorway and said, “If you let me sleep here at night, I will grant you a wish.”

The old woman opened them because she felt sorry for the woman and because she knew exactly what she wanted to do: a child.

He fed the guest and let her take a bath, then realized that she was very beautiful.

The woman slept well overnight, and when she awoke, before leaving, she asked the hostess: — Well, what wish do you want me to fulfill?

The woman remembered how most of those she met wanted wealth, strength, and beauty. And when he heard the woman’s wish, he couldn’t believe it.

I’d like to have a baby.

The woman put a small seed in the old woman’s hand and said:

Plant this seed, water it carefully, watch over it and love it with all your heart. If you do all this, you will have a child.

The old woman listened to his advice with holiness. A week later, instead of the seed, there was a yellow flower. The next day the flower opened, and out of the flower came a little girl the size of the old woman’s thumb.

Thus, the woman called her Finger.

The old woman sewed a small dress with golden threads and prepared her bed in a walnut shell. They were both happy and enjoying each other’s presence.

One day, when Little Finger went to bed, a frog jumped into her room on the window and said, “You will be the perfect bride for my son.”

The frog grabbed Thumbelina and took her to a water lily leaf, then went to look for her son.

The little finger began to cry so loudly that the fish in the lake heard it and began to gnaw at the root of the water lily, so that it could float on the lake.

Fingers floated on the water lily leaf for hours, until it reached the shore. In summer, it fed on berries and leaf dew.

But the cold winter came and she had to find shelter. A friendly mouse let her stay with him, but explained that he could not host her too long and that he would have to marry a friend of the mouse.

Leaving to meet her future husband, Degețica ended up in a tunnel where she found a bird that seemed breathless. The girl felt sorry for her and wanted to bury her, but she realized that the bird was just hurt.

He cared for her until, when spring came, the bird fully recovered and flew into the air.

Spring and summer passed, and Finger, although she did not want to, was preparing for the wedding with her future husband, the mouse. Just before the wedding, she heard a familiar chirp: it was the bird she had healed:

“You can come with me to warm countries,” the bird told him.

The little finger jumped on the back of the bird and flew to the warm countries. The people there, who were as small as her, named her Erin. There Erin met a prince and the two lived happily ever after.

The story of the bunny Peter

The story of the bunny Peter

There were once four bunnies, named Impiedicilă, Ghemotoc, Codiţa-de-cotton and Peter. They lived with their mother in a sandy bed below a very large fir tree.

“My dears,” said Mrs. Rabbit one morning, “you are allowed to play on the plain or on the path, but never in Mr. McGregor’s garden. Your father had an accident there, and was then put in a pie by Mrs. Mc Gregor. ”

“Now you can go out, but be careful, without the impudence! I have to go.” Then Mrs. Rabbit took her basket and umbrella, and went through the woods to the bakery, whence she bought a black loaf and five raisin buns.

Impedicila, Ghemotoc, and Cotton-Tail were good rabbits, so they went on the path to pick blackberries.

But Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight into Mr. McGregor’s garden, sneaking under the gate.

First, he ate some salad and some French beans; then he swallowed some radishes. And finally, feeling a little unwell, he looked for some parsley. But just as he reached the end of the cucumber grinder, he met Mr. McGregor!

Mr. McGregor stood on all fours planting some tender cabbage, but immediately jumped to his feet and ran after Peter, shaking a rake and shouting, “Stop, thief!” Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and dropped the other in the middle of the potatoes.

After running out of shoes, he ran in four paws as fast as he could to get rid of the pursuer, but, unfortunately, he found himself in a tangle of gooseberries, clinging to them with the big buttons of his coat. It was a blue coat with brass buttons, which he had recently received as a gift.

Peter gave up, and began to weep with crocodile tears; his sighs were heard by some friendly swallows, who flew swiftly at him, and begged him to try to get out of there. Mr. McGregor was sure Peter was peeing somewhere in the shed, maybe even under one of the flowerpots, so he began to pick them up carefully, one by one, looking carefully under each one.

Suddenly, Peter sneezed, “Hapciu!” Mr. McGregor rushed at him without thinking. The owner of the garden tried to put Peter’s foot to catch him, but the bunny jumped out of the shed window, thus breaking three flower pots. The window was too small for Mr. McGregor, and he was too tired to run after Peter, so he went back to his business.

Peter took a break to rest. The bunny then tried to cross the garden, but was even more confused, as he came near a small pool, where Mr. McGregor was filling his bucket with water. Peter turned to the shed but suddenly heard, very close to him, some noises sounding something like, “Hâr, hârr, hârrr.” The bunny took shelter under a bush and, seeing that nothing was happening to him, climbed on a wheelbarrow and looked around. He was seen by Mr. McGregor digging in the ground to plant some onions. He turned his back on him, and a little farther on he could see the garden gate!

Peter got off the wheelbarrow as slowly as he could and began to run as fast as he could along a straight path behind some currant bushes.

Mr. McGregor saw him just as he reached the corner of this path, but Peter didn’t care anymore. He snuck under the gate and reached the forest safely. Peter did not stop running and did not look back until he reached his house under the tree.

He was so tired that he stumbled on the fine sandy carpet at the entrance to his nest, and his eyes closed. His mother was busy cooking, but he wondered what Peter had done with his clothes. It was the second time in two weeks that the bunny had lost his coat and shoes.

I’m sorry to tell you, Peter wasn’t feeling well that night. His mother took him to bed, made some chamomile tea, and, moreover, gave Peter a portion! She told her naughty son, “You have to take a spoonful each time before you fall asleep.”

His brothers, Impiedicilă, Ghemotoc, and Codiţă-de-bumbac had a tasty black bread, raisin buns, milk and blackberries that evening!

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