Discover Fairy Tales for Kids filled with magical adventures, princesses, talking animals, brave heroes, and enchanting worlds. Perfect for bedtime reading and family storytime, these classic and modern fairy tales inspire imagination, creativity, and valuable life lessons for children of all ages.
In the far-off ages, all the lands of northern Europe were one, for the deep seas had not yet separated them. Then our forefathers thought that fairies were gods.
Long, long ago, there were brave fighters and skilful hunters in Holland, but neither men nor women ever dreamed that food was to be got out of the ground,
Long, long ago, before the Romans came into the land and when the fairies ruled in the forest, there was a maiden who lived under an oak tree.
In the early ages, when our far-off ancestors lived in the woods, ate acorns, slept in caves, and dressed in the skins of wild animals, they had no horses, cows or cats.
Long, long ago, before ever a blue flax-flower bloomed in Holland, and when Dutch mothers wore wolf-skin clothes, there was a little princess,
Klaas Van Bommel was a Dutch boy, twelve years old, who lived where cows were plentiful. He was over five feet high, weighed a hundred pounds, and had rosy cheeks.
Long ago, in Dutch Fairy Land, there lived a young mermaid who was very proud of her good looks.
There lived formerly in the County of Cumberland a nobleman who had three sons, two of whom were comely and clever youths,
Of Buying of Sheep
There were two men of Gotham, and one of them was going to market to Nottingham to buy sheep, and the other came from the market, and they both met together upon Nottingham bridge.
A wild young fellow was the heir of Lambton, the fine estate and hall by the side of the swift-flowing Wear.
There was once a little boy, and his mother sent him to buy a sheep's head and pluck; afraid he should forget it, the lad kept saying all the way along:
Well, there was once a gentleman who had fine lands and houses, and he very much wanted to have a son to be heir to them.
The fox and his wife they had a great strife,
They never ate mustard in all their whole life;
They ate their meat without fork or knife
And loved to be picking a bone, e-ho!
A woman had one fair daughter, who loved play better than work, wandering in the meadows and lanes better than the spinning-wheel and distaff.
Once upon a time, when all big folks were wee ones and all lies were true, there was a wee, wee Mannie that had a big, big Coo. And out he went to milk her of a morning, and said—
Centuries of years ago, when almost all this part of the country was wilderness, there was a little boy, who lived in a poor bit of property and his father gave him a little bull-calf, and with it he gave him everything he wanted for it.
There lived a Puddock in a well,
And a merry Mousie in a mill.
MR. G. Ha! Steward, how are you, my old boy? How do things go on at home?
Once on a time and twice on a time, and all times together as ever I heard tell of, there was a tiny lassie who would weep all day to have the stars in the sky to play with;
Young Tamlane was son of Earl Murray, and Burd Janet was daughter of Dunbar, Earl of March.