Glow Fables › Folk Tales
Folk tales were passed from grandparent to grandchild long before anyone wrote them down. Many repeat a pattern — one more animal, one more house, one more 'Run, run, as fast as you can!' — that small children love to join in with.
Each tale is read aloud and illustrated as a glowing paper-cut lightbox.
3 stories · each one read aloud with subtitles · free
A little old woman bakes a boy of gingerbread, and he jumps out of the oven and runs away from everyone he meets. Nobody can catch him, until a sly fox offers to carry him across the river.
Moral: Being quick is not enough. Be careful whom you trust.
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The little Red Hen finds a grain of wheat, but the Goose, the Cat and the Dog will not help her plant it, cut it, take it to the mill or bake the bread. When the bread is baked they all want to eat it, so she shares it with her chicks instead.
Moral: Those who will not help should not expect to share.
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Three billy goats named Gruff must cross a bridge to reach the green hillside, but a great ugly Troll lives underneath and wants to gobble them up. The two smaller goats send him waiting for a bigger brother, and the big Billy Goat Gruff butts the Troll right off the bridge into the river.
Moral: Small ones can be clever, and big ones can be brave — together they get where they are going.
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